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Comments (30)I found this article about roses and drought: http://paulzimmermanroses.com/care/summer-care/should-you-water-your-roses-during-a-drought/ The roses in my personal garden haven’t been watered in over a decade. And that includes during a drought. but then I read this in our rose breeder's newsletter: http://www.ludwigsroses.co.za/newsletter/ The way trees drink Scientists who study forests say they’ve discovered something disturbing about the way prolonged drought affects trees. It has to do with the way trees drink. They don’t do it the way we do — they suck water up from the ground all the way to their leaves, through a bundle of channels in a part of the trunk called the xylem. The bundles are like blood vessels. When drought dries out the soil, a tree has to suck harder. And that can actually be dangerous, because sucking harder increases the risk of drawing air bubbles into the tree’s plumbing. Plant scientist Brendan Choat explains: “As drought stress increases, you have more and more gas accumulating in the plumbing system, until they can’t get any water up into the leaves. This is really bad news for the plant because this is like having an embolism in a human blood vessel.” Like a human embolism, the gas bubbles stop the flow of fluid. If that persists, it means thirst, starvation and eventually death. Choat is from the University of Western Sydney in Australia, a region that has seen years of record-breaking drought. He wondered: How much drought does it take before trees start choking on air bubbles? He and a team of researchers studied 226 species of trees around the world, including desert trees, rain forest trees and many others. They discovered that for most, it doesn’t take much drought at all. “So this is the key thing,” Choat says, “that it would only take a small shift in terms of the moisture environment, the temperature … to push these plants across the threshold.” The threshold between drinking and choking, that is. The reason there’s so little margin of error is that trees have to finely balance eating and drinking. To eat, they open holes in their leaves, called stomata, to absorb carbon dioxide. But the more they do that, the more they lose water by transpiration through the stomata. Lose too much, and they have to start sucking harder — and risk a deadly embolism. Choat’s research, in the journal Nature, shows that it doesn’t take much drought before trees start to self-destruct. But what about trees that have evolved to live in really hot, dry places? They’re sippers, not gulpers. Plant scientists like Bettina Engelbrecht figured they’d have a larger margin of safety before they choke. “Instead,” she says of Choat’s research, “we find, well, it’s all the same — everyone is right at the edge and has a very risky strategy.” Engelbrecht, at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, studies rain forest trees. “Now, we have to worry about all of them,” she says. “We have to really deal with the problem at the global scale.” That’s because temperatures are rising around the globe. That makes drought more likely and more intense. Big droughts have hit southern Europe, Russia, Australia and the U.S. in recent years. The first 10 months of 2012 were the warmest ever in the continental U.S. Along with the heat came widespread drought, which still persists in the Southwest. Nathan McDowell, a plant scientist at the government’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, actually puts trees under plastic to see how they deal with less water and more heat. He says trees are adaptable, up to a point. “Now we’re changing that climate range really fast,” he notes, “faster than any of the living plants here have experienced. So can they change fast enough to adapt to that? You know, the preponderance of evidence right now is saying that [at] lots of locations around the world, they’re not adapting fast enough.” When they don’t adapt, they stop growing. Beetles and other insects invade. If droughts last long enough, the forests just die, and get replaced with something else. Please help me to understand this Straw.... What I've noticed in the past with severe droughts myself is that once a plant has reached it's threshold no amount of water can make it grow and live again...and if it does, it is usually riddled with all kinds of fungal (and other) diseases and bad insects. How can not watering your roses during a drought be a good thing, as stated in the site on the top?...See MoreGarden and health tips & Bush beauty & fertilizer for fast growth
Comments (26)I'm sure other brands have the same delicious flavors in de-caf. The best flavors of Decaf I tried (from other brands): 1) Dark French roast, de-caf. 2) De-caf with Caramel flavor (way better than pecan flavor). The Caramel flavor makes it a zero calories desert. Finally lost my winter-weight gain (was up to 125), now I'm 122 lb. My daughter graduated from high school this Tuesday 5/25/21, so NO MORE WAKING UP at 5:40 am to make breakfast for her. The lack of sleep really made me gain weight. The best tip I can give for pots is to give a few cups of water per day & enough to wet the pot, but NOT TO LEACH OUT nutrients. I was shocked when I saw 1/8 cup of whitish stuff oozing out of bottom of pot during heavy rain. I did a research on how much rain the "green" city like Seattle, WA gets: they have lots of rainy days, but just a tiny bit per day .. so roses there are much better than roses in Chicagoland when we have tons of rain in spring & fall, but drought & high temp. in July, August, Sept. Funny how I have to lime roses in spring, then use acidic gypsum to lower my tap-water at pH 9 in hot summer. Bush-shots taken today May 27 of roses in my zone 5 garden, fertilized with pH 8 biochar, pH 9 Garden lime, plus Acid-Lilly-miller NPK 10-5-4: 10th-year own-root Carding Mill gets my vote AS THE BEST BUSH BEAUTY. I lime it on purpose to UP the myrrh scent. Now its myrrh scent is just as wonderful as Mary Magdalene: 10th-year own-root Evelyn is my earliest bloomer in zone 5, gets my vote as the prettiest & glossy leaves. It's a lime hog & prefers alkaline. Scent is delicious with alkaline pH: Kim Rupert (Roseseek) creation: thornless Lynnie in less than 3 hours of sun, it's a 10th-year own-root. I neglected it for the past 10 years & rarely water it: 10th-year own-root Comte de Chambord's winter-kill was 6 inch. quite severe since it's on a raised bed. But thanks to Lilly Miller NPK 10-5-4 it shot up with lots of buds. All pics. taken 5/27/21:...See MoreEnjoyable roses & recipes for health
Comments (136)I don't grow Autumn Damask, but folks report nasty thorns. I love Comte de Chambord since it's small & compact & fast rebloom, and the thorns are NOT BAD. It has tiny prickles ...the ones that poke me badly are the big roses with large thorns like Lady of Shallot. Both Carol and I have roses that die through our harsh winter. My winter got down to -14 F last week with -20 F windchill factor. Today we have a snow storm with 6 inch. of snow. Firefighter, Wise Portia, and Cloudert Soupert died multiple times in my zone 5 winter, but they are worth growing for amazing scents. Cloudert Soupert is thornless & tiny for the pot, and I like its scent better than Sharifa Asma. Below bouquet: Large pink is Evelyn, tiny light pinks are Cloudert Soupert, Upper pink is Louis Estes (bi-color). Below is Comte de Chambord Below is Duchess de Rohan (dark pinks, the scent rivals Comte but it has poor repeat). I like Comte way better than Duchess de Rohan: Below is Wise Portia in only 4 hrs. of morning sun Below Wise Portia turns purplish in cold weather, and the scent is best in cold weather. Its scent is WAY BETTER than Twilight Zone: Below is Firefighter, the leaves are very pretty, and upper 1/2 of bush is thornless. In below bouquet, red Firefighter has the best scent (fruity damask), next is orange Versigny (like an apricot pie), and least is Liv Tyler (mothball and sour apricot). One bloom of Firefighter can perfume the entire room .. I can smell it 10 feet away. Firefighter is stronger scent than Mr. Lincoln, and Firefighter gives more blooms....See MoreRatings of scents & vigor for own root roses and LongAgoRoses
Comments (144)Judith: Pumice is porous volcanic rocks with neutral pH, versus red and black lava rock at high pH over 9. Pumice comes in smaller particles, and used for growing succulents with its fast drainage. Pumice is very expensive at over $25 for 3 gallons, versus I can get a 40 lb. of lava rock for $6 at Menards store. Inviting everyone to continue the discussion on soil & fertilizer & own roots in below new link, since this thread is getting too long: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6252246/tips-for-own-root-vs-grafted-roses-in-pots-longagoroses-bands#n=11...See Morestrawchicago z5
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