Does anyone know where I can find David Austin’s The Prince Rose?
Danielle Tetreault
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Comments (39)Oh, well, I ran out of garden space at my house.... Not really. My Italian-born-and-reared husband reached retirement age and we wanted to live outside the U.S. for a couple of years, which in our financial situation meant working. DH's brother-in-law offered him a job--typical Italian nepotism--so off we went. In a first wave of enthusiasm for Italy we bought an old farm, realized at the end of the two years that we had to choose between Italy or the U.S. as our permanent residence, and chose to stay in Italy. We came here in 2000. Our daughter, who was a year old when we came, has grown up here, but speaking English at home and enjoying long vacations in the U.S. with her American relatives, so that she has had the benefit of a bicultural upbringing....See MoreBest David Austin’s for continuous blooming
Comments (52)I’ve been wondering if I should have gotten Darcey Bussel instead of Munstead Wood. MW is said to be much more fragrant, but in my garden it is only fragrant when conditions are just right. It’s an okay bloomer, but flowers lose their form, size and color in the heat of summer. The flowers crisp quickly in our dry summer heat. The spring and fall flowers are wonderful though. Sheila, do you have a MW? If so, how does it compare to DB? Stephanie? Bishop’s Castle would happily grow to 6 feet in my garden if well irrigated. I keep mine rather dry and the flowers are smaller, but it mostly stays about 4 feet and bushy. When the late summer monsoons come and the weather cools down, it shoots up taller basals that get pruned down in the winter....See MoreDoes anyone know how I can find these exterior colors?
Comments (7)Remodeling brings up an excellent point how the light and what's surrounding it can change color. Many years ago I found the absolute perfect tan color to paint my living room in my house on Long Island. I loved the color so much I decided when we moved to SW Florida, I'd use the same color in our new living room. Bought a sample jar of the paint just to be sure and painted large swatches on 2 walls of my FL living room. Horrors! What had been a beautiful tan color in NY turned out to be a warm tea with milk color in Fl because the light in FL is so much warmer and warmed up all the colors. One other example. I'm a colored pencil artist and one year while we were still snowbirds, brought a drawing down to FL to work on. It had peach roses in it and I found myself toning down the peach colors in the flowers. Had it sprayed with fixative and then sent it back to NY. When I opened the box in NY I was once again horrified. What was a bright clean peach color in FL wound up being way too drab and dirty looking in NY....See MoreMy Thomas Becket (David Austin) rose is dying. Anyone know why?
Comments (56)Exactly bart bart. I used the term rambler when addressing the suggestion that Amadeus might need a support structure to not sprawl over the path. It was suggested to direct the rose growth over to a pergola located on the next path. Seeing as that structure is well over 10 feet away from newly planted Amadeus, the only type of rose that would grow such long canes is a rambler type. Which is why I said Amadeus isn't a rambler, and I am trying to grow it as a shrub of hopefully five-ish feet or so. Again, for me growing roses in pots isn't successful. They don't like it. As to them simply needing lots of plant food to succeed, I would suggest climate would also play into the situation. Here we have temperature fluctuations, going from well below freezing in winter, to extremely hot in summer, and yoyoing back and forth during the growing season. Rose roots in general perfer to be cool. They don't get that in pots. My style of gardening is to mimic nature in that I try to grow plants as naturally as possible. Supplemental watering is necessary during our hot, dry season, especially with the fast draining soil in my garden. However I use no chemicals at all. This does include synthetic plant food. However I will bend the no chemical plant food rule for the roses, occasionally. Certainly no other plant growing in my garden ever gets plant food added to the soil. They all grow well as is shown by the enormous weed pile accumulated this year. I will also state as shown above, most of my roses, and I grow over 100 plants, are doing very well. Therefore when one declines as Thomas Becket has, I want to know why. Hence this thread....See Moresautesmom Sacramento
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