NOTE: Transplanted yellow flowered Zinnia covered in powdery mildew from the pot into the ground off by itself... 7/7/22.... Took off any dead looking leaves etc...

Tossed the other 2 zinnia plants into the trash..

Using large umbrella to shade... Experimenting: with GROWER’S ALLY FUNGICIDE... spray covered the zinnia leaves tops and bottoms 7/7/22...will repeat tomorrow early morning per directions..

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NOTES:

AT LAST (7/9/22)... No insect damage or disease noted...

Leaves very nice... Has produced alot of buds for a small rose...

Growth rate...slow to medium

Blooms...so far petals lasting 2-3 days on the bush...

SUNORITA rose... 7/9/22

No insect damage or disease noted...

Leaves clean and very shiny...

Growth rate: slow to medium

Blooms so far lasting 5-6 days on bush...

OSO Easy Double Red (7/9/22)

minor rose slug damage...noted no action taken... No disease noted:

Growth rate: fast

Blooms last 8-10 days on bush....

Zinnia with powdery mildew is recovering...

Transplanted from pot into ground... Shaded and sprayed twice with GROWER’S ALLY Fungicide...

Jim, things are looking good for you--you are such a meticulous gardener. It's true for many that zinnias are prone to powdery mildew. I found asters had the same problem. These plants need sun and plenty of room in the ground to grow. I wish I had room for some zinnias, but we can't have it all. I hope your roses continue to thrive. Mine are really cooked, and 100s arrive in a day or so. Still, I'd say Julia Child is handling the temps about the best of all. Diane

Note: Never plant begonias in front of house...lol

too much morning sun @ 6 hours... Cut back sun to 3.5 hours by shading... Still alittle to much...

New green leaves bronzing around edges,,, cutting direct morning sun back to 2.5-3 hours..

Note: same type of begonia but potted and kept under a roof on my back balcony...

Growing and blooming very well.. :-) NOTE: may use these potted on back balcony next year...

I love the second photo. These are so beautiful under the right conditions. I just don't plant begonias at all in our awful heat, sun, and dry air. Some climates aren't begonia friendly (100F today). Diane

Diane, these type of begonias would fry in your heat for sure...toast...lol...100 degrees! :-O

Note: my in ground zinnias single planted show hints of powdery mildew...Dreamland series...

Sprayed them all with GROWER’S ALLY fungicide... 7/13/22

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Note: checked in ground zinnia today (7/15/22 after spraying GROWER’S ALLY fungicide 7/13/22... Zinnias leaves are looking good! Caught PM early..only on 1 leaflet... Sprayed entire plant..

Note: All 3 roses have blooms on the bush...Note: letting them bloom as much as

they want now... Note: Was cutting off 98% of buds up until this point... 7/14/22

SUNORITA rose.... 7/14/22....

Note: rose petals are lacking in petal number... that should improve as plant ages...

At Last rose... 7/14/22

At Last

Jim those are nice cages, I need to make some like that.

I just buy fencing and make my own...thanks berrypiez6b

NOTE: Calibrachoa planted in pot mid May still going strong...

Jim, those plantings are so gorgeous and healthy looking, just perfect for the wishing well. I like calibrachoa better than most petunias. There are both cal and pet in this planting which has grown a lot bigger since this July4 photo was taken. Diane

Jim this is also charming! Love these latest pictures. Diane, yours arent too shabby either!

😉Ive kept meticulous notes for years and have really been thankfull at time thats the case as my memory, while good, isnt infallible!!! I now use HMF, but still write the salient purchases and notes in my journal for a hard copy back-up.I also keep the tags and some old catalogues in a bag, but I think your system is better and neater!!! Besides pics of my Dad, the worst part of losing all my photos from Google, was losing the documentation Ild been so careful to catalogue. It was such a humongous change and so much work, but I have nothing to prove it! LOL!!! I probably should make a Houz album, but I dont trust that either.

Thanks Diane and Vaporvac...

Nice photo Nanadoll....

What I like about the Calibrachoa is no deadheading needed and they are not sticky like petunias...

I was thinking about removing At Last rose next Spring because it drops its petals so fast...And placing it in a large pot..

Planted At Last in Mid May as a own root baby band... After watching it grow and bloom since then I think I'm going give her a chance in the ground...I'm sort of surprised with all the buds its been producing for such a small rose bush...It has grown on me...lol

Time will tell!

I agree time will tell, and this is a baby rose, which I think is doing very well. That's a lovely photo, too. You've come a long way in such a short time at your new place. Diane

Sunorita rose bloom today... 8/5/22

Front of house going take a couple years to fill out...Those tiny bushes in front of Coleus (Kodiak Fresh) will be 3x3ft and another bush (Kodiak Black) toward the forefront will fill out the area...

Still deciding what more to put in this area next Spring..

Begonias now doing very well out front...

Kodiak Black

First bloom of season on my new Elfin Swan... 8/5/22

Thanks for the detailed progress pics and descriptions, Jim. I have been interested in those Oso Easy roses for a while. I just got an Italian Ice rose to replace a Lady Emma Hamilton rose that grew backwards and died.

Your zinnias are really beautiful and lush! I have a planter box with "Peppermint" zinnias grown from seed on my balcony in full sun. No hint of any disease, but they are prone to wilting and frying leaves on hot summer days. I never grew them before, so I didn't realize they may still need a tiny bit of shade. (Edited to clarify - Not that they don't like the sun, but they have a ton of leaves per stem, and they will wilt and brown if they get too dry.)

Thanks Steve...

Sometimes we have some learning to do when we try new plants that's for sure...

My OSO Easy double red blooms last 8-10 days on bush so even though its young it has had blooms on it most of the time here...And its growing fast here in my soil and climate...I'm not sure of its disease resistance yet here but so far so good...

Good luck with the Italian Ice rose...Let me know how it does...Thanks!

What State you gardening in?

Yes, I like that Oso Easy Double Red. I nearly bought it, but I was trying to focus on more fragrant roses given my limited space. (The hot summer months have kept both bloom count and fragrance down, but I am hoping late summer and fall will bring a reward.)

I'm in eastern PA, so climate is likely very similar to yours, but a bit warmer.

I will post at some point how the Italian Ice rose does. It's a little 8" baby right now, though it has 2 buds about to open and 1 hip developing! I have to keep it in a protected spot until it gets a little stronger.

Sometimes we have some learning to do when we try new plants that's for sure...

Jim, the master of understatement!😆

Jim, I just got an email from Proven Winners (I'm on their mailing list because they send out good stuff with lots of photos). They featured several stunning photos of Oso Easy Double Red. My favorite showed the rose massed in front of a narrow deck with the backs of some cute red deck chairs showing above the roses. Of course, that kind of massing would take more than one rose. There was a lovely photo of Italian Ice, too. If I had the space, I'd try Double Red.....And what is Elfin Swan exactly? I'm going to google that one because it has such an interesting look. Diane/nanadoll

Elfin Swan windflower...Nanadoll

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Thanks, Jim. Diane

Took a pic of one of my OSO Easy Double Red blooms and noticed it was full of rose slugs...I cut it off and inspected then trashed into garbage...

Yup rose slugs actually hatched inside my bloom.. And they were eating my bloom...

Well, I can't like that, Jim. We don't have rose slugs, and I wonder if you have a photo of an actual slug, so those of us who don't know much about them can see one. Double Red is a favorite rose of mine, and that's so awful seeing the damage the slugs do. Diane/nanadoll

Look closely at the bloom pic and you will see a few crawling around. Here in the east end of the state, we get the bristly roseslug sawfly. They breed multiple times per year, and they are quite relentless. I have been able to keep them mostly in check this year with insecticidal soap spray. Last year, I tried not to spray anything but water, and the defoliation was getting out of hand.

lol Nanadoll on not liking.. I been battling with these little demons since 2008...lol..so no surprise they are here at my new location... lol

I remember way back when I noticed most of my rose leaves had disappeared...lol...Thats when I discovered my first rose slugs... Its like what are these little Houdini's from (HE) double toothpics...lol

In the past I have used insecticidal soap and Spinosad with success if it was needed..

I have never seen the bristly roseslug here Steve Mazza...The Common and curled rose slugs are around here...

Rose slugs are alot easier to deal with then say rose midge, JB's, thrips etc... So that is a good thing... :-)

Yes, Jim, thrips are a nasty piece of work, and only a few of my roses get them for reasons unknown. If thrips affected all my roses, I wouldn't grow roses. That's how I feel about RRD, too, which we don't have here. It's a game changer for growing roses. Diane/Nanadoll

Nanadoll, I had thrips, rose midge, etc. at my other location so it was not fun...lol...My old location is only 4 blocks from my new location here...Hope i can hide from them here..lol

Nanadoll, Steve Mazza ,those curled rose slugs found me already...lol...while spraying down rose leaves with water this morn i knocked a few off the bush...so now i have both the common RS and Curled RS just like my old location...lol..guess i can't hide from these demons... lol

I had to pick the RS up and I fed them to our outside birds... Because they can crawl back on the bush...

I saw one of the adult sawflies today on a leaf of Neil Diamond. They are still hanging around. I sprayed the leaves down after sunset. We'll see if it stops the next generation in their tracks. I feel a little bad, but it's pretty much either they or the roses have to go.

The curled rose slug will be here until Sept-Octoberish... The Common rose slug will be gone soon...Been studying them for years...lol....

Slowly getting roses here at my new location..Started out with 3..lol

Worked on roses/yard today..

Recent pics of Oso Double Red, Sunorita, and At Last (8/17/22)

Todays 8/19/22 At Last Blooms

That At Last rose looks nice. Is it fragrant? I recently stopped by the rose garden at Longwood Gardens. It was reworked a few years ago with an emphasis on practical, low-maintenance gardening and companion plantings. Which I think is a nice idea, in theory. However, one thing that disappointed me a bit was that I could only find 2 roses with any notable fragrance. One was Grande Dame, and the other was At Last. Of course, it's a bit low to the ground for sniffing purposes, but it should grow a bit over time.

Yes I can smell At Last and I have a bad smeller...SADLY the blooms do not last long on bush...maybe 48 hours or so...

Well Steve Mazza the curled rose slugs are out of control here...They are stripping leaves, eating through buds and are inside all my blooms distorting them... SO going wait until later tonight and spray the roses with spinosad...cutting the distorted blooms off...

8/24/22.. OSO Easy double red having the most troubles...

Jim, not liking what I'm reading above. Do you have any photos of the damage? How's your weather? It's still terrible here--99F for the last three days. We broke our record for number of days 100+, and have a 100F predicted for next Wednesday--I hope it's wrong. Nanadoll

Wow, those sawfly larvae are big! I read that type only does one generation per year (though of course you may have multiple groups of eggs laid at slightly different times). So I hope this is the last you have to spray for them.

I'm seeing hundreds of curled rose slugs Nanadoll... I watched them chew my rose buds...lol...I just sprayed all my roses with spinosad so within 48 hours they will be dead...

Also seeing the start of Blackspot on Oso Easy Double Red and Anthracnose spotted disease on Sunorita and At Last...This time of the season is usually when the disease starts here...lol... Some roses I've grown start losing leaves alot sooner in the season...
Our August has been mild Nanadoll...mix of 60's, 70's, low to mid 80's

Five straight days of rain....

8/24/22

I refuse to like those, Jim. Nasty little things. Diseases and bugs love all your wonderful rain. I guess the choice is free water and bugs or no water and very few bugs. I hope the rain doesn't interfere with the spinosad. Good luck. Well, back to cooking. Nanadoll

Jim, that is horrible!!

That generation of Rose Slugs are gone! So all is good in that dept for now....lol

They were belly up when I inspected the bushes this morn...

I purposely left the rose slugs go this season to see how bad they would get...now I know...lol

Steve Mazza, the curled rose slug is here from June/July until October so a long time...

8/25/22

Update on my 3 roses I'm trying at my new location...

First off my favorite one so far OSO Easy Double Red...

Own root baby band planted May 2022..

1. Growth rate has been awesome!

2. Bloom power has been awesome!

3. Blooms last a long time on bush

4. So far disease resistance very good

5. little to no fragrance though is the downside for some...

Overall very excited so far with this rose! :-)

At Last... own root baby band planted May 2022...

1. slower growth rate

2. Nice looking blooms but only last 2 days on bush

3. Nice fragrance

4. Produced a fair amount of blooms its first 4 months..

5. Disease resistance so far good

Overall I have mixed feelings up to this point...If the blooms lasted alot longer on bush I'd be much more excited... lol... Will see what the future brings..

Sunorita.. baby own root band planted 2022

1. Moderate growth rate..

2. blooms are short lived 3-5 days on bush

3. little to no fragrance

4. Disease resistance so far good

5. blooms have been on the small side in its first 4 months and more single petaled and ugly..lol

Overall totally up in the air with this rose also... I will give it more time though...

Thanks for the update. It looks like they are all healthy. Considering how hot and dry July and August were in this part of the country, I'd say all 3 did OK. My roses have been in a rather sad state, but the cooler weather the last week or so seems to be easing the pressure. Maybe Neil Diamond will even deign to start a second blooming cycle. :)

Update: Sept 26, 2022

At Last has stayed clean its first year up until this point..

Todays photos... Sept 26, 2022...Location: Central PA, No fungicide used...

Sunorita:

Also has stayed clean up until this point... Sept 26, 2022, No fungicide used

OSO Easy Double Red...

This rose is getting some Anthracnose disease on its leaves but very little leaf drop as of today.. Sept 26, 2022 No fungicide used

10/8/22

Oso Easy Double Red engulfed about 70 % of leaves effected with fungus diseases... ( no leaf drop yet)

Sunorita has about 10% leaves effected with fungus diseases.. (No Leaf drop yet)

At Last about 1 % leaves effected with fungus diseases.. ( No leaf drop yet...)

Jim, disregard the "like" for poor Oso Easy Double red, but I do like the results of the roses At Last and Sunorita. Will you keep the pretty Oso Easy? Such a shame about the leaves but it is October, and she had a good run during summer. Nanadoll

Nanadoll, I'll evaluate Oso Easy Double Red and all the other roses for 3 years and see how it goes...

Oso Easy Double Red still has most of its leaves as of today 10/12/22... It has great vigor and blooms like crazy! Its still a favorite of mine... :-)

From this pic you can't even tell its covered in leaf spot disease...lol.... 10/12/22

At Last: today 10/12/22

Today single bloom of At Last blocking sun while taking pic.. 10/12/22

Sunorita: 10/12/22

Sunoria bloom today... 10/12/22

Catmint : Cats Meow 10/12/22 ....Planted late May of 2022..

Sunorita blooms getting bigger and better looking as it ages..And the cooler temps help out....Can't wait to see them next Spring...

Both Sunorita pics are beautiful and the At Last photo, too. The second photo of Sunorita reminds me Morden Sunrise, but has a few more petals than Morden. Lovely. You are an excellent photographer, Jim. Nanadoll