A strange spring
7 months ago
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A cool and wet spring has led to some odd timings this year. Some of my roses are not looking their best and some seem happier than ever. Erinnerung an Brod usually blooms with the apple blossoms, but this year is blooming when the tree is bare:
La Belle Sultane is usually late, but this year is early:
Irene Bonnet can sometimes take on a grayish, dusky tinge. It's not at its best this year:
With Fred Howard:
Bon Silene is reaching higher and higher:
I'm attempting the radical pruning method for Félicité-Perpétue as described on HMF. Still buds for now:
Some old hybrid teas are looking good this year. La Jolla:
The Doctor with baby grapes:
Alec's Red:
Lastly, I'm beginning to think Dr. Rouges is just plain ugly:
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Strange spring
Comments (11)I'm losing a lot to canker, sadly I am going to have to pull out a few bushes that are just too infected. As expected in my small group, the English roses are thriving, but most of my hybrid teas except the evidently hardy Mirandy are limping along. Reine des Violettes, a battered mercy purchase from K-mart last year, is loaded with deep maroon buds. So overall, the shrubby ones are doing great, and the hybrid teas are limping. Also noticed the outburst of sawflies - disgusting, wish I had caught it earlier but it was raining too much - they did a lot of damage and will be spraying this weekend - also have aphids but they are easier to cope with. I guess Maryland must be out of its water shortage by now!!!...See MoreUpdate on Sum and Substance and a few others
Comments (17)Mocc, I have been wanting to get a Full Moon but haven't found any for sale around here. Maybe I will have to order one online. I really love the pictures I have seen of that one. I want a yellow/orange colored one really bad! I like your Short Fat Fanny too! Great name for it! Dmkelly, I say go for it! The first JM that I planted was a really small noid red one that I bought for less than $10 and not long after it was planted my new puppy chewed it to a twig. I grew back and then the next year, I accidentally broke it off again while cleaning out the garden. The poor little thing perservered and now 17 years later is a beautiful tree. I thought for sure it was a goner! Linda...See MoreAll quercus alba new growth this red?
Comments (1)Yup, mine looks like that. As the leaves continue to emerge, from a distance some white oaks look greenish, slightly bronze, or even a ghostly pastel white....See MoreStruggling white oak?
Comments (9)My white oaks always seem to leaf out later than the burs, reds, northern pins, etc. that I grow. As noted already, white oaks generally don't handle transplanting as well as other oaks. I wouldn't expect your leaves to get that big this year. I've always heard that you shouldn't dig/transplant oaks until they start breaking bud. That they need their full root system to start waking up in the spring. But then again, aren't the Oregon nurseries digging them in December? Or maybe that's just for larger trees perhaps? The "droop" always makes me hear, "hey, I think your trees need water," numerous times a spring....See MoreRelated Professionals
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Formerly RBEHS Z10A/S17 thanked comtessedelacouche (10b S.Australia: hotdryMedclimate)- 7 months ago
This photo from today shows better what I'm talking about with the shading on Irene Bonnet. Maybe gray is not the best way to describe it. At the bottom of the photo, the bloom in the shade has the dusky coloring that can sometimes pop up.
But that said Irene really kicked into gear over the past week and is looking glorious right now.
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- Formerly RBEHS Z10A/S17 thanked comtessedelacouche (10b S.Australia: hotdryMedclimate)
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