Jeffersonia dubia, a spring charmer if there ever was one!
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Comments (18)Molineux, this is a Florida gardener! We don't enjoy that nice cool, dry climate that you do in Maryland. There are only a few Austins we can grow and not look like they are eat up with fungus. Even the good ones are not perfect. However, Chinas and Teas in Florida are perfect! Especially Lady Hillingdon who is a classic antique tea, but has a hardy supply of China in her heritage. No, put down the shovel and let that gal live. She will be a perfect charmer by this time next year! Her color is a old, creamy yellow - that stands out amongst her pink comtemporaries like a gold medal at the Oscars. Her leaves will be the shining example of health and she will bloom from February until November here in Florida. Yes, July and August doesn't favor any rose in the heat, but she will come through with flying colors before all is said and done. And, yes, the first year doesn't reveal much, but next year you will be surprised and the next you will pull every visitor in her direction to show her off. She grows into a most lovely shape and is a very free flowering wonder. I especially love the fact that she looses all her blooms before they have the chance to turn brown and look nasty while still on the bush. If you want another one like her, check out Safrano. I get more compliments on her than any other. Safrano has a lot of China in her heritage too!...See MoreRidiculously Healthy Roses here in zone 4
Comments (118)Hi, Kelly & Vapor, @celeste/NH Thank you for your ideas! i checked my friend’s location and she has humidity, too, so I am reworking my list. Rugosa are good. Kordes are great for no BS in humidity. Do you know what Old Garden Roses are best for zone 4 and humidity? @Kelly Tregaskis Collova Earth Angel & Madame Anisette are zone 5, but you have grown them in your zone 4. Are you zone 4a or 4 b? Where in your yard can you grow them? Maybe if you grow them on south side of home it keeps them warmer since they are not nade for your zone? However, climate has warmed all over and temps may not be getting as low as we are zoned, either. Also, did the cold winter get your Olivia? Olivia does really well in humidity. I have humidity & she gets no BS. Princess Alexandria of Kent gets BS, so I will not recommend for her. The DA roses list in my post above are zoned 4, but maybe DA are just not very hardy? Lichfield Angel, though, may be their most hardy rose-I have her and she grows no matter what where I have lost other roses. Yes, I heard less fragrant DA newer ones-thanks. Maybe if planted on south side home they will keep warmer in zone 4....See MoreAnyone ever get a restraining order?
Comments (35)Your friend still needs to be careful. Our daughter had an ex semi-boyfriend get crazy when he got more serious than she wanted to get. She got a restraining order. And things got quiet for about 2 weeks and then he came back with a vengeance. My God, the stuff he did AFTER THE RO was worse than what he had done before. Actually made an imprint of her house key through the lock (I didn't know you could do this)and had a duplicate key made. Bought an apparatus to get into a locked car, etc. Slashed 4 tires of her car. Went into her home, listened to her phone messages and called everyone on her phone list to threaten them if they befriended her over him. He even trashed the businesses her other dates worked at. The scary thing, among others, was that he was in the Coast Guard and was licensed to carry a gun. We hired a PI and did a background search on him. We learned he had done this in several states to other women and simply was transferred to other cities when he became a liability to the Coast Guard. He,too,was a real charmer but a real evil man. The PI followed him and had proof through phone records and pictures and fingerprints on the exterior of her car and in her car as well that he was violating the law. This was done over a period of 6 weeks and it cost us a fortune to have round the clock coverage of this man. But it also gave us protection for our daughter since investigators were right there should he have attempted to harm her. Well, we had proof but the police were dragging their heels. We got in contact with his commander on the base; met with her and he was permanently relieved of his duties. Then 2 weeks later, right after he called my daughter in the middle of the night, rambling and threatening, to explain it was all a misunderstanding, we left our home at 2:00 AM and drove all night to his home (crazy, I know) but we were desperate. We spoke to him and made him a firm offer he couldn't refuse. Well, what we said must have made an impression, because he packed his bags, left town and hasn't been seen there since. And that's been about 8 years ago. The police never did anything because the charmer explained it was simply a love affair gone wrong. Can you believe that?...See MoreA little charmer, from China...
Comments (10)Oh lovely - how can it be that we are separated by a mere bike ride and yet every china I have ever had is a text-book display of blackspot luridness. Even mutabilis, which, owing to my cheapskate nature, has evaded a heartless culling (unlike Bengal d 'Automne, Sophie's Perpetual, Sanguinea - all loved, despaired of and finally murdered). I have had to conclude that china roses are like dieramas inasmuch as they hate company, are better off in serene isolation and unable to exist in the chaotic tumble of oafs and bullies in my gardens - even enthusiastic wallflowers proved too much for Sophie's Perpetual Sickness)...See MoreThyme2dig NH Zone 5
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