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| Hello to any and all middle Tennesseans! I am new to rose gardening and looking for locals.
I've just joined the National RS and the Nashville RS. I'm curious what grows best for you.
Thanks!
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| End of August is about right for a last fertilizing. There is no need to stop deadheading or cutting roses, except you should not be cutting long stems from small, immature bushes at any time of the season. When asking for advice about varieties, you should specify whether or not you spray fungicide. If not, blackspot resistance is the overriding concern. Most of the people in the local rose society are probably sprayers. Somebody here may still have "Jean's List" of resistant roses for Nashville (as of ten years ago). |
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| It will also make a difference where you live in Nashville: in near the city center which is a heat island in winter or in the 'burbs south or north. There are very different growing conditions and a lot depends on your exposure to north winds blowing in from Canada in winter. |
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- Posted by poorbutroserich urban nashville (My Page) on Sun, Aug 19, 12 at 16:31
| Thanks Ann and Michael. I live near Vanderbilt University. My yard is fenced (8 ft) and my roses are Southern exposure...so I'm thinking I'm close to z7. I am going to have an addition put in this fall and I'm wondering how close to "heeling in" I can do with roses. I do not intend to spray for anything and if I do I would start organic first. I'm wondering how effective the botanical oils are? Susan |
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| Hi! I'm just south of Nashville in Franklin--but I'm new at this too, so I probably don't know any more than you!! Most everybody local I've run across is more into the hybrid teas and not so much the older garden roses which appeal to me, but I'm still hopeful. I haven't joined the NRS, keep meaning too, but I have talked to one of their rosarians who was very nice. Depending on how much compost/manure you want, yes, I can either share some of mine or hook you up with some horse people around here that wouldn't mind letting you have some of theirs. It would strictly be a Shovel Your Own deal though! ;-) Also, I think the new maps have us in 7a--that's what I'm hoping and have some teas/noisettes bands I ordered this spring ready to go in the ground. |
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| Jean was able to grow old tea, china, and noisette roses without significant winter damage. Most of her successful no-spray roses were from these classes. |
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| They moved Knoxville into 7a, so I would assume you're in 7a now since Nashville tends to run a little warmer than here in the mountains. I've grown teas and chinas successfully for the past 3 years here. I don't have that many because I was afraid of their cold hardiness, but this year I ordered quite a few more since they seem to be doing ok. I just give them a little more mulch and be sure to plant them where they will be protected from the direct winter winds. Just expect a little more die back from them than other roses :) fyi: gallicas, bourbons and hybrid perpetuals seem to do really well here ownroot and love our soil. I'm no spray and my gallicas to amazing! If your going for grafted, the ones on multiflora do better than the ones on Dr. Huey. Tammy |
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- Posted by poorbutroserich (My Page) on Sun, Aug 19, 12 at 21:47
| That is such great and helpful info. I guess my next move is to get my soil tested. I am going to try some gallicas, noisettes, bourbons and HPs in the spring. Also want to try some teas. Tammy, what are your favorites? Susan |
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| I'm in Nashville and am not an expert but have grown roses by trial and error for several years. My no spray roses that have done very well are Belinda's Dream, Mrs. B R Cant (huge plant), cl Pinkie , cl New Dawn and Quietness. I love my Cherry Parfait and Betty Boop although they do lose leaves in super humid, hot days but otherwise need very little help. Julia Child could probably make it without spray but is in a bed of hybrid teas so gets a light spray. All the rest are hybrid teas and definitely need spray since Nashville is bad for black spot. The rose garden at the Nashville Zoo has all varieties . They use only organic sprays - no chemicals so you might talk to the ladies that care for the garden there. |
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| HPs and long-caned bourbons are all highly susceptible to blackspot. 'Souvenir de la Malmaison' and its sports, though classed as bourbons, are more resistant. (I don't know how resistant in Nashville, but maybe worth a try unless you hear otherwise.) |
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| You may want to check out some of the roses hybridized by Dr. Griffith Buck for Iowan winters. Some do quite well in my zone 8 high heat and humidity in a no spray garden. Many are good cutting roses also. My favorites are Prarie Sunrise, Prairie Harvest, Polonaise, Honeysweet, and Winter Sunset. I am planning to order Aunt Honey and Country Dancer. My best performer is the Earthkind rose, Belinda's Dream. Earthkind roses that are hardy in your area would probably do well for you. I order my roses from Roses Unlimited in Laurens, SC and have been pleased with the large healthy bushed I receive. |
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