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| Hello all. I want to introduce myself. Im Mirenda, a long time lurker who needs a place to chat about my garden. My friends and family's eyes are beginning to glaze over when I begin talking about my gardening activities. Why can't they understand how excited I get when I snag a long lusted after Austin at a clearance sale?
Im here hoping to find folks who will delight in the fact that i bought a standard today for �5.00. I'm mad about roses, gardening and (recently) composting. I moved from Bloomington, il to Ireland 7 years ago. I had a beginners garden in Bloomington (I happily planted everything I could find on clearance at Lowes). I've grown as a gardener in Ireland. Most of my roses are in large pots or 1/2 whiskey barrels. I'm amending the soil in my boggy garden. After four years of waiting I may get my roses on the ground next year. I will get some OGRs once I getting soil sorted out. My roses: AUSTINS
FLORIBUNDAS
PATIO/MINIATURES
HYBRID TEAs
GROUND COVERs
I've a few more roses but i have no idea what they are - winter clearance without tags. Thanks for being a part of this forum. I need you all! M |
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| Welcome, Mirenda! I love hearing all about how gardens grow around the world. You have a nice variety of roses there! |
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| It always great to hear from a person mad about roses, especially from Ireland. jack |
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- Posted by floridarosez9 10 (My Page) on Fri, Nov 16, 12 at 13:43
| Welcome to the forums! Looking forward to your posts from Ireland. |
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| Yes this is definitely a cosmopolitan forum Mirenda, I am on the other side of the USA in Australia. A wonderful place to exchange our thoughts/ideas/ and ask for help or offer it. Welcome from me David. |
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| Welcome! We will all be curious to see how roses do in Ireland. I hope you keep a record of your discoveries. Someday, someone will count on your hard won knowledge. |
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| Even though I'm pure American, for Christmas last year I asked for and got an Irish shillelah from Santa and one of my favorite songs is the Rose of Tralee (fittingly enough). I think there's a little Irish in all of us. So welcome to you. It will be interesting to hear what grows well in your climate. Do you have much of a winter to contend with? I've never been to Ireland, so don't know what the growing seasons are like.....Maryl |
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- Posted by mirendajean 8/9 Donegal, Ireland (My Page) on Fri, Nov 16, 12 at 17:16
| Thank you all for the warm welcome! As I am an Amercan in Ireland, so some of my pre-Ireland gardening knowledge doesn't apply. I am learning as I go. For instance, instinct told me to mulch my roses but that is completely unnecesary here. The climate here is mild, however I live on a mountain (this mountain is a hill compared to the appalachians - near I grew up). My property is built on a blanket bog - rich clay that is crazy waterlogged. The roses I have thrive because of the humidity (just enough to keep them happy but not so much as to encourage black spot) and because they receive 10 - 12 hours of sun in summer. In the seven years I've lived here there have been only 2 snowy winters. 2012 has been unusually wet and cloudy. Many desease resistant roses struggled with black spot and rust. However, my smaller roses (Joie De Vivre, Top Marks, and Sweet Magic) were exceptional this year. Most of my roses are in containers. I keep compost worms in the pots and I feed them on a budget - coffee, bananas, etc. I made my first, large, hot compost heap this year. I hope to top dress my roses in spring. I am not a rose snob - I found a generic standard rose on clearance today. The roses were absolutely gorgeous so it came home with me to add to my copper/apricot collection. Oh my goodness - it feels so good to discuss the garden! Thanks, Ps Mary. Congrats on your Shillalah :-) |
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- Posted by mirendajean 8/9 Donegal, Ireland (My Page) on Fri, Nov 16, 12 at 17:16
| Thank you all for the warm welcome! As I am an Amercan in Ireland, so some of my pre-Ireland gardening knowledge doesn't apply. I am learning as I go. For instance, instinct told me to mulch my roses but that is completely unnecesary here. The climate here is mild, however I live on a mountain (this mountain is a hill compared to the appalachians - near I grew up). My property is built on a blanket bog - rich clay that is crazy waterlogged. The roses I have thrive because of the humidity (just enough to keep them happy but not so much as to encourage black spot) and because they receive 10 - 12 hours of sun in summer. In the seven years I've lived here there have been only 2 snowy winters. 2012 has been unusually wet and cloudy. Many desease resistant roses struggled with black spot and rust. However, my smaller roses (Joie De Vivre, Top Marks, and Sweet Magic) were exceptional this year. Most of my roses are in containers. I keep compost worms in the pots and I feed them on a budget - coffee, bananas, etc. I made my first, large, hot compost heap this year. I hope to top dress my roses in spring. I am not a rose snob - I found a generic standard rose on clearance today. The roses were absolutely gorgeous so it came home with me to add to my copper/apricot collection. Oh my goodness - it feels so good to discuss the garden! Thanks, Ps Mary. Congrats on your Shillalah :-) |
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- Posted by mirendajean 8/9 Donegal, Ireland (My Page) on Fri, Nov 16, 12 at 17:16
| Thank you all for the warm welcome! As I am an Amercan in Ireland, so some of my pre-Ireland gardening knowledge doesn't apply. I am learning as I go. For instance, instinct told me to mulch my roses but that is completely unnecesary here. The climate here is mild, however I live on a mountain (this mountain is a hill compared to the appalachians - near I grew up). My property is built on a blanket bog - rich clay that is crazy waterlogged. The roses I have thrive because of the humidity (just enough to keep them happy but not so much as to encourage black spot) and because they receive 10 - 12 hours of sun in summer. In the seven years I've lived here there have been only 2 snowy winters. 2012 has been unusually wet and cloudy. Many desease resistant roses struggled with black spot and rust. However, my smaller roses (Joie De Vivre, Top Marks, and Sweet Magic) were exceptional this year. Most of my roses are in containers. I keep compost worms in the pots and I feed them on a budget - coffee, bananas, etc. I made my first, large, hot compost heap this year. I hope to top dress my roses in spring. I am not a rose snob - I found a generic standard rose on clearance today. The roses were absolutely gorgeous so it came home with me to add to my copper/apricot collection. Oh my goodness - it feels so good to discuss the garden! Thanks, Ps Mary. Congrats on your Shillalah :-) |
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| Welcome, Mirenda. Isn't that just the perfect description of the response of friends and family after awhile (sometimes quite soon) when listening to us passionately babble on about our roses well past that "we're still listening" point. HA - and I just also bought what you call I believe a standard today. I cannot believe after all this time, I did NOT have Peace. Well - I do now! Found it on my way home from jury duty, found a new Lowes I'd never been to before. And a nice, big, blooming - Peace. Although I'm a little suspicious. They had 3 Peace's. One pretty punny, I overlooked that one. One mid sized with a single, but wonderfully fragranced bloom. One quite large with a few fabulous blooms (but as I noticed as I put it in my car, little fragrance). Thinking - hmmm, I should have grabbed the really fragrant one despite its smaller size. Although I'm sure it'll be plenty fragrant soon! I diverge. WELCOME. I'm sure like me, you'll find it incredibly rewarding to be able to babble to people who want to participate. |
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- Posted by mirendajean none (My Page) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 13:01
| Harmonyp, Congrats on your Peace....and a Standard is a Tree Rose over here. I was all kinds of delighted to find them discounted from 30 Euro to 5 Euro. I went to the shop today to buy another Standard (after my UCG run) and all the Standards were gone! I did get 6 bags of UCGs to compost. They'll be fantastic on the roses next summer! M |
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