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| Hi everyone, I wanted some input before going on ahead and deciding on planting a Lady Banks rose at my local community theatre. "Lutea" would be the one I choose to plant. Any growers out there in Zone 6 who have success with her? I asked on the Antique Rose forum and someone answered saying that it would be worth a try and if she were mulched with leaves each fall and in a site facing south. What's a rose lover to do? Brad AKA Moonwolf |
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- Posted by mad_gallica Z5 Eastern NY (My Page) on Sun, Dec 29, 13 at 12:18
| If it was your house, the answer would be sure, what the heck. But this is somewhere else. Somewhere else that probably wants or needs somewhat coherent landscaping. The big problem with planting something like this in a design is that you honestly don't know what it is going to do, so you don't know how to *design* around it. It might be 2 ft tall, it might be 20 ft tall. It might be 20 ft one year and 2 ft the second. So how do you put other plants around it in a pleasing manner? And that is ignoring the whole difficulty of who is going to be doing the maintenance. It can easily take years to re-train people who think they know how to grow HTs to not hard prune everything in sight. There is just a different set of considerations when planting at a public site than in your own backyard. It has to look good for a longer period of time, and you often have little control over how it is maintained. |
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| Thank you, mad_gallica. I actually have to talk to some people first about even considering putting a perennial vine, much less a climbing/rambling rose such as Lady Banks, at the theatre. I do wish I had room for one here at home. They are gorgeous from what I have seen in pictures online and in books. Brad AKA Moonwolf |
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| Wouldn't hardiness be another issue? I was told by friends in South Jersey that Lady Banks was borderline hardy in NJ/PA. |
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| Diane, that's what I've been trying to figure out and is my main concern. Some gardening sites say she is hardy in Zone 6, but I wanted to see if there was anybody here if they or someone they knew of growing a Lady Banks in zone 6. Brad AKA Moonwolf |
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- Posted by mad_gallica Z5 Eastern NY (My Page) on Mon, Dec 30, 13 at 12:07
| I've seen Lady Banks in zone 6 - zone 6 Arizona. Its not at all like an eastern zone 6. It gets cold at night, but then warms up a lot during the day. Snow doesn't melt so much as disappear. If the real question is whether or not it will survive, of course I don't think it will. Maybe it could make it through a mild winter or two, but it blooms on old wood, and isn't going to be more than a curiosity. However, there are more than enough people who have to see that for themselves. |
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