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| Last night I wanted to get a shot of my band of Queen Nefertiti with its big flower and naturally one thing led to another....
Queen Nefertiti
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| Hadn't seen a photo of Queen Nefertiti in a long time. Your photos are lovely... |
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| I really like the Toad statue, Ingrid, very charming. Your rose blooms look wonderful. I especially like the pics of Queen Nefertiti. Your Bougainvillea looks spectacular on the deck, love the color. |
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| I like your Mr. Bluebird (and Mr. Toad as well). :D Grandmother's hat is as well something that I start to like more and more from the pictures! Bougainvillea sounds so exotic, I saw it only as an inside plant. :D |
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- Posted by zeffyrose_pa6b7 6b7 (My Page) on Wed, Jun 23, 10 at 22:11
| Ingrid----Your roses are so lovely----Love Queen Nefertiti---very romantic name----- Your frog is great-- Your garden is so lush and lovely-- Florence |
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- Posted by organicgardendreams z10 CA (My Page) on Fri, Jun 25, 10 at 20:00
| Ingrid, nice to see some more pics of your awesome rose collection. The flower of Queen Nefertiti looks very big to me. Is that just the photo or is the bloom really a pretty good size? I love the shot of Grandmother's Hat in the warm evening light. Mr. Bluebird looks like a very cute rose. I am interested to hear how this rose is doing for you. Your Mr. Toad is hilarious! Thanks for posting! Christina |
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| Thank you all for the lovely complements. Elemire, I had to smile at the idea of bougainvillea being an inside plant; they're such huge monsters here. Mr. Toad is pleased that you like him. I'm trying to teach him to catch insects! Queen Nefertiti is a fairly new band but the flowers are quite large. I'm sure they'll be much smaller when it gets hotter but by fall they should be even bigger since the plant will me more mature (or at least I hope so). Mr. Bluebird is a little rose I really love (I now have four of them). Three are brand new but the fourth (which is pictured) is six months or so old and seems to bloom all the time, with no sign of any disease. It's such a graceful little plant. This will be its first summer and I'm curious how it will withstand the heat. Grandmother's Hat is a fast grower and bloomer, but dries up quickly in my little Sahara. I think it would be fabulous in a cooler climate. Ingrid |
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| I love Aunt Margy's Rose and Mme Charles is a beauty! Your garden looks great, Ingrid. Masha |
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- Posted by aimeekitty (My Page) on Wed, Jun 30, 10 at 16:52
| Wonderful! It's nice to see your Bluebird. I'm going to keep watching your posts and decide about whether to get some next year. :) Love that first rose especially, how gorgeous! |
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| Thanks, Aimee. If Mr. Bluebird gets through the summer here reasonably well I'll be thrilled and sold on this rose. I'll definitely post more about him as the year progresses. Ingrid |
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- Posted by organicgardendreams z10 CA (My Page) on Fri, Jul 2, 10 at 20:55
| Ingrid, thanks for the info regarding Queen Nefertiti's flower size. I hope for you that she will keep producing resonably sized flowers when it gets really hot, since I know from your other post on the Antique Forum that this is what you are lusting after right now. I personally like a mix of flower sizes produced by my roses, but definitively love to have some varieties that are capable of pumping out some big blooms in the heat, too. I happen to find that even though I see a tendency that heat is shrinking my blooms, very thorough watering and fertilizing especially in the summer helps to revers that phenomenon at least to some extend. Christina |
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| Ingrid: Do you still grow 'Queen Nefertiti'? If so, how has it performed for you? I saw a plant of it yesterday at Heirloom Roses, and I had no idea they grew it- I'd never noticed it before. The flowers were small/medium, yellow/pink and very pretty, even though D.A. claims that it was eliminated because it "doesn't have quite the beauty for an English Rose"...whatever that means. I thought it looked charming. What do you think of it? |
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| Oh I love Mr. Bluebird!!!! |
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| zjw, sorry I didn't see your question since I haven't looked at the gallery in a while. I did talk about it on the discussion part of the forum, and have to say that its growth habit was not at all good, and really spoiled the overall garden picture of the prominent area where it was planted. A rose that I would substitute would be Janet, which isn't seen very often but is quite lovely, without having that typical Austin look. Mr. Bluebird is still with me and in fact I have four plants, but for the first time this spring it had substantial blackspot on at least two of the plants. I cut them down quite a bit and the new growth seems okay. There is no way I'm getting rid of this rose without making a concerted effort to save it. I love everything about it. |
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