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| Yesterday, I decided to take some photos to document, for myself, how some of the roses in the city rose garden look on the first weekend of spring. One the way I noticed this big beauty on a hillside eating up a fence I took pictures of the plant markers and plants depending on sizes. If there is just a photo of the marker, then the plant was not much bigger or in one case was just starting to wake up. I labeled the roses that were in bloom or close to it as well These are the Teas, Chinas, Albas, Noisettes, Hybrid Musks, Musks, and some older David Austins. |
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Sun, Mar 23, 14 at 13:49
| Kippy - what a good idea! I also had a similar one - I took pictures of my garden yesterday, and plan to take some of the same places in April, May, June, etc to compare them - fun! I love this time of year because roses like the big white one on the hillside eating the fence you posted a pic of suddenly appear everywhere - they are mostly once bloomers, and every year I am surprised and delighted to see them in unlikely or abandoned (or at least untended) places. Jackie |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 23, 14 at 14:13
| Thanks Jackie! I wanted to see how the ones in the local park did for my own "research" purposes. I spotted that happy green giant on the way, I had to loop back through a neighborhood-where I found a wonderful entry arch. A White Eden seems to be climbing on it. The green giant is up a hillside on a "highway" through town so no way to get up to see it closer, but I sure enjoyed discovering it. |
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- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Sun, Mar 23, 14 at 17:50
| I love the gateway. |
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| I wonder whether the huge rose on the hillside could be R. fortuneana? (I hope I spelled that right). Ingrid |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 24, 14 at 1:21
| I have no idea Ingrid, but it is really spectacular. It has to be 8 feet tall over the fence with those long canes. And the blooms look larger than I would have expected. |
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