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| So many of the roses we love are stars, hogging the spotlight. But a good garden, like a good drama, can benefit from the supporting players. Won't you share which roses are your favorites to use just tucked in here or there to provide color, fill in the awkward spot, harmonize otherwise clashing colors, the unassuming little ones that are just the thing to complete your garden? |
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- Posted by melissa_thefarm NItaly (My Page) on Thu, Oct 17, 13 at 1:32
| Hmmm....speaking for myself, I don't use roses this way. They are always and invariably protagonists, while I rely on other plants to perform the functions you mention. This strategy gives me a greater range of plant architectures and flower and foliage colors and textures and forms to contrast with the roses. Melissa |
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| Here all the roses I've tried get large, so are not fillers. Even grocery store minis here can get 6'. I'm with Melissa here, I just don't use roses that way. A very few exceptions out of hundreds tried that stay small are 'Golden Buddha', 'Precious Dream', and 'Eyeconic Pomegranite Lemonade'. |
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| To some extent I use polyanthas that way in spots where I'd like a rose but don't have the room for a larger one. Pink Soupert, Marjorie Palmer, White Pet and Pink Lafayette are tucked away here and there, and I only have to hope that they don't turn into monsters. In my hot climate and relatively poor soil I don't have the giants that hoovb, for instance, has in her glorious garden. However, I think she enriches her soil much more than I do and that makes her roses explode. Mine just look around gingerly and spend a while making up their minds whether they really want to live here or not. Ingrid |
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| I know what you mean, Melissa, it is good to have some variety in foliage and architecture, as well as flowers, to avoid monotony. Hoovb, yeah, a lot of the OGR's that like warm climates do run big. Ingrid, thanks for some polyanthas that can be tucked into smaller spaces. |
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