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Mon, Nov 11, 13 at 16:36
As I promised Christopher here is a photo of my Gardenia canes. There are three main canes. The plant is in the bottom right of the photo.  Eugene de Beauharnais Valencia Bloom Perle D'Or this morning More Safrano blooms
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| Nice!!! Thanks for sharing! If space is tight around the dogwood, I'd still go with wrapping some canes around the trunk a couple of times to keep them in place. As others grow, you can let them go straight up into the tree, and tie them to the more secure wrapped canes. The pictures on the other thread of roses doing it on their own are also nice, but I don't have enough space to let them spread that way so low down. Mine can do what it wants once it's into the tree. We have a few roses in common, so it'll be interesting to see in Spring how they do for us. :-) ~Christopher |
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| P.S. That 'Valencia' is exactly the soft-yellow I love in Teas and HTs....and that HelpMeFind says it's strongly-scented puts it in my "might just have to get" category. How does it smell for you? :-) ~Christopher |
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| One of the most beautiful of ramblers but even in the PNW it was a monster with canes that didn't bend and hardened off after a winter. I grew it going both ways on a fence and it went to 25 feet on both sides. However it doesn't mind being pruned so I kept the other one down to a large bush about 8 feet tall and 10 feet wide. Oh course I had to have clippers in my pocket at all times of the year! |
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- Posted by poorbutroserich none (My Page) on Mon, Nov 11, 13 at 18:48
| Mine has superlax canes. (Right now). I need to get it into the tree, huh? I wonder if it roots easily? I'd love to have another---my other band quickly and unexplainedly died. It's so pretty! Cannot wait to see it in bloom! Lynette I am really enjoying your photos! Christopher, Valencia is young. Fragrance seems light. But that bloom had been in that water bottle for days when I took that photo and it is still looking good. Nice bush too. Big fat pretty buds! Remember temps are cooler now. It was warmer apricot in August. Susan |
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| Gardenia will root even if you dropped it on the ground. Now is the time to cut about 8 inches off the tip of the main canes, and just stick them into the base of the big Gardenia and they will root. |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Mon, Nov 11, 13 at 23:13
| Very nice Susan and Lynnette Bet that will be pretty in the tree |
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- Posted by poorbutroserich none (My Page) on Tue, Nov 12, 13 at 10:08
| Yea! Thanks. I can manage that. Susan |
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| Christopher, 'Valencia' has good fragrance along with great size, form, and vase life. It is my favorite HT. |
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- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Tue, Nov 12, 13 at 10:32
| My gardenia is quite out of control now. I just trim where it goes across the pathway. I think Valencia is so beautiful. There's nothing like those gigantic blooms. I have a grafted and an own root plant. They seem to be similarly vigorous, which isn't very, but they're fine. |
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