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| I just saw an article and photos on these roses. I am not familiar with them. Can anyone who grows them provide any information and photos? They look like they would be good for hanging baskets. They are offered by Heirloom and Rogue Valley - but I would like to find larger ones to purchase. Know any other sources? Thanks....... Judith |
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| Hmmmm, yes, I have seen various roses described as being good for hanging baskets but honestly, Judith, I am not sure I would inflict a hanging basket on any rose....not even the smallest procumbent miniature. Hanging baskets are, to my mind, ideally placed for short season sterile bedding plants which are happy to flower over a long summer season, then are composted in autumn and the baskets retired till the following year. The whole concept relies on relatively lightweight, free-draining soil mix, hugely amended with fertilisers over the season, often requiring a constant drip irrigation and generally, a temporary summer thing (although I have seen a few with sempervivums and sedums growing in them) - maybe a rose just for one season, then put in the ground.....but I admit, after a nightmare year when I had 17 of the damn things and nearly went insane, I have a fairly jaundiced view of them and limit myself to one at the most (without a rose). And now, I am having a huge apology for failing completely to answer your question and going off on a rant. So sorry, Judith. |
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| Hey, I always enjoy your posts! I hope to be visiting England within the next year or so. My best friend's son, who is like a 2nd son to me, is in the Air Force and will be stationed there in May for 2 years. My big chance to go and visit gardens! I have just bought a neat hanging basket - it is wire with the coir lining. It is in a triangular shape - very different - and I have it on a shepherd's hook in a prominent place - I thought for the spring season, I would enjoy a trailing rose in it. For our heat blasting summer, I would move it - I wouldn't wish that on any rose! Actually thought about putting it in a pot, planting it in the basket....then I could move it when the weather got hot. I have had good luck with roses in large pots also - and have 2 big pots in full sun I just got to go on either side of a beautiful metal bench I could not live without......so a couple of these might do better in the pots...... I certainly concur with you about hanging baskets in the summer - the only ones I presently have are 2 asparagus ferns on my patio. In summer, they are just too hard to keep watered. |
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| Much as I love and grow many Kordes roses, I wish they didn't have to change rose names when sold in North America!! The so called Balconia Roses are called Vigorosa in Europe. In my garden these roses will grow to a width of 6 feet and 3 feet tall. One would have to have a HUGE pot to hang them in!! If you have an area that only gets the morning sun and then shade for the rest of the day, then patio or mini roses do very well in a large moss pot. You can also add granules to help keep the soil moisture in longer. |
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