22,153 Garden Web Discussions | Roses
I am a huge fan of Munstead Wood roses. I have a small row of them and couldn't be happier. Very fragrant. The color is pretty consistent although it tends to be darker at the end of the summer. They are susceptible to black spot, but I am not the most diligent person when it comes to spraying. It holds up well when it rains here in CT. 
Mustbnuts...I love your roses. How beautiful. You must have a lovely garden.
I'm going today to look at roses weather permitting. I'm hoping it doesn't rain all weekend so I can.plant on Monday. I work all weekend so that's a no go. I definitely want to try and pot roses as well. Alongside my walkway by my entrance. All sun most of the day. At least 6 hours.
I was a bit intimidated but you've all been so helpful and kind. I will be scouring the net for information and YouTube for how to's lol.
I really want a pretty garden!
Elizabeth, they may not be available locally, but take a look at the TAMU list of Earth-Kind Roses. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/earthkindroses/cultivars/
Out of 250 carefree roses, 150-170 of them are Knock Out roses, I started with 100 of them, then added more for their fast repeat colors( they have 5 different colors). I also have about 250 old garden roses, ramblers, some of them I purchsed as rose bands, still small. I have never got infected from rose thorns, I live in a house hugged by thousands of blooms and also thousands of thorns. :-) I have been taking care of roses for about 8 years. I love them all. It's just people's taste in food, cars and scooter, motorcycles. I don't like Harleys, there are so many of them and everywhere, but I love Knock outs they are everywhere too, I grow them for their fast repeat colors. So far they're the fastest rebloomers in my garden. I will add more old garden roses and more other kind of carefree roses this year. Happy gardening everyone! :-) Cheers
Every thing I've read so far has this rose being quite large down south. Paul Zimmermon has a photo on line of the one he lost to rrv. It looked to be about 6'h x8 or 10' wide. Wish Help Me Find had comments from everyone on growth and other goodies about their roses. My photos on aren't that good on HMF but I now add a comment about growth and health in my garden. Hoping it may help someone decide if they wish to plant a variety.
For what's worth Paul said he has had about a 50% survival rate on rrv infections when he can catches it early while the infections is showing high up on one cane by removing the cane. This is good to hear and also how I saved one rose.
subk3 thanks for the Ivors Rose suggestion.
Thanks every one for your help it is appreciated.
Your Sharifa is beautiful! It sounds like Sharifa would be more compatible with LEH. I read that LEH also gets a little resentment in super hot weather and may slow down growth in the heat of summer. So the Sharifa and LEH could prob go into some afternoon shade here together.
I think I will put PAoK in full sun. I just need to figure out what else to plant by her now lol. I have them all in pots for now but am trying to figure out where to put the flower beds and roses according to their size and needs. I have lots of room and sun/shade possibilities so I want to get this as 'right' as possible the first time so I won't have to move stuff around later. I have more shade/dappled sun than straight sun areas close to the house but I do have a few areas of full sun. I have some super sunny areas but they are way out by the street (an acre away) so I want to plant closer to the house first so we can enjoy them. Too many huge oak and pine trees here (plus all their roots) grrr.
I ordered Princess Alexandra this year and she's just started budding. She took off rather quickly. Can't wait to see the blooms, although the buds look small. I hope they don't stay too tiny, as I'm hoping for big blooms. Sometimes bud size can be deceiving though.
Thanks, all! I did pull it back far, and it's a good thing I did. It was keeping things quite moist and it's been downright warm since that last cold night.
I think next year I'll probably put it on right before the super-cold nights and pull it back after them, just to be safe. I didn't put it on until we were solidly into winter, but the really bad nights were so few that I should probably not leave it on as many weeks as I did.
So far, I don't have more canker showing than normal, so that part is good!
Thanks for the info. I didn't realize she was so new. I think I will wait a bit to get her since I just got Julia Child. Jacqueline I do have a rose society about 35 miles away but they meet at night and I'd have to drive highway and I just don't drive highway at night anymore if I don't have to. I'll keep watching the site to see if anyone is posting updates.
Maybe you guys need to get a wolf/hybrid dog to patrol your yards. LOL
No, actually, that would be terrible to have to worry about deer damage. I've seen a squirrel or two move into the neighbourhood for the first time. I've read here that they like to take rose buds. Even if that happens, they can't be as bad as deer.
Carol
I have Solero V. & I like the color, a clear yellow but as nippstress says, "it fades". It is an ADR rose but last year it had a touch of BS in my garden but it seems to resist BS because the rose next to it had BS much worse as well as several other roses in my garden. The one habit it has that doesn't please me is that the bush tends to sprawl & open up in the center.
Solero Vigorosa is nice with good color and disease resistance, but it is still quite small (read "short") here. We'll see how it matures in the next two years.
Purple Rain may be moving out of my garden. Yes, it is healthy and a good bloomer but the color is not as it was described at all...and I do not like it one bit. The flowers are small clusters of a very odd shade of pink. Bleah! I would say that unless you've seen it in person and just adore it, don't waste your money experimenting on it.
Here it is, half-leafed out after a prune this year down to 3x3. Perhaps this shows the structure for you. As usual, blooming already. It would look fab for you underplanted with Geranium 'Rozanne'.
Keep in mind I never did anything but deadhead the first 5 years.
I had to look up whether my favorite 'heavy' insecticide kills leafhoppers, and it does. It's spinosad, so it's less toxic than Sevin. OTOH, it's still deadly to bees when wet, so make sure to spray only when the bees are in for the night. After it dries, it doesn't kill the bees! Don't spray it directly on beneficials and it won't kill them either (unless any chew leaves).
I do use Sevin for true bugs that really need killing, though. Spinosad isn't good on most of them, unfortunately.
My goodness! It was my first time watching a motorcycle race, I got goosebumps the whole time! I have never seen any bikes going that fast, more than 200mph at least. I hope all the riders dropped their bikes in the turns were ok, still alive, one of them went down the hill.....if I knew them I'd tell them "don't do it" many many times. I like their riding gears.
That's a beautiful island, it would be lovely to ride around (45-60mph), pack a picnic lunch...... there are not many scooters here, I saw less than 10 scooters on the road in my town last summer, so I ride with motorcycles. :-) Ride safe!
Cheers,
Summer
FWIW, Patty, I have grown Belinda's Dream for about 7 years here in zone 5, in the cold zone 4 parts of my yard, and she's resolutely hardy and pretty BS resistant. She's in part shade too, so I don't get the jaw-dropping profusion of bloom she shows elsewhere, but she's definitely a keeper and hardy for me. I don't think your conditions in IL should be that much different than here in NE, so I'd say go for it.
Cynthia
Thanks for all the advice. As it happens I'm only moving it a few inches, but to a deeper space and a bit more sun (shade from a nearby bush means a few inches matter). I'll do my best to keep the rootball intact, the roots were very wide originally.
Will wait to fertilize till it comes back and try not to worry ; )
Btw Im in Northern CA, and have a feeling all 3 new roses are a bit too high. I hope the others could be fine with some soil piled up to the bud union.
Thanks!
It helps to move them towards evening or in cloudy weather which you probably wouldn't have now. Many people will provide shade while the rose recovers.That could be as simple as a lawn chair. Or shade cloth over a plant support. A product such as wilt proof works well.