22,153 Garden Web Discussions | Roses
Lyn can you right click on the link to bring up the option to open in a new window or tab?
Wirosarian you can change the page look so only the post appears with no replies. On the main page in the upper right there are a couple of grids you can click on to change the way it displays.
Beautiful pictures!
Julie
Besides being really old, this is a hilarious thread! Anyone want to buy some rare "Simplicity" tags.......I know Kim looooooves this rose.
With any luck the 10+ year old or so thread on Pizzles from the pet forum will return. That one was gold!
Kippy, I missed the Pizzles thread, and I think it's gone from the Wayback machine. Someone tried to find it for me. We need to try to gather all the funny threads from all of GW and put them together somewhere. We're a hoot, if I do say so, lol. Remember the one about the fish/alfalfa mix fermenting into....olfactory garden gold? Who was that?
Thanks for your compliments and well wishes, JJ. We all want to find roses that we love, and that perform well in our conditions. And we want to do it without picking too many of the wrong roses along the way. That's why I'm posting these rose reports on Humpty Dumpty House Facebook. I'm describing our conditions, the care, the age of the rose, and pictures of the foliage, the shrub, the buds, the blooms in all their forms, the color changes, and anything else I'd want to see before buying a rose. I'm hoping people who visit our facebook "like" our page because a critical number of likes can get us the help we need to reopen the gardens and resume our charitable work until I mend enough to rejoin the world. Here's the link:
suz, if you'd like your zone to be visible after your name, go in your profile and hit "edit". Then go to the line that says "first name" and make the zone part of your name and submit. That way it will show up each time you post. Ingrid
As per this webpage Reasons For Rose Leaves Turning Yellow, "Sometimes the rose’s foliage can be burned by either too much granular fertilizer of foliar feeding (Miracle Gro) and it will burn the foliage such that it will turn yellow in places and fall off". Are the roses young? If so, Kim Rupert recommended feeding weekly, weakly. Here's the link to the old thread that might be useful: Feeding-weekly-weakly (Hey, being able to post two links in one post is kinda cool)!
Has anyone received their DA orders yet? I am in FL so it says Jan/Feb for my zone. I called and they said sometime next week. I think I called on Friday -so this week sometime, *maybe* lol. I am really excited but I still need to go get some more pots.
For those of you who have received bare root roses from DA in the past, how large of a pot do they need to just start out in? I can always bump up the pot size later and I might put some in the ground once I figure out what conditions each one wants in my yard (shade/sun etc) and get some more beds tilled this spring.
Jasmine, I've planted ours in 5-gal nursery pots, but if your weather gets real hot, give the black pot some protection so you don't cook the roots.
Have fun!
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I'm posting evaluations of all our roses, along with lots of pictures: buds, blooms, burned blooms, the whole shrub. The good, the bad, and the ugly . On Humpty Dumpty House Foundation Facebook page. Link is below.
If you like what we do, please give us a page 'like'. This simple act can help us get the gardens and our work back up and running during my absence due to an injury.
Rogue Valley Roses has it too, but it's a band. I purchased from High Country Roses and Rogue Valley and was happy with both growers.
I would not call David Austin roses "easy" to grow. Easy to me, means you don't have to spray them.
There are at least 2 varieties of the Easy Elegance roses that are nicely fragrant. I grow both of them. Neither are Red, though.
Kiss me- Pink
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Sweet Fragrance- Apricot.
It is supossed to be a non spray rose, but I spray all of mine anyway.
Here is a pictue of Sweet Fragrance (The apricrot rose in the foreground)- It is one of my all time favorites because it blooms constantly and grows to 3-4 feet tall on neat well proportioned bushes with beautiful shiny leaves. Fragrance is a 7 out of 10. Not bad for easy care!
My Kashmirs are huge, 5' tall, first year own root plants. Love em, but not low!
Prolific, hardy, fragrant, compact, shade tolerant is a tall order.
My Iceberg roses tolerate afternoon sun and still bloom a lot. Sorry, not fragrant.
Sweet Fragrance is lovely, may have to give that a try.
I always have a posy of Hermosa roses and violets for Valentines Day. I have my eye on some Bolero buds but we'll see what happens. I bought a few branches of flowering cherry at a local New Years festival and they seem romantic to me. Abe Darby bloomed the other day so I wonder if any roses besides Hermosa will bloom on the 14th. Halftime managed a flower for Superbowl Sunday.
High Country Roses has it listed as being in stock. They are a reputable nursery that sells own root band sized plants through mail order. If you click on the "description" tab on the link below, it will tell more information about this rose.
Here is a link that might be useful: Rosa canina
I have Rosa canina 'Laxa' from Greenmantle Nursery in California. Wonderful healthy rose in my garden. Very, very vigorous. Fairly drought tolerant. Needs little care (I rarely bother to feed it anything). Although a once bloomer, it flowers over a long period. Produces lots of flowers and sets hundreds upon hundreds of hips. They are quite tasty once ripe (tasteless when green). I eventually will remember to try making tea with these hips, which are supposed to be high in vitamin c.
Greenmantle is own-root only and takes orders either over the phone or by snail mail. They have a nice website, but orders cannot be placed on it. An old-fashioned establishment. Highly recommended.
High Country Roses also is a good source for roses.
Melissa
Here is a link that might be useful: Greenmantle Nursery roses
I would agree with a few others about Frederic Mistral--its strong and lovely scent, plus vase life make it my best rose for a bouquet. But it does get big--for me, about seven plus feet tall, and six feet wide. Too bad my problematic rose, Caramel Antique doesn't have a scent to speak of because it lasts forever in a vase for me (it's a florist rose). I think it must mummify! It's also the deers' favorite candy and produces just a few blooms per season. Golden Celebration is a very lasting and good smelling Austin for me. Evelyn does well, too. Diane
I've grown a couple of different Oklahomas with no success. I loved the fragrance, but the plants have always been weak. The fact that this is an ownroot plant worries me, as many of the Hybrid Teas that I have grown ownroot have been similarly weak. Around here, many Hybrid Teas are more vigorous when grafted.
I have had good success with Papa Meilland (own root), and Mr Lincoln (grafted), and Firefighter (both own root and grafted. All three are tall, and powerfully fragrant. But if you want a short, fragrant, Red climber, I have read good things about Don Juan. I have not grown it myself.
It would be good for you to talk to some rose growers in your area, as that seems to be a major factor regarding success. Certain varieties do better in certain climes.
Good luck with the Oklahoma, it really does smell terrific!
Purple TigerI'm dying to get my hands on Stranger! SO gorgeous.Personally I love my stripeys best of all. They're what started me with roses in the first place! I have a garden full of them and, IMHO, they fit in perfectly.
George Burns
Hypnotized!
Oranges and Lemons
Belle Doria (Commandant Beaurepaire)
Rock & Roll
Scentimental
Wonderstripe
I love seeing your stripes Holly, they're lovely. Thanks for sharing them.