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VH has excellent size and exhibition form--great for rose shows.
Marilyn Wellan is another excellent red, but it blooms very early in the season, while VH blooms late. This is very important for rose exhibitors bringing roses to Spring shows.
Grande Amore has plenty of blooms and excellent disease resistance, but the blooms are small and young plants have blooms with a color fault (white line).
Chrysler Imperial and Mister Lincoln have great fragrance.
Opening Night is the red to get if you like open blooms.
This post was edited by zack_lau on Tue, Nov 11, 14 at 11:01
Some slug damage as Michael said but I agree with Kim too, looks like wear and tear. Don't pull off anything with green on it even if it's damaged. Those are still feeding the rose. If a leaf has stopped feeding the rose it will turn yellow and fall off on it's own. You need to keep as much green leaf as possible to keep the rose healthy.
Well, from that it's sure obvious it's rampant in North Central Texas. I will be having about 10 roses removed next week, but was planning to wait at least a year to give my favorites a retry, as well as watch remaining roses very closely over the next year.
This is going to hurt our few wonderful rose sources that we have here in Texas.
Kousa -- It has only been in the ground for maybe 3.5 weeks. I might be able to answer that question in 3.5 YEARS.
We have to grow everything in large squat pots, in the ground (with extra holes) to prevent plants from becoming Gopher Chow. That slows them down, until they can get their roots out into the ground.
Jeri
Wow, what a surprise. This is my city. The roses are beautiful, but I am not sure about how the group of people got together. I am glad they. Their organization is more about making the downtown area beautiful than it is about roses. The roses that I saw are all in raised beds, and line the street.
The Tulsa Rose Society is still the rose society for this area. We have our meeting tomorrow, and I am going to ask about this group. Thanks for finding this article, Henry.
Hi Henry, several members of my Rose Society were at the meeting. Here is a report from our newsletter about the RRD Roundtable:
Then we heard a great panel discussion on Rose Rosette Disease, including Drs. Mark Windham, Byrnes, Ong, and Tzanetakis, all of whom have been studying RRD. The RRD virus has been identified, and research recently has fulfilled all three of KochâÂÂs postulates to prove that it is the causative agent. The disease has been observed in the US since the 1930s. ItâÂÂs transmitted from bush to bush by the âÂÂrose leaf curlâ eriophyid mite. It moves through the plant slowly at first, from cell to cell, but then rapidly moves through the plant to the roots and to other branches. So what else did we learn? The disease may exist in plants and plant parts that arenâÂÂt showing symptoms, so if we have any suspicion of RRD we should act quickly to remove the entire plant from our gardens. After removal of an infected plant (and ALL its roots), we can safely replant in that space in a couple of weeks, since the mite doesnâÂÂt seem to survive in the ground. Early studies have been inconclusive about controlling the mite with common miticides, though research continues. Different herbicides (Round-Up vs 2,4d) may produce different symptoms on roses, but unless those symptoms appear in several plants/places, damage is probably not due to herbicide drift. Meanwhile, we may also see different symptoms of RRD on different cultivars, and different symptoms when there are multiple viruses infecting a plant. We donâÂÂt need to worry about transmitting the virus from plant to plant with pruners (unlike rose mosaic). We learned that Lysol is inadequate as a disinfectant for our pruners �" the professionals recommend non-fat milk!
if they are still outside, they are in the process of going dormant NOW. Roses in any pots usually do not do well outside because the root system is not insulated by the surrounding earth. I overwinter many dormant potted and tree roses in my garage, but it is not fully heated because I do not open the vents. At 35-40 degress, they have 99% survival rate. Can you open a window or something to keep it a smidge cooler. Dormancy also requires decreasing light. Try to mimic mother nature.
And i would not judge anything by last winter.
best luck and keep us posted
Kippy, you will love it. They opened another section of the Chinese garden so now you can go all around the little lake and see the pagodas and bridges from other views. My roses are still going so I would guess theirs are too. Pasadena got spared from the nasty wind.
There is a very good bakery called Fredericos on the East side of Allen Ave. ( the street that leads into the Huntington's main gate) If you are using that street to reach the 210, you will pass right by it. It's on the right side on the corner as you come out of the neighborhoods .
I went to the open house at Sherman Gardens today
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Below is a link to a tour of the Sherman today
Here is a link that might be useful: Today at the Sherman
Oh Boy. I have both of those roses and they are both in my top 5 most floriferous, healthy and beautiful roses. Parade gets HUGE blooms in the fall that quarter and Ivor's (so glad they renamed it Flamenco) is never ever without many many blooms. Healthy as a horse and vigorous. Give Flamenco lots of room and stand back. You got some good ones. The photo is Parade, and she is still covered in buds and blooms.
Susan
I think the Italian light might support more vivid contrasts so would consider pairing that grey/purple with euphorbia characias. The glaucous and sculptural euphorbia leaves, and the acid green bracts would do a sterling job of hiding RiB's gaunt and bare legs (it is a tall, thrusting rose) and contrasting really well. You might also have a bit of fun with the annual thunbergias - the plain orange and black thunbergia alata twines rather nicely about RiB. Although, I sort of recall you saying any colour but orange.....was that you?
Bronze fennel, at all stages of growth, will also melt and soften the angularity of this rose while framing the remarkable blooms - a wonderful colour which allows us to compromise about it's awkward coltishness....maybe add some of the white umbellifers to froth around - dip a toe in by sowing some ammi or orlaya - still time to do this now, sowing directly in the soil, for fat blossom next year which will flower at the same time as RiB's first flush. They do seed about but are easily spotted and hoed out.
For a complementary rose, look no further than Cowlishaw's earlier foray into 'blue' roses with the delicately lovely Odyssey. Not always easy to find (C.K.Jones in the UK) but from the same stable as RiB but with a smaller habit and good all-round health - a soft lilac not too far from Legrice's experiments with cool mauve roses...and the same generous stamens. Or, I have been hovering over Visser's 'Minerva' - a darker 'Blue for You' (now there's a thought?). I grew a neat annual nicotiana, 'Langsdorfii a couple of years ago....and that would be another greenish tubular flower (looks better than it sounds) to grow with RiB. You could also do that Hidcote thing of red and purple.....an audacious scarlet such as Home Run, geums, potentillas.......
Lee asked about Prospero's growth habit.
It is a slow-growing, very upright quite twiggy rose which does not take kindly to "normal" pruning. In fact, it is best treated like a China, and pruned minimally. Removal of dead growth is about all it needs.
It does not arch nor spread. After several years, our budded plants are about 4-ft. tall.
Jeri
I was trying to find it grafted a couple of years ago and had no luck. At that time, Roses Unlimited had it own root. Their website still lists it , but you have to call or email them for actual stock status of their roses. I've ordered OGR/antique roses from RU and been very pleased with their roses and service. I normally prefer to get my modern roses grafted, so haven't ordered any of those from them. I've never seen anything but positive comments posted about RU, though.
I purchased a couple last year from Roses Unlimited. They are an awesome place to buy from. You can call or email them and they will answer you back quickly. They are my most favorite online rose nursery. Nice nice folks there. You will LOVE Heaven on Earth. I would suggest buying 2. Or 3. Mine is the fastest repeater. Love love love it!! Judy
Got another surprise today walking through the garden. R. borissovae is blooming. Again. What a neat little rose! Flowers have a sweet scent overlayed with linseed oil.
Melissa
Trospero:
"I have a R. arkansana grown from seed that flowers in 3 or 4 flushes per growing season; the final one usually in early October. In breeding, this trait vanishes when crossed with modern roses of any kind. I never did find a mate for it that passed on this reblooming trait. It would likely require several generations of careful selection, but I gave up breeding before I could pursue that idea."
My readings have led me to the conclusion that one can't get juvenile rebloom out of a native without multiple generations, as you say, and that if one wants to exceed 50% native (and thus have a good shot at rose rosette resistance, among other things), it would balloon into a huge project. I was thinking about it differently. Rather than trying to mix some native into garden roses, I was wondering how good of a garden rose could be made out of natives. Though your White Rabbit arkansana (or my reblooming californica or palustris) would be incompatible with chinensis rebloom, they might not be with each others', or with that of other sorts of extended bloomers and adult rebloomers (spithamea, pomifera/borissovae, damascena, musk, banksia, etc.) Palustris x virginiana blooms twice, as does setigera x gallica, if Baltimore Belle's ancestry is to be believed, so it doesn't seem like an impossible goal.
Basically I'm just chewing on the problem of how to breed out the suckering without losing what they already have going for them, including rebloom. Your arkansana might not be too bad that way, but californica can eat a yard pretty quickly. I could just graft native rebloomers onto setigera rootstock and be done with it -- I admit I have some setigera seeds in the fridge, and am considering trying it -- but that seems more like a workaround than an ideal solution. The non-chinensis rebloom/extended bloom mechanisms are just so poorly explored it's hard to guess what breeding approach might solve the suckering without killing the blooming season.
In a way, it's similar to the question I face using Nightmoss as breeding stock. Neither of its parents rebloom, and it doesn't rebloom, but a seedling of it does, and a cross of it with a flush-blooming found rose does. Those two comprise all of its known progeny. Nuits de Young and Tuscany Superb have produced one reblooming offspring each, but their single blooming progeny are far more common. So what's lurking in Nightmoss, is it damascena rebloom, chinensis rebloom, the rare but undeniable gallica rebloom? Two or more of the above?
Mama Luymans (Gruss an Teplitz x Aimable Rouge) reblooms, though Aimable Rouge doesn't look chinensis, and seems too old to contain any. Baltimore Belle, Stanwell Perpetual, Paula Vapelle, and a number of other chinensis-free rebloomers, shouldn't. If the Portland Rose is really an F1 of gallica x damask, it shouldn't. For that matter, musk x gallica shouldn't, nor should its offspring R. damascena. More to the point, my palustris has stipules that are a little wide for the species, and its prickles aren't too hooked, but I still have no clue why it's in bloom in middle of November.
I guess there's nothing more that I can do, than to place my bets on certain combinations, and see what happens. Like, if I tried Souvenir de Brod x Nightmoss, I suspect I might get some rebloomers in the batch, but I couldn't tell you what kind(s) of rebloom it would be, why it had it/them, or how to extend the result to other crosses. Maybe that's as good as it gets when you're out of the chinensis mainstream.