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I do have several Buck roses and I love them. They have nice bushy growth habits and good repeat bloom. My favorite is Quietness and it's relatively healthy, very hardy and blooms all the time. I just think it needs to be pointed out that, as you said, they're not all created equal. Iobelle is a gorgeous rare Buck HT. It was a BS magnet and not very hardy to boot!
Others I have or had are Rural Rhythm, spotty and a wimpy grower, and Country Music, another spot magnet and poor grower. On the other hand Winter Sunset grows quite well and rarely spots for me. You just never know. Try Dakota Song out and see for yourself how it does. Then let us know because it's gorgeous!
ruthz, all of my roses are in pots because our terrible black clay ground.
I placed an order with Chamblees to be picked up at a later date. I had planned on waiting to choose roses while we were at the nursery. The spring flush is several weeks late this year so we will be visiting the gardens later than we planned. It usually is the second week in April but they are saying the end of April or maybe the first of May for a good flush so we won't be at Chamblees until May and I was afraid they'd be selling out of things.
Then of course I might just find something else while I am there!
I hope that westerners will be able to modify it (or use part of their solution such as the use of coir) for home use.
http://blogs.usda.gov/2015/04/10/in-the-west-preparing-for-uncertain-water-supply/
Spider mites were repelled and poisoned by alcohol extracts of spider plant, common stinging nettle, and chili pepper (each separately) when rose leaves were dipped in the solution. Cleome was most effective.
Note: it doesn't mean that growing the plants alongside roses will control spider mites on roses.
Hello, thank you. :)
I hope it does do better for you than it does for me, Seil.
Hmm, interesting Beth. Your blooms are much better looking than mine... That does give me some hope. The edge of the petals seem to curve out while mine stay cupped in, even in full sun. Maybe I just need to give it another year.
the flower form & big leaves look very much like the ones I've seen.
Yes, baby roses are often quite different looking. And our first spring blooms are often a bit weird, too--I've got a Pink Poodle & a Rosette Delizy blooming with virtually white blooms--just a hint of blush. But the new buds are coloring out correctly.
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Leah I normally prune my Julia Childs right down to about two feet. Around August I start doing some severe deadheading instead of all over pruning. As flowers die instead of a normal short deadheading I take that particular cane down. i'm guessing no more than a foot. On some of my other roses that have canes like octopus arms I take them back by as much as three feet. This is just the way I've learned to keep my roses manageable without losing out on any blooms as the rest of the plant keeps giving me flowers.
I suggest you use pressure treated 1 x 4 or 1 x 6 inch boards. Cut the boards in 8 inch lengths then cut the corners off at one end of each board. Next dig a trench around the bed, inserts the boards vertically so that notched end and 5 inches or so are above ground. Back fill around the boards and you have a boarder that can easily be replaced, expanded, and/or relocated as needed.
We make our chicken runs from 2x4 treated boards and they even rot here in the humidity in about 2 years. Bricks and cement blocks seem to last. Rebar seems to last. I have had several metal trellises rust rot and break. I just pulled the last one down last week. It was a large arch and was so cute and had a gate too but alas they all rust.
I have one grafted on multiflor rootstock. I am in Z6b NJ. Extremely vigorous, about 6 feet tall 2 feet wide after 3 seassons, stiff, thorny cane, wonderful repeat and fragrance, wonderful blackspot resistance grown in a no-spary condition. One of the few HTs I have. All together a wonderful rose. Fairly winter hardy for a HB too, but it is probably a nonissue where you live.
I had one and it did well. It was a deer casualty. The only roses that survived the deer were climbers and taller OG roses that were planted on a steep slope. I plan to go to the Celebration of Old roses in El Cerrito in May. They may not even have one, but I am sure I can find something that works.
One problem might be the shortness of the bloom period. Some very warm springs, mine had blooms that came and went in under five days. (Don't blink.)
Then we were in Maine, and someone brought in a Mme Hardy bloom that had had cool temperatures as it grew. It was huge. She said hers bloomed for a month.
I grew it once, but warm springs tempered my enthusiasm.