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Chamblees Roses has Fourth of July. I just bought a Purple Splash in a one gallon from their sale bin - bet if you called and spoke to Ron, he would send that to you also - it was $2.50.

Judith

Oh wow! thank you for the tip, i'll give a little jingle! ;)

I love my new one. I was enabled by Ingrid and I thank her for that! This rose is just lovely and looks to be pretty healthy for me here in the steam heat. A true, deep lilac pink.

Love the soft color!

I think it could be downy mildew. Used to be problematical here -- less so as our conditions have become more arid. Nice to know a drought is good for SOMETHING. I'd love a closer look, but the leaves could also be showing signs of dm.

Could be a lot of things. We get this a lot here in the spring. I've been told it is canker, black spot, downy and freeze damage. Take your pick. I've found what ever it is those canes don't do well and should be removed.

Walters recipe is about what we've done -- NO epsom salts in our case ... not with OUR water/soil! We have occasionally added kelp. But really, it's the hormones in the alfalfa that do the job. THAT is the power house that drives the growth.

In your situation, maybe try dry alfalfa, well-watered-in?

I did use alfalfa pellets this winter for the first time....a lot actually! People seem to rave about the tea, so I gave it a try! I've had such improvements in all my plants....my peach/orange trees are putting out more blooms than I ever had before...like 3x. I've also been trying to improve the soil...so it's been a multipronged attack!

Thanks for the feedback! I'm trying again with the tea and using much less alfalfa...so far so good!

I'm in Dallas area. I did a walk through in my garden yesterday, I have 6 more that I need to take out. I am soooo done with this. :(

I will not be replacing the roses.

In the Dallas area, we (Rose Societies, Master Gardeners, Extension agents and horticulturalists from all over) have launched a major campaign to educate people about Rose Rosette. Our main goal at first is to get people (including landscapers and municipalities) to remove the plants that are infecting whole neighborhoods. Scientists are working hard on it, but there is no cure at this time. Removing an infecting cane is very risky. The chances are high that it will return. The disease is caused by a virus spread by the eriophyid mite. The mite can be killed by certain miticides, but only on contact. Unfortunately, they do not stay on the surface of the rose. On a more positive note, the virus is not in the soil. If you remove the roots, you can replant - some say in a week, some say a little longer. Of course, you can re-plant with a non-rose at any time. But, if there are many infected roses in your neighborhood, there is no point in replanting until they are removed. Talk to your neighbors who have infected plants. But, we hope you will not give up. Can you imagine gardens without roses? We can't.

It doesn't matter that much. Just don't add more fertilizer right away. I've used all kinds, with and without stuff in them, and they've all worked out OK.

Ok, so I'll try it as soon as spring actually arrives. I'll use it to repot some of my container roses to give them a good start. Of course, this is assuming they survived the winter. I'm hoping.

Thanks for the info.

Y'all are convincing me to give Lichfield Angel a try. I'm looking forward to my trip to Chamblees to bring home so new roses to love! thanks for your input.

Here, LA was stingy. It may be better in a climate with some winter chill.

Found it at an auto store. It was sort of like a black tar_ish substance. It dried nicely. I was afraid the nozzle would clog between the 2 coats but learned to spray with the can upsidedown to clear the nozzle between jobs. Sorry I don't remember the exact name.

I have used a product called Pruning Seal. It comes in a spray can. I used it on wooden planters for citrus and also on the inside of terracotta pots. Let is dry good. It is a little stinky...smells like tar.

so sorry afraid not. Hate to start on those little cactus plants you see in the grocery store with the glued on flower top;) But seriously I am going to experiment with nontoxic blue food dye on my so-called when I bought it 6 months ago (Baby Blue) blue spruce that was blue but is now green, to see if it gets back a blue tint and if dye was being used to color the spruces that are not the naturally blue strain. Ripped out my poor sea foam rose bush today because of RRV. I was so sad/mad because I found that pathetic little plant ( my first rose bush) in the dumpster at a walmart back in 1997 and now it's (was) a monster. The virus showed up 2 years ago and until I came across this website I didn't know about the box store knock out roses I bought 2 years back was most likely the carrier. No wonder The Knock out roses did bad last year, now they are next to be pulled out. I am afraid to plant my new Leda and Ash rose bushes this year when they come even though they will be on the other side of the house. I wanted to do a English rose garden this year but I think I will put in Peonies, hopefully the RRV mites will be dead by next year if they have no food.

One that bothers me is a special deal I have seen in some catalogs for 12 AARS varieties as a collection. The problem is that one of the varieties, namely Crimson Glory, was never awarded the AARS prize. It was introduced several years before the AARS program's first awards. That is quite misleading. They should switch the Crimson Glory out for another variety that did win the award.

Thank you for posting pics of your beautiful roses, everyone. It's cold and snowy here. Can't wait to see my roses in a few more months.

Joe Moose - Beautiful roses. Your Hot Cocoa looks a lot different than mine which is a darker coral. I am rather disappointed in this rose. I like the color but the bush is small and anemic. It has very few blooms and kind of limps along. How is yours? Love Julia Child.

I feel for you guys who have fire ants in your area. When my husband was in the Navy yrs ago, he got shore duty at the Naval Air Base in Beeville , TX. The fire ants there were horrible! Our older son was a toddler and he walked thru an ant hill, in just a diaper. OMG! The screaming and crying, the blisters, the pain that poor kid went thru! And I got stung as well on my feet, toes and in between my toes when I ran to grab him. The burning pain, the pustule-like blisters, that would pop and burn like fire, then fill up time and again. Took days and weeks for them to go away completely. I am sooo glad we don't have fire ants here (yet). I understand they are in some areas of southern CA. I hope they never make it up here!

Amdro. You must use that. Greatest thing since the dishwasher. Fire Ants aren't ants at all, they are in the wasp family. If you ever get stung by them, you will run for the Amdro.

I purchased this rose at Mercer Arboretum's March Mart 2 years ago and have NO complaints. Here, close to Houston, with heavy clay in our soil, mine has taken off. No, it's not a very large bush, but it's not supposed to be. Mine blooms continuously, year round, even through winter. Can't wait to start some more from cuttings!

Well I should report that mine were also more of a Bengal Kitten - pretty wimpy plants. The blooms, however are quite lovely. I moved them last fall and so far they seem to be a little more robust, so hopefully they will be happier in their new location.

Jerijen, I think it's just called Bengal Tiger because money from the sale goes to help save the cat from extinction. It's got a mild striping of colors I suppose tho.

Densiemill - What Lowes did you go to? City? I saw the peach one, but it didn't call to me enough to part with my $.

Nanadoll - We get these here from time to time. In the past I've seen mostly Iceberg and Purple Iceberg.

Kublakan Alpharetta GA suburb of Atlanta

You are looking for shrub/floribundas with hybrid tea-like blooms. Is that correct? I'm kinda hard pressed (I am sure some will come to me other than OLoG), but a Grandiflora that sets a lot of blooms is Cherry Parfait. Perhaps another Buck rose, Hawkeye Belle. Oh, one of my faves, Summer Fashion!

This is a good rose. It's called Mother of Pearl. No fragrance which is why I gave it to a friend. It blooms tons. This rose is a young rose. HMF lists it as growing to 4 1/2 feet tall. And says it is prolific. The two pink flowers on the right belong to another rose - the rest is all Mother of Pearl. Carol

If you insist on spraying find an empty Windex spray bottle, put a squirt of dish soap in it and fill with water. Go out and spray the little buggers with that. It will kill them quickly and do far less damage to you or your garden.

Give me aphids all day long and I will give you my Thrips. Agree with Seil just spray them with dish soap. It will suffocate the guys but you will need to repeat every week they reproduce like crazy. If you have a 1 gal sprayer add one (1) tbl spoon to 1gl of water, mix and spray away. Not in the hot sun and you can use the cheep dollar store dish soap.