22,795 Garden Web Discussions | Roses
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
I've tried Leonie Lamesch at least once and maybe twice in my zone 5 Nebraska yard. At least once was in full sun and decent protection, so I'd probably rate it as marginally hardy in zone 5 at best. I have it on order again this fall and will give it a more prime location and see if that helps. I'm guessing that its actual hardiness falls somewhere in the zone 6 range, but in a protected spot it might do fine, or with extra winter protection like I provide my teas. Never say never, but I'd be a bit cautious in my zone 5.
Cynthia
Thank you both for the info! I thrives in my zone 9 (actually I think 10 lately) garden, but I was just wondering.... actually, I was wondering about the hardiness of "Schmidt's Smooth Yellow" which we think might be 'Eugenie Lamesch', (evidently a lost rose) which was hybridized by the same hybridizer (Peter Lambert) in Germany in the same year (1899) as 'Leonie Lamesch' (Leonie was his wife, and Eugenie her younger sister). I have grown them side by side, and they have exactly the same growth habit, leaves, and bloom form, but the blooms are way different in color, and SSY is entirely thornless, while LL is moderately so.
Jackie
I checked all the links except the one I couldn't get and I am struck! Couldn't believe it's possible to grow such perfect roses in a cold climate. I know I can't. Not that I haven't tried with my only mass planting but there are always irritating gaps after dead roses or plants that are too short to make an impact.
I don't quite understand why they are testing these hardy roses in warmer places like Vancouver and Vineland. Isn't Vineland near Niagara on the Lake where they used to grow peaches? One problem with rose growing in northern Scandinavia is not so much the winter cold as the short and cool summer. We are more maritime than continental, at least Norway and most parts of Sweden. Finland and the other Baltic States are more continental as well as Russia, of course. I agree that Russia will probably be the core market for these roses.
Yes, I agree, Vineland is by Niagara and the area is listed more as a zone 6 according to Canada's plant hardiness map. I did more digging, and came across this other article, which says they are testing at the University of Saskatchewan (they sure make Saskatchewan sound cold, lol) among some other locations:
http://www.aginnovationontario.ca/en/new-canadian-roses-disease-resistant-cold-hardy-and-low-maintenance/
I thought this was neat too, this video shows Vineland's rose testing field. Some of the bushes look pretty vigorous, and there are so many types! :http://globalnews.ca/video/1425222/scientists-try-and-create-a-perfectly-canadian-rose
I agree with the newer varieties lacking in fragrance. I really do hope they preserve that.
I am just glad that they are continuing with a program, and that there are funds for it. I love my roses Winnipeg Parks from the Parkland series, and Emily Carr from the Canadian Artist series, I think it is fantastic how far the selection of roses available for cold zones has grown. Growing up, all I knew was Therese Bugnet and Hansa!
First Spring blooms in my garden were seen today -- two Iris reticulata 'Pixie' of the hundred I planted last Autumn. I see signs of the others coming up -- a hundred each of Crocus tommasinianus 'Lilac Beauty', Chionodoxa 'Alba', and Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades' were naturalized with the Iris, planted over a layer of a hundred Narcissus 'Fragrant Mix' in the main rose beds, all from Van Engelen. There's also some Hyacinthoides non-scripta planted with the Gallicas, and Ipheion 'Starry Nights Mix' planted in the full-sun border that are poking through. So signs of life, but thus far only those two Iris blooms.
Oh, and the roses all have swelling buds. "Bermuda Spice" actually kept quite a few green leaves -- being as it was covered in snow for much of the cold part of Winter. But I think they'll be pushed off by new leaves in just a few weeks.
:-)
~Christopher
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.