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When you go looking for sources, one good place to check is HelpMeFind Roses ... Look for the "Buy From" tab, upper right.
But be cautious, too, about WHAT you order. Some roses I know to be wonderful in TX don't "shine" where I am, on the SoCal coast. Rust is one problem. Mildew another. We aren't much troubled by blackspot -- but oh, man, MILDEW!
So, you may find that at least some roses you loved in a TX garden aren't available in CA because ... they don't do well here.
I grew Lilian Austin on multiflora rootstock for almost a decade up here in zone 6b. The blooms are as lovely as they photograph. What most photos don't show is the vicious thorns which are large, numerous and very sharp.
Mine drew so much blood that some really invasive grasses discovered th plant and took over, because I had trouble getting under the bush to do weeding.
Goatskin gloves may not be enough; welding gloves do work with gauntlets.
kathy9norcal, Your Lilian is just beautiful ! I love those wavy petals and that loose double look! I am definitely going to order her.
stillanntn, Thank you for the heads up on the thorns. I will have to be extra careful around this one then. I grow several varieties bougainvillea which has a lot of huge thorns too. I should get some gauntlets for those as well. Maybe the thorns will keep a few of my greedy flower- eating roosters away from the roses lol.
Please go online and look up RRD. I had a class with DR. Mark Windham from the University of Tennessee. He said to not mess around with a plant, get rid of it. RRD can wipe roses out quickly. He also said when the rose has it in it it will be dead in two years.
RRD is nothing to mess around with!!/
Patty, you are correct!!!!!!!!!!!
I regret to say that I ruined the appearance and growth of a lovely Princess de Nassau by injudicious pruning. Learn from my sad experience and leave that most beautiful of rose bushes alone. I said most beautiful of rose bushes; la Princesse is one of the few roses of which it it can be said that the foliage and growth habit are truly beautiful by themselves and can contribute much to a garden planting even without blooms and fragrance.
Royal Sunset is one of my favorite roses :) The colors are absolutely beautiful, scent is excellent -- citrus to me -- and she's quite healthy. She blooms frequently, but not continually like some of my smaller-flowered climbers can do.
She is hearty, but her vigor isn't very fast; she can get quite tall but may take a while to do it. That's a good thing if you don't need a house-eater!
I just love her. Her color is more yellow-y in all-day sun here and it stayed totally apricots and oranges in more shade. I don't get pinks on her where I am, and the orange isn't bright, except for her buds (or in the fall!). Love her!
Patty I didn't even notice when I found CANCAN and ordered it, that it was own root. That's fine with me tho. The funny thing is, it doesn't show up under the climbers at all, own root or grafted. I actually found it under the web specials. I saw some pics of it on HMF and on Garden Valley Ranch's website (which is even more expensive and they already closed up for the mail ordering season too). I was intrigued by the photos showing that it can have a purple edge on the hot pink. I think it will go very nicely with STORMY WEATHER on an arbor. Can't wait to see it.
Peach Drift is a winner here in Texas. It's always covered in fragrant blooms from April to late October. The fragrance on the Peach Drift is fruity and wafts on a warm day. The peach drift is the only fragrant drift rose. It's often confused with the apricot drift which like the other drift roses has no fragrance.
Just another suggestion here to give you even more choices to choose from. The oso easy roses do very well here for me. I don't spray thou so disease resistance is important to me. I did unfortunately get powdery mildew on my drift roses. They are good roses just not healthy enough here. Oso easy roses do bloom up a storm just like drift roses do. They have healthier foliage at least here anyway. Oso easy does however have a little smaller overall growth habit.
Perhaps the old owners covered their roses in the winter, therefore they would be big. Did you cover them? If not that could be the reason they are not as big as they were when you first saw them. There are tons of roses to grow so don't fret if they are too weak to keep, get some new ones and enjoy.
Valerie
Yes Thanks Steve, got that- that's why I edited at the bottom. They name to many roses similar. It's ok though. My names Alana though- not Alan-that's my dad's name :) Good Luck with your choice of roses-hope they do well, and sorry I couldn't have been more help. Cheers! Waiting on spring :)
I may be confused, hallucinating, or just a bit tired, but this thread seems to have disappeared from the Roses Forum listing... had to look for it on my 'Activity' tab thingy (since there was another query re pruning (on the Antique RF, I think) and I wondered if it was the same person asking... Sorry, it's probably just me...
How to prune roses that grow year round!
You will have to strip the foliage off the plant Then prune it back to maybe 4 feet. Remove all crossing canes and the wanna be twiggy growth. Feed them and water them and they will take back off
You will have to remove the leaves to stop the growth of the plant
Hi Ladies and Gents, could I ask where can I buy a candy stripe hybrid rose in the uk please. Many thanks.
Many yrs ago I had a grafted one that didn't stripe. A friend had gotten a grafted one from the same nursery, and it did stripe. She rooted a cutting for me, and it has remained striped all the time. I've had it for over 10yrs. Love it!
I would give that own root a chance. I think it may possibly just need some time to mature in order to keep the striping. It'll just be a waiting game I suppose. But if you find in the second blooming that it still hasn't shown the stripes, I would contact RVR and send pics, and just let them know that it might not end up striping. I'm sure they would replace it.
I have been dabbling in growing roses from open-pollinated hip seeds, and a couple of them are striped roses. But the initial blooming and sometimes the second bloomings did not show much striping at all. By summer the striping comes on in full force. One in particular, a seedling of BROADWAY that grows near a bed of several stripeys, does this every yr so far. It's still pretty small, but I think once it becomes a big, established plant, it will show stripes all the time.