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Do the leaves look different now versus when you had blooms?

Thanks to a poster here, I found that reason my roses don't bloom much is rose midge. It does not sound like that is your problem, but just in case...

Jeri, you cracked me UP!!!!! Ha!!!! You're right though. I actually was watering it now as I'm checking the GW forums and ran outside to take a pic for you guys. As you can see some of the top part looks dead but there are some green leaves that merged and you can see those in the pic. I'm praying this will survive and eventually grow as big as you guys say.

I'm grateful to you and Jackie for the advice as I nurse it back to health.
Elce

Elce -- It's gonna make it. And if it doesn't, Texas is full of monstrous old plants of it -- so you can always have another.

I remember particularly a monster of a plant that we passed in full bloom, just south of Dripping Springs, TX. I wish I had photos, because it was a wow.

Hi I also had difficulty importing from sd card with windows 8.1 ... I found a solution and whilst looking for answer I googled for info and spotted your post... I had to join this group just to answer 'hehehee' .... I downloaded Picasa 3 and that will give option to click on and import pics straight away from sd card to computer ... I hope that info helps you :)

Without using any specific software, can you connect the camera, by cord, to the computer?

If you CAN, and you turn the camera ON, the computer should just see the camera as an external drive, under My Computer.

If it does that, you can just mark all of the images, and copy them to where ever you need them to go.

This looks more like a picture taken in the spring since the rose looks so fresh and lovely. I wonder how well it held up in the heat of the afternoon. Many of mine tend to fry at that time.

Ingrid

In the afternoon, this little niche goes into shade. But to be frank, in the worst of the heat, I don't expect my roses to remain dewy and perfect.

EYE don't remain dewy and fresh in real heat -- much less my roses. :-)

How wonderful!

Garden web only allows one photo at a time. Some of us upload to alternate websites and post links that open to the photos

The roses are beautiful, but my eyes are focused on the healthy foliage! Amazing.

Beautiful photos. I want to get my hands on a Smoky, now. Or a Black Tea. :D

Burling had Black Tea this spring. I may have some cuttings in a couple of months.

Don't know who might still have Smoky-maybe RVR? Mine's a bit too small for cuttings, yet.

I like both very much. But Black tea has been more vigorous so far.

Kasmir is my favorite so far - the deep red blooms are so beautiful. I also have High Voltage. I love them. Will be planting more next year.

A related thread linked below:

Here is a link that might be useful: Easy Elegance roses

My CPM is paler than it looked in the Austin catalog. For me, it is not a rose that jumps out at you. I have Legends planted nearby. I have an Intrigue in a pot that needs planting - am thinking that color would look good next to CPM. It is on one side of an arbor - Peach Silk is on the other side. I think almost any color would look good with it. Since it is so pale, I think some brighter colors around it would liven it up. Plan to plant some annuals around it in bright colors. Its a nice climber - grows and blooms well. Not many in this Texas heat right now, but I do see a few here and there. I actually like the color of Crepuscule better, but CPM is a creditable rose for me.
Judith

I had both in my last garden. CPM had its best colour in cool weather. Really loved it then.
I have a number of similar-colored roses now and find that a pink rose called Siena (I got if from Palatine) makes for a fantastic combination with the soft yellows. It is in between Charlotte and Molineux. Siena has varying shades of soft pink and it always has lots of blooms. However the plant is short and the flowers are small. But I absolutely love it.

My suggestion regarding colour is that you look for a rose with a similar saturation of colour, yet of a contrasting colour. Hence the suggestion of a soft pink with the pale yellow to soft golden orange.

This is an interesting subject. I have always thought that you were to fertilize at the drip line. Osmocote does not go too far in my garden, but I toss it in from the drip line yet not close to the main canes.

I also purchase cheaper fertilizers to use since I have so many roses. Yet I realize that most of you have more roses than I do. I think in the next couple of weeks we should fertilize or forget it for this year.

Sammy

Osmocote is a very mild and efficient fertilizer, but can be a bit on the expensive side if you have a large garden I think.The major advantage is even release of nutrients through the coating of those tiny pearls. The benefit is great for plants in pots and anuals where you can mix the fertilizer in the soil and replace the soil next year. I know nurseries prefer this stuff mostly because then they don't have to worry about anything other than water.

I don't use it as much as I used too, I still might for potted summer flowers though, but not for roses and perennials in the ground. I get noticeably healthier plants when I use different organic amendments and fertilizers. I use regular composted cowmanure, well composted bark and wood chips, and dry seaweed meal. I have to buy most of it in bags because my garden is too small to produce enough on its' own, but it still comes out fairly well prize wise compared to osmocote and the more advanced artificial fertilzers. I really like the seaweed stuff (!) Once in spring I might add pelleted chicken fertilizer, or I use some type of other organic stuff with at least as much potassium as nitrogen. In summer when the roses are starting their first flush I apply a second round of less smelly organic stuff.

For plants in the ground compost and organic amendments are much more important than loads of phosphorous. In the soil super phosfate will bind to different substances and over the years it builds up. It doesn't stay water soluble that long. For roses and perennials to be long lived and healthy we need the soil to be healthy and active too. When organic stuff is added regularly (once or twice a year) it makes sure there are plenty of earth worms and microlife to work the soil and keep nutrients available to the plants. This is at least how I have approached the subject after total failure with a large rose- and flowerbed I had years ago. I can almost promise healthier and more longlived roses when switching to organic fertilzers. I would however not recommed a lot of chicken based stuff, it is very high in nitrogen and too low in potassium to be used on its' own. I only use it in spring, but it depens on the type of soil you have how much or often you can use. Low nutrient soils can benefit from more frequent applications of it a season or three. If you can get the sort of well composted chicken manure that doesn't smell at all (looks more like soil) it has much lower nitrogen to kalium ratio than the pelleted stuff. Roses use a lot of energy to set flowerbuds, at least the reblooming varieties, and they need a lot of potassium. When we use composted manure and organic stuff regularly there tend to be plenty of phosphorous with out any more effort. Then you don't need super phosphate or osmocote. Seaweed adds more trace elements than practically any fertilizer on the marked.

I post this because I love roses and gardening, and I love reading posts on this forum even if it is a long time since I lived in San Francisco (I live in a much colder place now). Still, my experience is that organic stuff makes it much easier to have success with roses.

:- )

This post was edited by taoseeker on Tue, Aug 26, 14 at 10:59

Pretty petals I love seeing praying mantis too they are amazing hunters. I use to run a greenhouse and would always bring in a couple of egg sacks in and by mid winter I would have lots of little mantis all over the place eating the bad guys. I do get upset with them when they sit in my Buddlia and chow down on the butterflies that visit the bush. By the end of the summer there is a beautiful mulch of butterfly wings at the base of the shrub. I have heard they can even catch a small hummingbird but have never seen that happen, thank goodness. They appear to be territorial because I see the same ones in the same place day after day. I cannot imagine what that guy was doing on the deck maybe catching some rays. I like to let them walk up my arm kinda creepy but cool. Someone told me they bite but again thankfully I have never experienced that either.

He's cute! Mine do hide better, lol. I swear I'm going to get bitten one day because it takes me forever to finally notice them where I'm working.

All I see is a big red X. The first one is right before the comments about the roses and there is supposed to be one at the end. I've sent an email to the writer.

I found one big red X, but I need to check some more.