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Yes, it's normal for scent to dissipate as well as age with time. Even with perfect conditions, a perfect bloom and perfect culture, the oils and alcohols age, deteriorate with time. I seriously doubt there is much, if anything, you can do to enhance or lengthen the life of those chemicals other than to refrigerate the flower to slow their decomposition. But a colder bloom isn't going to smell as strongly. "Scent" requires a good balance of heat and humidity to be expressed fully. Kim
I'd like to see a photo, too. But some yellow roses have a lot of pink/red tones lurking in the background, and when the temperature cools down, these tones come to the fore. Julia is one of those roses. I wish I had a photo of my dried Julia buds showing all the reddish pink in the yellow. Here's a bud of Golden Celebration that illustrates what I'm talking about. Diane
How about Paradise Found? It's a lavender and a purple in one rose. So is Paradise.
The first one is Paradise Found. The second one is a duplicate :( and the last one is Paradise.
I would skip climbers because you would probably have to tie them to the fence and not wrap so the fence can be maintained
I would check with otto and sons in filmore and see if their Belinda's dream are own root of not They make a nice hedge about 5 feet across and just a few of their 5g plants should solve the problem
If there is an evergreen hedge you like I would suggest doing that, with a climber on the fence. If your fence is wooden, you can attach the climber to it using eye hooks. Or if you are willing to use more space, you can do a rose hedge and then a taller evergreen hedge behind it. That way you have privacy all year round. And it gives a nice backdrop to the roses in my opinion.
I lived in Houston for a decade and this isn't the time of year to see roses there. This is (often) a couple of weeks past pruning. If you haven't been to Antique Rose Emporium up in Brenham and if you have the time for the drive, it does have large and wonderful rose bushes that aren't heavily pruned. Just to see the 'bones' of the garden and how the different roses are structurally, and how they are used informally, if you're interested in that sort of thing, you would enjoy seeing them.
It appears to be a white/buff color so I would think anything would go with it. I guess it depends on if you're looking for high contrast or a more cohesive pastel color scheme. It looks like it gets pretty large so size might be a consideration in what you plant with it. What ones do you have available to use?
I think I decided what to do.
I have the 'Golda Banks' near by for a big single in similar colors and I think the other side will be 'Tom Brown'
I have a Buff Beauty but I hope it will be too big for the area and have a different spot planned already
This is my first year ordering roses mail order except for maybe 10 yrs ago having a horrid experience with Jackson Perkins.
I ordered from RVR, Heirloom, Rose Petals Nursery and DA so far.
RVR= sent well rooted bands ready to bump up to a gallon size right away. When I was potting them up outside a few potato bugs fell out of the pots and scared me lol. My Key West hens, who were supervising, all fought over who could gobble them up first :) I love those hens!
Heirloom =sent well rooted band but I kept it in the band pot for a few weeks but then planted it into a 2 gallon because it took off so fast. I still have a few more coming from them.
Rose Petals Nursery= sent in gallon sized pots. WOW so awesome! It is also fairly close to me so the plants were very fresh. I need to pot them up to a larger size this weekend.
DA= I haven't got this order yet so will update when they come in.
~SJN
I've had really good experiences with Heirloom Roses. All of my roses have arrived healthy and exploded with new healthy growth within a week of planting them ... well, all except one; an Iceberg band that turned out to be very wimpy. I read on their website just recently that they now guarantee their roses for one year vs. only 3 months as it used to be. I called them up yesterday and asked if there was a way to get a free replacement Iceberg - and it's now on order to be shipped with the rest of my roses! Every time I call with a question I get a real answer and quickly. I am very impressed with them and would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone.
I kind of thought that - just wanted to ask the experts to make sure. Such a pretty rose - big pretty canes, will hurt to cut it but it has to be moved to accommodate my deck expansion - will pot it up well and baby it. This one is still being offered, so if the worst happens, I can replace it. Thanks, Jackie.......
Judith
What Jackie said. That's what I've done with all of mine to move them now. Only one has thumbed its nose at me and died, which isn't bad for as many as have been "tortured". Try striking cuttings of it before you whack it, Judith. "Murphy" is perverse. If you don't try rooting it, the blamed thing is more likely to die. If you do, you'll probably obtain several own rooters AND the large plant will come through, just fine. Good luck! Kim