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SoFL Rose z10

Woo hoo! Sounds like a blast!! I just started pulling up pavers to continue a rose garden that I started this fall. The pavers covered 3ft of pure sand. No soil at all! I was so distraught. Now I'm just digging and adding soil. I kept thinking if I dig deep enough I would eventually reach dirt, but I just keep getting sand. I hope they do well in the amended 3 ft of soil I'm putting in over the sand. I may have to make a raised bed over the whole thing as well.

I have Eden climber, but she hasn't bloomed yet. It's been 2 years. Everyone says she takes 3 years to get going so here's hoping.

I too ordered lady Emma Hamilton. After seeing her at the golden gate park rose garden last summer while visiting the west coast I fell madly in love with her. I hope she does well in my climate. I don't know anyone who grows Austin's here in SoFL so it's all trial and error for me.

Good luck with your roses!!!!

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kingcobbtx9b

I don't know that I would bother with a raised bed. People here around Houston suggest raised beds because of the clay, but I typically just work in rose soil and compost into the soil and improve it. I guess it might be a slightly raised bed, but it isn't like its framed with landscape timbers and built up a ft or more above the ground.

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dublinbay z6 (KS)

Here is Molineux with an apricot center, outer petals quite light. This is the shade I most often associate with Molineux, but really, he changes daily sometimes:

I was going to insert several pics so you could see the range of colors, but most of my Molineux photos are on Photobucket, and I can't figure out how to use it with this new format. If anyone has suggestions, let me know.

Kate

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SoFL Rose z10

I would call molineux a yellow rose. For the most part it is a yellowish rose. Jude however is not. She leans more towards cream colored, or beige as people have said. Honestly, her color is somewhat blah. What really makes her a spectacular rose is her fragrance. Bloom form and size are good too. But she has to be the most fragrant of all the Austin's and it's not just a rose scent either. She has a spectacular fruity fragrance that's very unique.

Also both of these roses have very different growth habits. Jude is tall and can make a huge bush in warm climates; 5ft x4ft. Molineux is one of the smallest Austin's reaching about 3ft x2.5ft so that's something to consider.

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Holly Kline

Purple TigerI'm dying to get my hands on Stranger! SO gorgeous.Personally I love my stripeys best of all. They're what started me with roses in the first place! I have a garden full of them and, IMHO, they fit in perfectly.George BurnsHypnotized!Oranges and Lemons

Belle Doria (Commandant Beaurepaire)

Rock & Roll

Scentimental

Wonderstripe

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sara_ann-z6bok

I love seeing your stripes Holly, they're lovely. Thanks for sharing them.

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TESTtrying it out to see how it works
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Dingo2001 - Z5 Chicagoland(5)

Lyn can you right click on the link to bring up the option to open in a new window or tab?

Wirosarian you can change the page look so only the post appears with no replies. On the main page in the upper right there are a couple of grids you can click on to change the way it displays.

Beautiful pictures!

Julie

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KarenPA_6b

This is a test for me too.

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Kippy(SoCal zone 10. Sunset Zone 24)

Besides being really old, this is a hilarious thread! Anyone want to buy some rare "Simplicity" tags.......I know Kim looooooves this rose.

With any luck the 10+ year old or so thread on Pizzles from the pet forum will return. That one was gold!

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fig_insanity Z7a E TN

Kippy, I missed the Pizzles thread, and I think it's gone from the Wayback machine. Someone tried to find it for me. We need to try to gather all the funny threads from all of GW and put them together somewhere. We're a hoot, if I do say so, lol. Remember the one about the fish/alfalfa mix fermenting into....olfactory garden gold? Who was that?

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Sow_what? Southern California Inland

Thanks for your compliments and well wishes, JJ. We all want to find roses that we love, and that perform well in our conditions. And we want to do it without picking too many of the wrong roses along the way. That's why I'm posting these rose reports on Humpty Dumpty House Facebook. I'm describing our conditions, the care, the age of the rose, and pictures of the foliage, the shrub, the buds, the blooms in all their forms, the color changes, and anything else I'd want to see before buying a rose. I'm hoping people who visit our facebook "like" our page because a critical number of likes can get us the help we need to reopen the gardens and resume our charitable work until I mend enough to rejoin the world. Here's the link:

https://www.facebook.com/HumptyDumptyHouse

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Michaela .:. thegarden@902 .:. (Zone 5b - Iowa)

What a beautiful rose and organization. I can't wait to get this rose, I am hoping it'll come back in stock on Heirloom before spring.

Michaela

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mad_gallica(zone 5 - eastern New York)

Just wait until my cats learn how to post. Then the fur will really fly.

And given what they have already managed to do on my computer, learning to post without a preview feature will be kitten play to them.

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sara_ann-z6bok

Thanks - That makes me feel silly, I need to pay closer attention.

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suz9601

I am in zone 6 in Missouri. Thanks for your reply.

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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9

suz, if you'd like your zone to be visible after your name, go in your profile and hit "edit". Then go to the line that says "first name" and make the zone part of your name and submit. That way it will show up each time you post. Ingrid

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jasminerose4u, California 9b

As per this webpage Reasons For Rose Leaves Turning Yellow, "Sometimes the rose’s foliage can be burned by either too much granular fertilizer of foliar feeding (Miracle Gro) and it will burn the foliage such that it will turn yellow in places and fall off". Are the roses young? If so, Kim Rupert recommended feeding weekly, weakly. Here's the link to the old thread that might be useful: Feeding-weekly-weakly (Hey, being able to post two links in one post is kinda cool)!

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sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida 9a)

Has anyone received their DA orders yet? I am in FL so it says Jan/Feb for my zone. I called and they said sometime next week. I think I called on Friday -so this week sometime, *maybe* lol. I am really excited but I still need to go get some more pots.

For those of you who have received bare root roses from DA in the past, how large of a pot do they need to just start out in? I can always bump up the pot size later and I might put some in the ground once I figure out what conditions each one wants in my yard (shade/sun etc) and get some more beds tilled this spring.

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Sow_what? Southern California Inland

Jasmine, I've planted ours in 5-gal nursery pots, but if your weather gets real hot, give the black pot some protection so you don't cook the roots.

Have fun!

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I'm posting evaluations of all our roses, along with lots of pictures: buds, blooms, burned blooms, the whole shrub. The good, the bad, and the ugly . On Humpty Dumpty House Foundation Facebook page. Link is below.

If you like what we do, please give us a page 'like'. This simple act can help us get the gardens and our work back up and running during my absence due to an injury.

https://www.facebook.com/HumptyDumptyHouse

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jasminerose4u, California 9b

Rogue Valley Roses has it too, but it's a band. I purchased from High Country Roses and Rogue Valley and was happy with both growers.

Gartendirektor Otto Linne at Rogue Valley Roses

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Patty W. zone 5a Illinois

The small size might be scary but she grows fast even from a band size.

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ameri2nal

I would not call David Austin roses "easy" to grow. Easy to me, means you don't have to spray them.

There are at least 2 varieties of the Easy Elegance roses that are nicely fragrant. I grow both of them. Neither are Red, though.
Kiss me- Pink
and
Sweet Fragrance- Apricot.
It is supossed to be a non spray rose, but I spray all of mine anyway.
Here is a pictue of Sweet Fragrance (The apricrot rose in the foreground)- It is one of my all time favorites because it blooms constantly and grows to 3-4 feet tall on neat well proportioned bushes with beautiful shiny leaves. Fragrance is a 7 out of 10. Not bad for easy care!

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ratdogheads(5b NH)

My Kashmirs are huge, 5' tall, first year own root plants. Love em, but not low!

Prolific, hardy, fragrant, compact, shade tolerant is a tall order.

My Iceberg roses tolerate afternoon sun and still bloom a lot. Sorry, not fragrant.

Sweet Fragrance is lovely, may have to give that a try.

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mendocino_rose(z8 N CA.)

I love roses any way I can get them. Those Angel's Parasol Hydrangeas are so beautiful!

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kittymoonbeam

I always have a posy of Hermosa roses and violets for Valentines Day. I have my eye on some Bolero buds but we'll see what happens. I bought a few branches of flowering cherry at a local New Years festival and they seem romantic to me. Abe Darby bloomed the other day so I wonder if any roses besides Hermosa will bloom on the 14th. Halftime managed a flower for Superbowl Sunday.

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ameri2nal

We love our Jude here in Chicagoland Too! Smells like Grapefruit to me.

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ameri2nal

We love our Jude here in Chicagoland Too! Smells like Grapefruit to me.

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plantloverkat north Houston(zone 9a)

High Country Roses has it listed as being in stock. They are a reputable nursery that sells own root band sized plants through mail order. If you click on the "description" tab on the link below, it will tell more information about this rose.

Here is a link that might be useful: Rosa canina

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Tessiess, SoCal Inland, 9b, 1272' elev

I have Rosa canina 'Laxa' from Greenmantle Nursery in California. Wonderful healthy rose in my garden. Very, very vigorous. Fairly drought tolerant. Needs little care (I rarely bother to feed it anything). Although a once bloomer, it flowers over a long period. Produces lots of flowers and sets hundreds upon hundreds of hips. They are quite tasty once ripe (tasteless when green). I eventually will remember to try making tea with these hips, which are supposed to be high in vitamin c.

Greenmantle is own-root only and takes orders either over the phone or by snail mail. They have a nice website, but orders cannot be placed on it. An old-fashioned establishment. Highly recommended.

High Country Roses also is a good source for roses.

Melissa

Here is a link that might be useful: Greenmantle Nursery roses

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