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Never had great luck with own-root bands in my zone. Have grafted JD and JC, to trellises. They have both come back well from severe winter damage and prune to 18". JD does present light flush of dusty mildew early spring , don't ignore it, which is easily remedied with Daconil. They are my showiest presentations and worth any inconvenience.
Good luck with whatever method you take to care for your Babes -please keep us posted as to results .My only option is to place the own-root into the ground in the fall. I lost 3, grew 3. Poor odds. Interestingly survivors were minis.
If you would consider another color, I really do love both 'Lamarque' (shown above, and below) and also 'Reve d'Or.' They are Tea Noisettes, and I think should do well for you.
In ordinary years, my coastal strip of SoCal isn't warm enough to make yellow Tea Noisettes (such as 'Crepuscule') happy -- but THIS year we are breaking heat records. They like that!
Red equal Fields of the Wood. It will do well in your area. I have it pillared in the southeast USA. Not all reds are reds and not all reds will pillar - Fields of the Wood will. It is AKA Kocher Red or Rhode Island Red. Great rose.
This post was edited by patricia43 on Fri, Jul 25, 14 at 14:22
I have this one in my zone 4 pocket in the front yard, and as all the Lim Easy Elegance roses are for me, it's healthy and hardy without a problem for me. The repeat bloom is decent - mine is only two years old and not into its full maturity - but not continuous blooming or quite as prolific as other Lim shrubs like Sweet Fragrance in the same bed. I'm glad I didn't count on it staying 2 feet tall, as it is starting to creep up to 3 feet even with the drastic pruning from the hard winter. I wouldn't treat this as a groundcover type rose like the "drift" series, but it's fairly contained so far.
The color is at its nicest in the cool weather, as you can see from last June's picture below. In weather like the 100 degrees we have today, it's kind of a washed-out coral pinkish color. Still a nice rose, but not one that's as eye-catching as other roses in that bed.
Cynthia
Well if I were the building owner I would plant em in the ground, as I have my Belinda' s Dream and knockouts. But I opted to not dig up the entire yard for a rose garden that I might have to leave behind if I moved. I actually think I have better control over feeding, soil, and water this way too.
Henry, you do such an amazing job of keeping up with all of this stuff and keeping us informed. It is appreciated...but...please stop finding more things I need to worry about, lol! Some days I just can't deal with finding out there are more things out there that want to destroy my roses.
If you go back to Help Me Find, and click on "buy from", and then scroll down to the bottom you will find a box that says "show all nurseries....". (The first short list is just nurseries that contribute to HMF.) Click on that, and there are 4+ pages of nurseries for this rose.
You are correct, most of them are in the UK or Europe, but I saw 4-5 that were either in the US or Canada. I would search on each ones web site. If the web site lists the rose, the safest thing to do is to call them on the phone to find out if they really have it.
Good Luck!
Jackie
Roses Unlimited has it. I tried it because of the reputation for disease resistance, but it was highly susceptible to cercospora spot in my climate. YMMV. The color was mostly a hot coral, not the silvery and pastel blend you see in some pictures. The plant habit was dense and shrubby.
I agree with Seil -- Except in the case of wide-spread disease, I would not practice general defoliation of roses in the summer.
Here at the coast, (Borderline Z 23/24) we are THEORETICALLY cool enough to prevent cane burn -- but the coastal temperatures are going higher and higher.
The canes need the shade of their leaves.
I DO notice and remove leaves on Hybrid Perpetuals which are beginning to rust. But new foliage is never touched.
And I would be FAR more restrained with any of your roses which are first-year plants.
If the plants are mature, the Santa Clarita Valley Rose Society in Southern California, recommends pruning 1/3 of the canes around labor day (September 1st this year) for nice blooms by October. My roses are too new to try that this year, but I'll keep it in mind for the future.
Don't tug on your bush. You will dislodge its growth.
When I said 'tug' on my bush, I was gentle. When we originally planted it, it seemed to be moving more even though it was planted deep as we could go. I was just checking to see if over the last 7 weeks since planting--it had gotten sturdier whereas it wouldn't move at all, so I was gentle; and it still moves a little bit. That wasn't the issue though--it was the brown speckles/spots on a number of branches.