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Here's another vote for JC. Really hard to top a good rose. I would also mention to her not to be disappointed if disease happens in the first couple years. Sometimes the weather can be unkind to our roses as they establish. Once she gets a good root system down she's hard to beat. Also consider getting her own root for added weather protection and plant deep to where the branches begin to fork. She'll be smaller in the first year but well do well there after.
I beat myself up the last couple of years trying to find some more great yellow roses, Why was I trying so hard to find yellows as good as JC (duh). I ordered 5 more this year.
Patty, Julia has been a workhorse here, even in the not best conditions, some morning shade and mid-day sun, then shade then late afternoon sun, 4 1/2 of sun hours tops but she still keeps blooming.
Thanks for the heads-up on disease the first couple of years new Austins have been disease disasters this year. Maybe year three (next year) will be the year I'll see an improvement? One can hope.
I'll be ordering her roses and suggesting the best for her to pick from. Luckily she doesn't mind if they lack scent. This gives her a lot more choices. They'll definitely be own root. winter hardiness is definitely a concern. I have Peter Kulkielski's book 'Chemical Free Roses' for reference plus the wealth of information and knowledge from the rose forum community so I'm sure we'll find something that will provide lots of beauty without a lot of stress.
I'm like you guys. I cut all my roses and make pretty bouquets all over the house. On a good day I have 6-7 vases full of blooms. At work they call me the rose lady because I make a new arrangement every Monday for my desk and it lasts all week. I heard people say they thought the flowers were artificial because they are always there. That made me kind of happy actually. At home people as why there are no roses in my rose garden and I'm like, they're all in the house (or on my desk) LOL
I keep trying not to cut them, so I can have a pretty garden full of blooms, but I can help it. I just want the roses near me so I can see them all day long. I've decided to underplant them with annuals to add color and not worry about cutting the roses. Maybe one day I'll have so many that I'll be able to leave some in the garden. But that day has not yet come. LOL
I have a pretty good start on a list, thanks everyone. Some of your suggestions seem to be harder to track down than others but I'll keep looking. I already have 3 of your suggestions. I've decided on 11 more and want about 20 so my quest continues. Thanks again! Oh yeah, if you have anymore suggestions of HTs please let me know.
HI Patty - thanks for the complement, but I don't think I deserve the credit for the clean leaves. It probably helps to have a dry climate like we have west of the Mississippi here. Those are pretty recent photos, so it's just a matter of climate differences I suspect.I totally don't spray anything - way too lazy.
Cynthia
The chances of a Master Gardener knowing enough to ask the right questions are really slim. Especially in an area where RRv hasn't been seen.
Likewise sending the plant material frozen in Dry Ice to Oklahoma and it getting there and being analysed quickly ....even slimmer.
I had a good laugh at the assumption (if you read between the lines) that because RRV had not been reported in CO that this rose couldn't be infected. What about "there's always a first time for everything". Duh. Some poor unfortunate soul (and rose) has to be the *first* victim in any area where it shows up! This WAS a post from two years ago, so let's hope the test was negative.
John
I have one QoS I budded on to Fortuniana and its growing rather slow. I also have one growing on its own roots to see if either fare better than my Dr.H grafted one that hasn't done anything. I just sent out a new basal cane (that would make 4 total) but no blooms. Its been in the ground for over a year (and I grew it in a pot for a year before that). I'm about to take it out of the ground and put it back in its pot since it grew much better in a pot (as all Dr. H roses do here), but I'm hoping my other two "experiments" do better as I really like this rose and she had very good disease resistance.
Harry,
D'ya know, I've never noticed so you're probably right. My thought at the time was that blood meal did the burning. Not that I checked the ingredients for blood meal even, I just assumed it was there by the smell/look/feel of the product. And dogs will flat put holes in the bag and eat it if you forget to put it away.
Now see what you've done...I'm second guessing myself :) Now that I think back, it's possible that the burning was done with Rose Tone, before I made the switch to Plant Tone.
Either/or, it's still a good idea to make sure your roses are well hydrated before fertilizing or spraying, imho.
Diana
I've grown both Marilyn Monroe and Just Joey in the past. I love both their flower colours but I especially love Marilyn Monroe high centered flower. However, Just Joey died after only one growing season and Marilyn Monroe after its second. I have to say although Marilyn's flowers are beautiful, the bush is very thorny and not vigorous for me. It is a magnet for black spot. The area I grew it in probably wasn't great either. But I live in a colder zone than yours Sara-Ann, therefore these problems may not apply in your growing zone.
I'm sure this isn't what you or anyone else had in mind, but I have one rose still in a pot. I started it from a cutting two years ago. It's still in a black plastic container that a tree came in. You can barely see it in the bottom left corner. This pic was back in the Spring when we had rain almost every single day. Trust me, it doesn't look like that now, but the rose is extremely happy, with the base shaded by it's friends. While we may be having a hot dry summer, it's easy to baby the rose in a pot and give it individual watering and protection from my (dis)
obedient plants.
This is the first time I've planted this rose but it seems very vigorous. It has lots of blooms and they continuous once it start to bloom. But I will have to see how it does on its second year. The rose form and bush is beautiful but I find the colour a bit dull for me.
Most of my new roses looks like that in early summer when I first planted them and I panicked. I prune most them on the spot. Then they started to do that again. However, the leaves turned normal so I think it is caused by the weather or rose midge as Patty said. I've seen a lot of the bugs this year for the first time. This experience taught me not to panic at first sight.
