22,795 Garden Web Discussions | Roses
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.
I do understand I don't live in the midwest but until you grow something I guess you don't know how it will do in our area. Someone from east TN grows Ramblin Red in her no spray garden with health and vigor. I believe that Tennessee has high black spot pressure, maybe not the same strains as mine but black spot none the less.
TNY78(7a-East TN)
My favorite climber is a red climber....Ramblin Red! Wonderful rose! Vigorous, disease free in my no spray garden, and blooms all the time...love it!
Tammy Several others have stated it is quite hardy and HMF rates it as extremely disease resistant. So all that I can do is consider the various data and take a chance since no one in my state or neighborhood appears to be growing it.
Sharon
Winner's Circle is doing well for me as a climber despite a horrible location and almost no care. It is on the north side of my house with only morning sun. It is shaded by huge mature trees and my house as well as my neighbors. I might fertilize it with some organic knock out fertilizer in spring if I remember. It doesn't get watered. Yet it survives and I even get a flush or two of blooms. It would probably do really well in your location with a lot more sun and what looks like much better soil.
Here's a link to the thread Carol mentioned: Finally got my Broceliande wanna be to bloom
Well. Those beautiful new leaves turned crisp and died off one leaf at a time. The black on tip of cane spread down and black spread up from ground. I think she is dead. The first 2 photos are of what was Command Performance.
The next 2 photos show Shreveport. Shreveport arrived weak and had green little caterpillars I later found out were probably sawfly larvae. I checked foliage under & over & it seemed to recover & even made a bud. Then I had a few bad days and wasn't outside. When I went out, I found Shreveport seeming to be going the way of CP.
The last two photos are of roses on either side, Veldfire and Lasting Peace (with a few chewed leaves). They appear to be doing ok.
Our weather has been mild for August, and there has been regular rain. I don't know what to think, but decided to post in case someone recognizes something which could spread to Veldfire and Lasting Peace.
This little bed is a bit of a mess, and I took photos before tidying it up. There is one more rose not pictured, Sunset Celebration, which is going gangbusters next to Veldfire. These were all planted from bands in June and are own root.
Thanks for any feedback!
Thanks guys. Yes, this breed is known as guard dogs, killing wolves protecting livestock.......but I don't have a farm, only roses, it would be nice to have some goats for milk. :-)
The liquid fence smells really bad, I don't want to spray it any more, hope this fence is not too expensive and it works on rabbits too.
rosecanadian, Boz Shepherds ARE huge, and I also agree that they look really cool (they also aren't droolers). I talked to one of the breeders who introduced them to America (I first heard of the breed on the forum the person frequented), and their personalities are pretty cool, too. They aren't for the faint of heart, though!
nanadoll, I hope you guys can get control of those fires soon! It must be awful to be so close to them. I live fairly close to the Great Dismal Swamp, and when that caught fire a few years ago the scent of smoke in the air made me sick whenever I went outside.
summersrythm, those are some cute dogs! What are their names? I didn't realize pet Komondors were kept clipped rather than matted. It makes sense, and in my opinion they look much more handsome, too. Also, here's a tip for measuring dogs (and any animal, in general): officially they are measured from their shoulders to the ground, not from their heads to the ground. The nice thing is it's a lot easier to measure them that way!
Haha I just realized I don't even know what the fence is that started this thread! I can't watch the video--I have limited bandwidth, but I'd like to at least see what it is if anyone can give me its name.
I use the stinky stuff which works pretty well to keep deer away, but is expensive and repulsive, especially on edibles. Emily, do you find that the bags scare away the birds, too? My feeders aren't too far from the tomatoes, and I'm afraid there will be problems with the bags and the birds. I would love to try the bag solution, if possible. Diane
I was just at one of my local Lowe's and they had one rose that looked like some kind of mini. I mean they had one rose. that was it. Most of the local Lowe's and Home Depots have just had lots of knockouts with very few other roses, if any. Fourth of July is on my wish list.
I now have a rose garden with an actual design, all thanks to a happy accident. We bought a house with a small round aboveground pool right outside the breakfast nook bay window. It was circled with bark mulch and a nice edging on one side, and a stone patio on another. Took up the pool, dug a big doughnut-shaped bed with a small circle bed in the center. You enter off the patio and can walk on the bark among all the roses. The back half is somewhat shady and consists of the Fairy, Vanity, Darlow's Enigma, Blush Noisette. I have one big plant of Lavender Dream in the center. The back is against a split rail fence, and one side has a wood panel fence. I have pots lined up opposite the bay window for extra color-- Carefree Sunshine, Cubana, Rita Levi Montalcini. I'd like to add South Africa and Valencia but not sure they'd be happy with my no-spray.
I was leaning towards that...but now I think it might be Sleeping Beauty.
Sleeping Beauty has white at the base of the petals, and when the flower is open you can see white.
Now mine happened to fall apart before I could see a white center...BUT...each petal had a little bit of white at the base.
Does anyone have The McCartney Rose and notice if the petals are pink all the way down or if it has white at the base?? My new TMR is between blooms right now - so I can't check it.
Thanks!
Carol
You convinced me, Sylvia! It's been some years since I last saw a Gold Medal that had faded so much--I remembered that they faded, but I can no longer visualize the faded ones. I guess I need your pic as a visual refresher.
Nice combination of roses there!
Kate
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.