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My three favorites.
Abraham Darby. Amazing rose. What fragrance and colour!
Twilight zone. A beautiful bush with beautiful flowers in my opinion.
And lastly a noid lavender. Fragrance is divine, so is its vase life. Spotless for me. Plus my grandma planted it. Always reminds me of her.
Classic old sweetness and spice too!
We're getting up, ahem, above 80 now here and nearing that other more familiar number that won't be mentioned now. However, I do hope that means that at least milder temperatures are visiting zones 4, 5 and you.
Thank you for the fragrance report.
Here is my Nacodoches from Chamblees from 3 yrs ago. It is a healthy, thriving rose. Strike it rich is behind it. So far all my roses from Chamblees are doing great. I got Evelyn and Golden Celebration this year. They are doing good but I hope they out grow their octopus arms in a few years.
I am looking for suggestions for hardy Austins that would combine well with an established border of predominantly orange daylilies. I am planning a bed along a newly-installed white picket fence and want Austin roses to anchor it on the inside of the fence. The daylilies are on the outside near the road and are thriving, despite the abuse from winter road sanding and salting. In doing my research, I am finding my favorites to be some of the pinks, such as Alnwick and Queen of Sweden, that I don't think would work that well with the orange daylilies. What do you think? Would you limit the rose color choices to those that would combine well with the daylilies or just move the lilies? My nursery advisor says not to let the lilies dictate my choices but admits she's not a big fan of them. The area is about 40' long and receives full sun in coastal southern New England.
Thanks.
I have Peach Drift and Sweet Drift. All I can say is these are some tough roses. The blooms don't look as pretty as the pictures in my hot Texas summers, but they grow in my raised beds where so many other plants have dwindled away. I just saw Red Drift and Pink Drift at the nursery and was coming to this forum to see if anyone grows them. I need something for my front yard that is lower growing than Peach and Sweet and Red looks like it might be a smaller plant. Pink has such cute flowers.
Peach Drift
Sweet Drift
Thanks for the tips. Yeah I got the big in back little in front, it was more a question of color arrangement I struggle with. I like to underplant with a variety of plants, but specifically like using lavenders.
Here is the list of all my roses:
2 Graham Thomas
1 Heritage
1 Falstaff
1 Scepter D'Isle
1 Lady of Shallot
1 Princess Anne
1 Abraham Darby
Non Austins:
2 Belinda's Dreams
Don Juan
Golden Showers
In the Mood
Lady Hillingdon
Lady Hillingdon Cl
Ducher Rose
Olympiad
Easy Living
Easy going
Chrysler Imperial
Stainless Steel
Nacodoches Rose(Sorry Texas A&M I refuse to call it Grandma's Yellow)
Grande Dame
Love Song
Tahitian Sunset
Legends
Julia Child
Peace
Memorial Day
China Doll
Lasting Love
Serendipity
Ebb Tide
Twilight Zone
Yellow Lady Banks
America Cl
Rosarium Uetersen
Sexy Rexy
JFK
Mr. Lincoln
Zepherin Druhin
5 or 6 unknown roses.
I believe that is all of them.
I tend to group differently
The front yard street side has a section that is mostly pinks and pink tones and one that mom can see from the dining room window that is purples and whites with yellow and purple companion plants. There are a couple that I plan on moving in the fall because they are wrong for the bed. Almost all of these are plants I received from friends or neighbors so I think of them every time I walk thru the garden.
In the mauve garden I have...mauves. Moms favorite color. I would like to keep this bed more mauve, shades of purples and white. But Don Juan was there first so he is my pop of color. Many of these are also from friends.
I put the Austins together, I do wish I had swapped Crocus and Bishops castle so the warm Austins would be together and the cool ones together.
In the Veggie Lower Garden I have the Antiques and the rest of the collection-still working on those
Thank you! That's the fun, understanding reaction I've been looking for. You guys are feb. :-)
I'd totally forgotten that I had a similar situation last May. While spring tidying the flower beds I'd discovered rose leaves peeking out of some leafmould. Apparently I'd tossed a long cane behind the bed and it's rooted over the winter. Here's its pic from May 13...
Here's pics I took today...
Ignoring and forgetting cuttings must be my special talent. :-)
M
Here is a link that might be useful: Last years post about my surprise rooted cutting.
Congratulations. That is something I have yet to make happen. Mine have all died. The trade off is that I have magic sucker dust in my soil. I nurse sucker children to maturity. This spring I have added a new Earth Song plant.
You've got me inspired to try some cuttings again this spring!
Icebergs! Yes!! How funny...... so ubiquitous they've become invisible to me.
Put n big, fat, tall green something in pots, iceberg between the pots. Wonder if they'd object to the jasmine at their feet. Be a pretty combo.
:) Will post once it's done. You have helped me!
No fertilizer. Wait until after you plant it, and after it blooms to apply any fertilizer.
If you expect a good rain tomorrow, then sit the plant out and let the rain water the plant. If not, then make sure to water the plant well. Make sure that the holes in the pot are open, don't sit it in a saucer or anything where the pot can sit in standing water.
Two weeks is fine to wait to repot.
If the leaves are totally dried out, then remove them. If they are still green and supple, then leave them, they are working.
As long as the pot has drainage, you cannot get it too wet! I love Peace. I would wait for an overcast day or give it a lot of shade for a day or two, before you transplant to another pot. Then keep it shaded for a few days after that if it is hot!
Thanks, Kate. The canes have some green at the bottom.....I think I will wait another week or two-it's still unusually cold, and lots of rain coming next week. Hopefully they will begin to leaf out soon and I can get them into shape for the summer.....
As Kate said, I often do a fast prune of all the dead twiggy stuff and then go back when they begin to grow and take off the rest of the dead wood. It makes it easier to tell what's good and what's not.
I had a polar votex winter too and can tell you that I had to prune a lot of my roses down to just a few inches because of the bad winter kill damage. I wouldn't worry though. KOs are very tough and if they have any green cane left on them at the bottom I'm sure they will bounce right back in no time!