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Cliff was alive, well and kicking two weeks ago, the last we were in contact. Kim

Thanks, Kim! :-)

I live in NJ and have two plants of this rose. I have to spray for BS, other than that no issues if the deer will let it thrive. Love this rose, but lately I noticed that the flowers change colors after blooming and don't look as good as they used to look. But not spraying for disease control is not an option to me.
Enjay

hey ya Susan wanted to see how your DCT is doing now. I being wanting it all year and finally I broke down and bought it, although very late in the season. I absolutely love its blooms.

SCG

Ok, I'm getting mixed up as I do a little research on this bug. Experts out there, is this bug pictured a spined soldier bug (good guy) or a stink bug (sort of bad guy) of some kind? They did no damage and were gone the next day. But they definitely looked like they were waiting for some prey to happen by. Thanks for any help solving my little garden mystery. Diane

Like the others here in the east, I've been inundated with stink bugs but have seen no damage from them on my roses. They are a nuisance, and they do stink when you squish or vacuum them or drop them in garbage disposal. People with perfectly clean and tidy houses find them much more offensive than those of us with mud on our shoes and pet hair on the couch.

I LOVE Buff Beauty. The scent, the color, the health...Fabulous rose.

Hi Busybee - I know its a bit late to chime in, but I hadn't noticed the thread before this.
I'm a beginner rose grower, and in Melbourne too. I wouldn't be worried about your roses not blooming this early. If you bought yours in July, i am assuming they were bareroots? that is, pretty much just sticks, and not many leaves? They will need some time to grow and develop roots, then to leaf out a bit before flowering. I bought quite a few myself, and I am only just getting a few buds now.
You could take a look at the Victorian Rose society website

http://www.rosesocietyvic.org.au/

they have a list of roses they recommend (including floribundas), and a month by month calendar of what you should do to look after them. Although so far I have been doing without all the spraying they advise....

I don't know how blushing knockout will perform in australia but for midatlantic America, it does fantastic. I have two bushes and they grow very well for me. Big flush in the spring, big flush in fall, and flowers here and there during the summer despite the soil being poor and dry and even with no application of fertilizers. All I do to them is prune them to about 1/3 of the bush in early spring.

'Kathleen Mills' stylish pink with a more saturated pink reverse, the petals have a bit of a twirl to them so the reverse shows.
'Simplex' a white Moore Mini-wich hybrid, the only thing I don't like is its' ultra upright growth habit, but the tiny white blooms are precious wonders.
'Irish Fireflame'
and another vote for 'Cecil' because 'Mermaid' is too huge.
best wishes finding your perfect rose with eyelash filiments.
Lux

Camps, I guess I went a bit "single crazy" with bands this spring and summer. I have Mrs. Oakley Fisher and I love her! I ordered Ellen Wilmott and she has just struggled pitifully. I really think she is gorgeous though!
All of the singles you and Lux suggested are on my list.
I have clipped all these posts and will use them as I establish my singles collection.
Thanks!
Susan

michaelg , Yes this is just on one branch.I have been checking my roses every day but almost missed this because it was at the bottom of the rose bush. The rest of the plant looks good. :-(
Brooks23

Herbicide damage can come from the soil. It does not have to come from spraying.

I tried Deer Scram around my peaches and nectarines. Absolute waste of money there. I use electric fences around the roses and have had no problems with deer when I keep them on regularly. In years past when they were not on regularly I had some problems with them getting in somehow. I think they have to be trained from early spring.

Oh phooey. That Deer Scram is sooo expensive ($30 for six pounds). I'd rather buy roses. Where we're situated, I don't think an electric fence would work or be allowed. We're out in the hills, but I have close neighbors just on the sides of us. The backyard is wide open to an undeveloped draw where the deer enter the yard. In front, we're open to undeveloped hills, but deer don't use this entrance as much. Diane

I suspect the 19th c grower saw all repeating roses as "gross feeders" compared to once-bloomers and perennials. As Kim suggested, yours probably don't have requirements different from other fairly vigorous repeating roses.

Thanks everyone for the help, I appreciate it. I guess I'll just have to let Docteur Jamain go and move on with my life...hehe

Thanks again!

Jaxondel, my propagating method is pretty standard and similar to what you often read here. I will take a stem, cut off the flower, and leave two sets of leaves on the stem. Then I make several vertical slits through the lower part of the stem with a razor blade. I have found that stabbing completely through the stem gives the best results.

I then dip the stems in powdered rooting hormone and then place them in soil that I have already poked holes in (so that the rooting hormone doesn't rub off). I seal this in a clear plastic bag and wait a few weeks.

I can usually tell if they are going to survive after about ten days by looking at the leaves. The ones that aren't going to make it usually drop their leaves after they turn yellow. The ones that do make it retain their original ones. I take them out of the bag after they have developed roots (I always plant them in clear cups so I can determine this)...

As far as finding out the name, for some reason Costco won't reveal the exact source of their roses. Also, there are so many different ones that look like the ones I grow that it would be hard to describe it to a florist anyway:)

Maude

Dear Pat, Thank you so much for your photos, I particularly LOVE the last one, that's exactly the kind of blooms I'm looking for, it makes my spine itch just looking at them :-p

As it happens, today I just started my first rose propagation experiment, Maude's notes made me realize the mistakes I made: a. I didn't cut through the stems, merely scraping off the surface layer and making shallow slits as I thought what matters is the green layer gets exposed; b. I used a liquid hormone, and after soaking the stems, I put them in a vase with water in it, which probably means the hormone got washed off before the next step....oh well, didn't have high hopes for it anyways, just for curiosity's sake.

I've turned onto the Renaissance series at the moment...was checking them out on Hortico's site just now. Are all the Renaissance varieties good cutters like you described, Campanula?? (I know Clair is a good cutter, I've read that sophia and julia are also good, HMF doesn't say Bonita is good for cutting, but again I no longer completely trust HMF on this topic)

Thanks Michael and Kippy.

andrea

I think size and age of the plant will solve a lot of your problems. Golden Celebration was very floppy the first couple of years for me, and now, though it sends out candelabra this time of year, does not flop at all. On the other hand, Young Lycidas, a year old, is a flopmeister, determined to bloom on the ends of its long thin canes. I have it tied up inside a circle of stakes, and it still lost some cane in the last windstorm. YL doesn't worry me because I've seen this happen a lot, and there has always been improvement with the flopsters. The shrubs that bother me most are like Evelyn with stiff, brittle canes that snap off at the base--causing loss of lots of basals, in spite of all the tying in the world. Princess Alexandra of Kent, also only a year old, is vastly improved in just a year. It's still putting out lots of candelabra, but they are thicker and more upright already. Diane