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Thank you, Socks, Unfortunately it is made of cotton. So I won't expect to it last but one season. I did scotch gard it, in hopes of making it last longer.
I had a first flush from all of them, and now they are setting new buds. 7 of them were new this year, and 3 are in their second year. 2 of those 7 were bare root and have only been in the ground 2 weeks. But they are taking off.
I will say, Barbra Streisand is a prolific bloomer. I think she outbloomed everything else, and she is a new rose this year. She isn't tall, but she is mighty.
Scott in PA
I just posted another message about heat tolerance.
You won't believe this (or you may) but the rose I love most and just bragged about being high heat and potent sunshine tolerant is Brandy, the grandparent of your Strike it Rich. The reason I looked is that your baby looks a lot like Brandy. (at least from a distance) Brandy is a solid color but definitely similar.
andrea
Are they only at the bottom of the plant? Is is speading? Are they on all plants? They could be the plant shedding old leaves, which will sometimes show disease because they are weak.
On the moving, moving while dormant is always preferred, but if you have to do it sooner, go for it.
This rose is to replace a rosebush that was there for years until her neighbors accidentally destroyed it.
The old rosebush just grew straight up. It didn't require any sort of pruning, tying, or training.
What sort of red climbing rose does that?
The Brooklyn Botanical Garden has a number of well-established Dublin Bay. If you go this week, I should still catch the end of the Spring bloom cycle. You can take a look and see if you like it. Blaze is rose red, not true red, and the color scheme is similar to red double knockout (i.e., purplish reddish/deep pink).
Also, get Blaze Improved, which reportedly has better repeat. I have BI, which is not spetacular, but the flowers last and last.... It is starting to defoliate now, though, because of blackspot. I have BI growing by the side of Laguna, whch is another climber that does very well in our area and is also purplish/rose pink. The NY Botanical Garden has several breathtaking Laguna specimans.
Laguna has better flower form, is more fragrant, more disease resistant, but is armed with far, far more thorns than BI and stiffer canes, which makes it a little hard to train.
Thanks for the replies!
I think i forgot to elaborate, silly me.lol
The pots are on a tub and I placed salt around the bases of the pots.
The tubs are on a concrete floor and all the excess water (Rain, etc) go down a sewage drain.
Good idea, I might try bayer, but here, in Nottingham, we only have the spray type.
I have already finished all the salt and will plan on getting some organic slug killer.
Don't worry, no pets here.
Thou I should consider my neighbour's cat.
I NEED perfect roses! I love my little babies and I don't want anything happening to them! :)
Those slugs cause hefty lot of damage and it was evident from my poor little chrysanthemum.
Thanks for the replies and advice!
~Noacceptance772
My most favorite quote is by Jack Harkness in his book Roses published in 1978. I think what he wrote still holds true:
"Roses are food for insects and fungi, both of whom must be deeply grateful to mankind for planting so many larders for them. The chemical industry provides specifics to deal with them; and, as they are apt to improve their products one after the other, like bell ringers waiting for their turn on the rope, there is a strong chance that between my writing your your reading X will be withdrawn and Y will be sold instead. Learn to recognize the more important troubles you are likely to meet; and then obtain from your garden shop the appropriate specific. Apply it promptly because propagation in the world of insects and fungi occurs as fast as a brush fire."
I don't think it matters whether the "specific" used is considered organic or chemical. In Harkness's time, gardeners relied more on chemical solutions than many of us do today for many garden problems.
Smiles,
Lyn
Thanks for sharing another lovely picture, Steve. Seems like Olympiad stays pretty a long time. Jeri - I don't think you are being contrary about it having a light fragrance, after all fragrance is subjective. The other evening my daughter took a whiff of a Midas Touch and acted like it was almost intoxicating, to me it has a very light fragrance. Grand Amore is another lovely red, I do like to try the different reds to compare them and there are several really good ones.
Also I noticed she seems to shoot out three branches where ever i cut a rose off (all my other HT only shoot out one, rarely two) which makes her a much bushier shape than normal HT roses. She also puts out flower on each of those three shoots, so she's very floriforous. Has anyone else noticed this about her? I wonder if this is her nature or if its the Rose Tone i gave her. I give all my roses rose tone but I accidentally gave her a very large helping of it and she seems to have loved it. (Luckily because we all know over fertilizing can be disastrous!)
I would go on line and google images of rosé deficiency or problems. You could find something g that matches what you are seeing with a diagnosis. description and suggested treatment.
Ortho and others have "growing roses" books that can be helpful too.
I think Jerijen is right. Of my first 6 roses planted a little over a year ago, First Prize is the only one not gorgeous, healthy, and reaching for the sky. It is coming along VERY slowly. It is planted in the ground with everything wonderful that I can give it. The others have responded very well....First Prize. I wouldn't buy again. It had BS the worst and just looks puny. Since the others are so happy and healthy, I can only surmise that this rose doesn't like me OR where we live.
You should at least, get it into the ground.
andrea
Most reliable safe and harmless deterrant for deer, rabbits, etc is The Scarecrow by Contech.
Seriously, it's the only thing that's reliably worked for me and i don't have to look at ugly chicken wire, spray liquid that washes off, etc.
They're $50 but worth the investment when you consider the amount of money you put into your yard. I got mine from Do My own Pest Control. It arrived in 8-9 days. (you don't have to apply the silly beak and eye stickers. Mine's all black and can hardly see it)
There are lots of videos on YouTube about it. For the smaller critters it's helpful to point it slightly downward.
I am so sorry to hear about your roses. I have tree squirrels in my backyard and they are real pest. They dig up all of my plants in pots including several herbs that I was trying to grow. They also stand on the pot and eat the hibiscus leaves. They haven't eaten any of my roses as yet. But this morning I had a bud on Evelyn and later when I came out, I noticed that it was gone. Not sure if it was the squirrel. I have two dogs which I just let loose in the yard whenever I spot them. Lately, I haven't seen them around much. Hope you can find a solution.
I have Queen O The Lakes, and she's covered in blooms with the first one open now. This is year #2 here for that particular plant. It's up close to the house, but we do get high winds here and it seemed uneffected by them.
This is my the open bloom
This post was edited by eclecticcottage on Sun, Jun 16, 13 at 22:34
Rabbits will eat thorns and all...lol
They mostly just eat smaller tender growth here.
When the roses get larger they leave them alone.
But that's here and our rabbits...
So protect your smaller roses until they grow
bigger...
In the winter when food gets scarce rabbits will really eye
up those smaller rose stems...
I agree there is probably a damage by some critter. Rabbits tend to strip off the leaflets and leave the leaf stem. They also nip off new growth tips (as do deer).
If you decide to keep it--the black areas are cankers (fungal infections of the bark) that have girdled the stem and caused the part above to die back. These canes should be cut to a bud eye (leaf stem or bump where one used to be) at least one inch below the canker. Then they should make healthy new growth from the bud eye. With the dead lateral cane that is cankered at the very base, you can just take this off where it attaches.
Here is my vavoom from bareroot last year.
This bloom was last year's first bloom.
Vavoom's color never fade.
I never have to spray anything on it.
Vavoom never has any desease problem.
It is repeated blooming.
This is the second year from bareroot. It is almost 1 meter's tall. Very healthy leaves. I like it a lot.
The only con I could think of is, this rose is supposed to be very fragrant from the nursery's webpage. I do not smell that strong fragrance at all.
My Vavoom has struggled..but this year..about year three it looks great!