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Yes, fish emulsion also adds micronutrients. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_emulsion
Here is a link that might be useful: link for above
Hi Sue!
I have several DA's, all bought at local garden centers. You can check if there are any nurseries in your area that sell them (via DA's usa website). All of these were in 5 gal. pots, which really boosts your garden's maturity :) Also, this summer, I ordered a band size from Heirloom Roses. Which is nice, because they ship all year round.
In my garden, I have (from longest to newest):
-Windermere (petals shatter easily, but has a lovely myrrh/citrus smell)
-Abraham Darby (wonderful scent, very big/full blooms, good disease resistance in my zone 6)
-The Generous Gardner (really pretty, big blooms and nice fragrance)
-James Galway (smaller med. sized blooms, incredibly tight blooms that stay on for weeks)
-Charlotte (suffering from blackspot this year, slow to rebloom in this really wet weather)
-Munstead Wood (gorgeous dark red and old fashioned, quartered bloom, with phenomenal old rose fragrance)
-Crown Princess Margareta (just bought, no blooms yet, but it has taken off in its little band pot).
Just a note, from my experience DA roses tend to be rather bigger in US gardens (although, maybe MI will keep it a bit more restrained). So, just something to keep in mind when planning out their spaces in your garden :)
I am hoping Pickering roses in Canada will be allowed to send bare root david austins to US again next spring
Very inexpensive and I have over 50 that I have bought from hem over the years..Like about $15. Us each.
Us would not let them ship this past spring for some reason..
These roses will be just fine. Next year will be a whole new group of fresh leaves and flowers and it will look like a whole new plant. It's going to look a little bare for a while but keep up the steady care and watch for new strong shoots from the base. I would spread some mulch around the base if you haven't done it already after raking up old fallen leaves. Cut off anything that's obviously dead and dry.
The tan spots that evolve into holes might be spot anthracnose disease. It is usually not too destructive. Blackspot spots are dark with fringed or notched margins. Blackspotted leaves will yellow and drop after, typically, two or three weeks. It is good practice to pick blackspotted leaves.
During hot sunny periods of Summer I often spray down the leaves of trees, shrubs, Perennials and even annuals during the early morning hours when I know that the sun and humidity will allow the foliage to dry before noon, but also leaving enough moisture in the soil for days ahead.
Last year, during the severest drought in this location while I've been here, I discovered several ladybugs on my 'mother' rose plant. Later discovered Ladybugs on one of the daughter rose plants.
I too have wild areas around my garden, in fact entire forests define my landscape in a major way, and it seems to me that once the environment is correct, the Ladybugs will find a home and protect my roses from aphids.
It was the most amazing discovery that occurred during the more than 15 years at this location. :)
It's fine and dandy if they all fly away. What you want to have them do is lay a bunch of eggs before they all fly away.
The larvae of them eat 50x as many aphids as the adults do. They look like little alligators with red stripes. Once you get a crop of those going, balance will be restored to The Force.
Just never use pesticides so you don't kill them off in the future.
eggs
larva -- hungry!
Does anyone know if Nahema climbing rose will thrive on Vancouver Island? How about Eden climber?
As this summer was so hot, I'm wondering if the roses have papery petals, or heavier petals that won't fry.
Any other recommendations for very fragrant, disease-resistant and attractive roses would be much appreciated.
Pauline, Langford, Vancouver Island
For those of you having trouble with Ebb Tide (I have three and they certainly have their issues), consider Twilight Zone, an offspring of Ebb Tide, and I think a much better rose, especially if you live in a hot, sunny area. TZ's blooms don't fade to murky pinks and other off colors for me. Diane
I'm afraid that if I put up a sign like that, I would have a few mountain lions in my back yard, since they do regularly show up in Boise, and almost always end up shot by Fish and Game. This really angers me, but those F&G guys always seem to have their lame reasons. I agree that too many predators have been "removed" from the environment, Ingrid. I don't know if being too dry is the reason you don't have deer, since it couldn't be any dryer than here (unless you mean Las Vegas--they may have us beat). At least I have my friends, the badgers. A week or two ago, some noodle brain tried to smoke out a badger in a draw about a hill over, and started a fire with his smoke bomb...and this right when Idaho had the largest fire going in the nation (near Sun Valley...California now has that honor). Neighbors said you could see the flames come up over the hill a couple of miles away. And all to get rid of a beneficial predator, the scourge of gophers. I haven't heard the latest about whether the fire starter is going to be billed for costs of putting the fire out--he should be. Diane
It's been so long since I've done this. The advice 25 years ago was to prune the HT after the danger of frost was over. My new HT are the first ones I've planted in over 20 years. I'll prune them in early February and strip the leaves. As for everything else, they will be pruned as needed. They have survived for a long time without being touched.
I THINK I MAKE THINGS SOUND WORSE THAN THEY ARE. BOTH BEDS, OLD AND NEW, ARE DOING BEAUTIFULLY. i'LL POST PICS WHEN I GET SOME DECENT ONES. AND THE NEW POTTED BABIES - CARDING MILL (NOW 17 DAYS OLD) HAS MUCH NEW GROWTH. AS DO -TEXAS, RED SUNBLAZE, & RAINBOW SUNBLAZE. I'M THRILLED WITH THEIR VIGOR. ALSO, AFTER ABOUT 16 MONTHS, FIRST PRIZE HAS FINALLY BEGUN TO LIVE UP TO HER NAME. THE LAST BUD WAS AS LONG AND BEAUTIFULLY FORMED AS ANYTHING I'VE EVER SEEN. IT ALSO LASTED FOR QUITE A BIT.
I KNOW THAT THEY ARE DOING WELL BECAUSE OF MY NEW FRIENDS ON THE FORUM.
THANKS AGAIN AND PICS LATER,
ANDREA
P.S. TEASING GEORGIA AND KOSMOS WILL BE DELIVERED ON THIS SATURDAY, ALONG WITH TWO
4.5 CU FT POTS, AND 6 BAGS OF ROSE SOIL...AND OF COURSE SEVERAL MORE SAUCER PLANT CADDIES.
My 10 year old has been on my case about it. He wants to create his very own, unique rose. He's a little disappointed with my plonk it in the dirt and hope for a clone way of doing things.
He is a ridiculously intelligent kid (why a higher power would bless/curse me with a genius I will never know. It's hard raising someone smarter than you. ) He has educated himself, read books and scoured the Internet for information. I've promised him that 2014 will be his year.
You never know Kim. One day he may be giving you a run for your money :-)
M
Absolutely.
I posted a picture of my Sharifa Asma's first spring flush a few months back. Big, beautiful, palm sized, amber and blush colored, intoxicatingly fragrant blooms.
The bloom that just opened on Sharifa today was a singlet, nearly white, and lacked fragrance.
The heat does awful things to roses...awful things.
Josh
Which is probably why here in the cooler zone 3 (close to the mountains), my roses' blooms can get huge! The colors are usually intense. So, I guess a shade net here would be a bad idea. :)
Carol