22,151 Garden Web Discussions | Roses
Yes, you still need to keep the proper ratio for each fungicide. If you are great at math, you can probably mix them in one container at one time. I would have to use seil's method. I have enough trouble figuring out how to mix one. I used to have a certain measuring cup and marks on my sprayer and now I'm using a different product and I have to start from scratch....
Oh wow Kublakan, Thanks. I totally will. What great advice. I'll stop by sometime this week (eeeekk :)
Our Lady does not have big flowers Jack, they are small but they are plentiful. They also hold their form for a good amount of time and last well as a cut flower. As I recall they she also had few bug problems. But I guess that may depend on where you live/put her/how many pests you have in your garden, etc.
Our Lady is one of those roses that gets so full of flowers that you have to stop and ask what kind of rose it is.
I'd like to share about an Intrigue! This was 2 Springs ago, but hang on - it gets better.
Anyway, I got one and planted it in a large decorative pot. That beautiful perfum-ey wonder bloomed about 5 times. I'm in the desert southwest, long growing season. She was so beautiful. Grew her on the morning-sun-side of the house.
Well the following Spring the aphids came, as they do, and I don't use sprays anywhere here and usually Nature takes over and either birds, or enough ladybugs, etc. take care of the aphids. Well, I didn't watch closely enough, and be darned if they didn't kill that rose.
So here we are 2 years later and after 2 years of lamenting (I truly missed that rose), today I found 2 of them at Walmart. Both had blooms on and oh how I have missed that fragrance. These will go into the ground this time and for the first time this year, we had to spray a couple of things due to aphids. Hated to do it but I will not lose another plant to them.
Tried the Dawn treatment, hosing them off daily, nope. They were still winning. I won this battle!
Yep, we had a long coolish spring and the daffodils lasted forever - long enough to overlap with the early tulips for quite a while. Then May hit, with torrential rains so far, and WHOOSH all the tulips disappeared almost overnight, even the ones that are usually May bloomers. We counted a dismally awful 12 inches of rain starting at 8 pm and lasting all night. I was up all night wet-vacuuming the basement (my husband had to call it quits at 1 am), and the news has said at least half the basements in town are flooded, even ones that don't usually get anything. Sure wish we could send some of this rain to California - particularly with more rain expected this weekend.
Cynthia
Just looked it up. It's similar to the Cornell (University) formula for mildew. My recipe called for the liquid soap, and Cornell's uses vegetable oil. Both recipes use baking soda. I just made a quart at a time, but Cornell's is for a gallon, and uses larger amounts--a tablespoon of each ingredient instead of a teaspoon. Diane
There are lots of sprays that will control PM. Peroxide works if you have a formula that doesn't burn foliage. Baking soda is about as effective as potassium bicarb but somewhat more likely to burn. "Remedy" and "Green Cure" are just two brand names for the K product--read labels.
In addition to using the iron product, I would check the pH, and if it is above 7, apply 1/2 cup of sulfur per square yard to gradually acidify. the soil.
Nanadoll - thanks for the reminder to check hmf for synonymous of roses that I'm interested in - I tooo liked the look of Julia Child and regretted it's seeming lack of availability. Absolutely Fabulous is however, available pretty much everywhere!
...I grew William Baffin many years ago over here, and found it quite a vigorous rose and a sprawler.. canes flying out everywhere... I certainly wouldn't want to grow it in a pot... I grew it up an arch and it was a bit of a struggle getting all those canes to the support, but it was a generous flowerer, I give it that..
Thanks! I had a lady stop by this afternoon to ask me what kind of roses they are. I told her and she said her's didn't look anything like that. She's right, they don't they are about 6 ft tall and sparse on blooms. She said they'd never been pruned and of course she didn't know anything about feeding them. As I drive down our street every 2nd or 3rd house have red KOs in their flower beds and many look terrible. KOs may be easy to take care of but they still need some care. You can't just stick them in the ground and not do anything with them.
Yes that can happen if the rose was delivered in a peat substrata not containing wetting agent that dried up before getting watered. The trick in such cases is to soak the rootball thoroughly in a bucket of water squeezing gently until bubbles stop coming out.
Thank you everyone this is what I have done so far to my poor plant....I buit it a little raised garden bed till I can get the rest of it cleaned out around it and plant more flowers. This spot gets sun most of the Day...it doesn't look pretty right now but I plan on fixing that soon. This was all I had around the house right now.
