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The three that I have right now that are thriving in the 90+ temps here are the Chrysler Imperial, the newly-purchased Angel Face, and the miniature Gourmet Popcorn, all of whom are blooming into blossom despite the heat and the near-constant sun. It's surprising to find the CI in this group; she went into a coma last summer.
My Madame Isaac Pereire is also growing and blooming remarkably well in the heat.
Bishop's Castle.
Marie Pavie.
Bolero (but flowers still disfigured by thrips).
Evelyn (hard to tell since tiny new plants, but putting out growth and buds despite the heat).
Best option for the hot and humid Houston climate is supply the roses with some afternoon shade. Then many Austins and other roses will grow happily.
On the other hand, when the temps get up in the 100s for days or weeks or months, most roses will give up and go semi-dormant--until cooler weather (and moisture) return.
Kate
Yes, I get them. They are soft bodied and the same color as the smaller rose slugs that you find in early summer on bottoms of leaves. They are quite a bit larger but still eat their way up then wrap themselves around a bud and devour it. They keep going until a predator or I discover it.
These are our curled rose slugs... They can be found on the underside of leaves, on top of leaves, and in the blooms... Throw these guys on the ground and they crawl right back up on the bush.. (These guys do not make cacoons in the buds...)
Both Spinosad and Safers Insectide Soap work on these guys if used according to directions:
BT will NOT work on these guys..
Of course handpicking them off the bush is an option etc...( kill em)...But hosing them off they would probably just end up crawling back on the bush...
These guys are so large they are easy to watch to understand there habits...
Not true though about the more smaller common rose slug...
Very few people know about it as it is quite new. From what I've read from just two folks it will need support and over here disease resistance is rock solid. Also it will get to 7 feet tall in zone 6, in your zone it may get much taller. I was thinking about buying it but didn't due to budget, seriously though if you wish to pitch it I'd like to get it from you. That said, why would it be too much trouble for you? Should be a low maintenence plant like Radler's other creations.
Amazing photos, Pat. Wish my Easy Does It looked half as good as yours. Still recommending EDI, though. Ebb Tide is a beautiful floribunda for its color (in cooler weather ) and its scent. Pat, I love your pics of Gruss. Do you grow the pink version, too? That one interests me also, and I wonder if it measures up to the original. Diane
Thanks! That's one Easy Does It...about 6 years old. Mine gets about 5 to 6 ft tall by about 4 feet wide by end of season. Pictures are from May of this year. Blooms continuously, but always a favorite of the Japanese Beetles, so you wouldn't want to see a picture of it at the moment...currently unrecognizable, but recovers quickly once the bugs are finally gone. Diane, I've had 2 GaA bushes for several years now and love them so much that I wanted to try the pink version. I got it as a band this spring. It's in a 3 gallon pot in a good bit of shade while it grows. Still small with only a handful of blooms so far, so not fair to judge...but I love the color variances of the original and the pink version doesn't seem like it's going to have as much of that.
Well, I'm still a long way from Beth in N Ca standards, but my recent count after the yearly "death march" (to finally decide and pull tags from what didn't survive the winter) brings me to 938, if you count the minis. There is an occasionally circulating thread that jokes about counting roses so they aren't really so many, and not counting minis is one of those tips. Once I get past pruning and planting season, they aren't really that much work, since I don't spray and I simply deadhead and water a little from now to frost.
I've shown a lot of photos from my best years, so here are a few shots of an average rose year that this is turning out to be.
My "east side survivors" - roses in the zone 4 pocket of my house that can handle more extreme temperatures - starring Alexander MacKenzie (pardon the deadheads still hanging in)
Edgar Degas and some friends in the background
Felix LeClerc with some non-rose friends
Garden Delight - one of my new favorite roses
Lunar Mist blooming its little heart out as always
And Sunrise Sunset eating a trellis that got in her way...
Cynthia
Just counting these the other day, around about 53 in this perennial garden that includes roses. The majority of these are climbers or climber/shrubs (28), some as pairs. Shrub roses (10) & shrub habit Floribundas (11) add another 21. Hybrid Teas number only 3 - Abbaye de Cluny, Fragrant Cloud & a new-this-year Kordes' Savannah. There's also a NOID (no identification) rose long planted that was incorrectly tagged from the nursery that may fall into any of the former categories. Keep in mind this count was done during an imaginary tour rather than by actual head count, discounted some iffy roses (unsure survival) & is likely inaccurate. Many more were attempted over the years. In this no spray garden, health & tolerance of freeze-thaw cycles (typical in Winter & early Spring) prove essential to beauty, bloom & fragrance.
I love my JFK. The blooms last a very long time in a vase and are so pretty in arrangements. At least for me they last on the bush too. Our temps have been in the mid 90s for the last three weeks and it is a blooming machine. I didn't have much problem with blackspot either.
For me, When I grew JFK in FL., it was a fantastic rose. I just put it back in my garden up here in N.E. GA. It's growing very well and producing beautiful, beautiful blooms. Buford, just wait until next summer.