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I ended up buying an Eden climbing rose from a local nursery. It had around 6-7 unopened blooms and two open blooms, that had cream/pink combo. Such a beautiful rose. It's definitely a favorite. I might dig up the cream one that was supposed to be Eden and pot it up for now.
Beautiful garden and roses, Ninkasi, and thanks for allowing us to share it. So much nicer than just a nursery full of rows of pots, as we're used to here. And how nice to see the color green, which makes the rose colors look so good against that background.
Thank you mustbnuts & nanadoll! Yesterday was filled with beer and fireworks. How nuts we go usually depends on the area and crowd...
I agree with John Cabot on the list, there's one in town here that had zero die back this year, it's over a meter tall and is now covered in blooms.
LOL - cecily - that's exactly what my husband said to me.... this is the first time I've had roses.... I'm quite a brown thumb - I currently have 2 trees that are dying a slow painful death (not my doing) and I really don't want to lose these roses!! But the damage is actually only a week or two old at the most - they weren't damaged when we moved in which was in early June.
Well, now I've done it too - I just looked back and saw the bit about 'Snow Maiden' being the hedge - so not box, obviously! (I'll have to look that one up - I presume it's a little white rose...)
Sorry, Sophia, no wonder you're confused ...I fear it is we, though, who are the confused...
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Sophia, maybe you can arrange your roses like a rainbow for your daughter?
I am in Aust too so I am familiar with Std roses. Even though they are all grafted onto a 90cm stump the actual roses that grow on top will be very different sizes depending on the variety. So if colour arrangement is not an issue for you it may look neater if you arrange them by bush size and vigor of the varieties.
Patty they had knockouts and a bunch of the Easy Elegance roses. They had them inside still, so if you don't see them outside, go in and look! EE were like $17 I think. They had Music Box, Champagne wishes, Pinktopia, Superhero?, one with an elf name - sorry can't remember!, All the Rage , and maybe 1 or 2 more. I have Music Box now and really like it, and it did ok over the winter - died back pretty far but it's up and growing now. Seem to recall someone on here recommending Champagne Wishes, may go back for that one. Was at Menards, they have some of the same varieties potted and blooming as they had as bare roots. Looked healthy, $10? No Kordes that I've seen so far.
Just managed to find one at my Lowes.... for $2.00!!!!!!! Granted it is not in the best shape but I couldn't believe it. Had to try and rescue her.
My question: one of the canes has a black streak in it. Should the whole thing be pruned off? The whole cane isn't dead so I didn't know what I should do.
SoFL Rose z10 - bigger than they are? wow! can't wait for that!
cecily - I do have a rose that is really strong, that my husband swears doesn't smell, so i get that! This was the 1st rose I've ever planted, so I am always weary and nervous over it...but mostly was worried if I had the right rose!
You might try over on the Antique Roses forum. I searched helpmefind.com, and couldn't find either a rose or hybridizer with that name. The Rose Hybridizers Association might be able to help.
One advantage of disbudding is that open flowers attract extra JBs to your yard. I definitely recommend this if JBs are bad. You could identify a few roses that you like for cutting, remove the side buds, and let the lead buds develop, picking them as soon as the sepals split or drop, or discarding them if they are bitten.
If you disbud stems early, the plant will make slightly more vegetative growth for the season. I don't know about roots. But at least you don't have to watch your flowers get ravaged.
Last year did just that to foil a high population of JB's for the first time in this garden. The beetles not harvested for chickens left abruptly when deprived of their favorite food, luckily without sampling other plants. Figured there was no point advertising "Eat at Joe's" with all the rose blooms & decided to shut down this diner. If I wasn't going to benefit from rose blossoms, neither were they! Let the roses bloom again after departure without finding more JB's. Figured the hatchlings in this garden had been trapped or moved on to greener pastures. This year, didn't deadhead after the first flush as a precaution, but they came to a new rose whose blooms I wanted to see & smell which flowered after the rest. Aloha '49, as usual, budded quickly despite forming hips & I've left the buds & flowers as the only lure at the moment in order to trap the JB's emerging here. Easier to concentrate on one rose than many scattered throughout the garden. Must say, hardly any this year (so far anyway) compared to last, so thinking this was worthwhile.
Often David Austin’s catalogue photos and marketing descriptions stray from reality. They call LD Braithwaite a bright crimson. I agree with the bright part, but I've always thought crimson was a stretch. When think of crimson I think of Munstead Wood which incidentally is sometimes pink for me. LD Braithwaite on the other hand, anytime I have seen it, in my own garden and in different climates and conditions is a distinctly recognizable color that doesn't vary much under differing conditions.
My opinion at first was that Dave's photos didn't look like LDB, but to my surprise the color looks rather different now that I see it on a different monitor. I don't see so much blue now. Still, it doesn't have that brightness and the bloom form doesn't seem familiar, so I do have to wonder if it was mislabeled. I rec'd 4 mislabeled roses from DA this year (not bashing DA, they admit their mistakes and make them right when they happen).
Of course that’s only my opinion. I wanted to add the discussion since I find the variety of experience and opinions of this forum’s users to immensely helpful whenever I’m in need of a rose ID.
i don't know guys-david austin has been offering this rose for 30 yrs. with the same pics and descriptions. the pics might be off although not by much but certainly we have to accept his descriptions-unless of course you feel you know more about his roses than he does
the bloom form on my pic almost perfectly matches the da catalog pic so i'm going to have to go with the idea that you must grow something that is not ld.
Ouch....yup, you DO have trumpet vine, it just wasn't in the first pix you posted, lol. It's a menace, indeed. It should NEVER be planted on purpose in the ground. A large pot might be ok, but only if it sat OFF the ground, lol. Even then, it would probably get out of its cage and rampage.
Since the mother plant isn't on your property, I don't know how you can actually get rid of it. You might approach the neighbor and see if they would be amenable to doing the deed on their side of the fence, sacrificing a bit for the good of humanity (yeah....riiiiiight). Other than that, you might try spraying any sprouts that are coming up away from the actual fence. You might discourage it, and trust me, you won't be killing the neighbor's plant. What's on the fence you'll just have to keep cutting back. Sigh...the stuff IS pretty, but it's a wild wildling, and belongs in the wild, not in a civilized garden.
The Virginia creeper is a lot more easily discouraged by pulling, which is the most environmentally friendly method, but unfortunately the most labor intensive. You'll just have.to.stay.after.it. Since you don't seem to be allergic, just make it a daily chore to check for new sprouts, and learn to recognize seedlings.
What I meant about a "true brush killer" was just to steer you away from the 2-4D. The 2-4D lingers in the soil for up to a year and can prohibit growth of anything else you plant there. Roundup isn't nearly as soil toxic, but has to be sprayed on the leaves to work well, and you might kill the roses ( I know you wouldn't mind that, but myself, I can't stand the thought of killing a healthy rose, lol). Using full strength brush killer JUST on major cuts will limit the amount of poison you're slinging around the environment.
John
John - can you name for me a "true brush killer"? Herbicides are really not something I've ever felt the need to deal with. In this case, I don't care if it lingers in the soil for a year - as long as it kills the trumpet vine. Roses can be replanted - and these honestly should be, they are far to close together and in any other climate they'd have succumbed to disease and fungus long ago. ONE rose there with some appropriate companions would be about right - not 4, and especially not when at least 3 of them are naturally huge to start with.