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But, look -- If you have 1-2 small touches of powdery mildew, it's not practical or necessary to drench the entire garden in chemical controls. Wipe it off, and see what happens.
If you find that only 1-2 roses are troubled by this fungal problem, consider replacing those roses with roses that don't mildew.
I know there are other good lavenders, but I would definitely agree that Love Song is a great choice. I planted several new to me varieties this spring, but haven't had them long enough to have an opinion yet. Love Song puts on a beautiful display of lovely blooms and has good repeat.
Chantilly Lace and Red Intuition are two that I have never seen before. Gorgeous. And I don't usually like stripped roses, but that red/dark red pattern is really pretty.
How is Take It Easy performing for you? I have Easy Does It and absolutely adore it. I wonder if Take It Easy would perform similarly. I've been thinking about getting it. But it would have to be on Fortuniana and I'm not sure if any of my sources graft it on Fort.
Im really looking for more disease resistant roses but that have good form and are good for cutting. I don't show roses so it has to be a good garden rose for me to want to grow it. I also have limited space so the ones I grow need to perform well or the get the shovel. I do spray, but BS is such a problem here that even with spraying only the disease resistant ones look good. I have an Easy Does It that I'm loving right now. Its FULL of blooms and never gets BS. Its been in my garden for 3 years and is really getting going now. I'm not insane about the form and its not necessarily a good cut rose, but it performs so well and has such an nice shrubby habit that I love it.
Dick Clark is my other best performer, but has a tall scraggly look by comparison. Its only been in my yard for one year however and I hope it will get more bushy as I shape it while it grows.
Dry heat or not, heat is heat and the direct sun has played hob with my (already age-challenged) skin. Frankly I'll be just as happy to get back to somewhere where there is humidity. Dry eye is mondo uncomfortable.
It does do wonders for the roses, though. The roses in the backyard of this rental are totally neglected, and they are out of control. Nary a spot of black spot, or any other fungi or diseases. The biggest problem with them is the shoots from the neighbor's trumpet vine that come up in the middle of Thorn Central there, and then can't be reached because of the wild growth of the roses.
Diane, I have never seen blister beetles up north, but we have terrible emerald ash borers here, a lot of ash trees got killed, the tree services are making a lot of money treating ash trees these days. It costs about $1000+ to cut down a tree, so you can see badly damaged ash trees everywhere in the neighborhood.....
Zensojourner, Trumpet vine is hard to control, and it has gaint roots, pull it out as soon as you see it. It can take over a yard really fast. Good luck.
And guys, I know how to make your face as soft as baby's bottom, apply Queen Helene Natural Cocoa Creme (15oz/ $6.25 @ Rite Aid) after washing your face at night time. It renews skin from the summer heat. Just try it for 2 weeks, you will see the difference. :-)
Here are a few photos of my "pink" border. There are a number of different roses, not a mass planting of one. Evelyn is the only one in multiples and that is just three, though she is pretty big. I use a variety of pink annuals and perennials to tie it all together. In my climate, some snapdragons last two or three years, while others reseed, though I still managed to plant about 100 new snapdragon plants this spring (boring!). Diane
I wish the neighbor's guest house, or whatever it is, was not so prominent in this photo. This is a partial shot of the pink border. Evelyns are on the left end, then Royal Bonica with some of
Brother Cadfael showing on the the right.
A close up Evelyn and the surrounding snapdragons
Another section of the border showing the rose Royal Bonica, pink daisies, snaps, and alyssum just getting started.
Diane
So, today I was heading out of the subdivision and at the front common grounds a group of men were working. One was mowing, another weed eating and another spraying the rocks and brick edging on all the flower beds. I stopped to ask just what they were spraying. Either they spoke no english or acted like they didn't because I didn't get an answer.
It may be a time to get up a petition about them spraying round-up. They can just pull those weeds by hand! I bet if the residents in the subdivision knew they were spraying round-up in all the common areas on a weekly basis they'd be upset. The children play in those areas!
There's a park in Southern CA where the City came in, and sprayed the entire park with Roundup.
Their idea was that if they killed everything in THAT park, that would take care of their required water-use reductions for the whole City. Never mind the health-and-property consequences to surrounding residents (who were not warned in advance).
They just figured, children and pets could go right on playing on the chemical-soaked dead turf. GAAAAAHHH!!!
Mine is about the same size as Patbama's though not quite as broad since it has to recover from being trimmed to the ground each year (mine's probably about 3X3). Nice pictures, Pat. Regardless, it's one of my more reliable bloomers and clearly in the top 5% of the roses I grow (and I have a lot of them). Every now and then I'll get a mostly white bloom, but it's pretty consistently picoteed and has long-lasting blooms.
Thanks for the info on the grandi- vs. flori- distinction, Jeremy. I rarely trust how tall a rose is "supposed" to grow from its label, since even HTs can vary immensely in my yard. HMF sure helps get a range, but even then I'm frequently surprised, particularly for roses that are supposed to be large but aren't in my yard.
Cynthia
Rugosas are as delicious to borers as raspberries. I have at least three types of borers. I find primacanes wilting from just inches above the ground (with no other visible damage) and find a grub, having gained entrance to the cane via puncture in the side of the primacane, burrowing a few inches below. I also find new growth tips ragged and blackened with a grub gaining entrance into the cane by chewing through the center of the new growth. Lastly, I find cigar-like swellings mid-cane (with no sign of wilting), that sometimes contain a stem-girdling grub. I've found the literature confusing when I've tried to ID these pests. The good news is the treatment is the same: cut the damaged canes progressively lower until there is no visible damage to the interior. The bad news is that even though there is one generation of each type per year, the fact that the pests emerge at different times makes mine an all-summer battle.
So gorgeous! I want that one!
Very nice!