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Love the color! So beautiful!

Yeah, looks pretty sweet, doesn't it!! Such a vivid yellow!

Carol

We were spared in my town, but other places had heavy damage. No hail for us or high winds. Just rain. We have had sooooo much rain. Good for growth of roses, but not for blooms.

Beautiful flowers! Looks really awesome! Our so-called storm had us freaked out in NYC but it was no more than 6 mins of normal rain ;/

Thanks to all for your replies. I will give it a chance to see how it does in the years to come. I planted it in a corner away from everything...lol. It looks happy so far. It has been a cooler summer than average so that may explain the whiter blooms. To be fair, it has been continually blooming for two weeks now with snow white flowers (hopefully it isn't mislabelled) but the individual blooms drops its petals after a few days. Well worst come to worst, if I don't like it, I can at least say that I have satisfied my "craving" to grow this rose.

I was convinced from all I read it would be the perfect climber. Not. Flowers were light pink until noon? First rose I've deliberately removed. Since then I pay attention only to "rose praise" here on the forum.

Thank Patty, that helps a lot. I was hoping she wouldn't be a black spot magnet. Is fish emulsion safe for rugosas?

The fertilizer that hurts them the most are chemical ferts. They don't like salts and high nitrogen. I would add fish fertilizer to the soil. Personally prefer not spraying on leaves.

Hi enchanted, it's Diane again. Previously I had suggested that Lauren's Grape poppy was a wonderful plant of the most gorgeous color. Lauren Ogden, a well known garden writer, seed expert, and book author is the developer of this poppy which she selected for over and over in her own garden, till she got the pure strain for Lauren's Grape seed. It's widely available now, but my favorite seeds are from the company, Renee's Garden, and they call their seeds, Lauren's Dark Grape, and it is a rich and dark color. These are annuals and bloom briefly, but the plant can fit about anywhere. The leaves are a beautiful silvery color, and I love the "pepper shaker" seed pod that develops. Let the plant reseed or gather seeds after the pod is ripe, and scatter in late winter or very early spring. Here are a couple of pics, taken by my talented granddaughter. There was a little too much sun the day these were taken. If you've seen my photos, I should mention that every one of them she photographed. DianeLauren's Dark Grape poppyLauren's Dark Grape Poppy
Diane

Thanks all for the suggestions. I also saw purple "million bells" planted at the base of roses with groundcover herbs. It was very pretty.

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Sharon

Yep, they're still pretty pricey. I paid a ton for my KOs. I hope he can make some fragrant KOs........ :-)

Great timing Jeri. This information should be useful to the poster who wanted to start his garden business in another thread.

I also got botrytis on my roses. It has been raining at least 3 days out of a week for the last month. Thunderstorms here and there and humidity have caused brown edges on most of my rose blooms since the spring flush. What have helped my roses to minimize botrytis spread is cutting off the affected blooms and deadheading as soon as I see signs of browned edges.

I secondly agree . Half of my blooms look like this too. I use the secateurs for remediation.

when the black one started to bloom,it was red..so there are 2 colours in a tree.pink and red..then slowly..the red turned black..and the pinks didnt turn to black..after few days..still pink..

jerijen - Yeah, that looks like Multifora to me, too.

Thank you for the information. I will not use the sulfur or the copper. They kind of scared me that I could kill the rose. I know I have treated them as annuals, but only because they died of natural causes. I will try and save up and get these other fungicides that were mentioned.

So very much appreciative of the information.

Thank you

Oh of course, I forgot to mention that Honor Guard is Banner Maxx. I actually use Honor Guard, not banner maxx. Its way cheaper.

Maybe I should be happy that my garden rabbit (who lives in the boxwoods behind my front roses and ends up being very polite about them!) has been leaving many presents in my roses ;)

Michael, I've killed little plants, including roses, by using mushroom compost in their pots and figured it was the pH. Everything else seemed perfect, but a few of them didn't like something at all! I used it instead of composted manure in my usual pot mix I make.

Thanks to subk3 for the informative post above.

I think I'd try to cut it off, the canes there and all. I don't know exactly what it is, but those canes won't hurt being cut shorter.

Thank you. I will do that tomorrow.

Thanks Jeri! I will give it a try tomorrow, just cut a pop bottle. :-)

Here on the east coast, the air stays pretty humid enough so that I don't seem to need to make little "greenhouses" for cuttings -- just keep them out of midday sun, and keep the soil moist. My first round of cuttings are starting to put out new growth, and I think I'll have far more of 'Rose du Roi -- original' than I expected. I took a lot, thinking it'd be harder to root than others I've tried, but so far none are showing signs of rotting before rooting. But in any case, that video is very informative. In different conditions and with different types of roses, we all have to try a few ways before we hit on what works for us.

:-)

~Christopher