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seil zone 6b MI

Evie, be very careful with Neem Oil or any king of oil. NEVER spray oil on your roses if the temps are going to be any higher than about 75 degrees. The leaves will cook like they're in a deep fryer! Neem Oil should only be used in the very early spring or late fall when temps are cool.

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bardamu_gw

Besides aphids early in the season, which were easy to remove, I hadn't spotted bugs. I'm used to looking for bugs under leaves, but I must have missed them thinking it was fungus or disease. I looked carefully at both plants and did not spot bugs yesterday or this morning. Hopefully their time is over for the year. Thanks all for the responses. I will keep an eye out for insects, keep the plant watered, and hope to see new healthy leaves start to fill the plants.

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kublakan

Impressive. I like the bicolored one. Keep us posted.

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mustbnuts zone 9 sunset 9

Beautiful!

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bonny46(6)

Looks like you have some diseased/dead cane in there, too. I'd clean up the whole bush while you're at it.

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kulrich8903

The flys are back I keep spraying and no new leaves. I think I lost them

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roseseek(9)

There were reports of a very good (for the time), famous HT of Depression times which remained in gardens nameless, or given other names because the growers/gardeners hated President Hoover.

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hoovb zone 9 sunset 23

The story on "Happy Butt" was that the hybridizer wanted to name it after a dear friend named Gladys. Gladys said "Oh no, please do not!" So the hybridizer named the rose "Happy Butt". Repeat the name Gladys a few different ways to see why.

thonotorose, I have that rose also. I call it 'Jacsegra', which is the hybridizer's name for it.

My grandmother revered Hoover, because before he was a below-average President, he was head of a US agency that sent food to people in dire straits in Belgium at the end of WWI. My grandmother was close to the front lines and nearly stared to death. The food that Hoover had sent saved her life, or so she always said.

I have to say, that at least here, 'Fabulous!' deserves its exclamation mark.

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rabainsz7bpnw
Marlolena.. I have golden showers which I grew as a bare root this March and looking forward to the pretty yellow roses. And I had no clue that it means something else too.. That's interesting
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rabainsz7bpnw

Marlorena.. I have golden showers which I grew as a bare root this March and looking forward to the pretty yellow roses. And I had no clue that it means something else too.. That's interesting

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seil zone 6b MI

Beautiful choice! I can't wait to see the pictures!

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jim1961 Zone 6a Central Pa.

Ditto on can't wait to see pics..

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bart_2015

In my garden, in it's poor conditions, Charles Rennie Mac. is about 4 feet tall; blooma are large,about 2-3 inches across, I'd say (very approximate measures)

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noseometer...7A...ABQ

This is the second year for my Falstaff, and so far I'm loving it. It's not pink, but deep magenta, fading to purple (and a nice purple, not a sickly one). The flowers are durable in rain, the flowers nod, which I like (and which might help them from collecting water). So far, not much frying in the sun (although smaller flowers with the 90F heat). Biggest disappointment: almost no fragrance, but when detectable, it is old rose. First flush flowers were about 3". Flowers don't flatten out but keep this cupped form. It's starting to put out a second flush now when WS2K is busily frying its first flush in the sun and mildewing. Most remontant roses (i.e. hybrid teas) here put out a nice first flush, then a few miserable looking flowers in the heat if any, then another nice flush in the fall. Falstaff mildewed a bit this year. We don't get blackspot here. Photo bloom color is accurate.


In my tough climate, it takes a while for plants to grow. Planted in the spring of last year, it did nothing the rest of the year. This year the bush is very vigorous (like climber vigorous), upright, but not stiff, and the new basals are almost as tall as the bush now. The leaves are matte and nicely formed, very old rose. Here's the first flush. I hope it gets all big and gangly.

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seil zone 6b MI

I bet if you google it there are plenty of instruction out there.

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seil zone 6b MI

Gee, now I feel cheated! Mine doesn't seem to grow much at all.

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James_Shaw_San Francisco Bay Area

That is one lovely Electron, Pat--thanks for sharing.

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dublinbay z6 (KS)

Just needs more water -- on a regular basis.

Red growth is normal--means its healthy. The brown stuff could be from lack of water or too much fertilizer (more water to "cure" that). I'm serious--just water it more often and in a few weeks there should be some nice growth apparent.

Kate

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seil zone 6b MI

And water deep, not just a surface wetting. Roses like at least and inch of water per week. So water it slowly for a long period of time about twice a week. In very hot, dry weather you will need to water even more often. If you water early in the morning you can hose them off too, leaves will have plenty of time to dry off during the day, but if you're watering in the evening then try not to get the leaves wet.

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michaelg(7a NC Mts)

Epsom salts is rarely needed or useful. If there is magnesium deficiency, it shows in a particular pattern of yellowing, not in weak canes.

Many rose varieties are inherently floppy. They may outgrow it partly or completely. Stake the floppy canes and cut them back a bit, maybe 1/3, after blooming. They will grow thicker and stronger in a year.

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seil zone 6b MI

We've had a lot of rain lately and that doesn't help because it adds a lot of weight to the blooms pulling them down. I have several that were covered in beautiful buds but as they opened and it kept raining they since laid down on the ground. Stake them up and leave them staked even after you dead head so the next batch of blooms will be better supported. There really isn't anything you can do until the plants grow and mature some more.

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seil zone 6b MI

It looks fine. That bud eye is coming out of the graft. It looks like the shank on that rose is pretty long. You'd only need to worry if it was coming up from the soil or coming out of the long shank.

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msdorkgirl(11)

That has many healthy looking canes and very green, congratulations and enjoy. Where did you get the bareroot DA from? Just curious, I have ordered and am impatiently waiting for some DA's too, and Tranquility is one of them.

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countrygirl_sc, Upstate SC(7a)

Yes, I got her again at Roses Unlimited's open house this year and she has doubled in size. she is in the sale roses they have listed and I may get another. Life's too short not to have your favorite rose! Another picture for your viewing pleasure.

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SoFL Rose z10

oooh, thats a really nice one (fragrant Memory) and I've never even heard of it until now.

Heres my list (in order of most prolific)

Dick Clark (i've never had a rose bloom as much and repeat as quickly, its practically always in bloom)

Easy Does IT (this one too, its not as big a bush but it always has blooms)

Moonstone

Ingrid Bergman

Pope John Paul II

And not grandi or HT, but:

Belinda's Dream (shrub)

Dames De Chennoneceau (shrub)

Abraham Darby (shrub)

Sun Flare (floribuda)

Europeana (Foribunda)

Im shocked to see Queen of Sweden on this list, I love the rose, but mine is a very stingy bloomer. I just grafted her on to fortuniana however and I hope she does better on Fort. Seeing her on this list gives me hope though. :)

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sammy zone 7 Tulsa

I hope they get an answer soon. Please keep us informed.

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Marlorena-z8 England-

..This is always a worry but very best wishes for your daughter, and we hope a speedy recovery....

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cecily(7 VA)

I don't think that's RMV because the pattern of yellow is irregular. The peony next to the rose has some discolored foliage as well. I think a maintenance person sprayed something along that wall. Since the front of the rose looks great, I wouldn't worry about it. Gardening in public spaces can be frustrating.

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NDDeb Zone4a

I just found out that the yard was sprayed but we were assured they protected the plants with cardboard before spraying. The peony next to the rose has some tough looking leaves too, and saw that last year after they sprayed. The leaves on the rose, even though they also got spray on it looked mostly yellow. It didn't appear that they even tried to protect anything last year! I was concerned it was a disease I didn't know about and wanted to be sure it wouldn't affect the other 3 roses. it's very frustrating when you ask them not to spray in the beds and they do so anyway

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