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First flower garden :)
Posted by Nichole Garrett
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Patty W. zone 5a IllinoisUpdated Congratulations, your roses are beautiful. Wishing you lots of luck with your gardening and for me yah more eye candy.
How to kill a rugosa without really trying.
Posted by Patty W. zone 5a Illinois
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Patty W. zone 5a IllinoisUpdated As for Roseraie de L'Hay she's alive but looks like he**. A couple canes have green leaves. Her main problem is a leaf pile used for the garden is right behind her and it's keeping the soil far to damp. It is also the favorite spo...
Is this rose diseased?
Posted by scarpaa0220
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fireballsocalUpdated Way way more water than I use on my in ground or potted roses here in San Bernardino 9B. I'd slow your watering down to once every other day or less. I assume your emmitters are in the 1/2 to 2 gallon range. As a comparison, my p...
Best David Austin (or similar) rose in the heat?
Posted by noseometer...7A...ABQ
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noseometer...7A...ABQUpdated Update, 1 year later, temps in the upper 90's to 100's. Winchester Cathedral: kept growing and blooming when the heat began, but then slowed down and with much smaller flowers. Weird fragrance. Bolero: Second year. Grows and bloom...
Newly released plant update
Posted by Patty W. zone 5a Illinois
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Patty W. zone 5a IllinoisUpdated Of course I neglected to mention the I'm liking what I see category are not newly released roses. Simply new to my garden.
Where to plant a Fortuniana
Posted by Joe Moose, Zone 9A
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kublakanUpdated I would plant it by a fence far away from everything else. It's a spectacular weed once it gets going, and it WILL DEFINITELY climber (shade or not).
Knock out rose on top of tulips.
Posted by Fernanda Mullaghy
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summersrhythm_z6aUpdated Squirrels ate a lot of my tulip bulbs in the past. I used to have 1000 red tulips, now down to about 300. This past winter in the sub zero weather, I saw some little footprints on the snow under a car, I thought it was mice, so I ...
Oklahoma finally has a fragrance!
Posted by rosecanadian
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rosecanadianUpdated Thanks Jim!! The rose just opened up - and the fragrance is really strong!!! Very perfumy. Most of my roses are fruity. But Oklahoma is like perfume. Mmmmm. Carol
My Rose jungle is infested with Trumpet Vine
Posted by zensojourner
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zensojournerUpdated 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 trum...
Eden rose
Posted by bellarosa(z5/IL)
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jasminerose4u, California 9bUpdated I'm glad you got the one you wanted, Bella. It is a beautiful rose that I will try to get next season despite the potential for thrips and rust. The beauty of the blooms take my breath away. Triple digit summer temps prevent me fr...
A trip to GrönlooF - Stauden und Rosen
Posted by Ninkasi(6-7 Germany)
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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9Updated 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...
Roses that do well in the north?
Posted by mustbnuts zone 9 sunset 9
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nanadollZ7 SWIdaho(Zone 7 Boise SW Idaho)Updated Yes, Prairie, I've heard lots of good things about John Cabot. Your Canada Day sounds like lots of fun and kind of like what we do down here. Diane
Something is harming my roses...
Posted by Erika Matson Robinson
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Erika Matson RobinsonUpdated 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 t...
Which roses would look good together?
Posted by Sophia
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fragrancenutter(Zone 10b)Updated 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 differ...
Looking for Chicago Peace
Posted by Adrianne(7b Georgia)
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seil zone 6b MIUpdated HMF lists Angel Gardens, Rogue Valley Roses, Burlington Rose Nursery and S&W Greenhouse as selling it. All of them are good suppliers.
Kordes Wedding Bells
Posted by densiemill
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hostafordays7aUpdated 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 ...
Is this Don Juan climbing rose?
Posted by pinkkpearls
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pinkkpearlsUpdated 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 ...
Where can I find a McCutcheon rose?
Posted by murray_dog(5/6)
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diane_nj 6b/7a(6b/7a)Updated 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.
Why aren't my Don Juans doing any better?
Posted by Donna R zone 6a
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altorama(5/6 MA)Updated I'd give them some extra water. And agree with Michael's idea.
Do Disbudding in the Summer Produce a Nicer Fall Flush?
Posted by KarenPA_6b
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vasue VA(7A Charlottesville)Updated 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...
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