"Shiva" wrote in message
s.com...
It is
hopefully going to be planted in the ground this weekend and only has
around
3 inches of growth.


Mine was a nice 1 gallon own root from Muncy's in FL last fall, made
it through the winter fine in the ground, then got mowed. :0( So you
and I are at about the same place with this rose.


Ouch! Maybe you need to put stakes and ropes around it to ensure that it
does not get mowed next time


I'm looking forward to getting lots of blooms from our new roses but
since
it is the middle of winter here, I think I will be waiting at least until
spring for most of them.

This always gets me. I always forget there is another hemisphere! Or
at least that there are opposite season running concurrently. How
interesting that you can get potted roses in the winter!


We can get potted roses all year round. Since we have mild winters, some of
the local nurseries pot their bare roots up so that they do not dry out
before they are sold. It also means that they have a head start by the time
that you buy/plant them. We still get bare roots from mail order and from
other nurseries and chain stores.


What is winter like where you are? As in how cold does it
get and how long does it last?

As I said winters are very mild here. It's early July (mid winter) and I am
wearing jeans and a shirt with just a woolen coat for going outside in the
mornings. I probably won't even wear the coat at lunch time when I go
outside. The coldest minimum temperature last year was 4C (39F) and probably
the same this year so we do not even get below freezing. A 'cold' winter's
day in Brisbane is around 15C (59F)- you might need a scarf as well as a
jacket. Our forcast for today is 12-23C (53-72F) and is typical of a warmer
winter's day. I live close to the coast but further inland they do get below
freezing with some frosts.

Acck! in looking up today's forcast I noticed we are scheduled for a low of
3C and max of 14C next week. The days either side of that will also be
cooler but we only have 1 or 2 days of 'cold' weather :-)

Until I was 17 I had never seen snow. I still have not seen fresh snow
because I saw my only snow in our alpine region during late spring. Even our
'alpine' region is zone 7 and is over a thousand kilometres from where I
live. I keep saying some time I am going to take a holiday in winter and
learn to ski!


When will it be safe to put your RT in the ground? We can compare notes on
grafted/own root, US southeast, Australia/?


Since our winter here is probably warmer than your spring I can plant all
throughout winter. Our first bare root roses turn up at the end of autumn
and are on sale until the end of winter. Once it gets to spring I think it
is too hot to plant bare roots. Besides minis, patio roses and some young
cuttings, I do not have any roses on their own roots. All the roses I have
seen on sale in my area are grafted - not counting minis and patio roses.
There is a mail order nursery from Victoria that does do own roots but even
then, it is only a small selection and they seem to be OGR rather than HTs
or Austins.


Though yesterday I did notice a bud each on
Crepuscule and Gruss an Aachen.


I have imagined that I want both of these, in my more fragile moods.
:0) Generally I leave pale colors alone. Crepuscle's name gets
me--"twilight" or something similar. Very nice.

I think both pale and vibrant roses have a place in my garden I like the
subtelty of the pale flowers but then again it is the vibrant ones that
catch your eye and make you go back for a second look. I like all the photos
that I have seen of Crepuscule's canes covered in orangey/apricoty, floppy
flowers.

Sorry, this ended up much longer than I originally anticipated. Also I tried
my best on the rough conversions from C to F but realise they will be a
little out.

Speaking of conversions, I wanted to try out the baking soda and oil spray
but could only find recipees for gallon not litres. I checked a conversion
page and it said that to times it by 3. I couldn't work out why it was
recommending using 3 tablespoons of bi-carb to a litre of water! It just
seemed to much so I went for Daniel's milk spray. Thankfully I did because I
just found out that it was saying times a litre by three to get a gallon - I
was supposed to divide the recipe by 3 to get a litre! My roses would have
cooked for sure.

Kirra
Brisbane, Australia
zone 10