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Iceberg vs. Fabulous- comments please?
How's everything in the Rose City?
Wet and more wet and then some more. We got a couple of days with some sunshine, and upon a recognizance mission around the great rose conspiracy discovered, of course, that the ones leafing are white with powdery mildew, so here is a lesson for me: spray the ones that never went to sleep with about 1/2, maybe 1/3 the recommended amount of dormant spray dilution, and do it diligently. You will think that after all the time I have been held prisoner by these plants I would have figured how to escape, but not. So tomorrow BH will suit and hopefully it will stay dry enough to give them a bath with Polysul and hope for the best. What is this about you hating pink roses? Compassion is one of my favorite roses of all times and boy is she pink! Same goes for Evelyn, at least here and for Belle Story, and don't give me anything even related to "you are a woman" because the "macho" types that come to our garden look at Celestial and get weak knees, and always ask her name. Spill boy, what is the scoop with this story? you got me intrigued here. Back to work. Today we got one of the banes of my existence out of it. A good arborist came with his crew -he had been here before to do some much needed surgery - and removed the top of a very sick, with anthracnose and cercospora both, alder in the back. That tree shed leaves year around and with it brought the pestilence everywhere. We sprayed, we tried to use systemic help for it, we have this same fellow come two years ago and prune the dickens out of it, zilch, niente, nada. Sick, sick, sick and with no hope, I should have listened to the inner wise one that said then, get rid of it, this thing is not going to overcome what is killing it, and sure enough, one bad wind storm and the east side of our home would have had serious damage done to it as proven this morning after they cut it. We wanted the main trunk left there, it will be easier to drill holes and treat it that way and let Mme. Cecile Brunner make a fool of herself and wrap her ever growing arms around what is left there, which of course was left there for that sole purpose. This is one time I don't want their chipper's fruits anywhere near the garden, so they are hauling away the mess. I planted another Climbing Don Juan... I had it once, it grew so thick and it was over an arch we had to use every day and I got pinched too many times so I guess it wouldn't make it in this garden. Altissimo has the place under one of the kitchen windows and the most gorgeous white clematis flirts with him so our red and white classic scheme is already taken. I have Italian blood in me, but I don't like to be pinched by any Don Juan... You are going to love Iceberg, the fragrance is a killer and it is fast to climb, at least it was here. After a couple of years make sure to trim the canes to six or seven or it is going to overwhelm your arch. It gets heavy, and it can really shade the area underneath pretty fast otherwise and then you will have fewer blooms towards the inside. I trained ours with two nice canes on each side of the arch, and then ran the others horizontally in a zig-zag pattern. The laterals were easy to control that way, and it made a nice little white blanket on top, while the ones on the outside sides of the arch were literally a white line of roses falling over themselves. It was a pretty sight. I am out of here, but still want to know about the pink roses... Allegra |
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