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Your best and worst rose?
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:25:33 GMT, "Theo Asir"
wrote: A caveat though - here, it gets blackspot at the mere mention of the word. Hmm! mine has stayed clean even as Abe Darby next door has suffered repeated BS attacks. Maybe its time to kick up the BS protection up a notch. Belami. Here's a pictu http://www3.pbase.com/image/19804079 I know that I'm pretty new to this rose thing and all, and that this might not be the kind of extraordinary performance that some of you might be used to, but frankly, I haven't had *any* HT that has come close to thowing the kind of blooms that this one has in its first season. There are 29 partially opened to fully opened blooms on the three bushes and another 7 buds yet to open. There are probably 3 blooms that are ready to be trimmed because they are over-the-hill. That's almost 40 buds and/or blooms on the 3 plants at the same time. It does look amazingly healthy. Is it naturally resistant to disease or is much chemical warefare going one? So far, there has been absolutely *no* spraying of any kind. But it's a young thing. I don't think that the nasty bacteria and fungi have realized that I have a new rose bed. Of course, this bed is pretty far from any other plants... I'm just amazed how well these plants have done. I hope that they continue to do that well... When this thing grows into the 5- 7 ft. bush that I expect that it will, I think that I'll have hundreds of blooms for my vases... To give you some perspective, these three plants were bare root plants sitting in a box on my porch on Memorial Day of this year. They get full sun all day and they are growing in my amazing native soil. Still... Here's what they looked like on 6.02.03: http://www.pbase.com/image/19804228 My worst performing rose? This unknown white thing. Boring, boring, boring. If only it were the Europeana that it was billed to be. http://www3.pbase.com/image/19804805 Dave that looks amazingly link the rose Fabulous. It was a seedling of Iceberg that was supposed to be an improvement. It was nothing of the kind in my garden and soon found the garbage pile. Hmmm, I'll have to look that up... Well, I've looked that up and it could very well be that rose. What a dog! Maybe it will get better next year though. I'll transplant this sucker to a better, more "full sun" location later this fall and see it does. After all, I don't have any white roses. And i paid $3.99 for it at Krogers! |
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