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Complimentary Roses
"Shiva" wrote: I'd like some ideas on roses that grow well together. Good colors, the right height together, etc. Oh. ComplEmentary. I thought you were giving them away for free. The standard shtick is blue clematis with anything-but-blue roses, but an all-rose solution seems better to me. Clematis need cool, shaded, well-mulched roots at least in my climate (8b, North Florida; today it's 25 F outside as I type and it doesn't strike me as a warm climate, by damn), and of course some sort of trellis; I've killed every clematis I've owned, even though they're supposed to be hardy through zone 9 and though I wasn't trying to kill them. Maybe the drainage wasn't good enough either. As for complementary roses...I'm useless here; I just responded because of the malaprop spelling. I mean, the usual color-contrast and size-contrast things...get a low grower like Cardinal Hume in front, then a contrasting medium-grower in the middle (say a pink vs. the Cardinal's ruddy-purple-whatever, or one of the quieter Floribundas like Iceberg), and a tall Austin in the back. Or some sprawler in front even more prostrate than the Cardinal... one of those tough Kordes things. Red, white, mauve; pink, pinker, pinkest; mauve, gold, mauve; light green, dark green, light green again leaves; rugose, smooth, rugose. Or...oh, you might not have room for that sort of triple-row setup. Sorry. I just plant roses any bloody way I like and hope and pray that they thrive and that the deer don't eat them. I am dumping mounds of composted yard waste every couple yards and planting a formerly-potted rose in the middle of each mound; this is to keep heavy rains that I sometimes get from drowning the rose's roots. The soil is none too fertile apart from a mess of phosphate, and I completely lack aesthetic appreciation, apart from appreciating the qualities of an individual plant. It helps that I have lots of room. Mark., just being an a**hole on a cold frosty morning |
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