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`Blue Girl' Rose...advice before planting
Wal-Mart roses are notoriously awful in many respects and turn off more people from growing roses than make them happy with their successes. And when they're marked down to $2 and they're so sorry looking, yet with great canes, I can't help it. That said: In early spring, some Walmarts (SuperCenters especially) will get one shipment of tree roses. I forget the brand, (it's forgettable). They had two sizes, a three and a four foot tree rose, I believe, for $11.97 and $14.97. I bought six, and lost only one. We'll see how they survive the winter. I have put that foam pipe insulation over the trunks, and piled up the mulch. Two are planted in the garden and the other three are in large featherweight foam planters. Am I ever glad I did that, rather than the hugely heavy stone or concrete ones! My only peeve, other than the poor pruning they had recieved for shipment, was that one of the roses labeled as Angel Face was not...I'd say it's a Chrysler Imperial, as it is identical to the other one that I bought as labeled such. I wouldn't mind so much, but they were both planted to flank my archway, and mauvey-purple just looks bad next to the "matching" red-red of Chrysler Imperial. Add the red blooms of Blaze on the arch, and the Tropicana(?) and Miss All American Beauty at the base...and my carefully planned color scheme is a cacaphony of color. The tree roses were supposed to match! And surprise, they didn't. Oh well. Scopata Fuori |
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`Blue Girl' Rose...advice before planting
I got two dozen Sterling Silver roses from Home Depot on sale for $2.87 each.
Planted them a couple of weeks ago and all but one are surviving and are doing well. I thought it was a good buy. I sure hope so. So far, so good. I mixed the soil with "Bumper Crop" which contains bat quano, chicken manure, and compost. I also added a cup of earthworm casting mixed with the soil. HTH /z. |
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`Blue Girl' Rose...advice before planting
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:31:43 -0500, "Scopata Fuori"
wrote: And when they're marked down to $2 and they're so sorry looking, yet with great canes, I can't help it. One thing you have to watch out for is that the 'bagged bare root' roses that you buy cheaply at Wal-Mart are almost 100 percent infected with Rose Mosaic Virus. A lot of the generic Texas rose growers just don't care about you and flood the market with these defective plants. Now RMV won't kill the plants, but it does hurt them in the vigor department and can sometimes cause the bush to look quite bad. Bob Bauer Zone 6 in Salt Lake City |
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