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I've got A Rose Garden
Five years into learning about roses, it is finally
here. It's a rose garden! Even though I've neglected weeding, pruned in a dash, and have not fed them at all. (I have sprayed every ten days with Orthenex.) My Raleigh NC yards are seeing the benefits of hanging in there with roses, even though most are the hybrid teas and floribundas folks say are fussiest. The Stars: Own-root Jude the Obscure, a gorgeous upright rounded shape, has some fifty blooms and buds. Don Juan has hundreds, the benefit of light pruning for four years. Sombrueil took off and overcame DJ, although it is a year younger. It has hundreds of bloom, is 12 feet up in the holly. Young own-root Austins Pat Austin (my GOD those coppery-orange blooms!!) Golden Celebration, Abraham Darby, Molineux, Radio Times with its raspberry scent, all so lovely, growing like climbers in their second year. Major surprise of the season: a Tiffany bag rose planted two years ago has taken off. This rose has the perfect petal substance--thick but not too, lots of petals, that fine high-centered ht shape. If you leave it on the bush it opens fuller and prettier. |
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