My California Rose Garden 2024
BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
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Comments (8)I live in Southern California. Huntington Gardens/Library in San Marino has extensive rose gardens, both modern and antique varieties. Descanso Gardens in La Cañada has their wonderful Rosarium with all kinds of roses (I was there Sunday taking pictures :-) Rose Hills in Whittier is a cemetery with a lovely garden of modern roses. Exposition Park rose garden in Los Angeles has a big garden of modern roses next to the Natural History museum. All of the above have labels for the roses....See MoreMy California cottage garden
Comments (36)Jen, just want to mention it if you don't know yet. "Foxgloves are beautiful, old-fashioned garden flowers, but their dangerous toxins can stop the heart. Foxgloves have been reported to kill livestock, pets, and humans. Children have even been poisoned by drinking the vase water from flower arrangements containing foxgloves. The tall spikes of colorful, tubular blooms are very attractive, so don’t grow them with young ones around. Only well-advised adults should handle the plants or pick their flowers." Make sure your kids won't touch it. https://fafard.com/12-poisonous-garden-plants-to-avoid-for-kids-and-pets/#:~:text=Foxgloves%20are%20beautiful%2C%20old%2Dfashioned,toxins%20can%20stop%20the%20heart.&text=Children%20have%20even%20been%20poisoned,them%20with%20young%20ones%20around....See More2022-2024 MY FAVORITE OLD GARDEN ROSES
Comments (403)SoCalGardenNut, Beautiful La Reine! Yay, 5 blooms! She has tge most girgeous blooms & fragrance! Don’t forget to smell her fab fragrance! That’s so exciting that you have a Mme Isaac Pereire! I draw designs of whete ai wish to plant my rosrs so I can look at the design and know which rose is planted thete when I first plant. I keep plastic labels on them, too, if they have them. Eventually I memorize them. Your La Reine doubds very promusibg with 5 blooms! She has really beautiful blooms! I live La Reine & Isaac Pereire! Berry, A 4ft La Reine is wonderful! I am really thinking Zi want to move mine out of it’s pot! Next spring! My La Reine had about 15 blooms first flush. However a ”larger La Reine” will probably have twice as many blooms!...See MoreMy GA Garden Spring 2024
Comments (18)Thank you all so much. It wouldn't have been possible without the support of this amazing community here. It's certainly progress from the time I started out in Spring 2018, looking at an old KO rose left over from the previous owner. Not sure what she thought planting it so close to the tree but it was blah, if not desolate outside at that time. Since then we renovated the front yard, I lined up this front bed along the driveway with Coral Drifts (coming in now), three more roses to the right, and other plants, the rest on the back deck. All in all, it's finally pretty chirpy around here :) Aaaaand I have three more roses on the way. I keep telling myself I must get rid of one to get another, just to keep the number under control, but I can't decide to get rid of any of them because they are all so beautiful and none of them does particularly bad. I snatched out a couple of them last Fall when I suspected RRD and a Drift this Spring for the same reason. The container roses on the deck are doing the best and since this place is quite generous, it could accommodate a few more :) ...Sadly, my time is not (generous). Either way, I am in love with all these beauties and they seem to get better every year. My latest love is Beverly. I bashed her on her first year even knowing she did not get a chance to show what she can do. The few summer blooms were washed out and opened too much, too fast, but now in its second year she is spectacular. When I pas her by, there's a waft of amazing fragrance and she sits so ... HT-proud and upright, in a shrubby form with floribunda-level bloom. I heard people being disappointed in her and I can't fathom why. Either way, one can't be rid of any of these gorgeous things, demanding as they may be....See Morerosecanadian
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