Impulse buy - regrets already...?
diggerdee zone 6 CT
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Comments (15)Actually, hybrid teas are the most difficult roses to raise, especially if you don't want to add poisons to the environment. Some of the older roses like the Hybrid Musks are beautiful, big and bushy and don't need to be sprayed. You can look in on-line nurseries like Rogue Valley Roses, Texas Rose Emporium, Roses Unlimited and Vintage Roses to get an idea of what's available. Helpmefindroses has beautiful pictures of roses once you have a name. Gorgeous roses are Cornelia, Ballerina, Felicia, Penelope and many others. There are other categories that might do well for you too. Most people are not aware of the fabulous and tough old roses that are available on-line that you'll never see in nurseries and are easy-care and beautiful garden shrubs, not just sticks with flowers on top like hybrid teas. Also, they get bigger and more beautiful as they get older, and will live much longer and be more tolerant of anything that a hybrid tea ever would be....See MoreAnother impulse buy.
Comments (81)Once I made a deal with a neighbor like that. I dug up her whole garden. Mind it it was HUGE. But at the end, when I removed all the tulip bulbs I could find, she poured them into two separate, equal sized containers and gave one of them to me. Half of her all of her bulbs became mine... She wanted to get the bulbs from her property because they have started to disappear and not to flower anymore. When I dug up everything and moved everything around, even though I removed ALL the bulbs I could see, the lot was full of blooms following year. She also planted her bulbs in new areas on her property by just digging a trench and pouring the bulbs in there not caring. I, on the other hand, planted them all around the house in perfect lines one by one for tedious hours. I could not believe my eyes next year. There were varieties, colors, shapes that we have never seen before in her garden. I was so glad that I spent a week with digging in her garden. I was a kid... Kids do things adults wouldn't do anymore. I don't know if I'd go out and dig a garden 2 feet deep for bulbs for a week in the middle of Summer. :o) Hell, I am not even willing to walk the dog... I became so lazy that it hurts. :o) But I run downhill to the mail box when my bulbs arrive and drag it up with me. If it were an amaryllis lot full of bulbs, I would probably dig though. You only dig them when they start to withdraw, so it is the time around now. The weather is great. No scorching Sun, no burning heat. Then plant all my bulbs in front of the house. :o)...See MoreImpulse buy, need guidance
Comments (15)Well Karen, I'll probably be a nervous wreck trying to get this impulse repotted. I wonder if growers use lava gravel since the plants need to be on the dry side. This would be similar to orchids growing on wood chips in a pot w/lots of holes or as my antherium that has its roots spread over a large lava rock that sits in 1/4" of water. The rock absorbs the water and the roots take up just what they need. I'll just do everything really slowly and hope for the best. Plumeriastix, yes I'm up in VV, close to the 15 & Bear Valley Rd. I can't imagine 100+ plumeria. I think my DH would also start hyperventalating at the costs. He's about ready to throw up his hands over my plant buying in general. I have spent the last five years reading and studying landscaping and horticulture. That doesn't mean I can grow much of anything in this soil but I keep trying new things that I come across. That's also why I am going to do small investment areas (flowers) close to the house, then midway the yard will have clay loving plants w/low water needs and the very back will have native arid plants. I wish I understood five years ago that landscaping w/low water use plants was not the most important step, it's all about the clay soil. You must have all of your plants in pots, yes? Geez, 100+ plants in a year, that's amazing. I'd love to see your collection if you're giving tours. DH is a teacher at Adelanto SD, close to retirement. I'm a lazy stay at home, 55 yr old who just wants to play in the dirt, in the backyard with my two dalmatians. I will admit to one horrendous impulse buy of two HOTBISCUIS one gal plants at H&E. They were the most gorgeous hibiscuis you can imagine, one of the hybrids developed by Armstrong Gardens. I paid $25.00 a piece and they both died. I haven't seen this particular hyrid plant on the Armstrong list so wonder if that specific Hotbiscuis was not a good performer, thus H&E probably got a deal on the remaining stock. Did I feel stupid. I think I will work with Ms. Impulse to see if I can see success before making additional investments....See MoreWhat an IMPULSE buy!
Comments (29)Cate52--it is a good idea to check with the cemetary. With ours, You can bury ashes in a 'full' plot (DH and I plan to be cremated and buried with my parents) BUT you still have to have a concrete box thing for the ashes (it's smaller than the big ones used for coffins, of course) and the cemetary does the digging, etc. You can't just take a post-hole digger for a do-it-yourself burial. It's still a LOT cheaper than a regular funeral with a coffin and full-sized concrete liner. We often find something to giggle about at funerals. For one thing, there's a plot near ours that has the oddest thing. It looks like a concrete casket sitting at ground level. If you walk up to it, the top is glass! As kids we were sure we were going to walk up and see a dead person (Snow White?) but no--when you look down, there several concrete memorial placques--like they'd be the ends of coffins? Odd arrangement, though, I've never seen one anywhere else....See Morerifis (zone 6b-7a NJ)
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Diane Brakefield
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11 days agoDiane Brakefield
11 days agoThanks, Dee. I live in the desert hills outside Boise, Idaho, SW Idaho. We have a short, intense growing season, and things do grow big here. My mini rose, of whose name I have no idea, is very odd. In fact, I should call it the Frankenstein Rose. In spring, its blooms are regular sized, not mini. Then in our hot summers, the blooms shrink to typical mini size. When the cooler temps of fall arrive, the strange blooms enlarge back to a regular rose size. It's a continuous bloomer and needs no pruning. A kindergarten student gave it to my daughter, his teacher, and I've grown it for about 18 years. And thanks Dianela. I do nothing for this strange rose.
Spring 2023. This year we had way more rain than usual, so it's greener. But it turns brown fast.
Lavender loves it here. I don't do a thing to it, not even give it water.
I thought more background would show up behind Evelyn.
Sagebrush in October.
Rouge Royale grows out over the slope running down to the gully in back.
rifis (zone 6b-7a NJ)
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11 days agodiggerdee zone 6 CT
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ElfRosaPNW8b
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Nollie in Spain Zone9
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10 days agoNollie in Spain Zone9
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41 North (Zone 7a/b, NE, coastal)
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GardenHo_MI_Z5
9 days agolast modified: 9 days agoAre mini’s the same as tea roses? I’m just curious as I have quite a few tea roses now after dividing some. The first year I bought them I decided to plant them in the ground late in the season just to see if they would come back, and to my surprise…they did! 😊 They are the prettiest little things and can’t help wonder how big they will get…does anyone know?
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