2023 rose & health & garden & what we treasure
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Forgotten Cemetery Treasures.....Roses we've saved
Comments (38)Reality Check Time There are areas of the country where roses did not tend to be planted in cemetaries. Iris, yes, peonies, yes, daffodils, yes, arborvitae in vast quantities, but not roses. In one week in Arizona, not even particularly looking for either cemetaries or roses, we saw more cemetary roses than I've ever seen in this part of the country. The closest anybody seems to be to an explanation is that roses in cemetaries are connected to a Catholic cultural heritage, which doesn't really arrive in the northeast until the late 19th, early 20th century. My mother's family cemetary plot in western Pennsylvania looks like something from an Edward Gorey drawing (as did my grandparent's house) Which brings up something else to keep in mind. The major enemy of neglected roses in the eastern part of the country isn't drought but trees. Many older cemetaries here are heavily shaded. In the really old cemetaries - the 17th century ones - it's not uncommon to have 200 year old trees growing in the middle of the headstones. So you have the conumdrum that roses can only exist around people, but people can decide to get rid of them....See More12/15/15: Wise quotes, roses or what gave you health & happiness?
Comments (49)Sam: Agree with you that biochar is low-level oxygen and slow-burning. Here's an excerpt from below link: "Without sophisticated kilns and ovens to produce modern biochar, this ancient material was likely made by setting alight a pile of organic material before covering it with dirt to eliminate oxygen but hold in the heat from the fire which, in turn, baked the organic matter. http://www.azocleantech.com/article.aspx?ArticleId=183 The above link is worth clicking, it shows vigorous plants grown with biochar, versus without. The reason why biochar is better than wood-ash? It's like cooking food with a slow-cooker (crock-pot), versus burning food on a hot fire. Slow-cooking retains more nutrients, versus LESS nutrients with fast burning & lots of oxygen. When my neighbor burned wood in a open-fire-pit, the heat was so intense that it converted our heavy-black-clay into reddish clay. Nutrients in foods are destroyed at high temp, same with wood-ash: less nutrients than biochar....See MoreMy 2023 Rose Garden
Comments (9)Tammy (Southern Ont) Zone 4/5 USDA I admire your dog in all of your old pics (posted years ago), and also your Perfume de Paris .. I bought that from LongAgoRoses as own-root and love its honeysuckle scent. It got down to 16 degree this past few nights 11/30/23. Roses against the house still have green leaves, but roses in the open air has withering leaves from the cold. Moses gave a the great tip of folding down old yard waste bag into "collars" to put around roses. That work better that buckets (bottom cut off). After putting "collars" around my roses, I pile up leaves inside. We have DRY and EXTREMELY cold winter at -20 F below zero windchill factor last winter 2022, I lost a bunch of roses, including the gallon-size own-roots INSIDE my unheated garage & covered with a thermal blanket. This fall I ordered own-root Austin roses from Garden Roses LLC in PA: The Generous Gardener (hardy to zone 4), The Prince (survived several winter for Kelly in zone 4), Thomas A Becket (it's a large bush, so it should be hardy), Betty White (survived six of my zone 5 winter), Bathsheba and Jubilee Celebration (has a wimpy reputation as own-root). What are the 5 roses that you lost without winter protection? I lost too many roses in my zone 5 winter that I need to avoid the "tender" ones that die to the crown. Thank you....See Morepictures from my 2023 rose garden
Comments (86)Thank you, Dianela about the White Wedding recommendation. Rosylady, what is wrong with arborvitae? I planted about nine of them to replace Leylands. I see them quite often around here and most look good and are not too big. There are some tall ones at our recreation center walk trail and they look a bit ratty in full sun and I think sometimes they have needed water. My parents had a yew hedge in the deep south. It grew fine. It is poisonous though but just don't eat it. I will look up needlepoint holly. I have a bunch of boxwoods here that were given to me as a transplant when we bought our house about 36 years ago. They are big boxwoods, round, but I don't know what kind they are. I like the dwarf ones that people sometimes edge their rose beds with....See Morejim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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