Roses that should be grown more/hard to get ahold of
Dillybeansown (6b in the Ozarks)
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Comments (14)I agree with hoovb wholeheartedly. Beyond all the other aspects of good plant care - good soil, good feeding practices, enough water, lots of sunlight - the single most important rose care chore is pruning. You won't get a larger rose bush by not pruning it - if the rose variety you have is not destined to be a large rose bush. You have to prune. The rose's root system will only support so much top growth. So long as you leave the plant unpruned, it's going to be reluctant to throw out new shoots, because it is already carrying enough top growth. Once you reduce the amount of vegetative growth by pruning, the rose will get the message "Hey! It's time to get more stems and foliage up there - it's looking a bit sparse." I would add one more "dee" to Hoovb's 3 D's though - my 4 "dees" are Damaged, Diseased, Dead or Done. I.e., remove those several year old canes that are no longer productive of flowers....See MoreOctober Rose...Should i get rid of Powdery Mildew before i plant?
Comments (16)Thank you everyone! After taking it all in I'm thinkin' that firstly, I have to/will treat the PM then the best course of action (and easiest) is to dismantle part of my current garden and get this baby planted. Kate, IÂve heard that planting the pot is a good solution but ya know it will take me about the same amount and effort to dig a hole big enough (and i mean big!) to put the pot in the ground and transplanting in the spring seems kinda iffy. Soo i'm just going to plant her in her permanent home...with all the bells and whistles (compost and planting soil and all the amendments and good stuff in heavy bags that I thought I was done with for the season). IÂll prep her for the winter, unbound her undoubtedly pot bound roots, prune her in late winter and treat her PM all the while. Sooo that's the plan:) Any more thoughts are always appreciated! Thanks so much again and Take Care! Dale...See MoreAnyone else have a hard time getting rid of unwanted roses?
Comments (23)There were roses everywhere when we bought this house, and we have been removing them one by one and giving them to friends. One friend lives on a street called Rose Circle, or something like that, and she has been good about taking the unwanted roses off our hands. I have been replacing the roses with drought tolerant plants, such as succulents and cacti, which I much prefer. Still, some roses still come back from roots that we were unable to remove, and so it is an ongoing process to get rid of them. We have kept one rose bush in the front yard that makes white flowers, and it seems to bloom all year, which is why we kept it. Also, the white flowers go better with our color schemes than the pink ones. We are trying to get rid of the pink that we inherited with the house. The first thing to go was an ornamental peach tree that attracted possums. We have replaced that with banana and heliconia - not drought tolerant plants, but they work with our existing watering system. I have a hard time throwing out orchid cuttings, but we have too many epidendrum in the back yard and no place to put all of them. I also have a bit of a hard time throwing out bromeliad cuttings, but I have no trouble at all throwing out roses, as the thorns are quite nasty. Some of the bromeliads are nasty also, and so I do not feel bad about throwing those out. If it pricks you, do not feel bad about throwing it out is my philosophy. It's nice when you can find homes for unwanted plants, but it is not nice to keep something that is getting in your way....See MoreWater grown Sans.-- Hard to believe
Comments (2)A variegated Sans can only be propagated by dividing; you cannot start them from a leaf since the resulting plants will not be variegated. It has something to do with a sansevieria being a chimera and the layers of variegation in chimera plants. Due to the layers of variegation, the leaf tissue the plant starts from, from a leaf, is not variegated so the plants are not variegated either. If you search for sansevieria, chimera and propagation you should get a much better and more detailed explanation....See MoreUser
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