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Roses ~ In the Pink
I expect a mature height of 4 feet to 5 feet. It reblooms throughout the season and is very fragrant.(2001, Moore) is another creation of hybridizer Ralph Moore. So I am looking forward to clusters of these light pink, cupped, smaller blooms on a 2-foot...
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Orange You Lovely? Orange You Beautiful? A look at orange roses
Nearly as popular as it's namesake, it is a floribunda that will grow to almost 5' and be in almost perpetual bloom in ideal circumstances. They seemed kind of garish. These 3 photos are Jeanne's with her kind permission.I will close with the 'Disneyland...
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El Segundo
Rose Rustling: Rounding Up Old Roses
You can see in the photo below that one of those roses was a fairly typical pink cabbage rose, the other a more unusual dusky type.Somebody told her that the latter was called the coffee rose.Although its flowers are certainly dark, they are more maroon...
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El Segundo
The Yellow Rose of... Wheatfield
I looked around a lot for the best yellow floribunda., the ultimate rose resource book says, "This rose is one of the best deep yellow cluster-flowered roses."That was good enough for me.
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El Segundo
Purple Roses Majesty
It has a strong clove fragrance, an upright growth habit and blooms will repeat throughout the season. Go for it!Ebb Tide, Fragrant Plum, Lavender Simplicity, Night Owl, Purple Heart, Rhapsody in Blue, Royal Amethyst: Basye's Purple Rose, Wild Blue Yonder,...
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Harvesting and Using Rose Hips for Tea
If you do not have a dehydrator, place your material on a cookie sheet and turn your oven on as low as it will go. These irritating hairs are the source of the novelty itching powder, so should be removed.Many people wait until the hips are dry to sift...
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El Segundo
Skyscape Roses
Place the hole at least two feet from the tree trunk and make it large enough for the roots. The concept of planting a rose to climb a tree is to camoufloge a rather unspectacular specimen that perhaps is just too much trouble to take down and dispose...
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El Segundo
Love Across the Miles
My wife was receiving House and Garden magazine despite the fact she never ordered it. This rose in its very survival was the perfect representation of hope in a world where it is needed so desperately by so many.I went on to read about the efforts of...
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El Segundo
Minnie and the Rose Cuttings
Minnie has been of great help since she came to us and she has been trying to teach me new ways of planting rose cuttings, totally different from what I knew. It's always fun to plant rose cuttings under cut plastic bottles and even funnier to watch them...
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El Segundo
Ralph Moore ~ Father of the Modern Miniature Rose
The property itself has been sold and the proceeds used to endow the Ralph Moore Chair at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis.'Hope and Joy', a companion to 'Love and Peace', the rose in the opening...
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
If your space is very limited you might want to consider miniatures and minifloras.I almost always think in terms of color. With the smaller orders of just a few plants, I did the planting myself.1) After the first rose bushes were planted in May 2) All...
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El Segundo
Natural Security
Are your neighbors getting a little to close to your fence?? When someone gets too close to this particular beauty, moving against it, it will dig into the skin. Or, if one prefers a rose that can both climb and easily be trimmed into a lovely hedge,...
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El Segundo
All-America Rose Selections for 2008
All-America Rose Selections is a designation given to roses that have passed a very rigorous evaluation.These evaluations are conducted at 20 AARS trial gardens throughout the country.
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A rose garden in Baleyssagues
Gardens are of course attractive to most plants lovers but roses gardens have a special hint as those flowers stand high among floral kingdom and bear deep symbolism for humans. Large stone slabs and wooden benches, garden chairs and trunk slumps are...
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El Segundo
A Gift from the Heart, Across the Miles
I had to laugh, because there were more miles of tape across the top of the pot, and yes, it had kept every grain of soil right where it was supposed to be, around the rose.I took it out to my deck, the rain was pouring down and it was not a good day...
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El Segundo
Dish Flower Patterns: Part I
Floral patterns have been used to decorate just about everything and appear almost everywhere.They have been used so extensively, that we take them for granted even though we pass them by everyday.
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Growing Rugosa Roses
Even with organic liquid fertilizers, rugosas can be sensitive to a sudden dose of nitrogen, especially when applied to dry soil. Hips may be used whole or slightly broken. This tolerance is great for those who want to place a hedge of roses next to a...
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El Segundo
Quest for the Black Rose
There seems to be some controversy or sour grapes; you can sort it out if you wish. The others are pictured below; 'Barkarole', aka 'Taboo', and 'Baccara'. The question is always out there.
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El Segundo
Sean McCann: A Rosarian
When I checked into the conference, I discovered that Sean would only be speaking at a luncheon. It was an event the "big wigs" were attending and it cost $35. When I learned that Sean McCann was going to be at the 2003 American Rose Society conference,...
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Helen Hayes: the woman and the rose
She did television and movies as well.Helen Hayes died in Nyack, New York at the age of 92 on March 17, 1993. Afterward she remained active as a spokesperson for Meals on Wheels as well as presiding over the annual Helen Hayes Awards.
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My Favorite Climbing Rose, \
We've planted them in much shadier locations in our parents' yards, and their reports agree with what other DGers have said: 'Zephirine Drouhin' really does bloom in the shade! I don't know of any other rose that blooms this well with so little sun.To...
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My Rose Article
I knew there were a lot of pink roses, some red roses with monstrous thorns, some roses that started out peachy before they matured to a creamy white, some that started out the color of butter and ended up the color of cream, some that were striped, some...
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Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: The Alba Rose
Albas only bloom once in mid to late spring, but the show and fragrance is well worth giving it a space in your garden.Here in west Kentucky, my alba is over 10 feet tall (3.048m) and just as wide.
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Mini Rose Rescue
They were on sale at my local box store and I could not resist buying a handful. This guarantees that the water goes where I want it instead of running off. Imagine a mini rose garden of your very own, full of tiny wonders, for less than the cost of one...
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Stashing and Sorting Your Seeds
It's also a good time to get out there and gather some seeds! Having learned my lesson about that long ago, I use a list and a couple accordion files to keep track of my seeds.Accordion files are the types that look like small suitcases and have a different...
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How to Make a Pecan Picker
Thread one wire through the right side of the pole and out the left, while you thread the other wire through the left side of the pole and out the right.Pull the wires tightly and wrap them toward the front of the pole.
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Growing Roses from A-Z (Part III)
Most of these elements are already available in the air and the soil and don't need to be added by us.There are 3 macro nutrients that most of us are familiar with and play the most important part in a plant's health.These 3 elements are usually the main...
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