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wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 06, 2006 8:27 pm

HA! I do have one Rose that made it! Under a ton of weeds, and what not! I thought it was a goner, so didn't even weed that area. Just love this deep coral color!

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Jun 07, 2006 1:40 pm

That's a really beautiful one and no surprise that it came back. I had a gigantic Climbing America on my front porch pillar at my old house and really miss it. I bought it on sale because it had sat, neglected, root-bound in a pot in stagnant soil in the back room of a nursery greenhouse for 4 years. I took it home and planted it in crummy red clay soil against the foundation of the house where it thrived with those wild-colored blooms.
Bottom line, you'll have trouble killing this one!

Cap'n Tim

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » Jun 07, 2006 2:11 pm

That one is luscious! It looks positively juicy! And what a great rose to grow - keeps coming and coming and coming with those gorgeous blooms!

Alexa

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 07, 2006 5:05 pm

Thanks Alexa & Cap'n Tim. I do love this one (of course it's the only one apparently to live in my sandy soil!

This was after a rain all night and day!

Nathalie23 · Post by **Nathalie23** » Jun 07, 2006 9:36 pm

Wow! The second picture is awesome!

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 07, 2006 9:39 pm

Thanks. You know, I've had this one about 4-5 years and have NEVER seen a bad bud or rose on it yet. ANd believe me, I don't give special attention to roses, b/c they normally don't like me!

This one has earned that 'special' attention after this! I'll be weeding and fertilizing just as soon as it dries up out there!

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Jun 07, 2006 11:30 pm

Try a Belinda's Dream rose. It's almost a 100% trouble free rose, and one of the strongest scents in the garden! I'm continually amazed with its flawless performance in really cruddy conditions.
Love that second pic too. It's almost coffee table book quality!

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » Jun 07, 2006 11:47 pm

Beautiful Jane!!

Hi there Tim!!

I have read on the BD, I will have to try one......

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 08, 2006 12:33 am

Thanks dears!

I'll have to try BD if I ever see one.

Almost huh?

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Jun 08, 2006 9:43 am

Hey Lucy!

The BD is a little delicate until it roots in, but once established it's like a bloody weed it's so hardy. I had 4 of them at my old house in conditions that are like Chernobyl to plants (dry, baked, red clay, super strong hot winds, long drought periods in summer, floods in the spring, a see-saw of temps from 40 below zero to 95 in the shade during the winter....) And the established BDs never got blackspot, never got mildew, never lost leaves so they were always full and bushy, and were usually covered with strongly perfumed, vase shaped, very double clear pink flowers.
If I was a master gardener or rosarian you could take what I say with a grain of salt, but I'm just joe-schmo-bachelor who has killed 100+ roses in his day. My challenge is having beds with kill-free plants that take care of themselves.

P.S.: Find them grown on their own roots if you can.

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » Jun 08, 2006 10:27 am

Love the * joe-schmo-bachelor*

Well anything around here is usually good old Jackson Perkins....So I will have to look into them for next spring....Does Pickering or Edmonds carry it that you know of? I should look into there sites....I know I have an Edmond's catalog here somewhere....I haven't ordered from them ion a few years, but what I have got from them did okay, if I remember right.....But they are not own root.....

Suggestions where to get on own root?

Thanks Tim!

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 08, 2006 10:45 am

Here's two places I saw quickly when doing a search LG

http://www.sw-greenhouse.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?
and http://www.regannursery.com/roses/detai ... 40A257AF90

vintagedude · Post by **vintagedude** » Jun 08, 2006 12:01 pm

My favorite nursery in OKC carries them. I'll call and find out what their scource is.

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » Jun 08, 2006 1:09 pm

Thanks Jane!!

Thanks Tim!! See if they are still able to ship now.......If that is okay......Thank-You!!

~dirtbug~ · Post by **~dirtbug~** » Jun 09, 2006 8:30 am

wow

what a colour!!!

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 09, 2006 8:35 am

Thanks Dirtbug. It's even prettier of course in person. I've looked around the net and realized now why I planted in the back of that garden and forgot it! It's a reblooming climber! Geepers, must be getting senile! No wonder it was hidden back there!

Anyway. The pictures online that I've seen do NO justice for the deepness and hues of this beauty! It's just a pure color. Then again, I saw the petals open on it yesterday further and there's a white line on the inside of the outer petals. INteresting.

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 09, 2006 8:43 am

Here were yesterday's pics

INteresting the way they change daily! And last so long

Please don't mind my photography, I'm not one to carry a tripod with me in the yard unless it's birds and the action they produce!

caliloo · Post by **caliloo** » Jun 09, 2006 9:03 am

Yep - those photos are awesome! What a beauty!

Alexa

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Jun 09, 2006 9:59 am

Beautiful pics, Jane. I can almost smell the fragrance on that second one.
Linda P

wishiwere · Post by **wishiwere** » Jun 09, 2006 10:29 am

Thanks ladies. The fragrance isn't 'all consuming' as in some roses, but pleasantly hmmmmmmmm sweet fruit maybe? I'm NOT a rose conniseur <sp?>