Revolting in the Rose Garden!
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» bindweed - Now I know I'm set in my ways.
Read it, (the new method of rose pruning) and am not sold. My secateurs will remain well sharpened. Pruning to an outward facing bud -- the old fashioned way, also opens the bush up to more air and light.I do not see how this deer browsing approach would help the scab and mildew problems of these plants. Worse yet think of all the gardeners it would eliminate! Probably thought up by those Tories! Also similar to the new method of planting and harvesting cidar apples. Four foot spacing or less, and simply mowing them down with a machine to harvest the apples. GHASTLY!
Speaking of thorns -- does anyone else grow Rosa sericea pteracantha? Next to a Monkey tree in thorniness. Dug and moved a six footer yesterday. That was FUN!
Gay -- so sorry for the awful weather you have had. Most people cannot imagine the pain of the farmer who has to put down his farm animals -- or watch their crops blow away. Unfortunately, our own Midwest is looking at a similar long range forecast.
Herbert Senft
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» Eno - herb
Hey Herb - I guess a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
just funnin' with ya. In the meantime...I think Gay, and I know I, am gonna try and see what happens... Hey I found the thorny rosa you for ya here 'tis: http://www.j.mann.taylor.clara.net/plant...
those are some mighty pretty thorns...
K
-- posted by Eno
» bindweed - Romance and the Rose
Eno,Just imagine "hubby' bringing home a dozen of those. GREAT picture of the plant. Mature thorns can be an inch long. Of course it is one of the plants I dragged along from my old nursery.
She is in the back garden swaying to the tunes of Masochism Tango, by Tom Lereher.
P.S. my last post elsewhere on Internet viruses got deleted :-( Folks be careful: "resume" and "You Got Mail" in the subject lines can be real ugly!
Herb
-- posted by bindweed
» Gay_Klok - Thanks for discussions
Herb, Yes I do grow Rosa sericea pteracantha and have a photo somewhere amongst my lot but not as good as the link photo. The rose always invites attention on Open day and do you think I can tell them the name? I might get the sericea out but as for the whole name!I quite like the flowers too, almost like a briar rose but larger and fuller with yellow stamens. But if you don't cut the old canes down, the thorns are not so big and remain brown
-- posted by Gay_Klok
» Gay_Klok - deadheading
The deadheading of Rhododendrons is an old discussion. Some do it and some don't. I always do it with a young bush, I'd rather the teenager's energy went into strong growth and making flowers. Now many of our several hundreds of Rhododendrons are very large bushes and so it is no longer open for choice. There are a few Rhodos that will flower themselves to death if the seeds are not removed. So the choice for me now is to start pruning the large ones - a thing I didn't dare do in the beginning of my gardening career! First I learnt [very hard lesson] that it does pay to trim a new Rhododendron in its pre teen years to make it grow less spindly. This depends on type, of course-- posted by Gay_Klok
» Cottage_Garden - picky picky here
Gay, dumb question, but which ones are the "large flowered cultivars"? Those are the roses it seemed to work on apparently, after they had been slashed for pruning. I am beginning to think this is hybrid teas and not normal roses?-- posted by Cottage_Garden
» Gay_Klok - Multi-clusters
Apparently the research was inconclusive on multi- flower head roses. That is why they are enlarging the research to take in all the floribundas.There was a Cecil Brunner rose in the country garden when we bought the property. Several years down the track, I moved the whole bush and certainly slashed it knee high. The following season it bloomed its head off. I have seen baby roses cut to the ground responding in the same way.
But, please don't sue me! I will stand by the statement that I have never seen a rose bush killed by "bad" pruning! Even those whose new growth is constantly chewed by possums and peafowl, manage to give some sort of display.
-- posted by Gay_Klok
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