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Post by donavan on Oct 10, 2022 19:00:03 GMT
Well it might if you're growing this. Nature's warning color! ย Not Nature's warning smell? ย Attractive to dead matter consuming insects and ? It's, 'colour'.
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Post by Mare on Oct 10, 2022 19:08:03 GMT
Nature's warning color! Not Nature's warning smell? Attractive to dead matter consuming insects and ? It's, 'colour'. Yeah, and you go to the theatre to see it. It looks like a dangerous toilet to me.
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Post by Mare on Oct 10, 2022 19:38:07 GMT
I didn't know chrysanthemums could get that tall. That's interesting about the leaves. I was at an eyeglasses place and saw in the planters outside petunias some with leaf types I don't know what they are maybe they're not petunias but some were. it was a mixed flower vase(really big actually). It is starting to be fall foliage season here. Correction, Bluey-I said leaves but what I should have said is petals. The leaves did their regular unfurling, but the petals were more obvious about the process since they were much longer. The petals appeared as tubular but were really uncurling as they had more space. My Grandpa had green thumbs, my mom had what I called green hands. Maybe other people pinched off the buds when their mums were shorter, making the plants bush out. My mom used Fish Emulsion to nourish her plants. (Talk about a bad smell!) It is possible that the growing conditions in our planting zone were optimal. Could have been very hearty varieties that my mom used. My dad was under six feet tall...maybe 5'9"...I would say that with the amended soil he put out, the level of the planter above the lawn would have been maybe 6-8." Grin. Yeah, pretty tall plants. I had similar success with rose bushes. Arid climate compared to my mom's yard. She couldn't believe how beautiful my rose garden was and wondered why her roses didn't look like mine. I did pay a lot of attention to that rose garden, which I named after my Grandfather and called it a memorial garden. I give a shout out to Vitamin B when planting and regular feeding with that Bayer rose food. You can't use it if you have pets that dig and kids that eat dirt. I certainly didn't have to dig up half of each rose bush and bend it over and bury it for winter, though. It doesn't snow here, the ground doesn't freeze so that would be unnecessary.
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Post by bluedemon25 on Oct 11, 2022 4:56:47 GMT
We have roses that the previous owners planted they're not doing too great. I'm wondering if it's because the garden doesn't get as much light as intended. Is that thing with digging up the roses really necessary I've never seen anyone do that but I've heard of it. What's the vitamin B thing? I'd like to make a small section if we get a tree down and thus more full sun area to plant for roses. But I don't know what to do with them to treat them well.
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Post by donavan on Oct 11, 2022 11:17:31 GMT
Just cut them right back and they'll come up champion next spring. ๐น ๐ฅ ๐น
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Post by Mare on Oct 12, 2022 4:23:04 GMT
We have roses that the previous owners planted they're not doing too great. I'm wondering if it's because the garden doesn't get as much light as intended. Is that thing with digging up the roses really necessary I've never seen anyone do that but I've heard of it. What's the vitamin B thing? I'd like to make a small section if we get a tree down and thus more full sun area to plant for roses. But I don't know what to do with them to treat them well. Bluey, this Better Homes and Gardens article may help you... The Best Ways to Protect Your Roses from Wintry Weather
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Post by Mare on Oct 12, 2022 4:43:08 GMT
For me, Wintering the Roses was pretty simple. I always deadheaded the rose bushes throughout the year...until Fall, when I'd let them turn to rose hips. That's a sign to the plant time to be dormant has arrived. I'd cut the canes down to 7-12 inches and strip all the leaves from them. Also, I would cut off all the little short stubby twigs and random branches from the 3 or 5 main canes. You know, tidy it up. I'd also rake up (with my special small leaf rake for getting up close to and between the canes) all the debris and icky and possibly diseased (rust, powdery mildew, black spot) dropped leaves-every bit I could and I bagged it up for the trash. I can't remember if I gave the soil some nutrition to revive it, but when I knew it was going to rain, I'd put it out and gently cultivate it in to let it have a good soak. Vitamin B was for transplanting. You mix it up per directions on the bottle...I'd just pour a little bit in the bottom of a bucket, start filling it up with the hose and then use a measuring cut to add it to the hole I dug to put the plant from whatever container I bought it in. With bare root roses, you make a mound of planting soil in the center of the hole, spread the roots out over the mound and then add soil over the roots. Make sure you don't put any Vitamin B water on the leaves of the plants. It is too strong and will kill the plant. Once you fill in the hole and make a reservoir around the plant, water in the Vitamin B by filling up the little reservoir you have made a couple times with water from the hose and letting it soak in. I wish I had photographs of my own garden to share with you, bluedemon25, but I don't. I would be happy to see if I can answer any questions you might have, though!
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Post by bluedemon25 on Oct 12, 2022 13:29:04 GMT
Thank you That goes a long way towards giving me good advice on what to do. I think unfortunately suboptimal placement with little full sun is not helping these guys that are in my front garden. Nonetheless I'm trying to do it I can with them. We may have a tree cut down as much as I hate doing that due to making the driveway a real problem which would potentially open up full sun area to plant and I may try to include in that area roses in the future.
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Post by Mare on Oct 14, 2022 0:12:16 GMT
Yeah, full sun is preferable for roses. I saw a rose garden at a California Mission that had the roses planted in a circle...may have mentioned this about skatey eight times online. It inspired me to do the same, as my rose bushes liked to have air flow around them as well as sun. They thrived!
I bought some of my roses at Weeks Roses, when there was a big nursery near my home. (Always put the little metal name tag above ground when you plant it, for future reference. The people who lived in my former home had done that and I was grateful. Patents expire after 17 years or something like that. Weeks released a new rose each year, but they had past roses available on the nursery lot. I don't know if they are still in the business of selling patented roses by mail/online, but you might look. I can tell you the names of the ones I got from them and how close the descriptions resembled what my own garden/gardening produced.)
I planted them far enough apart that they had space all the way around with room to grow. They also like to be watered at the base-drip watering system did the basic watering, but I enjoyed going out to fill the reservoirs around each plant and hosing the dust off the leaves in the later afternoon. You can't do it early unless the leaves will be dry by the time the sun is on them. I did it late in the afternoon to discourage powdery mildew during the night. The breezes and warm temps dried them off before dark in the Summer. Spring rain hosed them off and the sun isn't so bright or hot that time of year.
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Post by bluedemon25 on Jan 18, 2023 7:29:58 GMT
Got a tree cut down to do some eventual driveway work. I'm hoping it may allow a little bit of the land to be a full sun zone.
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Post by bluedemon25 on Feb 23, 2023 8:06:00 GMT
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