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Post by bubbles on May 8, 2015 22:09:33 GMT -5
D my peas are fattening up..I have to pull some kind of broccoli I planted because rough weather knocked them over. Il give to the chooks down the road. Oh the sweetpeas are peepin at me through the soil. Im excited about those. They fill a gap until the roses and other plants are purchased.
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Post by dmmichgood on May 9, 2015 1:33:18 GMT -5
D my peas are fattening up..I have to pull some kind of broccoli I planted because rough weather knocked them over. Il give to the chooks down the road. Oh the sweetpeas are peepin at me through the soil. Im excited about those. They fill a gap until the roses and other plants are purchased. My peas aren't up yet. I wanted to plant some beets but the rain overtook me & it was a real soaker, so don't know when I can get into the garden again.
Sweetpeas sound nice. Maybe I could plant them around my front light post.
I thought for sure I had finally lost my Peace rose this past winter but it is leafing out. It was a rose that I started from a slip. I could hardly believe my luck! It's has been there for decades.
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Post by bubbles on May 9, 2015 6:42:13 GMT -5
D my peas are fattening up..I have to pull some kind of broccoli I planted because rough weather knocked them over. Il give to the chooks down the road. Oh the sweetpeas are peepin at me through the soil. Im excited about those. They fill a gap until the roses and other plants are purchased. My peas aren't up yet. I wanted to plant some beets but the rain overtook me & it was a real soaker, so don't know when I can get into the garden again.
Sweetpeas sound nice. Maybe I could plant them around my front light post.
I thought for sure I had finally lost my Peace rose this past winter but it is leafing out. It was a rose that I started from a slip. I could hardly believe my luck! It's has been there for decades.Wow..I always had trouble with roses in nz. This house has lots of old roses. I think I have a peace rose in front. Its yellow with pinky red edges. Lovely fragrance. I love perfumed anything..the last owner left the roses and kept mulching. Soon ibwill be pruning queen..
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Post by dmmichgood on May 9, 2015 20:49:16 GMT -5
My peas aren't up yet. I wanted to plant some beets but the rain overtook me & it was a real soaker, so don't know when I can get into the garden again.
Sweetpeas sound nice. Maybe I could plant them around my front light post.
I thought for sure I had finally lost my Peace rose this past winter but it is leafing out. It was a rose that I started from a slip. I could hardly believe my luck! It's has been there for decades. Wow..I always had trouble with roses in nz. This house has lots of old roses. I think I have a peace rose in front. Its yellow with pinky red edges. Lovely fragrance. I love perfumed anything..the last owner left the roses and kept mulching. Soon ibwill be pruning queen.. Sounds like it is a Peace rose.
Mine is one that I started from a slip. You probably know how to do this yourself. Just take a rose stem, cut off the top with the flower -then cut below three or so nodes, place in the ground so the ground covers at least the lower nodes, cover with a glass canning jar- (I leave an air space by putting three or four pieces of wooden dowel under the jar opening to keep it a bit off the ground, otherwise the sun shinning on it creates too much heat in the jar)
Now all this sounds so easy, you would think by now I would have a yard full of roses! Not so!
That is why I marvel at my luck with this particular rose!
It is close by my fireplace brick chimney. Perhaps it because it is a more protected area, maybe even warmer through the winter. I don't know why, but it is one out of at least fifty that I have tried and it is the only one that continues to survive. Maybe part of the reason is that the Peace rose is probably more hardy than some.
The history of the Peace rose is also tantalizing. "The Peace rose, correctly Rosa 'Madame A. Meilland', is a well-known and successful garden rose. By 1992, over one hundred million plants of this hybrid tea had been sold.
The cultivar has large flowers of a light yellow to cream color, slightly flushed at the petal edges with crimson-pink. It is hardy and vigorous and relatively resistant to disease, making it popular in gardens as well as in the floral trade.
It was developed by French horticulturist Francis Meilland in the years 1935 to 1939. When Meilland foresaw the German invasion of France, he sent cuttings to friends in Italy, Turkey, Germany, and the United States to protect the new rose.
It is said that it was sent to the US on the last plane available before the German invasion where it was safely propagated by the Conard Pyle Co. during the war.[1]"
from wiki
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Post by bubbles on May 9, 2015 22:10:35 GMT -5
Hey D thanks for the advice on cuttings. No I havent tried cuttings yet. Ive seen a gorgeous rose but its got loads of thorns. To climb over the arbour and picket fence called New Dawn. Do you know it?
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Post by dmmichgood on May 10, 2015 0:12:59 GMT -5
Hey D thanks for the advice on cuttings. No I havent tried cuttings yet. Ive seen a gorgeous rose but its got loads of thorns. To climb over the arbour and picket fence called New Dawn. Do you know it? It is supposed to help if you put a powder called Rootone on the ends of slips .No, I don't know that rose.
Looks very nice from pictures.
There are so many new names all the time.
I haven't bought any new roses for years. When we first married & moved here we bought two small bushes, one called "Jimney Cricket" & one called "Golden Slippers." Both died and I just never replaced them.
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Post by matisse on May 10, 2015 8:07:15 GMT -5
I am a fan of the Canadian Explorer Roses. I planted a William Baffin a number of years ago at the side of my house. With little help from me, it has covered a fence and reached across a walkway, and has exploded with blossoms every year during June/July. If I deadheaded, I think it would bloom semi-continuously. This rose is hardy without winter protection to zone 3, and with winter protection to zone 2b...it just laughs at our winters in zone 5b! The friend who recommended the Wm Baffin to me as a first-time rose grower also recommended New Dawn. Canadian Explorer Roses
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Post by bubbles on May 10, 2015 14:32:35 GMT -5
Thank you D.
That pink rose is gloriously vibrant hey. -35 degree sounds bitey cold.
Did I tell you Im going to plant garlic around the roses..lol thats a lot of garlic. Then I can plait them and hang em up.
Hey yesterday I was given for mothers day lime and basil macarons. They were tasty. Herb in a sweet.
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Post by emy on May 10, 2015 19:22:43 GMT -5
I am a fan of the Canadian Explorer Roses. I planted a William Baffin a number of years ago at the side of my house. With little help from me, it has covered a fence and reached across a walkway, and has exploded with blossoms every year during June/July. If I deadheaded, I think it would bloom semi-continuously. This rose is hardy without winter protection to zone 3, and with winter protection to zone 2b...it just laughs at our winters in zone 5b! The friend who recommended the Wm Baffin to me as a first-time rose grower also recommended New Dawn. Canadian Explorer RosesThe Explorer "Champlaine" looks a lot like what we have called Hansa roses -it's a lot like the prairie rose, only fuller and bigger and grows on a bush. (Our prairie roses don't grow that big, but I know they do some places.)
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Post by bubbles on May 28, 2015 14:14:58 GMT -5
Ive discovered that fresh picked cabbage is so tender to cut. Stays fresh longer than I thought. My peas are about to be plucked. Gene im going to try your recipe on my beets. Parsnips still not appearing... D my first potatoe flower is burst through.. Oh and miracle of miracles the sweetpeas shoots are 19..woohoo..
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Post by bubbles on Jul 5, 2015 18:07:00 GMT -5
A while back in autumn I planted potatoes as an experiment. One produced one flower. They all began to die off a couple weeks ago. Yesterday I dug around and guess what yep success..yehh..winter here.. nothing like fresh organic..
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