Roses are Here!

[Ann B.]

As usual, one of the first plants to arrive just after Chistmas are the bare root and potted roses.

Most are hybrids, and some of those are really hard to grow in my humid climate, but today I saw one that caught my eye! I have been looking for it for quite some time. I have something similar, but it's non-named and collected.

I sure hope this one is for real. It is grafted, but doesn't need to be and it is supposedly hardy up north.

It's called the 'Seven Sisters', and you bet, I bought one!

I sure hope it is one and the same because I have looked for one on the market for a very long time.

Can't wait to plant it in the gardens, watch it grow and bloom and take cuttings!

This was truly the highlight of my day, the last day in 2005!

FUN!

[Dazed_Lily]

Did you find it at..wally world ? I was there today and wanted to kick myself because I hadn’t checked on the name of the rose you mentioned. I was just now checking. But don’t recall seven sisters. Of course, it is mid-thirties and windy and I was the only doofus outside in the garden area. They have all the bareroot roses outside as well as all the bulbs,etc.

[Dazed_Lily]

Hmmm... it seems like buying bareroot roses right now(mid-Feb.)in colder climates isn't too wise. From today's garden column-note last sentence about parraffin dipped barerooted roses:

If you'd gone to the Wichita Rose Society meeting earlier this week, you would have gotten a cheat sheet from several local garden centers on what varieties of roses they'll be carrying this spring. You also would have found out, from guest speaker Rebecca DeRee of DeRee Nursery, when to shop for the best rose selection--April. And which color of Carpet Rose is a particular stinker--yellow--gets black spot.
You would have heard from other rose growers about the (advanced) state of their roses' growth, and how they're watering and mulching and hoping for the best as winter crashes down again. And how not to buy those bare-root roses already for sale at mass merchants that have been dipped in paraffin..

[Rebecca]

I swore off from buying the packaaged, bare-root, parrifin dipped roses from any of the "box" stores years ago. Then I went to work for WM and my resolve melted away. After buying, planting and carring for 'Peace' and 'Pascali' and then having them both die of their first winter in my garden, I swore off of roses altogether.

I'm sure the vow will again be broken, but at least it won't be at a WM store! LOL!

I do happen to have a cutting from a WM potted bloom & bud rose that I got last year before we parted ways. It was a pruned off stem the L&G associate gave me, along with quite a few others. This one made it and is green and growing under it's 1-gallon glass jar. Noow if it continues to live after the weather warms up and the jar is removed and I plant it out (somewhere)!

Miniatures a SO MUCH EASIER for me to grow! Most cuttings root and are blooming before the end of summer. I have a few that are listed for being "sliped" this year and I may add 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'Proud Land' to the list since they seem to be the only "regular" roses I can grow and I'd like to have a hybrid tea at the front door garden, again to give my old climber, 'Blaze' some company. 'Blaze' is in dire need of revitalization so I might even try to "slip" it too.

Wish the cultivars grew as well as the root stock roses I have . You can't kill those suckers!





Rebecca

[Ann B.]

Actually, I have had good luck getting them started from these bareroot packages. The problem that I have is with black spot on the hybrid teas because of our high humidity.

Also, I learned at Master Gardener training that it helps to sweeten the soil with lime because our soil tends to be extremely acidic. That made sense to me since the ones that I planted in areas that have more brick/sidewalk flourish whereas those planted in areas without tend to not do so well.

I have a huge Mr. Lincoln that is over 20 years old as well as a Tropicana that has done fantastic. Climbing Peace, located next to the well house did okay, but started to suffer after a popcorn tree took over the space.

If you happen to purchase one of these bare roots, you can keep it in filtered shade, and protected from cold until you can either pot it or plant it, but you must keep an eye out for wilting sprouts. If you see that, then give the package some water and that will help until you can get them planted.

They sprout almost immediately here, and I have two that will go into the gardens in a little more than a week. They are growing like crazy in the patio, but I am making sure that they do not show signs of stress. I will have to cut back the new growth when they are planted outside so that they will not get sun burned.

Someone remind me to take a picture before and after they are planted, okay?

[Ann B.]

Since I mentioned Tropicana, here is a pic....

[Dazed_Lily]

:o I, um, er, bought Iceberg from HD about a month ago. It's planted and seemingly happy. Stopped by WM yesterday and they have rows and rows of roses that they brought in way too early(Feb.) and kept outside. Some were down to a buck, but you know what, they were all dead as a door nail and even at a $1 weren't worth it. I think they really don't care about losing all that nursery stock cause it brings people in--even if it's February !
HD now has half prices on all roses but didn't see the one I want and anyway WHERE WOULD I PUT IT ?! The daylilies are in control !!! I'm also very happy to see that my transplanted Seveillana is sprouting leaves-I didn't kill it after all-just severely maimed it !
Oh, the rose I wanted was Mary Rose; I'll find it again some day(and maybe even have somewhere to put it!).

[vicki]

Well I too swore off buying any of the bareroot roses, but ya know at 2.97, just couldn't pass them up. I'm happy to say they are doing fine after being planted for the last 2 or so weeks. They have new growth and I made sure and amended the soil good, so hoping they make it.
I bought 'blaze' and a 'queen elizabeth'. I also bought 'Maria Stern'. We'll see if I can't get these to live. :)