Colorado Moonstone decided rto bloom after a little rain
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Those loveable little Scots roses
Comments (31)I wanted to thank all of you who commented on my post. I am happy to know that many of you have also been touched by the simple charms of these underappreciated roses. york rose...they are aggressive suckerers and will form thickets if left alone. That is how they have persisted all these many years in untended plots. So if one is interested in growing them you need to plan accordingly. The suckers grow close to the soil and are easy to remove. greybird...I am also sad to see there is a decline in the availability of these roses. That is one of the reasons my husband and I have taken such an active interest in preserving the ones we find. What a shame if they were lost forever! holleygarden....I have never tried growing roses anywhere but here in my cold climate so I wouldn't pretend to know if they would do well there...however I do know that most of the scots roses we have found in cemeteries were never watered at all, some even growing in sand that was parched and dry, but they were still flourishing. They are tough roses and do not appear to need as much water as other roses I have grown. Ann....we have Mary McMurtrie's book 'Scots Roses'. It was one of the first rose books we bought and the illustrations are lovely. Looking through it, I realize that there are many variations of the scots rose and some we have 'found' we may never be able to identify. mariannese...my husband had been in contact via email with Peter Boyd about some of the scots roses we are finding here...can't wait to read the book. Thanks again everyone....I'd love to respond to each of you, but my family's waiting for me to come up with something for supper...LOL. Celeste...See MoreBedtime For Colorado Hostas Tomorrow
Comments (23)Hey, how are you guys up in Minn. faring today? FORTY-EIGHT INCHES OF WHITE STUFF? SMACK, kick off the cold season with a big SMACK. Meanwhile, my hosta are doing okay, but not all of them. I think southern blight worries are over for the year though. One which contracted it, Totally Twisted, is making a comeback. And so is Sparkler, which somehow all its leaves disappeared overnight, just stubs remained, and now they decided to live too. I like little Sparkler, so I'm glad. It gets the first covering of hardware cloth, because I think it was a critter ate it. Where are those wrens when you need them!...See Moreit's raining, it's pouring ....
Comments (56)I missed your ammonia paragraph, Skybird, oops, shows I should read more carefully. Last week, my DD managed to kick a soccer ball into a bush with resident wasp nest and was stung when she retrieved the ball, ran into the greenhouse and slapped a paper towel with ammonia on it, and that was that. And for those who have fungus gnats in their houseplants/seedling starting stuff, that BT israelensis takes care of them very nicely. I order a 20 oz batch, and it lasts several years. When I start my seedlings, I sprinkle a couple of grains of the stuff in each cell, and no more fungus gnats. Here is a link that might be useful: link...See MoreWell, I guess it has started: More new blooms.
Comments (20)Hannah, Nancy is right, my blooms started a couple of weeks earlier than last year, but mainly, Fernstone. It, Colorado Moonstone, and Bill Watson always race to be the first to bloom, I did think last year was also a bit early so it may be creeping along. I usually have two peaks of blooms now; the early and mid blooms, then the mid and lates. I do usually have a hundred or so that re-bloom,but it will often start as instant re-bloom. It is not my gardening skills that cause it, other than perhaps the mulching which they love and need here as hot as it gets. It is the climate I think. I do put out slug killers, and ispar on rare occasions. If I am really indiustrious and can find it, I scatter alfalfa meal or puut out fish emulsion prior to bloom season. I have put out time release fertilizer and they seem to like it, but not tremendously. Nancy, my plants do the same thing yours are doing...One or two buds get ready and the others hold back while from blooming. kay...See MoreBrad KY 6b
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