Posted in shrubs on Mar 28th, 2008 No Comments »
The June 2008 issue of Fine Gardening includes an article by Suzy Verrier, the person responsible for getting me interested in rugosa roses.
They’re the ultimate class of roses for gardeners who want beautiful results with very little work. Rugosas aren’t great as cut flowers—they don’t have the substance to last very long—but they are [...]
Posted in roses in general on Mar 20th, 2008 No Comments »
I don’t know why, but pruning seem to generate more angst in rose gardeners than anything else.
Each year when I teach my crash course in rose gardening, I say that the worst thing you can do is give a rose a bad haircut. In other words, even if you prune very poorly, the worst consequence [...]
Posted in roses in general on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s what’s either in my garden or has spent a season in a pot, waiting for a permanent location:
Arethusa
Belinda’s Dream
Blanc Double de Coubert
Buff Beauty
Camaieux
Chic
Danaë
Duchesse de Montebello
Felicite Parmentier
Ferdinand Pichard
Goldbusch
Golden Celebration
Grüss an Aachen
Hermosa
Honorine de Brabant
Iceberg
La Belle Sultane
Lady Hillingdon
Louise Odier
Maiden’s Blush
Margaret Merril
Mme. Alfred Carriere
Mme. Hardy
Mme. Jean Gaujard
Mrs. B. R. Cant
Mrs. Herbert Stevens
New Dawn
Oillet Panachée
Paul’s Lemon Pillar
Perle d’Or
Prosperity
Roserie de [...]
Posted in disease-resistance on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Last year at the end of the growing season I meant to go around the garden with a notebook and rate each rose’s disease-resistance on a scale from 1 to 5. 5 would mean no visible signs of disease, 1 would be total defoliation.
I never got around to it but will attempt it this year [...]
Posted in general gardening on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s a post I wrote last year for another garden blog (which has since gone dormant), detailing what I’d accomplished as of May 27, 2007:
started seeds of
Salvia coccinea ‘Lady in Red’ and ‘Coral Nymph’
some sort of hollyhock mix
various columbine mixes
planted seeds of
moonvine
lablab
cardinal climber
cosmos [...]
Posted in general comments on Mar 9th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve begun yet another blog, this one devoted to my favorite flower, the rose.
Ten years ago I wrote a book (now, sadly, out of print) about rose-growing for beginners, and each spring I teach a noncredit class at the University of Tennessee on the same topic. The class was March 8, last Saturday, and I [...]
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