Rosey update.

[tsubasahome]

An update on how our roses are doing:

Margo Koster has problems with balling and has less-than-beautiful foliage.

Moondance is still blackspotty.

Evelyn is growing very, very slowly. No buds in sight.

Jude the Obscure is starting to pick up the pace with growing. It has one possible flower bud.

Scepter'd Isle is status quo.

Aptos is still growing like a nut, not blooming very much.

Julia Child is blooming like crazy and is growing just a little.

Prairie Harvest is...still alive. It looks like hell, but I think its bout with PM is over.

Prairie Sunrise got itself dug up and put in a pot. I think it's suicidal. It has healthy roots and only a couple inches of top growth. It keeps trying to bloom, but I can't let it. I wonder if it's really part clematis or something.

Prairie Star doesn't seem to want to grow.

Simon Estes has a weird growth habit, kind of like Crested Moss.

Silver Shadows is growing like crazy(both of them) and seems to want to spit out 8 flowers at once on one plant and five on the other. I guess I should pinch some of them.

Iobelle is short, bushy, disease-free, and has big clusters of buds like a floribunda.

Distant Drums is going to give us two flowers. It looks a lot like Iobelle now, but less floriferous.

Enchanted Autumn is quite large but doesn't seem to want to bloom.

Golden Princess is starting to pull itself together. It has one flower bud.

Crested Moss is tiny but tough.

Honey Sweet is a very strong grower. It has the cleanest leaves of all our Buck roses.

Heirloom seems to be snoozing...

Polonaise is finally starting to pull itself together.

James Mason is growing like crazy. Its new leaves look like romaine lettuce.

Polareis is growing, but it looks like hell, with brown spots all over the leaves. I thought rugosas were supposed to be tough? Maybe it's too hot.

Madame Hardy is growing but looks like something trampled it.

Marianne and Madame Plantier are both snoozing.

Felicite Parmentier and Rook both look okay. They're hanging in there but they're still small.

Duchesse de Montebello is getting snacked on and beaten up by practically everything but it's pretty tough. We'll probably be able to plant it soon.

Cupcake has little tufts of new growth. I hope it blooms again soon... I wish it were self-cleaning!

Konigin von Danemark is growing like mad and seems like it could withstand a nuclear blast.

Folk Singer seems to be growing sideways.

Winter Sunset is small and cute. I wish the flowers didn't explode in 24 hours.

Gallicandy is starting to leaf out on the broomhandle part. God knows how we are going to plant this thing without snapping it in two!

Griff's Red sets giant hips. I cut them both off. It wants to bloom in clusters.

Is that all?

Comments

[leene-chan.livejournal.com]

Rather than celebrating the successes, I always obsess over the roses that aren't thriving. Do you think we should move Margo Koster? I wonder if it's not getting enough sun with that huge mockorange in the way. Just the same, I wonder if it looks sparse because it doesn't have any flowers right now?

It makes me glad to see Konigin von Danemark doing so well! I wanted that rose like burning. I think it's weird that of all our roses Silver Shadows seems to be the best grower. Then again, Aptos' only crime was blooming single...

So I guess that our most promising roses are Silver Shadows, Aptos, Julia Child, Honey Sweet, Crested Moss (thanks for blooming!) and Konigin von Danemark.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Polareis as a Rugosa may be subject to burning if the foliage gets hit with cold water on a hot day. I heard from one of the rosarians that they don't like getting their foliage hosed down. This struck me as odd for something that's supposed to be hardy for seaside locations, but possibly the difference is that hot day/cold water thing.

[tsubasahome.livejournal.com]

It's been so rainy lately that I haven't been doing any supplemental watering but I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that it's been rainy but alternating with daytime temperatures in the 80s? I wondered if maybe the insecticidal soap was doing it because we had had a big problem with aphids, so after a while I stopped spraying Polareis, wondering if the spraying was hurting the foliage. Maybe I should try not spraying it with anything...no insecticidal soap, no Actinovate(which is an organic fungicide that's supposed to build up helpful nematodes in the soil), no nothing.

I'm starting to wonder if rugosas have issues with getting water on their foliage not unlike poppies...