tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41953981280903923282011-07-08T04:09:56.112-04:00Everything about roses that I grow in zone 5 of upstate NY. Photos, different methods of winterizing, ordering roses, planting roses, choosing roses, rose diseases, rose pests, Old garden roses, hybrid teas, grandifloras, floribundas, bourbons, hybrid perpetuals.Rosie Cheekshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01546852695069467553noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4195398128090392328.post-78801610547001488242009-06-14T15:21:00.003-04:002009-06-14T15:31:04.296-04:00

Nostalgie is just plain beautiful. It's a hybrid tea rose that I have growing in a container. This is it's second year here and although it has very little scent, it's beauty cannot be denied. Guess what I do with my potted roses during winter? I put them in my unheated, unattached garage. As soon as they dormant in late November or December..or when night temperatures start falling below 25

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Is this rose not gorgeous? It's called "Tamora" and is a David Austin English rose. This is it's 3rd year in my garden and it's looking might fine. It was a bareroot rose from Pickering Nurseries Last winter I did nothing to winterize this rose. Come Spring I had to prune out the dead wood pretty much to the ground. It came back quick and is now about 2 feet by 2 feet. Great frangrance and aren't

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Have you seen any of the rose care videos on Youtube from Ashdown Roses? If not..you should! Great presentations on pruning, pegging, pillaring, and more. All designed in a matter of fact way with a little humor thrown in. Wonderful! I'm going to try some of these ideas!http://www.youtube.com/AshdownRoses

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In a prior post I had discussed how a pest called Rose Midge had destroyed my Spring blooms lastyear. My understanding of this pest was that the larvae would most likely overwinter in the soil and it would be back to plague my bushes this Spring. Well guess what...I do not see ANY signs of rose midge! My roses are in glorious bloom with the most buds I have ever had! Thankfully I will not have

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Basically anyone growing roses in zone 5 knows about loss due to a harsh winter. Normally I winterize all my roses in late November or early December by shovelling about 6-8 inches of mulch on each one. Last Fall, however, I never did complete this chore. I am amazingly surprised that most of my roses came through with flying colors! This is probably due to the fact that we had a decent

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Although I really need to keep new roses to a minimum this year as I am running out of space, I did order Cinco de Mayo and the Legends Rose.Cinco de Mayo is a new Weeks rose. The color is what attracted me to this rose. Russet. Flowers can be multi-color,smoky lavender-orange. None to mild fragrance. Average diameter 3.5". Medium, double (17-25 petals), cluster-flowered, in large clusters

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Sharifa Asma is by far one of my favorite roses. I planted her right next to the front porch 2 years ago. She was in bloom from June until well after the first frosts, and now stands about 3 ft by 3 ft. She had about a foot of green cane after winter here in zone 5, and I did not winterize this rose at all. She is a rose bred by David Austin and hence is called an"English rose" released in 1983.

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Last year I graced my garden with 30 new roses. As first year roses I was quite pleased with their growth and blooms. I looked so forward, however , to this year when I hoped to reap the benefits of their beauty as they gained some height and their roots took hold. But....that is not what happened! The spring flush only contained a few blooms. I was so dissapointed. All that digging, spraying and

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I am a lover of roses. There..I said it! It started just a few years ago when I bought a climbing rose to grow in a corner of my yard next to a shed. The first year it had no blooms and so I scoured the message boards and websites looking for answers. What I discovered was a plethora of photos of roses. It was love! This blog will feature the roses I grow in my own yard, the roses I wish I grew,

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