My Chicago Peace rose is blooming and it’s absolutely gorgeous. It’s putting on a fine show with it’s large blooms and multiple petals.
It’s a very full flower at approximately five inches in diameter and at least three inches in height. You’d only need two or three of them to make a small bouquet.
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Austin Rose Rosa 'Belle Story' Synonyms: Bienenweide, AUSelle
This rose was shot at the NYBG a couple of weeks ago. I just got around to cleaning off the memory card. Although I haven’t grown this Austin rose the culture of quite a few of the other Austin varieties has been pleasurable and rewarding. I would certainly have this rose in my garden. Here are some facts about ‘Belle Story’. . .
The Rose Lady Emma Hamilton in flower yesterday before the rain fell down and knocked it downwards. The new growth has another ten flower buds on it.It has been the most flowered Rose of all six that I have in the garden. . ..
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A couple of weeks ago, I heard the term “Second Spring” on one of my favorite gardening shows, Gardener’s Diary, and it stayed with me. The gardener was referring to how North Carolina suffers through the long summer and then re-emerges into a second spring in September and October. Many years, I think Oklahoma does the same. Once the fall rains begin, the garden perks up and spends her remaining days covered in jewels like one of Jane Austen’s rich matrons. . .
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This rose was growing in the rose garden about a month and half ago. I am really not sure which red rose it is but I think it might be ‘Mr. Lincoln’. Out of the 160 roses I have about 120 identified. There are a few doubles and triples of some varieties. Since I inherited the care of the garden I am not sure about some of them.
Red roses are traditionally sent as a symbol of true love and fidelity but also can mean a sign of respect or courage.
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If you start to discuss pruning rose bushes with another gardener, it's not long before you realise everybody's an expert! The problem with said 'experts' is they all hold conflicting views over what is, and isn't, the correct way to prune them.
Some will espouse the "rip-open-the-chainsaw" method while others discuss in intricate detail the precise angle needed to make the cut. A few will advise the use of sealing gels to protect the bushes from infection and yet there are advocates for leaving the rose bush to heal itself. Surely with all these contradicting views someone must be right - and possibly some will be wrong. Or, does it not matter? Can these very different opinions all be right . ..
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On today’s Show & Tell Friday hosted by my dear friend Kelli at “There’s no place like home”, I’d like to share some “pretty in pink” pictures that I recently took at my garden!
But first of all, thanks to everyone that signed up for my last week's free seeds giveaway! I was so pleased to read all your appreciative comments and find out your favourite shots of my July garden. The lucky winners will be announced at the end of this post!
I am more than happy now to introduce you to a new rose that arrived in our garden about 10 days ago. I found it at a summer exhibition at a nearby palace garden – and I could not resist!. . .
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You wouldn't believe it if I merely described it to you. And it's not that I think for a minute that these few glimpses here will ever begin to explain the magic of her place. Nevertheless . . . if you love roses, you need to know about this amazing woman and her garden. . . .
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I?m really excited to be able to start offering you gardening tips from Sonia Uyterhoeven. Sonia is Gardener for Public Education at The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) and...
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My neighbor’s rose
With our neighbor’s permission, my daughter dug up a piece of this rose and planted it in one of our garden beds last year. My neighbor’s house is over a hundred...
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"Love and Peace" Roses have a longer history than any other plant in our gardens. Greeks and Romans honored the rose as the "queens of flowers" plenty of roses were brought into the decadent palaces of Roman emperors. . . .
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The first Rose from the Lady Emma Hamilton in my garden. A perfect flower in shades of apricit and copper. It smells very citrusy and sweet. This rose is glowing in the garden compared to the darker green foliage below. There are eleven Rose buds on the bush, so thats ten more to go. Roses are the archetypal English garden flower,and recently voted the nations number one flower. I read they are used in gardens for people with dementia/alzheimers as they evoke such strong memorys, and are easily recognisable as a Rose.
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Today is a carbon copy of yesterday, hazy, hot, and humid, though perhaps a little hotter and more humid. I went out briefly to check on the garden and things aren't yet wilting in the heat, which is a little surprising. Much more surprising is that Garden Party has developed several large fat buds so despite my earlier expectations, the last of my roses should bloom relatively soon. The spring flush of Louise Odier is finally starting to fade, so I should soon be able to prune her back to free up space and, more importantly, light for her neighbors Garden Party and Moon Shadow. In the meantime, Lagerfeld has decided to make up for blooming rather late and is putting on a marvelous show of color and fragrance. While I can't share the fragrance, I can share the color and I've posted a bunch of photos of Lagerfeld and the other roses to the web site. Here's a sample of Lagerfeld.
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Welcome to "Show and Tell"-Friday hosted by my dear friend Kelli over at "There's no place like home"!
June has arrived in the garden and everything is growing furiously these days. I am pleased to share lots of colourful pictures with you today! So make yourself comfortable and enjoy the little stroll across my little green paradise!
A little bud of my standard rose „Pastella“ bred in Germany by Tantau in 2004. . ..
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I'm convinced that the roses can hear me! Just four short days ago, I was complaining that eight of them hadn't yet bloomed. Today, Falstaff joined the bloom parade, leaving just Tropicana and Garden Party yet to bloom. And Tropicana already has buds with the sepals pulled back, so it should be blooming in a few days. That will leave Garden Party as the only one yet to bloom. Poor Garden Party! It's totally shaded by its neighbor, Louise Odier, and there's no way that I'm cutting Louise Odier down to size until all the buds have opened and faded (and there are lots more buds that have to open), so I'm afraid it's going to be a while until Garden Party has a chance to grow and flower. . .
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And it is indeed a happy June. Today brought us the first opened blossom ever on Madame Isaac Pereire, an Old Garden Rose that I planted last year but which did not bloom until now. The flowers are very large and very deep pink, with the extremely strong old rose fragrance that I find intoxicating. The photo at the bottom of this entry shows the very first flower of Mme. Isaac Pereire. . .
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I'm all for a good boycott and I really want to shop at smaller privately owned businesses. I get it. But the big box stores make it very difficult and I don't feel like the little guys are doing all they can to get my business.
Case in point, plants from Home Depot (or Lowes) versus plants from J&P. Last summer I purchased 26 Simplicity Hedge Roses from J&P and was very pleased with them. They arrived in good condition, and all 26 bloomed profusely all summer long. See below.
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I saw this strongly fragrant Miniature Shrub rose at the nursery when I was buying a 8 to 9 foot Norway Spruce. The tag said it was a Shrublet rose, which is something I hadn’t heard before. It was bigger than what I would normally call think of as a miniature rose and the final height was listed at 4.5 feet tall. . .
Some people love roller coasters. My kids love the coasters, but for me I get enough thrills introducing new plants. Introducing new plants can be fun and exciting, but it’s also scary as hell. Sure it’s really fun to be the first person to see a new plant with great garden potential. And it’s especially exciting the first time you see that new plant in someone’s garden or landscape. But introducing a new plant is also very scary. First off everyone is a plant critic. As horticulturists we are trained to find fault with every plant. And to be sure every plant has its weak points. No plant is going to do well in every state in the union, in every soil type and withstand all the abuse that gardeners dish out. So I introduce plants and brace myself for the criticism. No matter how good the plant it always comes. . ..
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Posted by Tim Wood Reblogged by Old Roses to roses on 2008-05-24, 06:48:06
Ouch! This Paul’s Himalayan Musk rose cane and a couple of others just like it have been topped by one of our local, and getting braver by the day, deer. The picture is on the fuzzy side but look at those thorns for goodness sake! They are huge and red to boot. [...]
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I probably wouldn’t grow any David Austin roses. My fingers hate typing these words, but it’s true. My six or seven David Austins are more trouble than they’re worth. If they get disease protection and lots of food, they bloom heavily in the spring and then, nothing . . . until [...]
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It's totally shaded by its neighbor, 
