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My Rose Article
At last count, I had in the vicinity of 260 plants of 40 different varieties, a rather insane number. I gave roses to the local historical society. So what, you ask, am I doing writing an article about roses?
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A Special Rose From My Mom
My mom reached out to me across the Rainbow Bridge with a special rose to help me through the worst time of my life. She was telling me everything was going to be okay.Thank you for your gift Mom, I love you very much, and miss you terribly.All photos...
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Rose Rosette, Killer With A Double-Edged Sword
It is only through education and diligence that we can protect our cherished roses. Learn the symptoms and report any infection to your County Extension Agent. It's silent and invisible, with superpowers that overwhelm any rose it infects.
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Wild Roses: The Native Roses and Naturalized Roses of North America
Some roses have more interesting hips than others. So wild roses are excellent to have for bee keepers or fruit orchards. Do not have any clear meaning as to actual native species represented by those terms.
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Soapy Water for Treating Rose Bushes
They are also capable of harming beneficial insects such as pollinators, but especially the ladybug larvae that love to feed on aphids.In order to be effective, insecticidal soaps must make contact with the insect and must cover the top and bottom of...
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When & How Much Should You Prune Knock Out Roses in Georgia?
Knock Out Roses are favorites with gardeners for their easy maintenance and long blooming season. One of the only tasks needed to keep Knock Out Roses looking great year after year is an annual pruning.Pruning Knockout Roses in Georgia is a late winter...
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How to Get Rid of Bugs on Roses, the Green Way
Of soap into a spray bottle filled with water.Spray mixture directly on the plants with and without the bugs. Read on for the safest way to kill rose bugs without the pesticides in the air around your home.Put 1 tsp.
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How to Clone Roses
Try again in a few days.Close the bag after three hours if the cutting is unaffected. Blow into the bag so that it expands before closing it completely.Place the bag in an area with bright, indirect sunlight and watch for new growth.Remove dead leaves,...
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Are Roses Monocots or Dicots?
Monocots grow up, rather than out. The rose, like its close relatives, is also a fruiting plant and produces rose hips used in tea. However, there are some major differences between the two types of plant families.
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Noisettes: An American Rose with a French Name
It is a lovely rose, and one that I grow in my garden (see photo at left).Noisettes as a rule are extremely fragrant. They will also grow in more shade than most roses. A mail-order nursery that I often use is.
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How to Keep White Roses From Turning Brown
This includes when you are traveling to your destination site.Store the florist box of white roses in the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Eventually the white roses in your bouquet, corsage or floral arrangement will begin to turn brown, a natural occurrence...
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How Tall Can a Rose Bush Grow?
Climbing roses include ramblers, climbing hybrid tea roses and trailing roses. Miniature roses are bush type roses as well, but they only reach 6 to 24 inches in height.Shrub roses reach 3 to 10 feet in height.
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Have no fear, Earthkind roses are here
The trick to planning a successful rose garden is research. In fall and early spring, the catalogs come out by the dozen, and most of them have a single photo of a single bloom. For the seasoned rose growers, i hope this article helps you to inspire others...
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Painting the Roses Red
More recently, we have 'Opening Night' (1998, Zary), 'Veteran's Honor' (1999, Zary) and 'Ronald Reagan' (2005, Zary).If you don't care about single blooms, floribundas are a good choice, and not as fussy as hybrid teas.
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Roses ~ In the Pink
It also sets hips which are winter food for the birds. It was close to 5' last fall. 'Mother's Rose' (2001, Zary), a lovely hybrid tea, was planted in memory of my mother. I expect a mature height of 4 feet to 5 feet.
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Orange You Lovely? Orange You Beautiful? A look at orange roses
You can see by these photos that the same is true of all of these rosarian/photographers.'Candelabra' (Zary, 1998), grandiflora, 4-6', zone 7a- 10b, slight fragrance, susceptible to blackspot'Caramella' (Kordes, 2001), shrub, 3-4', very fragrant,'Westerland'...
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Rose Rustling: Rounding Up Old Roses
No, we rose rustlers don't make a practice of stealing other people's roses, as if they were so many mavericks! We just root cuttings of heirloom types--usually found on abandoned farms or in old cemeteries--that may be in danger of dying out.
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The Yellow Rose of... Wheatfield
It is supposed to be a wonderful rose for cutting. It is listed as hardy to zone 5 and came to me from a nursery in Maine so it must be true. Of course, they may not work for your climate as well as I hope they will in my zone 6a garden.
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Purple Roses Majesty
An unusual deep purple with 4", 26-40 petaled blooms, 'Ebb Tide' is good plant for the front of the border at 24"-32". The name gives it away; strong, fruity fragrance! The bush is a 4' rebloomer with medium to large blooms with 20-25 petals.
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Harvesting and Using Rose Hips for Tea
If you do not have a dehydrator, place your material on a cookie sheet and turn your oven on as low as it will go. Use your tea promptly as the nuitrients tend to degrade the longer it sits on the shelf.
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Excessive Roses
I live in a house that is on an average-size lot. About ten years ago a friend and I were bitten by the rose bug. Disguised as a cat, he was my companion outside when I worked with the roses.
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Are Roses Acid Loving Plants?
However, many species tolerate or even require mildly acidic conditions to grow well. Acidic soils can cause nutritional problems for many plants, including a plant's inability to absorb phosphorous, nitrogen and potassium.
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How to Kill Rose Slugs
Pruning off infested foliage and discarding it in a covered garbage can destroys sawfly larvae, as does spraying your plant with a strong jet of water from a garden hose.Consider treating a severe rose slug infestation with an insecticidal soap solution.
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Why Are There Flies on My Roses?
If you don't break the cycle, your plants will suffer. Placing landscape cloth below your roses means the rose midge larvae will fall onto the cloth to pupate. Flies pass by rose plants because they're a naturally occurring outdoor insect, but if you...
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How Are Roses Pollinated?
A breeze can pick up releasing pollen, dispersing it over a wide area. Pollination involves the movement of pollen from one flower to the next, or between the sexual organs of the same flower.
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Skyscape Roses
Classic Roses web site.[8] Steve Mcculloch. The American Rose Society classification has 56 categories. It's best to plant a rose on its own roots, so that there is no possibility that the grafting stock rather than the real rose is the one that actually...
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Love Across the Miles
I call this love across the miles. On a lazy Sunday afternoon I decided to thumb through the latest issue and I hunted down the token garden article that appeared at the end of the magazine that was usually nothing of much interest.
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