Roses (was Re: anyone still around)
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  • Subject: Roses (was Re: anyone still around)
  • From: &* C* D* C* U* A* 9* C* <c*@edwards.af.mil>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 07:43:10 -0700
Yes you have the rose root stock coming up now. I have a couple of those
myself. I had a David Austin rose whose name escapes me and a pretty
"Betty Boop" rose in one corner of the front garden, they both died off
last summer. The sprinklers had a malfunction in the middle of a major
heat wave and we didn't see it until too late. But this spring I'm
getting suckers from those spots with the single red rose flower.
They're attractive in their own way but I'll pull them out. Maybe this
fall I'll replant "Betty Boop", I really liked that one.
I love the big fluffy David Austin roses but I've come to the conclusion
they aren't really suited for here. They all want to be climbers, and
the rose stems are very thin so the roses just flop over. I do have one
that stays as a bush but it's so incredibly thorny I can't get anywhere
near it without leaking blood. 
Blooming now are roses, coreopsis, gaillardia, a few daylilies,
geranium, salvias, buckwheat, erisymum, and some kind of annual silene.
Gophers are doing their best to wipe out the front garden and the
rabbits are devastating my yellow beans (but not the green ones...go
figure). It's going to be the year of the critters, I guess.  

Cyndi  

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
Behalf Of Donna
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 6:24 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] anyone still around.. I got a question

I live in the midwest, I am not supposed to have 98 degree weather in
the
beginning of June!.... Heck, we shouldn't have that kinda heat period!
 
We are expecting storms again tonight... and cooling off for a few days,
I
will welcome the 70's again.... But that has been the trend here,
extreme
heat, nasty storms, rain and cool off for a day, then heat up
again....Yuck!
 
My roses have gone wild.  I am thinking they got hurt over the winter
and the
root stock has taken over.  I had a nice yellow climbing rose (name
escapes me
right now)... but it is now red!.... I got another one the exact same
colors
coming up in the middle of a flower bed.  I have no clue how it got
there,
cause I would never have planted it there and don't remember a rose
there
either!.... and another one on the side of the house has also taken over
with
that same red color.. and I know it was a peach color last year.....
duh, what
is going on here!
 
Donna

--- On Wed, 6/8/11, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:


From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] anyone still around.. I got a question
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 8:13 PM


Record-breaking heat here today and tomorrow, and air quality alerts
here
too. After cool last week, and predicted cool again next week. Crazy! 
After an exceptionally wet spring, we are drying out in this yeat -
steaming
is more like it.  Everything is very lush - just hope we don't have
another
hot, dry summer like last year. 

APL

In a message dated 6/8/2011 8:35:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
gardenqueen@gmail.com writes:

here too Bonnie.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:21 PM, BONNIE_HOLMES
<bonnie_holmes@comcast.net>wrote:

> We are also hot and dry. Averaging 10-12 degrees above normal and no
> significant rain for weeks. We are now having air quality alerts
because
> the air is full when it usually gets washed out with a good rain storm
> or two.
>
>
> B
> ETN Zone 7
> Remember the River Raisin, the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, 911.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Sent: Wednesday, June 8, 2011 7:36:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] anyone still around.. I got a question
>
> Yes, it is definately a strange year here too. Lately it has been so
hot,
I
> have no idea how you folks in the south stand it. We are breaking all
> kindsa
> records for rain and heat. About the only thing that likes it is the
weeds.
>
> Tree is still alive so far. Guess I will just let it be and see what
> happens...
>
> Donna
>
> --- On Mon, 6/6/11, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] anyone still around.. I got a question
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date: Monday, June 6, 2011, 10:14 AM
>
>
> I have no idea, any more than I know why my redbud died. It's been'
> a most strange season. Last week we had two hot days and then it
> turned cool again. The peonies shot up and bloomed in the heat, and
> are almost all gone already - usually the peony season lasts longer.
> The worst thing about it is that they grew so fast the stems were very
> thin and weak, and couldn't hold up the very heavy blooms. Even the
> ones that were inside wire hoops fell right over the supporting hoops.
> 'Festiva Maxima,' which is usually good for a couple of weeks, has
> all bloomed at once and most of the blooms fell over the hoops - some
> even broke. My 'Gai Paree' had 28 blooms at once but all were gone
> in about three days. Bummer! I was counting on them for a design
> program our club is having next week. Oh well. Something else will
> show up.
>
> One thing that is especially nice this year is the yellow perennial
> foxglove, Digitalis ambigua. I know, I know. Some people call it a
> weed, but I love it. It grows in the shade, and the deer don't eat it.
> The yellow blooms aren't too showy, but a row of them in the shady
> border looks like candles. I enjoy a lot of things that people call
> weeds. If they are pretty, and I don't need the space for something
> else, I let them grow.
>
> APL
>
> In a message dated 6/6/2011 10:46:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil writes:
>
> Nobody knows I guess...
> I haven't seen anything like that before but when I don't see obvious
> signs of disease I just wait to see what happens.
>
> Cyndi
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of Donna
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 5:00 PM
> To: gardenchat list
> Subject: [CHAT] anyone still around.. I got a question
>
> My crimson frost river birch is doing some strange thing... need
> opinions on
> what to do...
>
> The bottom 6 ft or so look like it always has, smaller branching with
> crimsion
> leaves. The top of the tree doesn't have a leaf on it. None... hada...
> looks
> riduculas with the trunk, branches and nothing.
>
> So I got a ladder out and it's not dead. Nothing snaps and all the
> small
> branches bend etc....
>
> So, what do I do? What's wrong with it? Do I add it to the collection
> of
> plants that didn't make it?
>
> I know it was a crazy winter here with so much snow and cold and ice.
> The
> spring hasn't been any better. Cold rainy stormy. 2 days ago it was in
> the
> 50's if lucky... today it is 93...geesh. We have set all kindsa
records
> for
> lows, highs, and rain amounts. I still haven't even put my veggie
> garden in
> cause of the rain. Still too muddy even in a raised bed to turn over
> the soil
> or anything. Weeds are thriving, lost some plants.
>
> TIA for any suggestions and help...
>
> Donna

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