Re: original KnockOut rose

**"Carol Matthews" c*@ns.sympatico.ca**

Hi Lorraine and all:
    I must confess I picked up my knock-out rose at a big box retailer at the end of the season for less than half price. It looked so sad and uncared for I had to take it home (zone 5B in Nova Scotia, Canada). The rose was over wintered in its pot with several other plants in a protective bed of sawdust through a winter with little snow and then planted in a new bed this spring. It came back with guns blazing. So far it is only 3'x3' but blooming beautifully. I expect next year will be amazing. Now I'm looking for that Easy Elegance line!
Cheers
Carol
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lorraine Ballato 
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  Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 7:58 AM
  Subject: Re: [GWL] original KnockOut rose

  Hi, Carolyn!

  I purchased the original Knock Out, at Costco of all places in either 2000 or 2001 (I forget).  Since then it has gone through 2 transplants to where I finally think it can live up to Bill Radler's expectations. 

  At this point (after several haircuts), it's well over 4 feet tall and wide so it will get yet another shaving next March.  Last season a nearby tuteur fell on it and there it sat for about a week since we were away during that time frame. Ergo, yet another trim which I think reinvigorated it.

  We had a very deep and long winter about 3 years ago. I lost all my roses -- about a dozen --  except for Knock Out and one David Austin.  

  There's no way this rose can be categorized as other than a keeper; would that some people I know have the same level of determination!

  The other rose I have been impressed with is in the Easy Elegance line: Sunrise, Sunset.  I got it at the GWA meeting in Long Island in 2004.  It went into the ground late September, followed by an early and deep winter that year with little snow cover.  It made it through and has since bloomed continually through frosts, hurricanes, and everything else.  This season has been very wet in southwestern Connecticut and this beauty showed not a sign of any black spot, fungal disease, etc.  It was plagued by Japanese Beetles which met their match from the Pharm Solutions insect spray, the only treatment I gave the plant.  Another keeper!

  Lorraine

  Lorraine Ballato
  16 Mudry Farm Rd.
  Brookfield, CT 06804
  (203) 740-8636
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Carolyn Ulrich<c*@sbcglobal.net> 
    To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum<g*@lists.ibiblio.org> 
    Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:44 PM
    Subject: [GWL] original KnockOut rose

    For those of you who are growing the original red Knock Out rose, how  
    tall is it? In my garden, my 4-year-old rose is as tall as I am--5  
    feet 4 inches--and probably 4 feet wide. Maybe more.

    All of my other KnockOuts are much more modest in size.

    I'm curious what the rest of you are experiencing.
    Carolyn Ulrich
    Chicagoland Gardening Magazine
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