Re: [Rose-list] Finally---Blooming like mad!

**p*@intrepid.cdg-hargray.com**

Good morning!

>How are your roses looking this fine day?

most of mine peaked about two weeks ago.

Rambling rector, which i had to prune back to two feet high, was a
solid ball of white dainty flowers for about two weeks.  That was it.
One surprise though - after a heavy rain it looked pretty pathetic.
By the next evening a bunch of new buds opened and looked
better than ever.

I had a good set of blooms on my two Dortmund roses.  Intense red
with white centers.  It continues, but only in clusters on the end of
canes.
Is there some way to prune, pin, etc. to get them to bloom all along the
canes?

This is the first year that Climbing Blaze has lived up to its name.
Deep red, full roses in big clusters all over him.
Me thinks the fish emulsion is working!

My souvenier de la Malmaison is stingy as usual - she's a little snot.
I had ONE perfect bloom in may.  Now i have TWO more starting to
bud out.  whooooopie.  Even so, they are marvelous - can i enduce her to
give a little more?

I am really pleased with the Hybrid Musk Penelope.  She was the one
rose that i really wanted last year.  I didn't get her in until mid-June
because of a mixup from the mail order place.   In may, she was
in fine form - except a put her at the base of a pillar which i intend to
tie
her to.  The birds think the pillar is a latrine - soooo  the foilage is
white
as well as the flowers. (blarg!)  I hope she gets big enough that it won't
be so much of a problem.  On the bright side - they are fertilizing
Penelope
for me, ha!  Now most of the blooms are washed out.
At her best, you get pointed peachy buds, mixed with pale peach, frilly
flowers, mixed with fully open white flowers.  Perfect!

Ah, well - that one really satisfied me - it being precisely what i
pictured
it being in the center of my garden.

There are more, but i will give others on the list a chance...

Phillip
Sadorus, IL
Zone 5

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