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

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

>I love hearing about your roses, and would love to hear more. Penelope as
a
>center peice, yummy.  How is this rose for disease resistance?

Not a spot on it - except the bird droppings. argh!

>Do you prune 'Rambling Rector' hard to two feet every year?  Would you do
so
>with all your ramblers? or just this guy?  How old is it?

This is the second year for RR.  i didn't get it properly buried last fall
so i had a lot of die back - thus the heavy pruning.  I want it to swallow
one corner of a gardening shed - so i was pretty sad when i had to cut
it back to two feet.

>Isn't that fish stuff great... My sister's Blaze took several years to
>establish before getting wonderful with blooms.

>My Climbing Souvenier de la Malmaison is still one year young. She just
>bloomed two beautiful blooms and now has 7 more buds on the one cane that
I
>tied horizonally on a trellis "wall", and plenty of new growth on that
same
>cane .  Another cane was left vertical and only set out 2 spurts of new
>growth... I'm going to set it horizonally now too. Perhaps this would work
>on your Dortmund also!

Dortmund basically grows horizontally.  I wonder if i tipped it if it would
send out more side shoots?  then maybe i would get flowers all along the
cane.  I'm going to try that - that's what i do with my blackberries and
raspberries.

Souv. d l Malmaison is stingy isn't she.  How many other roses can or do
you count the actual number of blooms?   probably not very many after
that get established and start blooming.  but it is a classic old rose - so
i will put up with it.

Do you have 'Bonica' ?  I guess i should have read up on it before i
planted it.  I wanted a 5-6' rose to tie up around the street sign in the
front yard.  Alas, it is a shrimp and the blooms are shrimps too.
It doesn't have the 'flair' that i needed in that spot.  I'll see how
big it is by the end of the year - then decide whether to move it
or not.

Phillip
Sadorus, IL
zone 5

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