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

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From: Phillip
> Not a spot on it - except the bird droppings. argh!

That's not very friendly of them. :-)

> 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.

With my Constance Spry I did cut some canes (some did so naturally) 2,3, and
4 feet tall so that they would flower from head to toe, which seems to be
working very well.  She sends out lots of canes, so I will do this again
next year.  Wonder if that would work for ya?

> 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.

This is my first blooming year with my Souv.dl Malmaison, so I was counting.
I'm also recording the blooming times of all my roses, plus descriptions of
what I like, what I don't like.

Don't like the fading color of 'Russell's Cottage Rose', 'Belle de Crecy' or
an unknown near my doorway.  They all fade to that washed out
mauvish-purple.  I do love the old roses- 'Fantin-Latour', 'Mme.William
Paul',  'Belle Isis' (cute little bloom) 'Duchesse de Montebello', the
English roses- 'St.Swithun', 'Redoute', 'Graham Thomas', 'Wife of Bath', the
rugosa- 'Topaz Jewell' and 'Hansa' all for their shrub and blooms.  'Striped
Moss' is still small but I love it's cute little striped cream and burgandy
bloom.

I didn't count all my blooms, but my one found rose "Red Yankton" I did
count 120 blooms with 2-3 buds for each bloom, and I have been dead-heading
for nearly 2 weeks.  :-)

> 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.

I don't have that.  I know it's a modern hedge rose and has small blooms.

Sincerely,
~Carleen~

Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
         Rainier, Oregon

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