Re: roses for hot dry climate
- Subject: Re: roses for hot dry climate
- From: n*@iinet.net.au
- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:03:03 +0900
Rosa mutabilis is a real star in our hot, dry summers north of Perth, Western
australia. It never stops bloomong and gets very little quite alkaline bore water.
Robin
Quoting khe36747 <khe36747@bigpond.net.au>:
> I have a wide range of roses from species roses through to David Austen roses
> and have never had one that did not thrive in the 'hot and dry'. Has any one?
> The ones I keep in pots get a bit of grey water but the rest seem to be
> thriving in clay that is dry down to at least three feet. What they are
> surviving on is a mystery to me. The rambler 'Wedding Day' is covering a
> fence about as long as a tennis court. Banksias do well here but frosts cut
> off the flowers about half the time.
>
> Margaret Healey
> Regional Victoria, Australia
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alexandre Leonardo
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:48 PM
> Subject: roses for hot dry climate
>
>
> hello
> can anyone advise me on choosing a rose for hot dry climate. I'm in south
> Portugal, where summers are very dry and temperatures can reach 40ºC very
> easily. Never had roses so I have no experience with them.
> Thanx
> Alex
>
>
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