Re: Roses
- To: "William A. Grant"
- Subject: Re: Roses
- From: W* B*
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:49:15 -0700 (PDT)
To all of you who write about roses-many thanks. I'm unable to use them in
my garden because deer love them, but I'm filing all the cultivation
advice you're giving so that I can plant them whenever we build a fence.
For those of you with deer, Meyer lemons are a favorite food (I had
dreamed of a Meyer lemon hedge), too. Jovellana violacia, Chilean (?),
has not been touched, and doesn't need a lot of water. Deer do eat the
flowers of the large flowered clematis I planted in it, but they don't
get in to the Jovellana too far, so the clematis survives with some
hidden flowers.
Elly Bade
Berkeley, California
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, William A. Grant wrote:
> So many people do not realize that there are species roses that originated in the Med region. Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix in their Quest For the Rose in both the film and the book start in the Mediterranean in their search for them.
> Many "modern" roses have been hybridized along the French Med coast, especially those by Nabonnand, father/son/grandson.
> At Hanbury Garden (La Mortola) at the top of the Italian coast one will find a superb collection of roses, including the seedling found in the garden, 'La Mortola' which reaches about 80 ft atop a tree. I have that one and its parent the species Rosa brunonii, which is native to Northern India.
> Pruning roses in hot weather is not recommended, especially if it is a severe prune. Wait until late autumn or very early spring when the weather is cool. Water it regularly as the new growth appears. grant@cruzio.com
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