Re: Was 1999 Perennial Wish List/now shade tolerant roses:-Reply
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- Subject: Re: Was 1999 Perennial Wish List/now shade tolerant roses:-Reply
- From: R* C*
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:03:07 -0500
I'm embarrassed......but I must have accidentally deleted the original
message from a few days ago listing the shade-tolerant roses! Could someone
post that again for me. Sorry - and thanks!
Rosemary in the snowy Eastern, KY mountains
zone 6a
At 03:37 PM 12/30/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>>> "MARILYN DUBE'" <maridube@teleport.com>
>12/29/98 09:56am >>>
>wrote:
>Susan, I wish you would list the roses in your
>garden that do well in
>shade. You had done this earlier this year, and I
>though I had coped your
>list, but I can't find it.
>
>At your request, madam (direct copy from much
>earlier post):
>
>I have a 70 x 100 ft. lot and live in 6b, the Pacific
>Northwest (for cultural purposes) so it is "primo"
>rose country, but also WET! Most of my roses are
>old roses, almost no hybrid teas.
>
>I have grown under trees, competing with tree roots
>(about 5' away from mature trees):
>
>Cornelia, Penelope and Moonlight, all hybrid
>musks; Golden Showers, Voodoo, Handel and Don
>Juan (teas) and Souv. du Dr. Jamin (an old climber
>that REQUIRES shade to keep its incredible
>burgandy color).
>
>Against the north side of my house, which gets very
>little light I have grown:
>
>Mdm. Gregoire Stachelin (gets little direct light,
>growing slowly, but growing) and
>
>Darlow's Enigma (absolutely no direct light and
>positively thriving and blooming like crazy, even
>now).
>
>In the northeast corner of my house, which gets no
>light but is not under trees are:
>
>Awakening (a climber and sport of 'New Dawn')
>and
>Zephrine Droughan. Warning here, Zeph is
>growing and blooming, but suffering from powdery
>mildew (which she is notorious for). I think in a
>better location she would do better.
>
>Roses still growing and blooming in spite of major
>competition from mature shrubs, perennials, etc.
>(getting very little direct light, certainly less than the
>5-6 required, and very little elbow room) are
>Climbing Iceberg, Louise Odier and Gruss an
>Aachen.
>
>Most of my roses are own root roses purchased
>through Heirloom Old Garden Roses in St. Paul,
>Oregon. Their catalogue marks roses that are
>shade tolerant (and there are bunches of them); the
>catalogue is worth its weight in gold to a rose
>grower.
>
>Susan Saxton
>
>For mine is just a little old-fashioned garden where
>the flowers come together to praise the Lord and
>teach all who look upon them to do likewise.
>Celia Thaxter
>1835-1894
>
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