| Author | Message | ||
     Sandra Burket (Sburket) Bug Squisher Username: SBurket Post Number: 26 Registered: 10-2004 |
Alida, were you able to follow up on the found roses in your neighborhood? Did the "most fragrant rose" come back after it was cut back almost to the ground? Sandra | ||
| Jeri Jennings (Jeri) Rowdy Rosarian Username: Jeri Post Number: 377 Registered: 01-2006 |
I've never succeeded with baggies. All I get is gray mold. Jeri | ||
| alida ray (Altora) Bug Squisher Username: altora Post Number: 123 Registered: 10-2005 |
i'll check...i hope there are some that don't include baggies, i kill everything that way. | ||
| Jeri Jennings (Jeri) Rowdy Rosarian Username: Jeri Post Number: 373 Registered: 01-2006 |
Well, there are a hundred good ways to start cuttings. The ARS Web Site has a bunch of them. You just try one method after another 'til you find what "clicks" for you. | ||
| alida ray (Altora) Bug Squisher Username: altora Post Number: 120 Registered: 10-2005 |
A bit NW of Boston. Would be nice if one of them was an old Brownell. I am sure they'd let me get cuttings but for now they are safe down the street. I have never even done a cutting though.. | ||
| Jeri Jennings (Jeri) Rowdy Rosarian Username: Jeri Post Number: 369 Registered: 01-2006 |
Alida -- Where are you located??? Jeri | ||
| alida ray (Altora) Bug Squisher Username: altora Post Number: 117 Registered: 10-2005 |
today when i drove by the house there was a man sitting outside, i walked up and he immediatly offered me a chair and a drink! there are maybe four roses there, 3 of them are OLD, I will have to get pics of the knotted stumps. he said they could be 40 years old. said i could come back and take pictures, also he would like to be in the pictures! 2 are blooming now, HT style blooms, red color, very pretty. I dont think they were very scented. met his wife too, husband wants me to come back soon since 'he's there everyday'..! unusual to see this type of climber so tall around here. glad i'm not shy.. | ||
| alida ray (Altora) Bug Squisher Username: altora Post Number: 108 Registered: 10-2005 |
There is a house in my neighborhood with a climber growing on the house-it is not a rambler(i don't think) but looks like a large-flowered climber. It goes to the second story, which is unusual around here. The color of the blooms remind me of 'rosarium uetersen'. This is an old italian neighborhood (known as the 'navy yard') and the elderly people there don't speak english. I'm going to try and ask them about it though. Another neighbor has an old rose which looks like 'duc de cambridge' to me. last year alot of the blooms had proliferations. it IS the most fragrant rose i've ever smelled. it gets no care and gets pretty tall & sprawling. last year they cut it all back almost to the ground!! Now I can see how many suckers there are, probably takes up 8' X 4'. There are a few HT's here and there, they look old (judging by the canes)though. And Dr. Huey is growing next door, they say it used to be a white climber. I really want to find out about that climber though.... About 10 years ago I pulled out a rose that was in my yard, tall once blooming looked like a white HT very fragrant. Now I wish I had at least tried to find out what it was...! |