My Blaze Roses

[Gram18]

Well my dh took it upon himself this past spring to trim my blaze rose bush,WITHOUT MY PERMISSION, I might add! Ahem bad thing bad thing! Any way, he was very lucky, it took off!! I will post it in the photo gallery so yu all can see it. Have to get busy and download my pictures in photobucket. So please forgive!

[PlantSwap]

Lol. Once I was working overseas and dw hired some yard crew to de-weed the garden beds. They managed to pull several babies that I had inherited at some plant swaps thinking they were weeds becuase they are used to plain suburbian garden beds. Oh well, what can you do?

[Vicki in West MI]

Oh, I need to click around here, Blaze rose. I planted a bush this early summer and managed to have 2 blooms on it. I'm new to roses along with alot of other plants too.

[PlantSwap]

Hi Vicki, welcome to the forum.

[Vicki in West MI]

Thanks for the welcome. I added 5 roses this past season and am looking forward to adding alot more. We have 1 1/2 acres with lots of open room, that
I'm slowly converting to 'our slice of paradise'. Probably sounds like any other garden addict.

[Gram18]

There`s a picture of them in the photo gallery Vickie. oh and welcome to the forum.

[PlantSwap]

We have 1 1/2 acres with lots of open room, ...

My big problem is that I have 3/4 acre which I think is 1.5 acres...

[Vicki in West MI]

Gram,
Thanks for the welcome. I seen your lovely pic of your blaze roses. What bloomers! How many roses do you grow? I added Queen Elizabeth cl, Blaze cl, red knockout,
pink knockout, & Maria Stern (subzero rose). The only established rose is a pink climber that blooms once a year. Very lovely when in bloom, but sure would like some with longer or repeating bloom.
We live next door to my Mom and she has 17 acres, so sometimes I imagine what it would be like to garden on that much acerage! I think I'd need help. LOL!

[Gram18]

I used to grow alot more then I have right now. The flood we had one time in our back yard before we took care of that situation, took out 3 new rose bushes I had just planted, and I never replaced them. However I have the Blaze roses, and my Weeping china dolls. I`ll put them in the gallery, be sure to take a look.

[rosequeen]

Hi all, Just to let you know I have the Don Juan climber and a new one
called "Cardinal de Richelieu" it's a rare(purple) one and hoping to see it bloom this year, will add pic's soon as it do's, we just moved here and the yard was soo bare, am working on it. I'm disabled and dh works, he do's most of the yard work,lol, I'm hoping to add more shrubs,tree's too, Thanks for listening, rosequeen
Question, what's a good white rose to add?-

[txbeyer]

Rosequeen, I have avoided white roses due to the fact that they seem to lack fragrance - don't exactly know why, but although beautiful to look at, fragrance is a big thing for roses. Be interested, like you, to see if anyone else comes up with some recommendations.

[txbeyer]

Sea Foam 1964 3 x 6' Fragrant double white blooms, trailing habit

Found one for you, this is one of the "Earth Friendly" roses recommended by Texas A&M, meaning requires less water, disease resistant, etc. Might want to check this one out - do a little internet research on it.

Antique Rose Emporium in Brenham, TX would probably have this.

[rosequeen]

> Thanks for the reply, am doing research on it, many thanks and will
keep you updated,. Rosequeen