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Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.              Skiekitty Jun 19, 2013 10:59 AM CST |
| EDIT: changed the names on 2 after digging around & finding their proper tags. Between a never-ending winter, drought, wind, fire, & now tornadoes (luckily none in my area), I finally have some blooms worth posting!! Yay!! I took all these pictures either last night at dusk or this morning at dawn (only time I have time.. work sucks) Let's start in the front yard. The miniature bed is in full swing! From Left to Right (as best as I can remember): Vista (mauve), no-id dp, Incognito (mauve/yellow reverse), Rise n Shine (yellow), Sweet Arlene (very light lilac), Hot Kiss (pink), no-id white, (second photo) Bees Knees (yellow foreground), Heinrich Karsch (background pink), Winter Magic (whitish on the bottom right), (third photo) Heinrich Karsch (background pink), Bees Knees (yellow in front), Herbie (hidden under Bees Knees, bottom left), Winter Magic (whitish on bottom, extra full), white no-id, pink no-id, Vineyard Song (behind pink no-id), Ring of Fire (far right)     Vista & Rise n Shine   Ring of Fire & Vineyard Song  Heinrich Karsch   Hot Kiss   Incognito Now for full-sized roses in the front yard Heirloom, Intrigue, Cherish  Betty Boop & Charles de Mills  RedGold  Mr. Lincoln, Charisma, Sunny Delight/Escapade Angel Face, BlueGirl, California Dreamin' Circus, Ketchup & Mustard, & Koko Loko Perfume Delight, Montezuma, Sonia Dick Clark, Scentimental, Voluptuous! Now for the Back Yard First, the Pond Area, Neptune, English Perfume  Blue Girl, Buxom Beauty (blooms the wrong color again?), Cinco de Mayo  Crimson Gallica, Firefighter, Distant Drums Halle, Hansa, Florescent Fuscia  Macho Man, Magenta, Nightingale Perfect Moment (AGAIN blooming wrong!!) & a friend (first one of the year!)   Playboy (Crimson Gallica in background), Solar Flash South Africa Purple Splash Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Porkpal Richmond, TX           porkpal Jun 19, 2013 11:42 AM CST |
| Wow, Toni! Truly a display worth the wait! Porkpal |
Name: Cindi Wichita, Kansas (Zone 7a)         CindiKS Jun 20, 2013 12:35 PM CST |
| Toni that is incredible! Your roses go from zero to 60 in under 5 seconds, don't they?! Even more impressive than you growing these in such a harsh climate, is that you work full time and maintain this by yourself. Wow wow wow. Good show!    Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Jun 20, 2013 1:14 PM CST |
| More pictures from this morning. Taken with DH's Sony CyberShot rather than my Rebel. The full mini bed.  Golden Masterpiece, Tequila Sunrise, Cardinal Hume Perfume Tiger, Honey Sweet, Othello Scentimental, Lavender Dream, Princess de Monaco California Dreamin', Mardi Gras, Ketchup & Mustard Sheila's Perfume, RedGold, Escapade Escapade, Sunny Delight, Vavoom! (with friends!! expand to see them!)  Orange Velvet, Henry Fonda, Charles de Mills  Now for the backyard. Purple Tiger, Florence deLattre, English Perfume Two different Sterling Silvers, & a Sterling Silver / Singin' the Blues / Midnight Blue l    Dick Clark, (I think) Neptune, Rhapsody in Blue   White Licorice, Doris Tysterman, Ink Spots Magenta, Solar Flash, South Africa Hansa, Nightingale, BlueGirl Firefighter, New Year, Elle  Marmalade Skies, Macho Man, Koko Loko George Burns, Honey Sweet, Crimson Gallica Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Jun 20, 2013 1:28 PM CST |
CindiKS said:Toni that is incredible! Your roses go from zero to 60 in under 5 seconds, don't they?!  My gardens are my stress relief. When I get home from work, throw out the dogs so they can go pee, then wander around looking at the roses, pulling weeds (and more weeds.. and more weeds.. and more weeds... I swear to friggin cawd that bindweed grows overnight!!! Through the weedblock!!), take pictures.. digging holes & admiring big fat worms... I even have a few resident robins who literally follow me around the yard knowing that I'm going to be disturbing the mulch & that's where the big worms are! I made the mistake early this spring moving some mulch & finding some kind of yucky nasty big white grubs & threw the grubs towards the robins. Now they follow me around almost like a puppy begging for a treat! Or I'll just sit there on the porch (well, I will as soon as the damned painter dude is done painting!!!!  ) watching the goldfinches & house finches on the feeders... I love it. But I hate that it's so damned hot right now so I can't really do much until after 7-8pm. Then I'm outside for 2-3 hours (usually until about 10pm where it's just way too dark to do anything), being skeeter food, weeding & watering... but I wouldn't change it for the world. And since I just drove through Eastern Colorado, through half of Kansas (to Hays, then south), through Oklahoma, & down into Texas last Saturday, I don't even want to live in a warmer climate! Too freaking hot & humid! Ugh!!! And windy!! OMG talk about wind!!!Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Vicky Thompson Michigan (Zone 5b)      Cottage_Rose Jun 21, 2013 8:58 PM CST |
| WOW! You have a lot of pretty roses! Looks like a great rose season for a lot of us! |
Name: aud/odd Pennsylvania (Zone 6b)   Cinta Jun 22, 2013 11:10 AM CST |
| WOW you really are growing a lot of roses for your zone. I killed my redgold. It lasted only 2 years. I like the color so much. What is your secret. Do you do a lot of protection for winter? |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Jun 23, 2013 10:00 PM CST |
| Cinta - What I do is bury every rose exceedingly deep (the top of the pot if a potted rose a minimum of 2" below the surface level of dirt), mound the excess dirt around the canes so there's a volcano of dirt with the canes being the eruption, and then pile mulch on top of that. A minimum of 2-6" of mulch on every single rose. My yard is nothing but one giant mulch pile for the most part. But, after the mulch decays (2-3 years), the soil is SOOO rich!! And it's taken me at least 5 years of figuring out what I'm doing wrong and what I'm doing right to get them to grow. And even THEN it's still slightly hit & miss. In fact, one rose that I thought I had lost I dug around trying to find the tag.. I have to take pictures tomorrow morning (provided anything's left as we had a couple of VERY strong thunderstorms fly through here this evening), but my Sweet San Carlos (http://www.helpmefind.com/gard...) is a blooming idiot! On a side note, I picked up 4 new roses today. One is definitely marked right.. Eyeconic (which one, I don't remember.. I think Pink Lemonade). The other 3 were actually marked by the nursery as "Mislabeled", so I got 3gal roses for $20, and then 20% off that! *happy dance!!* One was labeled Distant Drums, but I'm 100% sure it's Dolly Parton. Another was labeled JFK and I'm, again, 100% sure that it's Wild Blue Yonder. The last, I'm not too sure on. I was thinking Trumpter, but it has a scent and starts out more pink than orange. I'll take pix tomorrow morning (if anything's left on the bushes due to the storms). Thunder, lightning, winds, rains.. here I am, digging holes & getting soaked through & through putting in these new roses. I wanted to get them in before the rains ended! Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Cindi Wichita, Kansas (Zone 7a) CindiKS Jun 24, 2013 7:43 AM CST |
| What a score, Toni! Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws.           lovemyhouse Jun 24, 2013 8:09 AM CST |
| It’s okay to not know all the answers. |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Jun 24, 2013 12:23 PM CST |
| Front Yard is really starting to look the way I envisioned it years ago. I need to retake these pictures as they're too light, but here's my front yard. Street view  From my driveway  My mini bed     Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws. lovemyhouse Jun 24, 2013 2:00 PM CST |
| It’s okay to not know all the answers. |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Jun 25, 2013 9:07 AM CST |
| A couple of shots this morning.. was in a rush. Gemini, Europeana, Julia Child    Picante & Sunstruck   Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Debra Garland, TX (NE Dallas suburb) (Zone 8a) Service dogs: Angels with paws. lovemyhouse Jun 25, 2013 10:04 AM CST |
| Julia Child is a trouper down here. Wilts a little in drought, but perks right back up and blooms from Spring all the way into December some years. It’s okay to not know all the answers. |
Name: Cindi Wichita, Kansas (Zone 7a) CindiKS Jun 25, 2013 12:52 PM CST |
| Several years back, I saw a test garden in Oklahoma that had groups of 6-8 of many new roses. It was an extremely hot day, and only one group among 50 or so groups looked happy. I made a note to find that rose. The next year, it was introduced as Julia Child and I bought 3. It still stands out as an exceptional bloomer in extreme weather. Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Jun 25, 2013 1:02 PM CST |
| I bought JC as a boxed bodybag from Costco years ago (.. 2010?). They came in boxes of 2 roses, all certified Weeks roses. I got Tuscan Sun & Golden Celebration, Julia Child & Ebb Tide, Daddy's Little Girl & Ruby Ruby. I've not seen Ruby Ruby since. Golden Celebration, Ebb Tide, & Daddy's Little girl all croaked (but Costco has the awesomest return policy!), but I still have JC, RR, & TS! Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Jun 26, 2013 9:35 AM CST |
| Some pix from this morning.. taking pictures in the dawn light can be a pain in the butt. First, roses in the mini bed. That bed is just going crazy! Ring of Fire (it GLOWS), Vineyard Song, Siena Vigorosa (new from Palatine) Rosy Dawn, Vista / Rosy Dawn, Bees Knees (HUGE bush for a mini)  Now for full sizes Picante, Cardinal de Richelieu, Perfume Tiger Sundowner, Outta the Blue (this was dead down to the ground due to winterkill), Cardinal Hume (the petals never open.. always stay closed like this) Honey Sweet, Aromatherapy, Artistry Koko Loko, Montezuma, Joseph's Coat (buried in a Magic Carpet spirea.. this is supposed to be a climber but has never gotten taller than 18") Ice Girl, Orchid Masterpiece, & my neighbors' roses. No idea on what they are, but he's ripping them out next week. I would take them if I had a place for them! Such a shame... these roses have to be at least 25 years old.  Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Porkpal Richmond, TX porkpal Jun 26, 2013 11:24 AM CST |
| Toni you have some really lovely minis. I gave up on growing any; they always got lost in the weeds. Porkpal |
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Skiekitty Jun 26, 2013 12:33 PM CST |
| PPal - You should try Bees Knees. That bush is HUGE for a mini. I posted this in the database, but here's a pic of the entire plant. It stands about.. honestly.. 3.5-4ft tall and is about 3 across. It's a little leggy at the bottom, but that's why I have other plants around it (I didn't plan it that way, it just happened). The other really big mini in the background is Incognito. Again, another huge mini, pretty leggy though. She stands probably about the same size. Roses are one of my passions! Just opened, my Etsy shop (to fund my rose hobby)! http://www.etsy.com/shop/Tweet... |
Name: Porkpal Richmond, TX porkpal Jun 26, 2013 1:03 PM CST |
| Thanks, I love the name "Bees Knees"! Porkpal |
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