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"REMEMBER ME" ROSE GARDEN

2013-09-09T16:11:00.001-04:00

There isn’t an American who is not affected by the events of September 11, 2001. Sue Casey wanted a living memorial for the victims and survivors of September 11, 2001 so she founded the “Remember Me” Rose Gardens in each area to honor those whose lives were lost and all who honor freedom. “Remember Me” Rose Gardens were created on or near each of the three sites to honor the spirit of the men and women whose lives were lost in New York, at the Pentagon, and at a field in Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

We have always given roses to show sympathy and share the grief of our loved ones. In our darkest hours, the rose extends her beauty and provides solace to us. Always there, always comforting, always reassuring, the Rose, our National Floral Emblem, has always been a symbol of life, liberty and freedom. Let us continue to give roses and plant roses in the spirit of freedom. I saw this poem on a tablet in a memorial garden dedicated to those who died on September 11, 2001 attack. The garden is planted with David Austin Roses.

I give you this one thought to keep.

I am with you still, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the Diamond glint on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle Autumn rain.

When you waken in the mornings hush,

I am the swift, uplifting rush

Of quiet bird in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not think of me as gone.

I am with you still, in each new dawn.

SIMPLE SOLUTION AGAINST BLACKSPOTS

2013-09-02T09:16:00.001-04:00

The solution seemed too simple, and too healthy to be effective. If you got any of this on your clothes or skin you would only get cleaner and suffer no ill effects, because it is only a soap solution. The solution is an alkaline base, which the plants thrive on and the black spot and powdery mildew hate.

Spraying on a weekly or 10 day rotation is a must. The same is true for the toxic sprays. It is recommended that you try it in a controlled area and see if you are happy with the results before you commit to an all garden test.

The simple solution is made by using bar Castile soap and water in a ration of ¼ bar to a quart of water. The soap should dissolve completely in the water and will look a silver milky color. Speed up the process by shaving the soap into the water. When the soap is dissolved you use 1/3 cup of the solution to 1 gallon of water. You don’t have to worry about too much spray on your plants as the dropping off also treats the ground where the black spot lives. This should be used up in a couple of weeks so use the extra on the soil around the plants. Castle soap can be bought in most stores.

FOURTH OF JULY – A ROSE TO CELEBRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE

2013-07-03T16:55:00.001-04:00

Striped Red and White Rose

Parentage: R. 'Roller Coaster' x R. 'Altissimo'.

Fourth of July is a special day for our country. We celebrate our freedom that we cherish and that our veterans fought and died heroically and some are still fighting to preserve what we enjoy today. Won't it be nice to honor our country by having “Fourth of July” rose in our garden? Yes, a rose by the name of “Fourth of July”. As a gardener, I designed my front garden in the theme of Red, White and Blue. I have white alyssum, blue pansies and red roses.

“Fourth of July” is a semi-double, gorgeous ruffled petals climber that looks like a burst of fireworks when in bloom. It has long, pointed buds and 3" and 4" blooms with striped red and white petals and glossy, dark green foliage. It is a vigorous plant and can grow 10 to 14 ft. high. It is the first climber to be honored as a 1999 All-America Selection winner for a long time. I planted mine next to a palm tree hoping it would climb the palm tree but the canes were growing away from the tree so I pegged the long cane last week. Pegging or bending the cane down and pegging it to the ground encourages more lateral stems and more blooms. Next year, I plan to dig it up and move it next to the pillar supporting my front terrace and train it to climb the pillar.

“Fourth of July” has strong apple fragrance, a very refreshing scent. Color is dramatic. It is a stunning plant, a real traffic stopper. It is an excellent repeat blooming rose with sensational flowers all season long. It is the best climber around winning awards at rose show around the country. You can plant them attached to an arch, pergola or trellis for a stunning display of colorful blooms. Some gardeners use them as a shrub in the entranceway to the garden. To grow them as a shrub, prune them heavily in the spring.

Best grown in medium moisture, slightly acidic, well-drained garden loams in full sun to part shade. Water deeply and regularly (mornings are best). Good air circulation is important because it promotes vigorous and healthy growth and helps prevent diseases. Summer mulch helps retain moisture, keeps roots cool and discourages weeds. Remove spent flowers to encourage rebloom. Remove and destroy diseased leaves from plants, as practicable, and clean up and destroy dead leaves from the ground around the plants both during the growing season and as part of winterizing your roses in late fall. It is very disease resistant and winter hardy. Few roses can command attention like Fourth of July. It only has 10-16 petals but when Fourth of July is i bloom, it is quite a show.

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SPRING IN THE ROSE GARDEN

2013-04-28T20:36:00.001-04:00

After this crazy winter when temperature went warm in January, then too cold in February, it is nice to see the garden coming to life again . The air is warming up, the birds are coming back and you hear them chirping again. The nurseries are brimming with new plants, gardeners are swarming the garden centers and heading home to plant those beautiful plants. They are so enthused to start digging. But there are so many things to do first:

· Gather some soil from four different sections of the garden. Let them dry and take them to your Cooperation Extension for a soil test.

· Scatter Epsom salt in the garden. A handful for Hybrid Teas and other big flowered roses will suffice and Minis get half the dosage.

· Then start pruning. The basic rule is to prune your roses when the forsythia blooms. Cut out all diseased, damaged and dead wood, down to the white pith. If you see brown, cut further down. Seal all cuts with Elmer’s Glue.

· After you have done with pruning, remove all leaves and clean the garden of old, diseased leaves. They are the depository of blackspot spores and mildew.

· Next thing to do is spread some fertilizer. I used a Bayer All-in-One Rose & Flower Care. In some states, you can not buy the Bayer All-in-One which is much better product than Bayer 2-in-One. Bayer All-in-One contains fertilizer, fungicide and insecticide. I find this very effective in preventing diseases and it gives my roses my first feeding for the season. Watch the weather forecast and spread it before it rains. Some rosarians use 10-20-10 or 12-24-12.

· Once the roses start leafing out, spray with dormant oil. It seems to work. I don’t have much blackspot. Aphids should be coming in droves pretty soon. Get some ladybugs. They will do the trick. Also put some nematodes in your lawn. They kill the grubs which later become Japanese beetles.

· Last thing to do is mulch. If you have mulch there already, add more but stir the old mulch first. Some mulch packs down and has to be stirred a bit for better water penetration. Mulch controls the weeds and keeps the bed moist.

Here at Rose Gardening World, we’ll educate you about the Rose - our National Floral Emblem and the state flower of several states. Welcome to Rose Gardening World where Rose Gardening Tips, Rose Growing Advice, Planting a Rose Garden, Rose Descriptions, Where to Buy Roses, Where to see Rose Gardens, Rose Culture, Rose History, Rose Events, Rose Verses are all here in one place.

We are constantly updating our contents so visit Rose Gardening World often. We want to help you grow Beautiful Roses and we welcome comments. Take time and smell the roses.

Happy Rose Gardening!

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FORMAL ROSE GARDENS - PART I

2013-04-02T22:53:00.000-04:00

As rosarians, we are in constant pursuit of a rose garden whenever and wherever we are. During the rose peak blooming season, we love to see all rose gardens we can possibly see. In this pursuit, we come across all types of rose garden designs. On most of the public gardens we see, there is one element that seems to prevail. Have you ever noticed that the rose garden in a public setting is always a formal garden? Elizabeth Park, the first municipal rose garden in America, and the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at New York Botanical Garden are fine examples of formal rose gardens. For centuries, the Queen of Flowers seems to command a place in the garden where order and calmness prevails.

Formal gardens were the gardener’s ultimate expression of man’s control over nature. The greatest formal garden in the world is Versailles in France. The medieval monks perfected the neatly ordered knot herb garden. The miniature knot garden at Rosemary Verey’s Barnsley House in England interfaces two kinds of boxwood, green and golden with clipped germander. Yet we do not have to go abroad to see one. I saw a knot garden at Agecroft Hall in Richmond, Virginia and another one at a private garden on the East End of Long Island.

The Italian garden with fountains and water features are also very formal. There is a great example of the Italian Garden at a less known garden “Nemours” of the DuPont family at the Brandywine Valley in Delaware. In France, Andre Le Notre designed the formal gardens at Versailles for Louis XIV, the Sun King. Boxwood parterres that punctuate an English Rose Garden are well documented. Then there was the garden of William and Mary with baroque parterres in the 1680’s at the palace of Het Loo in Holland. The Roseraie at the Parc de la Grange near Lake Geneva is a highly formal rose garden of 25,000 roses.

About three thousand years ago, the Egyptians developed a formal pleasure garden with water as an essential element. In Granada, Spain, at the Generalife garden above the Alhambra is a formal garden with narrow water channels called rils hemmed in by hedges and cypresses with standard roses along the perimeter of the hedges. I saw a small version of a Persian Garden at the 60,000 sq. ft. conservatory at Doris Duke Garden in New Jersey. George Washington’s garden at Mount Vernon is still a formal garden but not as elaborate as those found in some expansive gardens in Europe. Every master of landscape design from the Renaissance on have put their marks into the landscape of formal design with the exception of Lancelot “Capability” Brown who integrated the surrounding into the natural contours of the landscape. The most basic components of the formal design can be summed up into few basic principles – clipped hedges, stone pavings or grass pathways, clear vistas like big expanses of lawn- these are the elements which form the palette of formality. Just like doing a flower arrangement but in a much broader sense, the principle of order and a sense of achieving beauty and harmony are of paramount importance.

Here at Rose Gardening World, we’ll educate you about the Rose - our National Floral Emblem and the state flower of several states. Welcome to the World of Rose Gardening or Rose Gardening World where Rose Gardening Tips, Rose Growing Advice, Planting a Rose Garden, Rose Descriptions, Where to Buy Roses, Where to see Rose Gardens, Rose Culture, Rose History, Rose Events, Rose Verses are all here in one place.

We are constantly updating our contents so visit Rose Gardening World often. We want to help you grow Beautiful Roses and we welcome comments. Take time and smell the roses.

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MAIL ORDER ROSE SUPPLIERS

2013-01-17T17:06:00.003-05:00

For those who are looking where to buy good roses, the following is a list of rose suppliers that I have used over the years and are very happy with their products and services.

Antique Rose Emporium

9300 Lueckemeyer Road

Brenham, TX 77833-6453

PH: 800-441-0002

FX: 409-836-0928

E-Mail: roses@weareroses.com

Chamblee’s Rose Nursery

10926 US Hwy 69 N

Tyler, TX 75706-5933

PH: 800-256-7673

FX: 903-882-3597

Email: roses@tyler.net

Website:www.chambleeroses.com

Edmunds’ Roses

6235 S.W. Kahle Road

Wilsonville, OR 97070

PH: 888-481-7673

FX: 503-682-1275

Email: info@edmundsroses.com

Website: www.edmundsroses.com

Heirloom Roses

24062 Riverside Drive NE

St. Paul, OR 97137

PH: 503-538-1576

FX: 503-538-5902

Website: www.heirloomroses.com

J.W. Jung Seed Co.

335 S. High St.

Randolph, WI 53957-0001

PH: 800-247-5864

FX: 800-692-5864

Website: www.jungseed.com

K&M Roses

1260 Chicora River Rd.

Buckatunna, MS 39322

PH: 601-648-2908

Email: info@kandmroses.com

www.kandmroses.com

Regan Nursery

4286 Decoto Road

Fremont, CA 94555

PH: 510-797-3222

FX: 510-793-5408

Email: regan@regannursery.com

Website: www.regannursery.com

Rosemania

4020 Trail Ridge Dr.

Franklin, TN 37067

PH: 888-600-9665

Website – www.rosemania.com

Roses Unlimited

363 N. Deerwood Dr.

Laurens, SC 29360

PH: 864-682-7673

Website: www.rosesunlimitedownroot.com

Roses of Yesterday & Today Rose Garden

803 Brown’s Valley Road

Watsonville, CA 95076

PH: 831-728-1901

Website: www.rosesofyesterday.com

Spring Hill Nurseries

110 West Elm St.

Tipp City, OH 45371-1699

PH: 812-537-2177

FX: 812-537-9059

Website: www.springhillnursery.com

Wayside Gardens

1 Garden Lane

Hodges, SC 29695-0001

PH: 800-845-1124

FX: 800-817-1124

Website: www.waysidegardens.com

White Flower Farm

P.O. Box 50

Litchfield, CT 06759-0050

Ph: 800-503-9624

FX: 860-496-1418

Website: www.whiteflowerfarm.com

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Tournament of Roses Parade - 124 years strong

2012-12-31T16:26:00.000-05:00

On Tuesday, January 1, 2013, the 124^th Rose Parade with the theme “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” named after the Dr. Seuss book starts at 8:00 a.m. (PT) followed by the 99^th Rose Bowl Game at 3:10 pm between the Wisconsin Badgers, champions of the Big Ten Conference, and the Stanford Cardinal, champions of the Pac-12 Conference, a rematch of the same two teams in the 2000 Rose Bowl. From a humble beginning, the Rose Parade is now presented by Honda and expects to be watched by millions on television in more than 100 countries plus a million of spectators along the parade routes. The Rose Bowl Game is presented by VIZIO. The Rose Bowl Game will be televised on ESPN and begins at 1:30 PM PST with kickoff at 2:10 PM PST. The game will be presided over by the 2013 Rose Queen Vanessa Manjarrez, the Royal Court, Tournament of Roses President Sally Bixby and Grand Marshal Jane Goodall. Dr. Jane Goodall is a British anthropologist best known for her work with chimpanzees and also serves as United Nations Messenger of Peace.