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Set 'em up again, barkeep
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Posted by BetsyW NSW Aust (My Page) on Tue, Feb 15, 05 at 19:53
| I have to start getting serious about my tasteless plonks, I've decided. My arrangements, as I am pleased to call them, inevitably look like crap - yellow, pink, red, apricot all thrown together to make up the numbers. Effect is not eclectic, not country, not casual - effect is milk-bar bucket. Every year I tell myself that I need absolute FIELDS of certain roses. Every year I get sidetracked by 'trial' novelties.
Spring 2005 is going to be different. Bring on the multiples.
Fragrant Cloud: bringing the number of bushes up from 3 to 6
Valencia/Adolf Horstmann/Just Joey: these work together Bringing the numbers up to 8 bushes in toto.
Adding 3 more Best Friends and trying out 1 Parole. Should work together.
The list is a work in progress, but that's a start
Are y'all planning on doubling and trebling or even quadrupling up any of your favs? |
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RE: Set 'em up again, barkeep
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Nawwwwwwww-I like variety and very rarely even double up on roses.Too many roses that I HAVE to get-and too little room.
My vases are usually a mixture of *hopefully*toning values.
I go mostly for pink,buff/cream,dark red and purple roses-though I have a few creamy apricot ones too- so
i like to mix the bunches up.
Usually I have Queen Anne's lace,ferns or herbs in the vase too.
I do like the massed planting effect though-and would do it if I had several acres.:)
regards
sandie |
RE: Set 'em up again, barkeep
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For vases I don't think you can have too many Just Joeys :-)
After that - Angel face is very cute in a small vase. I have that as a climber, a shrub and a standard. I could manage another 2 or 3. Generally I don't pick many but the David Austins don't mind being mixed as many of them are pink, yellow, apricot creamy tones and go well together. You can put a heap in one vase to support each other.
Some of the floribundas give enough bloom in 1 stalk for a small vase, and I like to pad them out with foliage, especially from my spireas (May). |
RE: Set 'em up again, barkeep
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| I have multiples of Just Joey, Fragrant Cloud, Pat Austin and Apricot Necter. Lots of fragrance for me. I do have single Austins in the backyard . |
RE: Set 'em up again, barkeep
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| I have basically NO garden, so all my roses are in pots. I have been buying singles of things that I think I will like, to see how they actually go, what shape they are, which colours go together. I shuffle my pots around quite a lot to try out different combinations. The long term plan is a BIG rose garden, when we move to the country, maybe next year (have to convince the other half that there is more to life than earning money!), and by then I hope to know enough about the roses I like to be able to buy multiples and mass plant in complementary colour combinations, shapes and sizes. The truth is that small spaces limit what you can put in, and you can go for a garden full of Icebergs (the house next door to me) underplanted with white impatients, or you can indulge in whims of colour just for the hell of it, and not worry about the "fruit salad" effect. I'm a fruit salad girl, myself! If you have the luxury of space in a large garden, mass plantings just add to the stunning impact of beautiful roses.
Lizzy. |
RE: Set 'em up again, barkeep
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Lizzy, I am with you I like the fruit salad effect of colour everywhere.I have a problem with bush roses on my farm because possums and rabbits tend to nibble on the roses resulting in the need for ugly wire cage things .
I have found that if I can get standard roses in the varieties I like.I may have some success.I like coming in off the paddock to discover that my double delights are bloomin their heads off .They are a nice change of pace for me.You do need to convince your other half that stopping to smell the roses is a good idea,even better if they are your own roses! |
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