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One little goodbye
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Posted by tom_pariz WA Aust (My Page) on Tue, Mar 21, 06 at 8:02
Dear all,
Hope you won't mind for posting this little message, for I'm leaving you all for a while. A course of things wanted me to relocate from WA to VIC, so I've put my house on sale. And that's why I have to say goodblye to all my roses too. Again, hope you won't mind if I post few little pics I've taken today, of the rosebeds I never photographed before. I wanted to have them in my book of wonderful memories.
Thank you all for your great advices, help, inspiration and your friendship. And I hope to see you again here, of course!
- Tom
Red rosebed and yellow rosebed, in front of my home.
Red rosebed: Chrysler Imperial (front row), Oklahoma, Papa Meilland, Mister Lincoln, Granada. Climbers in the background of red rosebed are (from left): Jaune Desprez, Amber Gold, Leander.
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Yellow rosebed
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| Yellow rosebed. Friesia, Gold Bunny, Holtermann's Gold, Gold Medal, Arizona, blue salvia, and in the background of yellow rosebed there are Lamarque (left), coleus and Othello (rising his arms on the right -- he's still a baby). 
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RE: One little goodbye
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| Nice pics Tom, and a help with my understanding of what to underplant or interplant to make the rose bed less bare. |
Rosebed
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Nadia,
inspired by your post, I've made a drawing that might be helpful to you, and someone else looking for an idea how to make rosebeds opulent. This is how I made some of my rosebeds and of course, this is just one approach. You add your own ideas, plants that will make good companions to your roses. It's a fact -- there's nothing as beautiful as a rose flower, but there's nothing as sorrowful as a lonely rose. In order to be expressed fully, roses need company of other plants, with various flower types, shapes and colours. Only then they will stand out completely!
- Tom 
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Passage
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The reason I've made a passage in the rosebed is that I can feed and prune roses in the back. I'm feeding and pruning smaller roses from the front, but for taller roses and climbers I need more reach; therefore the passage. Also, I don't like to prune them according to some special method, but I rather let them grow and express themselves and I just prune them to remove dead branches and tame excessive growth (especially with HTs).
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RE: One little goodbye
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Looking good Tom what a shame you have to say goodbye to your roses.
I am sure your next garden in Victoria will be just as good if not better
I wont say Goodbye as I am sure we will see you again on Garden Web in the future..
Good Luck and a very safe journey to your new Paradise......Cheers...MM. |
RE: One little goodbye
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| Hi Tom, What a lovely garden you are leaving! The best thing about moving is that you get to start a new garden from scratch - and all the mistakes or things you wished you could have done before, you can do! The worst thing is starting from scratch is all the hard work, and not having mature plants for a few years. :( Where in Victoria are you moving to? Melbourne? Or somewhere else? Enjoy your move. cheers Kate |
RE: One little goodbye
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| Tom, you're an absolute sweetheart. I'd saved the pics to my desktop because I hadn't really realised you could interplant with roses - I would have made a terrible mistake in my attempts to plan out a bed tho, because I wouldn't have left the pruning passageway. Thankyou for the diagram. Nadia |
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