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Posted by suesette vic Aust (My Page) on Sun, Jun 19, 05 at 19:06
After a long wet Sunday with a Dingo and a fabulous operator I've ended up with two rose beds I wasn't expecting. The problem one is beside the driveway. It's about ten metres long and I think needs to be all one rose, possibly hedging eventually. I've moved from my first thought of standard Icebergs (yes, I know, but gee they're pretty)to perhaps Scabrosa or Gruss an Aachen.
Colour doesn't really matter, it's a fair way from any brickwork. Scent would be nice, but it's not vital.
Any ideas?
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RE: Too much choice
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| After spending hours in a Rose Nursery in Victoria trying to work out which ones I wanted and ending up ordering nineteen which are being shipped today I do not envy you the choice of picking from those two. Both are lovely, one so colourful, there are so many out there take your time look them all up on the websites and I am sure only you will decide which one you want and Good Luck with your choice......MM |
RE: Too much choice
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Every rose nursery I go to, there is one plant that always catches my eye - leaps out at me and cals me over for a closer look. That is Bonica. I finally weakened my resolve, and bought 5 plants on special at K-mart and will mass plant them beside the new carport. I already have 2 standard and 4 shrub Bonicas, but in mixed plantings.
Another rose that might be worth your consideration for an excellent hedgeing effect is Sally Holmes - masses of lovely large white single roses. |
RE: Too much choice
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Gruss an Aachen is a great idea. Ditto Bonica. Other nice bushy roses include:
Sexy Rexy (pink, no scent)
White Lightnin (white, great scent)
Molineux (yellow, Austin, good scent)
Simplicity (a variety of colours here, little scent)
Jubilee Celebration (the best Austin in my opinion, great scent, bushy form and very floriferous) |
RE: Too much choice
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| Bonica is great for what you want but I've just done the same thing, planted a row of medium size roses with another rose to fill the lower section, eg, to have foliage and flower at 1 to 1.5 metres with another to cover in underneath with a decent space between. I'm looking for privacy (well, almost privacy) along a black pool fence. I chose seduction - 8 of them - a delicate pink-edged floribunda with a subtle scent for the higher growth, and freesia (7) for the under foreground foliage and flower. I liked the idea of the colour contrast (pure yellow, without a tinge of gold, beneath the whity-pale pink of seduction). Both have a delicate fragrance and, where I am in the almost sub-tropics, fairly disease resistant in regard to black-spot and aphids. |
RE: Too much choice
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| depends on priority...i/berg...flowers almost non stop...the others pretty...at times...ooh...i just added a square after i bumped the keyboard and have no idea how i did that!....anyway....go with your first thoughts and bung in some standard i/bergs @ about 1.5 metre centres |
RE: Too much choice
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Good luck with your choices susette
I just wish I had your problem:))
I have almost no room left now and would love some more space--lol
Michelle |
RE: Too much choice
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You won't be sorry if you choose Sally Holmes as suggested in another post. She is beautiful and soooo easy to prune because she gets huge bosses of blooms on one stem . Quite large though, so make sure whatever you choose, it isn't going to scratch anyone or anything or you will end up cursing the choice of roses. I grow her with a large flowered clematis like C. Ernest Markham planted underneath to come up through it.Good luck and enjoy.
Scabrosa is a good choice too and her hips are spectacular. No problems with disease on either of these.
Ria |
RE: Too much choice
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Thanks for all the suggestions. At the rate we are civilising our 2/3 acre block I'll probably get to try most of them.
In the middle of getting the driveway bed prepared I realised possums were eating one of our big gums, so we eradicated their nesting area and relocated them (sounds easy when you put it in one sentence).Voila, another rose bed! And one that gets no sun so now has camellias and rhodies.
So, I've gone with Scabrosa and Rugosa Alba for the drive. Bonica and Iceberg for the other and when my big order comes I'll sort out where to put them in the big bed that started all this.
The only rose I really want and haven't been able to get is Fortunes Double Yellow. It's on Ross's list but they didn't grow it this year. I fancy having a lash at Chinas and Teas. Does anyone know where it can be had? |
RE: Too much choice
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You could try Magic Garden Roses in Healesville Melbourne. Check their web site. They may be able to get it in for you.
Same with Reliable roses. They are getting an "old "rose for me this season.They have a good site as well.
Michelle |
RE: Too much choice
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- Posted by leyla Central Vic (My Page) on
Tue, Jul 5, 05 at 6:34
Hedgegrow Roses has it - I got it from them last year.
Leyla |
RE: Too much choice
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Thanks Leyla and Michelle,
Hedgerow still have FDY, so the corner I'd chosen for it can stay in the plan.
Now if my orders would just start arriving I could get on with things. |
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