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It's so easy
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Posted by pollyanna_57 South Aus. (My Page) on Mon, Jun 26, 06 at 22:31
| I have read many books, listened to many experts?? and have come to the conclusion that roses are the most forgiving plants that one can possibly grow. I have a bed of roses that break all the rules. Only a few hours morning sun, very gravelly soil and planted closer together than is ideal. O.k I do look after all of my roses, regularary watering fertilising etc. I prune early for a number of reasons. The ones that are planted in the crook bed (according to the rules )are great but the ones planted in lousy conditions also very well. I guess that what I am trying to say is that anyone with green fingers or not can grow roses. |
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I'll drink to that. Even my roses look good (most of the time) except now 'cause I've got a garden of sticks according to my kids. I pruned a couple of weeks ago and they already have new growth. I moved the lot at the same time - 2 were in the right position, but 12 were planted wrong - tall in front of short, so I swapped them around, so this year the garden should LOOK like someone knows something.
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Julia |
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Yes Pollyanna I agree too. I do very little to mine and they reward me far more than I deserve. I enjoy pruning. I have done around 50 so far and have 3 times that many before i am finished. Then I like to get in and give them a good weed while they are short. Feed them, mulch them heavily and leave them pretty much alone until this time next year.
I enjoy the "sticks" stage as it holds so much promise of the season to come.
I suspect that my satisfaction with my roses and my garden in general is my lack of expectation. I don't mind things a bit messy, and i take pleasure in the tiniest offering from any of my plants. This is the "Pollyanna" syndrome. Always find something out there to be glad about :-) |
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| OOOOoh you enjoy the sticks stage. I'm not a patient gardener. I'm the type that goes out every morning and looks for another leaf budding (no I don't think I can keep up that level of excitement for long, but it took me about 4 months to get to this planting stage). Pollyanna I used to kill everything I grew (bar the lilly pillys). So I'm fairly sure I don't have a green thumb, just remarkably hardy plants which survive me. |
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I just love the way they grow the roses in Ballarat, down the median strip. They will be pruning the roses in the next couple of weeks, and in a few weeks the daffodil foliage will be taller than the newly pruned roses, then the daffodils will bloom, and the rose plants will be invisible.
As the daffodil floiage wilts, the roses will start to put out new growth, masking the dying daff foliage, which also serves as a mulch. Eventually the roses will bloom and no one will even know the daffodils are there underneat, waiting to do their thing next Winter/Spring. |
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