GV GARDENERS: It is the month of the rose
If you did not visit this lovely spot during April or May, you truly missed a show.
In this garden are many floribunda and hybrid tea roses. There are also miniatures, “old garden roses”, and four climbers. Colors run from sophisticated to slightly garish.
There are old favorites as well as some of the newer names. Hundreds of volunteer hours go into pruning, fertilizing, grooming, and weeding this garden by members of the Rose Society of Green Valley.
Karen Packer, President of the Rose Society is also a Consulting Rosarian. She has grown roses for over twenty-five years, both in Indiana and here.
Newcomers frequently ask if there are secrets to growing roses in the desert. They are surprised to find that roses can be grown year round, blooming in 6-week cycles.
The following data is shared by Mrs. Packer as an overview of culture adjustments needed for success in your rose garden in the desert…
When growing roses in Green Valley some of the things that must be taken into consideration are: weather conditions, difficult soil, lack of rain, and choice of rose.
Our average number of days over 100 degrees is forty-six; however in 2010, we reached seventy-five days over 100 degrees.
It is incredible that these lovely, delicate-looking beauties can survive such punishment!
Summarizing according to Mrs. Packer, the usual rose year in our area looks like this. In January the bushes are pruned back and leaves removed.
This forces dormancy that allows plants to rest during the shorter days. Late February begins the fertilizer cycle. In March the plants are sprayed for insect and disease control.
Mid-April is the first big rose bloom period. May begins the chores of deadheading, weeding, and more fertilizer.
By the middle of June the second bloom begins. Watering and deadheading continue through July and August with a small amount of fertilizer added.
By September the bushes are lightly pruned (up to one-third of the bush) and a regular dose of fertilizer is applied.
The end of October is time for the third bloom. During November and December, allow the hips to develop. No deadheading and no more fertilizer; this is the beginning of the rest cycle.
Currently, the strong winds and high temperatures are stressing the roses, and petals are drying. Buds are smaller and thrips have found some of the white roses, their favorite.
A water wand attachment for your garden hose is a great tool in the rose garden.
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I spent last Wednesday, the hottest day of the year thus far, at the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden selecting my favorites from the more than 600 new varieties that have been planted there since 2007.
There are old favorites as well as some of the newer names. Hundreds of volunteer hours go into pruning, fertilizing, grooming, and weeding this garden by members of the Rose Society of Green Valley. Karen Packer, President of the Rose Society is also
For about a year, the 68-year-old Franklin Township woman couldn't get to her favorite summer destination — the Rudolf W. van der Goot Rose Garden, which had undergone a major renovation. "Those summer days really dragged by," she said.
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Did more pruning, watering and deadheading instead of letting their BlackBerries grow wild, they’d surely be better off.
No flower – nor any social networking tool--is more romantic than a rose.
I love iris, orchids and lilies of the valley -- just about anything that blooms, but roses, cultivated for more than 5,000 years, are in a class of their own. Having a very shady garden, and therefore being unable to grow roses, and wanting to enjoy someone else’s hard work (oh, the pruning, the watering, the deadheading!), I wandered up to Tudor Place a few weeks ago in search of roses and a bit of borrowed romance.
Roses are among the original ornamentals planted at Tudor Place, where Martha Custis Peter, Martha Washington’s granddaughter and the mansion’s first occupant, planted them in 1815, near the end of the War of 1812. She must have done so just as the house, designed for her and her husband by William Thornton, the architect of the Capitol, was nearing completion at what is now 1644 31 “Old Blush), which was brought from China to the West in 1752. It is upright as well, and can be grown as a climber. At Tudor Place it is in a perfect spot: full sun on the south side of the house, where it thrives next to the “Four Seasons Rose” bearing medium pink blossoms all summer long. Perhaps it’s the romantic in me that likes to think of the first First Lady’s granddaughter taking cuttings from the roses at Mount Vernon where she was born, and planting them at her new home in Georgetown. The “Old Blush” shrubs currently growing at Tudor Place are very likely cuttings of the ones Martha Custis Peter herself planted.
Her descendants also planted roses, most notably in the knot garden north of the house. It dates to the early 1800’s and was originally planted with herbs near the Round Garden where the Peter family grew vegetables. The original knot garden was decimated in the late 1850’s by neighbors who poached its boxwood hedges for Christmas greens while Britannia Peter, then owner of Tudor Place, was away. When Britannia returned at the beginning of the Civil War, she replaced the knot garden with grass, and had most of the boxwoods moved to the lower walk, where some of them still survive.
That was the end of the knot garden, the layout of which was forgotten, until Britannia’s grandson and great grandson serendipitously found a copy of the plan in a book published by the Virginia Garden Club. The book described a number of gardens, including one belonging to a Peter cousin who’d replicated the Tudor Place knot many years before at Avenel, her estate in the Potomac community of Montgomery County. Delighted with the discovery, Armistead Peter III, Tudor Place’s final owner, persuaded his father to take cuttings of the original boxwoods and, using the newly minted shrubs, recreated the original knot garden across the walk from the old one with a few adjustments, and planted roses in it, rather than herbs.
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