Monday, May 20, 2019
The Vulnerable Ones
Roses do not grow well in my climate, but I continue to want them. They require insecticidal soaps and fungicides and I try to be as environmentally careful keeping the roses in a very specific area and making sure no pollinators are around and the wind is not blowing. But it is still not good for the environment and one of these days I will admit my folly. But for now, they bloom beautifully throughout the spring before the retreat to black spot and bugs as the heat of summer comes in.
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The bottom two look georgeous. They don't grow well here either, but mother had a crescent shaped rose garden out in front. There's a bit of it still left.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to give them up for sure! Beautiful!
ReplyDeletethey are beautiful. I never had any luck with roses. the country house came with six knock-out rose bushes in the front. now there are four. I did buy one rose, a Cinco de Mayo, which thrives in spite of me.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll give up on the roses here too!
ReplyDeleteRoses are tricky here too, but we manage to do quite well with disease resistant shrub roses. We have our first two rose blooms, always exciting.
ReplyDeleteThey certainly are beautiful, and it takes a lot to cultivate them. It seems everything loves to nibble the lettuces and eat the roses.
ReplyDeleteWe inherited a rose bush and we do nothing to or for it yet it blooms seemingly forever and beautifully. No green thumb here, just lucky on this bush I guess.
ReplyDeleteLucky on your location. Roses are very climate sensitive, both to heat and humidity.
DeleteI never can deal with black spot effectively. I hate using sprays too.
ReplyDeleteAlways grow roses, they have been showing the David Austin roses on the Chelsea flower Show, flamboyant and sumptuous. I have blackspot, not yet appearing but my wall of roses is a delight.
ReplyDeleteI visit them. Cough, hack, cough.
ReplyDeleteRoses are beautiful but, they hurt.
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