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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
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 Posted - 21/02/2009 : 16:29:01
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 maybe a pic of just opened Richard ??
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 21/02/2009 : 17:45:22
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Its real grass and clover Gwen,it was getting watered once a week while there was no rain,i do have admit the lawn is looking good at the moment.I dont fertilize or spray it at all,not with kids running around on it.
Lilli Marleen doesn't ring a bell M A,i`ll try and get a better photo tomorrow |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 21/02/2009 : 20:01:23
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That would be great Richard yes opened would be better seeing its a different colour in the centre. How many petals help also.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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TasV
assistant gardener
Australia
157 Posts |
Posted - 21/02/2009 : 22:11:55
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Lilli Marlene is blood red all over with a hint of black through it... like black-shot silk. It is also a floribunda... so the unknown isn't LM.... Looks a bit like the one I shovel pruned a while back that Cree suggested might have been Colourama... same kind of leaf on it too. The garden looks nice and big Richard... but looks like it could use a LOT more roses  |
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2009 : 03:14:41
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TasV This may sound ridicules but there's no room for a rose garden yet,i have a small garden down the east side of the house that i could use but i dont want to have to move them when we rebuild.
I`ll be calling on for some names and advice from the rose growers here then,smelly roses only please 
I hope this's pic ok,theres a small amount of yellow at its center |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2009 : 06:56:48
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 love smelly roses
Sorry and I cant help with the ID but I do like it
Lorraine Lee is a great climber. pink and very smelly, I have a pic when your ready Richard
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2009 : 07:26:32
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Rose ID is almost impossible with so many thousands and thousands ... but it's lovely
Crepuscle is a wonderful archway rose, as MA knows. I just bought a new rose pruner (aka Ryobi cordless hedge trimmer, 1 hour battery rechargeable) and it has made a pretty shape of my crepuscle on my "horizontal archway" or my front verandah. A couple of larger branches it would not cut but I can nip them off with the loppers.
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2009 : 10:50:03
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Cannot help you with the ID Richard..sorry
A agree with Pamela on the climbing rose Crepuscule
There are climbers that do not belong on arches and ones that do..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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TasV
assistant gardener
Australia
157 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2009 : 10:59:13
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Pamela!!!! How've you been? WHERE have you been?
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There are climbers that do not belong on arches and ones that do..
Oh yeah!!!! Don't be fooled into putting Mermaid or Rosa Gigantea or Rosa laevigata or Wedding Day or Banksia Roses or any of those MASSIVE roses that will consume a house |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2009 : 14:28:40
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I agree! Simon I have been just trying to survive here with all the work, the puppy and the summer heat and rain ... that's all.
I just moved my gigantea up to the hill behind my house against a 100 foot tall gum with a water sprinkler that I can turn on from the chook house taps. The tree has Mermaid and Gigantea and a fence around them to prevent the horses eating them and some wood to dam the flow of water down the hill. Mermaid has been there for a year but hardly growing but it may have been the horses. I hope the fence does the trick. Should be spectacular with those two giants as you say.
Richard he is RIGHT - avoid those large monsters that are spectacular - just too large for any arch like that. I have seen a few Banksias on a fence that is pruned regularly with a large hedge trimmer and it makes a spectacular country wire fence about 100 metres long with white blossom and pretty leaves the rest of the year but he has to prune it often - like me and my crepuscle.
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
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Posted - 22/02/2009 : 15:00:37
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Richard I cannot help with roses ,but I do like your artistic arrangement
of the bloom with the pruners.
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Gwen
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 22/02/2009 : 19:18:31
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I thought the same thing too Gwen.
It looked so delicate there after Richard chopped its head off..
Richard I hope you put it in water..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 23/02/2009 : 02:44:18
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One of the kids has already put it in a cup of water,its sitting beside me on the table right now while i`m having my coffee.
Thanks Gwen it must be my artistic streaks coming out in me, i normally paint in oils but flower arranging?could open up a whole new world for me,i sure i can find all sorts of things in my shed i could poke some flowers into |
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 23/02/2009 : 07:27:18
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Glad it got a drink Richard.. I bet you can ...
Painting in oils !!!WOW!! clever guy.. Take some photo's..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 23/02/2009 : 08:18:24
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 Orchid 40 who posts here sometimes does fantastic pastels piccies , would love to see a few Richard
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Rose Achway