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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
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 Posted - 03/03/2009 : 06:21:04
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I have never seen my roses so healthy. They are all bursting with lots of new purple growth - the ones I pruned mercilessly so that the young people helping me could mulch under them easily and the ones that I did not prune. Just bursting with life and not a scrap of disease on any one of them. I could never spray as I have so much trouble just spraying to keep weeds at bay. The hot weather and now the rain is just terrific. I took some photos and will post some on. Wish I could get more blooms though as I am doing another wedding in cream, mauve and purple for bouquets with some apricot for the reception flowers and so really hanging on some particular roses to get their act together as I need blooms in 3 weeks.
But all I can say if you wanted to plant healthy easy to care for shrubs, go roses!
Photos coming:
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 06:30:12
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 looking forward to seeing your piccies Pruple and cream look great together, I did a container for one of the roses shows with champagner and ebb tide
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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Posted - 03/03/2009 : 06:55:05
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Are they your Scabrosa roses Pamela , Its amazing what a bit of rain will do, it only seems a few weeks since you said so many of your plants were dieing, so good to read they are coming on again..
I will look forward to seeing pics of yours roses also..
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 08:00:11
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The roses were never dying Mary Anne from the 49 degree heat, it was the 15-20 feet tall trees such as Golden Elm and the 18 Manchurian Pears down part of the driveway. They are recovering. Roses don't die from heat if their roots are down and they are mulched. Now though with quite a lot of humidity and rain, ALL the roses are fantastic Mary Anne and it was not the scabrosas I was thinking of. Just no disease at all on any of the hybrid teas, noisettes, tea, chinas and rugosas. They must love this weather, the heat, humidity and the rain.
Dark Lady (after a prune to a stump a month or more ago) and weeping Crepuscle in the front bed with yellowed edges. Now I have got the weeds under control (sort of) in these several acres, I am focussing on companion planting
A lovely old hybrid tea from Alistair Clarke - with dead heads - and I have forgotten her name but I will edit - blooms like a sandwich plate
Another tea bed - all full of new growth. A young Sally Holmes and Nevada and then teh Marie van Houttes in teh background. Under the magnolia are 3 "Many Happy Returns" hybrid teas and a lot of kikiyu grass which has been killed by teh fusilade spray and is going yellow.
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 08:01:20
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Nine mutabilis (a China rose) and lomandra longifolia (which I love) around the pool - I am always asked "what plant is that?" as no one realises it is a rose
Monsieur Tillier (aka Archduk Joseph) a tea and a grafted gum with two small Comptesse de Calya in the front of the bed - all gettting ready for their next bloom show
Wonderful hips on Madame Gregoire Stachelin
A rampant pumpkin with about 15 pumpkins on it and totally overtaking a couple of Renaes, an Othello and a Heritage - maybe today I will attack it!!!!!
My new "garden sculpture" in ironbark aka fruit tree protectors when wire added. My garden has developed as the garden of ironbark poles which fits in with my house which is a faded cedar colour or silver. I will have two of these, over the nashi pear and the persimmon with clematis up some of the poles. Phyllis Bide is the pretty little rose to the right front.
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 08:05:15
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everything is going great Pamela and all so neat and tidy too.
and boy that is a great looking pumpkin 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
10809 Posts |
Posted - 03/03/2009 : 12:06:21
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So glad to see that those plants that were not coping with the heat are coming on so well now Pamela, it would have been a shame to lose those Manchurian Pears they are such a beautiful tree.. Love that grafted Gum.
Those garden sculptures over the fruit trees,it that to keep the fruit fly out later, the Clematis sound divine..
Everything looking very pretty and healthy in your own special Paradise.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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Betty
assistant gardener
Australia
159 Posts |
Posted - 04/03/2009 : 09:41:37
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| It's very beautiful, Pamela. Love to know what your average rainfall is because to have such a lovely garden it's got to be much better than here. |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 04/03/2009 : 11:36:27
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I did post it on Mary Anne's "what's your average rainfall" thread. I have forgotten but it was a bit less than Mary Anne and more than Shelley in SA - I think about 900 mm - but the soil here is simply amazing - you could grow a chicken from a feather as much of it has been washed down from the hill upon hill above me and I plant without ever having to add to the soil and it is much much better than any potting mix you could buy and I have 5 acres of it. The soil holds water well and also there is much drainage of water from high above - hills above me would be hundreds of metres high up behind me - so the soil moisture level down deep is often good. But we get baking heat - 49 degrees one day and all of Jan was over 40 - and so the soil cracks and things start dying. But never the roses although I speak too soon as I now see I have lost a miniature rose near the cabana that I never watered this summer at all but the other miniature is fine. And with such great soil, the weeds and kikiyu grow like crazy - I just spaded the edges of that bed in the photo and the live kike runners were metres long under my mulch and although zapped by Fusilade, metre long runners are pushing the boundaries so pulled it all out and will now rearrange and add mulch. The rose that sprang up under dark Lady is from that red rose - whcih is Dark Lady - in the first photo Betty. Tough as but needs TLC to get its roots down for the first summer - and so water deeply (via a bit of left over PVC pipe planted along with the rose which can be pulled out after the first summer) once a week.
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medburygardens
gardener
New Zealand
639 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2009 : 03:38:40
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The amount of moisture thats deep under your place shows in those back ground trees.
Your gardens lookin good pamela |
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Val
assistant gardener
Australia
92 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2009 : 15:30:04
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| You have a wonderful garden,Pamela. |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 05/03/2009 : 19:06:02
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Thanks Val - after 5 and a half years of back breaking work, I am starting to like it. Everything you see except gum trees I have planted. And I have planted many things that you don't see as they are not in the photo or they have died. My poor car shows the work as does my hands - I owuld do three trips a week to the tip to dump a ute load of green waste and I do that every week. But slowly it is coming together. This is an almost perfect climate for roses with hot baking sun, flooding rain and good soil. And horses to supply manure!
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." |
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TasV
assistant gardener
Australia
157 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2009 : 15:44:09
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| Beautiful Pamela :) Would you like some more red flowering gum seeds? My big tree (a pink one about 20m tall) is about to burst into flower so later in the year I'll have a truck load of those great big urn shaped seed capsules... they are pretty easy to germinate too... I've just planted a few of it's seedlings down the back paddock. Could turn out any colour from red, to orange, to pink, to white... never seen one throw yellow though. |
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Pamela
head gardener
Australia
3949 Posts |
Posted - 07/03/2009 : 16:06:25
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Would LOVE some Simon!!!!!! Tomorrow morning I am going to plant out some of the baby teas I have and I will plant out your trial rose. It has been too hot until now.
I will send you a SAE plastic sachet thingy - can you send me your address again as I am hopeless about organising to keep important things like people's addresses.
"The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." |
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TasV
assistant gardener
Australia
157 Posts |
Posted - 08/03/2009 : 15:41:13
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| Don't be in too much of a hurry Pamela ;) The tree is almost ready to burst into flower and it will be some months yet till they are mature enough to harvest. I'll keep you posted and will alert you of their availability as they approach maturity :) Actually, there are still a load of those big calsules on it now... I'll duck down the back over the next day or so and see if there are any left that aren't already open. |
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TasV
assistant gardener
Australia
157 Posts |
Posted - 09/03/2009 : 21:44:22
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| Well Pamela... looks like you'd better send me that post pack LOL I've been down and picked a container full of big capsules that haven't opened yet. Will PM you with the details again. |
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Healthy roses