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Post by breeze on Feb 13, 2015 1:59:57 GMT
Now that I look at it, it's not the same house, but they aren't far apart.
Casimira, every rose along the street has a hand-written label. I photographed a few of the labels but not the one that you (and I) think may be Mme Isaac Pereire.
There are so many gorgeous roses to choose from. I'll enjoy the research.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2015 15:32:19 GMT
How thoughtful for those folks to label the roses. It's very likely they did it because they got tired of being asked by admirers. I know I have asked many a gardener if I see them working out in the garden what a particular plant that I don't recognize. More times I am offered to take a cutting.
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Post by breeze on Feb 17, 2015 2:04:55 GMT
The garden village of Chédigny is on a French gardening show this week, Silence ça pousse. It’s available to watch for one more day (Tues. 2/17 is the last day). pluzz.francetv.fr/videos/silence_ca_pousse__,118298639.html The Chédigny segment starts at about 28:00 and ends at about 35:00. Usually I can get English subtitles for this show but not this time. Too bad, because I could have used some help.
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Post by breeze on Feb 17, 2015 2:07:44 GMT
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Post by breeze on Feb 17, 2015 2:09:47 GMT
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Post by breeze on Feb 27, 2015 1:53:28 GMT
Yesterday our seed order came in and I sowed strawberry seeds in a flat. At this time of year my garden is perfection, in my mind.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 27, 2015 13:08:41 GMT
My greenhouse arrives March 19 and I will be able to retrieve my collection from their various storage places.
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Post by breeze on Mar 1, 2015 1:47:30 GMT
Lucky you. You'll have fun putting everything in place, especially if the plants have been kept separately.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2015 3:45:57 GMT
Well, not exactly MY garden aspiration, but my husband and I are cheap and can't let anything horticultural go to waste. The gardener at his condo had placed a huge vase of red dogwood and willow twigs in the lobby, and when it had turned into a leafy, rooty mess, Mr. Faire asked if he could have them. He spent part of this sunny Saturday potting up the twigs, to be planted in the wetlands next year. It must have been quite the job, thank goodness I'm watching it from the comfort of my couch in Vancouver.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2015 19:19:25 GMT
Well, I have ten acres to landscape, and it needs so much work. It's wild now. I've been studying 18th century landscape design and Capability Brown, and I ran across this. What an inspiration!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 1, 2015 21:07:59 GMT
I am so jealous of your dogwood Lizzy...I love the colourful stems in the winter.
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Post by htmb on Mar 1, 2015 21:19:02 GMT
I love to see dogwood trees in bloom. The street I live on used to be lined on either side for at least two miles, and they were so pretty in the spring. We actually had dogwood trees scattered all around our city, but a blight has killed most of them in the last ten years or so. Seeing dogwood trees here now is a rarity.
I know your husband's industrious planting will pay off with many wonderful trees in the future, Lizzy.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2015 23:44:33 GMT
Thanks, but those won't turn into trees, I'm afraid. It's a local shrub called red-osier dogwood and it makes a lovely hedge, but no tree. A lot of the native dogwood trees out here have died from anthracnose, which may be what's getting yours, htmb. They're making cultivars now that are resistant, and I have my eye on a Venus dogwood, which is stunning, a cross between a Pacific dogwood and an Asian one. However, at $180 a tree, it'll be a while before that happens. Two years ago we had a lovely little Eddie's White Wonder sapling, which the rutting deer took a liking to and killed,
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Post by htmb on Mar 1, 2015 23:55:29 GMT
Ah....thanks for clearing that up. .
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Post by tod2 on Mar 8, 2015 10:58:50 GMT
Breakfast with grandson's at a local garden centre , then a lovely wander among the roses. I picked 5 to come home with me so tomorrow dig new rose beds! A lovely pale pink HT called New Zealand Most unusual - Red Intuition Red Intuition fully opened Red Perfumella - in perfect bloom Red Perfumella fully opened Molineux The palest lilac rose - Artic Ice. Michael showing me a lovely yellow English rose called Molineux - from David Austin Kolbe's Diamond
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Post by htmb on Mar 8, 2015 11:49:12 GMT
Beautiful, Tod! Seeing your photos makes me want to head to the nearest rose garden. Unfortunately, that will have to wait until they start to bloom here.
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Post by breeze on Mar 9, 2015 0:39:03 GMT
Lizzy, I also fell for Venus when I saw it in a garden this summer. My note says it has the largest flowers of any Cornus. But $180, no way! So I looked it up online in the Forestfarm catalog--they have it at $69 for a 5 foot plant. I choked on that amount, but maybe you'll feel that $69 is a steal compared to $180. www.forestfarm.com/product.php?id=1433
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 13:14:34 GMT
Unfortunately dogwoods won't do here. At best they are very, very iffy. I do have Swamp Dogwood that has been thriving. It's a native. I planted it right over the spot where our beloved dog 'Po Boy' is buried. It does well as an understory tree beneath a large Live Oak.
Tod, gorgeous roses. I plan on going out today to a couple of garden centers I cleared some space yesterday for some climbers to grow along the wrought iron fence.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 9, 2015 14:37:11 GMT
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Post by breeze on Mar 9, 2015 15:26:32 GMT
Tod, I like your garden, and wow, you have two garden helpers. The little one looks more decorative than useful, but obviously feels he (or she) is good-looking enough to compete with roses.
Nice-looking soil, too.
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Post by breeze on Mar 9, 2015 15:29:39 GMT
Casimira, what kind of climbers do you have in mind? Or is it a case of you'll know it when you see it?
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Post by tod2 on Mar 9, 2015 17:22:48 GMT
Tod, I like your garden, and wow, you have two garden helpers. No, only my Cylvias, a Rasta. The other man was Michael at the Garden Center. OR, were you referring to that mischievous puppy called Patch!! The little swine decided to try and dig out a rose and gone covered in mud head to foot.
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Post by htmb on Mar 9, 2015 20:37:45 GMT
Nice to see these pictures, Tod.
Patch looks like a mischevious thing, too.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2015 20:52:34 GMT
Casimira, what kind of climbers do you have in mind? Or is it a case of you'll know it when you see it? Breeze, I wasn't quite sure what I was going to get, but, had a few in mind. Lo' and behold I did indeed find what I was seeking. A " Madame Alfred Carriere, a Noisette, circa 1879. Very reliable here. The other a Bourbon,(1893)," Souvenir de la Malmaison, also does well here with some diligence, but, not too much pampering.
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Post by breeze on Mar 10, 2015 20:08:08 GMT
Casimira, both those roses are beauties. The internet says Madame is nearly thornless. Now that's a trait I appreciate in a rose.
Tod, yes, I was thinking of the dog. We used to have a "helper" like that. He loved freshly dug dirt.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2015 22:07:49 GMT
Yes, Madame Alfred is a fabulous rose. I had one years ago and lost it during Hurricane Katrina.
I planted the both this morning just before a good soaking rain came our way. Perfect timing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2015 17:50:03 GMT
I just now caught up with this thread and it reassures me since all I have been seeing this week are "pruned rose sticks" with not even a leaf on them. I was intrigued in this barren rose garden by the arches they were creating. I am not sure that I approve.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 17, 2015 8:16:54 GMT
Errrr....wonder what's going one here?? Those are all well established standard roses. Looks line some kind of growth encouragement..? Or, or, perhaps they leave them like that until they can tie them upright again..?? This needs investigating!
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 17, 2015 8:46:52 GMT
How very odd......
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2015 12:40:09 GMT
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