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jaunthieI don't really need another rose bush. I know this, intellectually.
But oh ye gardening gods and little green turtles! The Heirloom Roses catalog arrived in the mail yesterday. And there are several roses in it that inspired a truly epic amount of rose lust in my garden-addled brain. Top of the list:
EBB TIDE
Just look at that COLOR. And she's only 4'x4'. I could fit her into the front-yard fence bed I hacked out last year. There's still room... Or there's the side lawn strip, which I want to at least partially turn into garden beds this spring for fruit trees and the like...
YOLANDE D'ARAGON
She's GORGEOUS. She's always sold out (except she's not right now). She's a dead ringer for my poor lost Souvenir de President Lincoln (which by the way is back in the paper catalog for the first time in ten years, but isn't on the Web site, and I don't have room to put her back on the fence even if I were crazy enough to try and baby her again), except that Yolande is shorter, more robust and disease-resistant, and has a better repeat bloom. She's one of the GREAT roses, and she's not too big.
ALFRED DE DAMAS
I don't HAVE a white rose, well, not of the classic shape anyway. I have my marvellous Darlow, but she's more apple-blossom in size and shape than classic rose (see the picture in the header of this post). And I don't have a Moss rose at all. And she's SMALL, and disease-resistant, and STUNNING. Drooooool.
THÉRÈSE BUGNET
She's a rugosa. Tough, drought-tolerant, virtually immune to disease, blooms her head off from mid-spring until frost, and super-fragrant. And she's short, for a rugosa. The city planted rugosas all up and down my street in their city-approved plantings, so it wouldn't be a problem from that standpoint. I could put her out in the herb beds and keep her trimmed down if she tries to get tall...Roses are edible and good for you!
The paper catalog also has the Green Rose (not on the Web site), which is small enough to put into a pot on my front porch, and it is GREEN.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fisherbear knows why this is important.
Oh dear. Oh my. And there's a 15% discount for ordering roses before the end of December. Whimper.
I wonder if there's a way of putting these on my Amazon wish list...? (Edited to Add: Yes, apparently I can. Oh so dangerous. But I exercised restraint; I only put three of the four up there. Not that I wouldn't want all four. And the Green Rose. Yikes!)
Oh, I am so hopeless. Maybe I should just go look at peonies instead. (Like that's a good idea, but at least it's not MORE ROSES. And I only have two peonies...)
But oh ye gardening gods and little green turtles! The Heirloom Roses catalog arrived in the mail yesterday. And there are several roses in it that inspired a truly epic amount of rose lust in my garden-addled brain. Top of the list:
EBB TIDE
Just look at that COLOR. And she's only 4'x4'. I could fit her into the front-yard fence bed I hacked out last year. There's still room... Or there's the side lawn strip, which I want to at least partially turn into garden beds this spring for fruit trees and the like...
YOLANDE D'ARAGON
She's GORGEOUS. She's always sold out (except she's not right now). She's a dead ringer for my poor lost Souvenir de President Lincoln (which by the way is back in the paper catalog for the first time in ten years, but isn't on the Web site, and I don't have room to put her back on the fence even if I were crazy enough to try and baby her again), except that Yolande is shorter, more robust and disease-resistant, and has a better repeat bloom. She's one of the GREAT roses, and she's not too big.
ALFRED DE DAMAS
I don't HAVE a white rose, well, not of the classic shape anyway. I have my marvellous Darlow, but she's more apple-blossom in size and shape than classic rose (see the picture in the header of this post). And I don't have a Moss rose at all. And she's SMALL, and disease-resistant, and STUNNING. Drooooool.
THÉRÈSE BUGNET
She's a rugosa. Tough, drought-tolerant, virtually immune to disease, blooms her head off from mid-spring until frost, and super-fragrant. And she's short, for a rugosa. The city planted rugosas all up and down my street in their city-approved plantings, so it wouldn't be a problem from that standpoint. I could put her out in the herb beds and keep her trimmed down if she tries to get tall...Roses are edible and good for you!
The paper catalog also has the Green Rose (not on the Web site), which is small enough to put into a pot on my front porch, and it is GREEN.
fisherbear knows why this is important.Oh dear. Oh my. And there's a 15% discount for ordering roses before the end of December. Whimper.
I wonder if there's a way of putting these on my Amazon wish list...? (Edited to Add: Yes, apparently I can. Oh so dangerous. But I exercised restraint; I only put three of the four up there. Not that I wouldn't want all four. And the Green Rose. Yikes!)
Oh, I am so hopeless. Maybe I should just go look at peonies instead. (Like that's a good idea, but at least it's not MORE ROSES. And I only have two peonies...)
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Date: 2009-12-02 03:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-02 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-03 06:51 am (UTC)As for your rockery, there are small roses that would fit, but most roses want more water than you have available out there. We can look at it, though, and see if there's a particular spot that might work.
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Date: 2009-12-02 04:40 pm (UTC)And the Ebb Tide _could_ be called black.....
But I think we realize that putting two plant lunatics together and trying to get them to restrain each other is a bad idea.
--J
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Date: 2009-12-02 10:17 pm (UTC)And yes, we know what happens when we get together at plant sales and the like. But is that such a bad thing, really? ;-)