Mid-Atlantic Gardening: May/June flowers, 1 by linuxogre

linuxogre wrote:
Stormy, My sister-in-law suggested knockouts as being particularly disease resistant and so far it has worked. I had to chase the aphids away a couple of times last year but they haven't been much of a problem this year (so far). When I lived in New Mexico I had a large rose garden with about fifty named varieties and disease wasn't much of a problem. I had to build a sun screen for them and run off the occasional gopher but for the most part they did well. With the humidity here it is a different ball game and I haven't really tried some of the hybrid teas and heirlooms I had there.

The photo is from some years ago but shows the rose garden after its first year. Still small at this stage but I think you can see a David Austin yellow rose in the corner. I'd have to dig out my old records to tell you the exact variety.



This message was edited May 29, 2009 1:59 PM