California Gardening: Spring flowers are popping out, 1 by quiltygirl

quiltygirl wrote:
Ahhhh, citrus. I could paper our walls with lists of failures. I even have the sandy soil citrus are supposed to like. No clay here, we are river bottom. The garden we made up that had the rose in it was 2/3 natural soil and 1/3 'aged over a year' horse manure with a good nursery blend of fertilizer/conditioner that goes in at the time stuff is planted. Most other plants love that stuff (so do our dogs since it has blood and bone meal). Who knows, maybe I watered it too much. Thank you for all the rose info. Maybe DD will try again this Mother's Day with another Rose plant. At 16 now, she knows to buy them where they can be returned!! I would like to try them again, or maybe stick with the Lady Banks, since this one is doing OK. Guess I can add photography to the aforementioned list, soft blur technique is supposed to be for photos of us over a certain age!