At last I invested in my own camers so I've no excuse fo being a lurker.Now to show you some pis if my garden JOY
my own camera
wow....very nice
thanks for your compliments. We have a short season in zone4 but everything is growing well this year.I'd love to grow the rhodies that you can grow in your warmer zones I try but without much sucess in geting blooms. When the flowerbuds do winter something breaks them off. Doesn't eat them. JOY
I am note infering that Hobo does it. I just am not able to get the pictures I want to show .I'll try again
Joy, your garden and Hobo are both gorgeous!
Thanks June You are in the same zone as I am. Hobo is a stray that My daughterin law took in. We tell he our hous is marked as a good place to drop off kittens. I'd like to post more pictures but need my GD teacher again. JOY
Love your gardens Joy, and Hobo is adorable! And what a coincidence - your use of yellow and blue in your first picture mirrors what I am going to do with my kitchen. Here's a pic of what it looks like now. --Ginny
And here is what it will look like after - courtesy of the HomeWorks software program from Home Hardware. I love this program!
The yellow really brings in the sunshine.Thanks so much for your nice complimentsFredericton is colder than saint John Azalias do well hereso thats what I'm planting now.
Daughter #2 came by and helped me download m latest pics.These are a few that are blooming right now. My garden is nearly all perinial.JOY
Sorry about the poor image This john Davis one of the explorer series Joy
very pretty!
Nice to meet you, hope you spend lots of time with us, we love the photos.
Bea
mommum; I'm posting lots of pictures I just bought a camera so I' having fun learning. This is a david austin rosewhich isn't reliably hardy here I planted it so the graft is 5 inchesdeep It has come thru three winters now.It name is The Portmeirion Rose. I have the china JOY.
Ohhhhhhh now that one is pretty too. Can you tell I have a soft spot for roses, then again anything that smells nice.
I haven't heard of planting them lower than the graft before. How does this help extend their zone? Educated me here I really don't know and hadn't thought about that.
Bea
Mommum; When roses are grafted the graft the moe tender rose on a hardier rose. Thegraft is the spot that need to be protected in winter so I bury it rather than all the bother of mounding the soil over it every fall. The Explorer roses are usually grown on their own roots so if the topgrowth is winter killed they grow again from the root.That is why the explorer roses often send ou t sucker that are w
same as the parent plant. When grfted roses send out suckers thhey are Rosa multiflora . Is that what you wnteed to know? JOY
Sorry thats the street where I live not the roses I intended to show. I'll posst them when I find them. JOY
That's the ticket alright:) Now I understand. I knew what the graft was and why they grafted to hardier root stock but it didn't occur to me that in colder climates that needed some protection. Silly me it should have
Thanks for explaining that.
Bea
Bea; we are having cool wet weather here. I'll send you a few pics around my garden.JOY
I'll post another pic of my gardenJOY
Joy,
Your garden is really pretty...the kind I'd like to have! I'm especially excited to see you have such a great garden in zone 4, since we may end up moving into zone 4 somewhere.
Your roses are amazing. You never get black spot? Or do you spray anti-fungals? Is your garden all organic?
Here, every single summer our roses get terrible black spot. It's because of the high humidity in Washington DC area. And the poor things, weakened, then get other opportunistic problems like june bugs (Japanese beetles) eating away at the blooms and leaf miners sucking the leaves.
r3sb. My roses are mostly hadey roses bred for our extreme weather. The Explorers ,morden andBrownel. I haven't had black spot yet. . I usually get a load of chicken compost delivered but I getting too old to spread it so this year I usedmiracled grow shake and feed, I ran out before I got to the roses so they didn't get anything this year. I did use Neem oil last year .We have had a cool wet spring and the roses are better than usual. Where are you going to live?
The explorer roses are growb on their own roots so if the top freezes they will come back from the roots.
This is Brownell rose JOY
Hi Joy, nice to meet ya. Love the first pic with the patio and the blue chairs. New Brunswick is one of the provinces I would most like to visit. I don't have good luck with roses at all - too shady here!
Sandy
Looking wonderful Joy!
Your garden is beautiful and what a lovely looking cat Hobo is. :)
Hi Joy,
Just catching up after being away for 3 weeks. What lovely, lush gardens you have and a lovely cat too. And how nice to have the camera too. What kind did you get? If this is your first digital, welcome to the world of digital photography. I'm sure you'll enjoy it. I look forward to many more posts from you.
Ann
Violanne ;thanks for the compliments on my unrully garden. The plants have grown large and green this year...not too much bloom. the RLB nearly wiped out my lilies and the daylilies are late blooming this year 'We have had so little hot sunny weather. I'm still haveing aproblem post the pics I want to show, This is a viper buglos that grows wild all over Grand Manan JOY
That bugloss is really beautiful!
Joy, to answer your question I don't know where we're going to live, yet. But it's gotta be some place where I can have a great garden...like yours!
Your roses are amazing. Thanks for sharing the pictures of your garden...it gives me hope that we can live in a colder climate and still grow a lot of the stuff I'm used to.
Robert
Joy,
One more thing: I thought of your amazing roses today when I heard a radio program about a new book on competitive rose growing.
The book is called "Otherwise Normal People" and you can listen to the program at:
11:00Aurelia Scott: "Otherwise Normal People" (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) by Aurelia Scott.
You can listen to the program at:
http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/07/07/23.php#13245
"The story of people who devote much of their life to growing and showing the perfect rose. An inside look at the competitive world of competitive rose gardening."
"Guests
Aurelia Scott, master gardener whose writing has appeared in "The New York Times," "Fine Gardening," "Cottage Living," "Yankee" among other publications."
Pretty fascinating. I learned I could be a better caretaker of my own roses! But from what I see, you could give radio talks yourself with all you know.
That is something I've never taken part in all the 29 yrs of growing roses...........competition or show! E
Girls I've never been a competetive gardener.I've been told that my garden is one of Frederictons best kept secrets.I garden because I enjoy it.I've been asked to show it n the garden tour but I couldn"t handle that. I leaned mostly from books before computers JOY
