Spring Was Lovely While It Lasted

[bojojoti]

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[pondhopper]

This post delights my heart and soul and is one of the most visually pleasing I've ever seen. I would like to live in a slightly more temperate climate to have roses last longer and grow heartier but our dry and extreme heat really cut the season back.

I love Jude...I've never had one that color!

[bojojoti]

Jude the Obscure is a David Austen rose, and he has been a fine rose in my garden. My roses go nearly dormant during July--when it is so hot and dry.

[pondhopper]

My roses do go dormant in July and August. I do get Fall bloomings but extreme heat really makes them suffer and Spring is just about all we get with any kind of abundance of blooms.

I love David Austens but have to order them directly from England at great expense if I want any. I may treat myself this coming season.
:)

I want to put up a trellis or two.

[bluiidmommy]

Again, lovely roses! So do you just let nature water your garden? Those are hearty flowers!

[bojojoti]

Our springs give the roses plenty of water. Summer is rougher. To be nice, we should water weekly when we have 100° weather, but that doesn't always happen. Last year, we could see that we couldn't fight the drought and heat and basically let things get to almost the extinction point with very little additional watering. Most of our grass died, but when autumn came we reseeded. Thankfully, most of our old roses survived. Our new ones didn't.

[bluiidmommy]

You are just blowing my preconceived notions about roses out of the water.

[bojojoti]

Stop to consider that there are roses growing in old abandoned cemeteries. They survive without any care. There are rosarians who "rustle" roses--they look for roses in abandoned places: http://texasroserustlers.com/RustleEtiq/etiquette.html... )

[jazzyglo]

Such color! Such beauty! Love the aloha!

[bojojoti]

It's such a perfect rose that I had to plant two!