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Silverkelts Woodland Rose Garden
Rosa Vicks Caprice
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:33 am I was enabled to purchase this rose, not only is it a wonderful striped hybrid perpetual, it is supposed to be very winter hardy. A reported sport of 'Archiduchesse Elizabeth d'Autriche' which you can sorta see, since the base pink looks similiar. 
Jbs are here, so getting good picks for the next several weeks will be harder. Not much new going on, still alot of annuals waiting to bloom. But our one month banishment to the english climate put us weeks behind up here. Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 309 times
Nikko Blue Hydrangea, Trailing Lobelia and oh my guess what?
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:39 am I got this Nikko Blue,overwintered covered with plastic in its pot, it apparently was happy enough to save most of its buds for me, I have a couple dozen on a small plant, Probable will be a pink blue mix. Its just starting to form its mophead, I always admire this shot on other peoples plants, now I have one of my own. 
Trailing Lobelia, highlighed by the sun, I want to grab seed from these, its just tooooo pretty! Easy enough to start inside, not fussy, grows fast and flowers last. Lobelia is a great great container plant. I have mine mixed with Petunias, but they take longer to grow from seed, so will be another few days. 
As many of you know, if you live in the Northeast, weve had very little sun, plants just havent taken off as they should, but lo and behold, somehow some of my Tomatoes are starting to flower! I wont start a new category for veggies until I actually have some though! 
Not much left in way of roses, might get a Vicks Caprise or a Prarie Joy soon. Deer ate all the buds off my Chloris Alba, RDV doesnt want to bloom for some reason, lots of buds yellowing, just too much water! Huh! Whoever wouldve thought I could say that about roses, but this year was strange! Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 789 times
Comte De Chambord , Deer, JBs and Hosta
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:27 am Comte De Chambord did ok in its overwinted pot for the move, Its down to four canes so see where it goes from there, it is prone to blackspot, so if you are going no spray.. Im not sure you would want this one. Its supposed to be fairly hardy in my zone, so will have to trial that out this year. Lovely Damask fragrance and a solid pink color. 
The Deer came back, ate some buds, ate all of my coneflowers.. and stripped all of the leaves of Mde Sancy De Parabere, ate the top off all my sunflowers , but worst of all ate my green beans! They did this Sunday morning while we were at church. I went ahead and fertlized a couple days ago with Plant - Tone, from my experience this keeps them away until the next rain. In years past I would spray a mixture of hot pepper and eggs, they seem to hate that, but in our every day rain pattern it wouldve just washed off. I think that might be another reason, we have been stuck inside so long there was no human activity outside to keep them more distant, the last couple of days, Ive actually been able to mow and start a fire to roast marshmellows for the kids. JBs have arrived as well, but thier #s dont seem to as high here so far, but it might be a delayed reaction to all the cold rainy weather as well. We will see, Hosta, I dont remember the name, It is a named variety of some sort or another, lovely double white flowers. I saved a # of hostas for the move, but they were all small divisions.. 
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Great Maidens Blush
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:54 pm I love love the scent on this rose, its a combination of a nice sweet scent with hits of lemon to me, a wonderful pink with fading to white. This is my favorite alba. 
Close up, on a different bloom, I prefer when the first form better, but it can have both.. 
Another shot of crocus rose showing a more rosette form... 
Its still raining! Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 311 times
Queen of Denmark
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:45 pm Not the best of blooms but still rather pretty, my QOD is only a couple years old, and not that big yet. I have a TON of Great Maidens Blush ready to bloom, but the few that were out with all this rain wasnt impressive so im waiting for another shot. I think I finally found out how to solve my "glow" issues with the camera with photoshop, the version I have has a automatic color adjustment, quite frankly whatever the programmers did , looks sooooo much better than anything I have been able to do with the camera or otherwise, so im going with it. QOD has a nice fragrance, though offhand I cant give you the best description today! IT is raining AGAIN and im not going back out to give you a better one, suffice it to say, most albas give you better than average scent, from my memory I like Great Maidens Blush the best, its a sweet mixture with hints of fruit (lemon) to my nose. I have a few more things ready to bloom, but everything is still so young in my new home =).. I cant wait till next year! 
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Austins Crocus Rose
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:52 pm Its been very wet and cool here, spring like weather and temps. Which suffice it to say, has delayed everything except the weeds from blooming. I have a few buds on some stuff and a couple of scapes on some of my daylily seedlings I will be able to share later.. but for now, lets talk about Austins Crocus Rose. First, its in a coulor range that is hard to find in our zone for a truly hardy rose, and this rose is perfectly happy in our cold zone 5. If you are to get one Austin Rose, make this it in terms of hardiness the only Austins that will beat it are his Rogusa hybrids and Chianti his gallica hybrid. It doesnt have alot of scent, I find a light tea scent early in the morning, which to me is quite fine, I can get alot of roses to give me a heavy sweet scent in my zone, its the tea scents Im lacking completly in my zone 5 garden. Its a pale yellow /cream mix with hints of peach and pink on its outer petals that reflex back in cool weather, it usually forms a nice rosette type shape. In my medium Black Spot pressure area, I would give this rose medium resistance, not so bad for a austin rose, If you live in a high pressure area, you would have to see for yourself. Most of my blackspot comes later in the bloom cycle, Ive had a few problems this year becuase my roses were covered in pots for the winter , however some of them never lost all of thier leaves, which is a problem since some of these leaves were already quite infested... Im hoping that I can get some ok shots of Queen of Denmark and Great Maidens Blush to share in the next couple of days. 
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Pickerings Orpheline De Juliette and others...
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 3:26 pm Its raining.. When hasnt it! We had a very dry May here.. but are now over for the year with all this moisture the last two weeks. There is a ongoing debate as to what the rose below is.. I really do not know! The one pickering is selling at the moment, isnt nearly as dark as what others are selling. Its a medium pink gallica of some sort.. With a very nice scent I would put scent at 3 1/2 out of 5. Its hardy to the tips here with zero dieback in my zone 5b garden. For now Ill continue to call it Pickerings version until someone comes up with a better id for it... BTW all this rain plays havoc on my Macro feature for anything beside light pink or darker roses, those with a fushia / mauve base , the rain seems to set off a sort of glow.. I will try to correct in photoshop, but I cant gaurantee any success. 
Below Quadra, second year for me, it will take a couple more to get very big to make a good arbor shot.. It overwintered ok in big pots for my move, with some tip damage. Ive heard this isnt a great rose for colder regions than mine, that Henry Kelsey makes a better one. I do not find any scent on this rose most days, but for a cold hardy red climber, its either Quadra or Ramblin' Red... I liked the form of Quadra better so its what I got. It has some nasty thorns however. 
Below Quadra was my first bloom of any rose this year... This was like 2 weeks ago. 
Austins Crocus Rose! I cant say enough about this rose, but I will later, it will start to open soon. A pale creamy yellow, very hardy for zone 5! with just tip damage this year. I will not say all austins are hardy, but a few are, here is one of them! Light Tea Scent , but I get it early in the day, fades with the colour later. I will post more later! Just a very pretty bud though! 
My Albas are very close to opening, so hopefully have some more roses to weigh in on in a week or so. I lost 5-6 roses in the move and left 20 - 30 roses behind as per agreement to the sellers last year. So kind of starting over in a lot of aspects. Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 202 times
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'Mme Sancy de Parabere and Rose de Rescht'
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:02 pm Ive tried labeling the rose pictures, so will see how they come out.. Mme Sancy de Parabere is a boursault rambler with delicate beauty and a moderate rose fragrance, sweet but light. Im trying it out for a couple of years in hopes that it gets fairly large for me, I know it wont be huge here in my zone, I had to prune off about 6 - 8 inches of the skinniest canes, but it still left 4-5 feet overwintered, so will give it one more year.. I hope it works. 
Rose de Rescht overwintered well for my move in a pot, but the actual rose flowers are the smallest Ive ever seen them, they arent huge to start with. Lovely damask tones on this one, during the cool part of the year and its first flush, very dependable, I find it to lose some of this nice damask in the hottest part of the summer on its second scattered flush. Fairly hardy in zone five with usual tip damage. 
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More work done in May...
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:50 pm Its raining (has it ever stopped =), and my camera is being borrowed, so will post some more work pictures from May time frame... Im creating 4-5 seperate garden areas, I would approximate the total size of my gardens will be around 2500 - 3000 sq feet or so.. I guess enough space for me to play around in.. IT always seems to go fast though. I keep finding more trees to cut down =). But quite honestly, the 100 or so tree's Ive removed so far is a mere pittance as to what is on the property! Anyways, this is the more the front of the house beds I have created so far... Start of Wall with some yews and winter gem boxwoods planted, I started this last fall... 
Extened wall filled in with triump carnations, daylily seedlings (I stared like 500 daylily seedlings this year!) It also now has Annuals started from either wintersowing or inside starts, Yvonnes Salvia, Yellow Hibiscus, Morning Glories to trail up the stair area and some orange Cosmos and a Nikko Blue Hydrangea shrub, I got for about 5 bucks at end of season sale, it has a suprising # of buds on it! I will probable have to cover to get any every year, will see If I bother with that ! 
Start of front and extended, I started the front last fall and finished this spring, even though it doesnt look like I mulched the whole thing, I finally have, just no new pics of the general area yet! 
extened and picking shrubs etc out.. I have some two year old daylily seedlings in there, blanket flower, dianthus siberian blues , lavender, pink pocket wiegla , korean azealas, Hansa Rose. There is now some winter sown annuals as well, picotee cosmos, calendula, dwarf garden phlox. 
Hopefully will get my camera back tommorow, have a few things out there in bloom! My dwarf azealas actually blooms quite pretty, but for some ODD reason, I never took photos of them! My wiegla didnt fare well in pot over winter, so hoping a year in the ground will make it hardier! Youve already seen a pick of Hansa... Silverkelt This blog entry has been viewed 196 times
David Austins Mary Rose
Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:41 am First Bloom on Mary Rose, like alot of the country its been wet here this week! Im not complaining at all! I have alot of immature plants, this is great for them. I find Austins Mary Rose to be Tip Hardy here in my zone, with very little dieback. Its scent is variable but will have hints of myrhh when its available. Some poeple cant smell anything on this rose. 
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