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The Resurrection of the Purple Rose

Category: My Balcony Garden | Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:56 am

Long time, no blog (not that I really blogged much before). I moved from Cali to Texas and had to re-establish my "garden".

My garden now includes a lonely purple rose and a fern. Very sad :( That's what happens when your roses die in the move! Next spring I will have more garden babies to blog about :)

I am now on rose plant #3 and have learned a few lessons to date:

1) Do not water at night as they will be prone to mold without the sun to dry them
2) Avoid letting water sit in a metal watering can as that will also promote mold!
3) Mold is bad .. very bad .. and will likely mean that you will have to cut back the whole plant hoping for new growth
4) Do not try to transport roses in the bed of a pickup truck for more than 8 hours. No .. a cardboard shelter will not provide enough protection .. this will completely kill the plant and be very very sad

Lesson for the *imagine a movie preview voice here* MONTH OF OCTOBER:
5) Do NOT overfeed! It might be tempting as they plant gets very happy when it gets its FOOD; HOWEVER if you give it too much (which is really not a lot), all of the leaves will die and your plant will again look very very sad.

Lesson 5 has a happy ending! My Purple rose is coming back :) While she looks like a sad scrapling ready to die, I have new growth and am feeling less bedraggled with my feeding mistake. Purple rose is definitely worth the trouble - she smelled so nice :) I had two really good blooms before I screwed up the fertilizer ..



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Meeting the Balcony Garden

Category: My Balcony Garden | Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 5:29 am

As the first post of my blog, I wanted to simply introduce the plants that I have so far and how they're doing.


Mini Rose #1 is a red variety that I have had a lot of trouble with, but is turning out to be very resilient. I got her around October 2007 and nearly killed her before she finally found a home on my balcony. She probably quadrupled in size before I nearly killed her about a month or so ago. I accidentally used a contaminated watering can on her and mold took over before I realized it. I cut off nearly all of her leaves and she is now rebounding nicely.


Mini Rose #2 is a yellow variety that I bought when I was upset with the mold on Mini #1. She is still getting some yellowing on her leaves and her flowers aren't quite as full as I would expect. I've still only had her a few weeks.


My English Ivy was also nearly killed through transplanting and stress, but is doing nicely now. I also added a second type of English Ivy to the pot to help fill it out.

A run of the mill pothos sits out there just because it was cheap and I wanted something I could bring indoors and keep alive.


My African Violet sits out there now since that is the only sun she seems to not wilt in. I got her for my birthday in February and after she got done flowering in March, things went downhill. She is down to 7 leaves, but they are all firm and I have repotted her for better drainage.

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