Gatormom,
My name is Felix and I am also an OGR addict. It has been two months since my last fix.
Several years ago I began with an old Blush. Then Nova gave me some and MaNature gave me the last fix. Oh, thank you Ladies!
Now they are planted in a heart shape Rose garden.
I have:
Old Blush
Emmie Gray
Kathleen
Anne Oliver (2 )
George Town
Vincent Dodsiff
Natchitoches Noisette
Madam Lonbard
St. David
Trinity
Franzesca Kruger
Safrano
Maitland White
Pink Pet
In the heart I also included a knockout Rose.
Will also be transplanting into the heart two Don Juan.
The heart is big enough,like my friends heart, to have room for more Roses.
Susan has been rooting some more for me. She is so sweet
to think of her garden buddies,ain't she?
I give my roses whole fish and blood from meat packages.
I baby them and see them every single day.
Are you guys laughing? Gatormom? LOL
Felix

Add me to the lists of rosemaniacs.

gatormon, Maitland is on my "wanted" list even though yellow and pink roses are my favorites, it is such a pretty white rose.

Felix, I am jealous of your list of roses. Post photos please.

Me, too!

My birthday is fast approaching and I am gifting myself with Cl Maman Cochet, (a replacement for a rose ordered 18 months ago that turned out to be the wrong plant.) I filled out the shipping box with Juane Desprez, (I have a really bad one that I am replacing. It has just sat there for literally seven years.) Papi Delbard (I am taking a chance on this modern rose. I am a sucker for fragrance.) and Souv. d'Elise Vardon, a tea.

I also happen to have some rooted Prosperity and some Crepuscules to trade. ;-)

Here is a link that might be useful: Elise

Felix

You have an impressive list of roses! I love them too, and one of my favorite from my Phoenix garden was Hot Cocoa.

Recently I was given some cuttings, I don't know If they will survive since they are from another country. Anyway, I am going to give it a try.

Base on your experience, do you think I should plant them straight on the ground, after fixing the soil for roses? Or, root them first in pots. And if this is the best option, what growing medium should I use.

Any advice that you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

Willy

My name is Susan and I am an OGR addict! My first fix was Louis Philippi about 12 years ago. I had to leave him when I moved 3 years ago but I brought cuttings with me and still have one of his offspring. My current count is 36 OGRs in the ground and 2 still in pots waiting for spring.

I have to following roses rooted and ready for trade-
Emmy Grey
Brightside Cream
Carnation
Cornelia
Red Cascade

Here is a link to my rose album if anyone wants to take a look. If you see something you like e mail me and I will try to get one started for you!

Rose album

When I saw the title of this post and the name of the poster, I thought it was going to be about a new red farm truck that somebody received for Christmas!

I'm not an OGR addict yet. Louis Phillipe and Pink Pet are my only roses. I may just stop there, maybe.

Good one gardencpa !
I am green with envy over the other rose lovers' collections posted here .
Luckily , I have plenty of time and room to add to my addiction - errr - collection !
I will try and root some Maitland white . Right now the plant is small .
I was told that this can get very big and to plant it in a place with room to grow tall .
Is there an OGR called Copeland pink ?
Was told this will stay a small bush .
Also was told to leave the rooted cuttings in their pots and wait until Feb. -March to plant . True ?

I've been growing roses for 25 years (wow...I'm not that OLD!)I'm having a falling out with roses that has a lot to do with chili thrips.
I grow the green rose
Arch Duke Charles-grafted
Julia Child-isn't even an OGR

(also 12 modern roses)
I was wondering if Gatormom's rose was Cecile Brunner? But heck there must be a lot of pink roses that start with a "c". hehe

gatormom
re: leaving in pots til March then planting: over on the heirloom rose forum they are saying to leave the small ones in pots (larger as needed) for a year to get a good start.

I'm going to be taking some of mine out of the ground and doing that. Had to put them in the ground due to an out of town trip (Thanksgiving) to ensure survival but they really just sit there not growing, so potted they will get.

I put two rooted cuttings of Carnation in the garden and they died. That's why I'm moving others back to pots.

Denise

P.S. if you get some Maitland rooted I'd like to trade. I should have something to trade in a few months.

laura
I know what you mean about chili thrips. I sprayed with some organic stuff and it helped. I need to spray again though.

I must look for that tag for the rose . It's named cumberland or copeland or something like that . One person told me it was very common .
OGR with small pink flower could be anything !

I will leave the cuttings in a pot for now . Thank you for the very helpful advice .

Caldwell pink.

How about this???

Every one get to rooting and we have a meet up and swap in June or July. Roses! but other things welcome. We can decide on a central location for all us rose nuts.

Caldwell ! That's it !
Thank you thonotorose !!

When my Maitland gets big enough I will definitely make some cuttings to share - maybe this Spring ?
What can I expect with this rose and the Caldwell pink ?

I adore ORGs - the charm, the fragrance, the vigor...
I started a new rose garden more than a year ago, and most of it are OGRs. For this rose garden, we put in two dump trucks of county compost, and the site is in direct sun all day long...and boy, do roses love the place!
Luis Philippe, Natchitoches Noisette, Old Blush, Prosperity and a few others I do not remember names of did very well...Great disease resistance (I do not spray) and beautiful blooms....

I do know I had thrips infestation...they actually got to my orchids, nasty buggers!

I would certainly be interested in trading
Olya

Olya,

Did the county deliver that stuff? Or did you have to hire elsewhere? If you don't mind, may I ask what the fee was? Thanks in advance.

Susan,

What a collection! I have a list of nineteen roses from your album that I am interested in. I will be rooting all weekend and for the next several weeks as I can. I noticed no Mrs B R Cant. Mine is lovely... LARGE pink blooms with a slight lavender cast. Interested?

Your NOID white looks like a noisette to me, perhaps Jeanne d'Arc (moderate) or Narrow water (strong).

i love roses, but have been scared to try them out.....

one garden adventure at a time for me. this past year it was all about my Little Gem Magnolia.

however, reading this post was nice and made me even more curious about roses.

what does OGR stand for?? i am not rose savvy....sorry. is OGR the same as Heirloom Roses?

OGRs are Old Garden Roses...

Thonotorose, of course I do not mind sharing this info! It was 10 dollars per load (the load is huge and is bigger than a pickup truck can hold) It was 30 dollars/3 scoops to fill up to the tops a dump truck.
I shopped around and we "rented" a dump truck. For a driver to deliver it and dump it on our driveway it was a bit over a 100 dollars. But it was money well spent - the pile of stuff was huge, and roses are growing beautifully in it
My husband and I felt adventurous and thought we could spread all the stuff ourselves. After a week of moving and spreading, my hubby had it and asked his buddy to come out with a small bulldozer to help spread the stuff
So, yes...for 30 dollars, it was a LOT of compost :)

Olya

I found this post while searching for info on a Maitland White I have . I was recently told that this rose in my garden may not even be a Maitland White but some other rose . Sooo , I was searching for pictures and stumbled upon this old post .

I found pictures of Maitland White on helpmefind.com/roses . The write up claims they have a pleasant fragrance . Mine has nothing . The photos do not look at all alike . I am pretty sure that what I have is another tea of some sort .

Thanks to Nova I now have many more rooted cuttings going and some others in the ground . Emmy Gray is in the ground and thriving . Mrs. B R Cant has plenty of new growth and looks promising . I have two Red Cascade in the ground and they seem happy . All the rest are cuttings biding their time in pots - slowly building up their roots .

I love these roses more than ever and really admire them for their tolerance of our wicked weather lately .

What's new in your world of roses ?

I have always loved roses but never thought of growing them here until I saw some postings w/pics from Veronica and Olya at one time. So, I planted some roses in July 2008. Of course, I had no idea what I was really doing and planted all modern teas. They have mostly done well, I have to say. Peace and Chicago Peace are virtually clean (w/o blackspot), as well as JFK, Love, Just Joey, Brilliant Pink Iceberg (not a tea). Double Delight has bs, as well as Night Owl now and Gingersnap. Brandy didn't so well at all. I'm also trying Wildeve, Lagerfeld, cl Ash Wednesday, cl Portlandia, cl Eden (pink), cl America, cl New Dawn.

OGR's I have are (band size) Duchess De brabandt, Caldwell Pink, Bubble Bath, Ferdinand Pichard, Veilchenblau, Violette, Tuscany, Cream Abundance, Midnight Blue, Bleu Magenta, Clotilde Soupert and Excellenz Von Schubert.

I love, LOVE Austin's. I have 5. Will see how they do through September.

I will have to start some cuttings so I can trade. I'm working on my rose garden and will need lots more :)

Tina

OOooooh ! Cuttings ! Now you're talkin' !
I was told that we are not supposed to make cuttings of David Austin roses unless the rose has been on the market for more than 20 years . Patents and all that legal stuff .
Tina - you need Bermuda Spice and I have rooted cuttings . What a wonderful rose .
Thank you to Nova for helping me enlarge my OGR collection .

Gatormom,

I read that in the rose forum as well about Austins. I will try and start some of my OGR's as that is what I eventually want to trade for as well.

Like you, I'm surprised at how well the roses are thriving in our weather. I never knew what to do with the side of our house that gets the hottest sun for the afternoon. I have since put in an Arbor and a path will run from the front, past the side of the house around to one of the back paths in my established garden. The rose walk.....

The only roses I have growing in my yard are all very common:
Knock Out Arbusto, Fourth of July and my favorite (hybrid tea) Gemini.

I'd like to find Tropicana and a few other 'oranges'.

While living up north, though, I grew many Austins...and I, too, have a love affair with them! LOL
My favorite of them was my 'Ambridge Rose', which had pale peachy-pink double blooms and a gorgeous fragrance!
I'm petrified to try to grow anything that is not grafted onto Fortuniana.

Lellie,

I have Ambridge Rose, from Home Depot, and it does the best out of the ones I have (along with Graham Thomas). Windermere also does well.. Sharifa Asma apparently doesn't like the heat. Gruss An Aachen, I don't like the way the flowers open....may be the heat. A flower just opened on my Wildeve band today and it's a pretty peachy color like Ambridge rose with a wonderful smell. I will definitely try more Austins, especially some of the dark colored roses.

Tina