Our "AT LAST" rose should arrive this afternoon Patty... Its been wet and rainy so covered planting area so soil is not to wet to work with today... We will start going into the 90's for awhile starting tomorrow....So I'll have to shade it during the hottest parts of the day for awhile...

Jim, you sure know how to think ahead. The heat index will be in the hundreds here starting tomorrow. All five of my newest At Last roses just started putting out their first exuberant new growth. So I may be adding some shade myself.

Anyway I’ve got fingers crossed hoping she a good one for you. Perhaps if we have a nice fall you’ll get to see how nice it can be.

"At Last rose arrived today Patty... But very small and rootball fell apart... I went ahead and planted around 1pm... Just checked here at 3pm and it looks like its going into bad transplant shock... wilted etc.... and its shaded... :-/

Oh wow that is scary especially going into this hot weather. I’d be confident in cooler weather. Good luck with the little guy.

All is good...lol....I just had to shade "AT LAST" better than I had it...It sprung back to life... :-) Going to be 90 today then 95-100 tomorrow and next day...

Jim, just saw your question above. Palatine has PP on multiflora which is what I have to use here. Dr. Huey absolutely will not grow here. I was going check Regans Roses but their site is down.

ok thanks Patty!

Nothing I can do Patty leaves/stems falling off of AT LAST rose....To hot! Shading not even working...

I’m sorry to hear the darn news, Jim. The weather channel is saying that the north east is likely to stay hot for awhile.

All the leaves fell off of our AT LAST rose Patty...So it has to start over...:-/

I was just remembering how the one tiny Plum Perfect came with downy mildew. That one lost all of its leaves because the nursery suggested I take them off. After I did that it was just a little stick with short arms. Thought for sure it would die but no it survived. Kept it well shaded like your doing and that was all I could do.

Well I'll see how tiny "AT LAST" is doing come next May...If its not doing good I'll find another source that sells 3 gallons...lol... Tired of waiting for roses to grow I'm not getting any younger.......LOL

Plum Perfect liked our recent high heat conditions...Its really trying to burst out now...

Love it Jim, hey my PP’s are putting on new growth in this heat also. All of the flowers in the yard have shrunk in size. Like having miniature roses.

I keep forgetting to ask you... How are your Sparkle and Shine roses doing compared to Julia Child???

Our neighbor has a new 3 gallon Sparkle and Shine and we have a Julia Child (3 years old)... First things I've noticed were S&S blooms stay more yellow and last longer on the bush here than JC's do...

I’ll give you the whole run down even if you didn’t ask. : -)

My first SS came 4 years ago it did not survive winter. When I dug it up thou there were a bunch of wireworms eating the roots.

So l ordered another one. It is now in it’s 4th year. I love the flowers on it. I like the shade of yellow and how it holds the color. It’s health has been very good not perfect but I’ll accept it any day.

I ordered two more last spring only one made it thru winter. The dead one had no visible signs of any problems.

I also picked up SS’s pod seed sister Jump for Joy. It died in winter will not try again.

Thanks for update....lol

The Julia Child we have here has cankered to near ground level 2 years in a row so I'm anxious to see how our neighbors S & S does just in case I need to make a change someday...lol...

I gave our flower/rose bed a manly touch today...lol

Jim do you mean cantered over winter. If yes mine always dies to the ground. So far it has not slowed them down. They show nice growth and great bloom any way. Mine are never taller than four feet.

Love those butterflies and trucks. Great sense of humor. My brother and I had those trucks in our youthful days and a large sandbox.

Canes turn jet black every winter to almost ground level... Our JC stays on the smaller side...It should get alittle bigger than this before frosts sets in...Maybe 3ft tops...

3ft stick

Two canes suddenly turned black on little "AT LAST" so had to cut them completely out so here's what's left Patty...On a positive note it does have a few new leaves... :-) Temps have been mild but we been getting a ton of rain this year... Maybe that's why the canes turned black???

I answered your question above on Julia Child...

Jim did you prune out the black that is showing in the photo. I’m afraid it will spread when the high heat and humidity comes back. You can also dab a bit of bleach or antibacterial mouth wash on the end after pruning.

I cut but more keeps getting black...:-/ Ok I dabbed with bleach....

No big deal as I'll locate a 3 gallon AT LAST and plant next MAY if needed...lol

Never seen nothing like this Patty but the AT Last rose is basically turning black all over and dying...So no doubt going to have to get another AT Last next year...

The roots probably fried in the heat wave. When you dig you’ll likely find a small group of black roots. Poor little guy.

DEAD! As far as I'm concerned...Thats ok I'll get a larger one next year... :-)

Yep, that’s dead.

Plum Perfect is starting to take off...

Gosh, everything looks so refreshing. I’m going out soon to check on the beetles soon.

‘Any chance that you would know what this is?

Caterpillar of some type...?

Potted Fiji is blooming again...

PLUM PERFECT

Looks nice now they need to learn how to grow. Each year since I had them they have gotten smaller.

What nepeta cultivar do you have? It looks like my Purrsian Blue. The best one that I’ve ever had.

its walkers low catmint patty...

our blooms on fiji are real small right now...

Patty, Plum Perfect sort of stopped growing for now again....lol...It had a short growth spurt then fizzled...lol I have to keep cutting the Marigolds back as they keep getting larger than PLUM PERFECT then it looks funny...lol

Jim my shortest is 12inches and tallest is 21 inches. They don’t have any disease with all of the heat that we’ve had. However the last two years they have done nothing. They don’t grow or bloom well. Obviously they are not happy here.

I know that not to many folks care for red. But I’ve got one sold by Garden Debut called The Grand Champion Red Rose / aka Meimacota. I have four of these they are all growing the same way. They are in their 4th year so they have seen three winters. Fingers crossed here that I’m not jinxing myself. But this is a rose to die for. I need to down load my photos so I can show them. When I saw the the rose called Soul that’s hybridized by Tantau (sp). I wanted it so badly that I could cry. Roseaholics do that you know.

All I can say is that I don’t need Soul anymore. This rose is everything that was written about Soul for me at least. The flower is the same size as well and it grows as a good northern rose should. Now I shall be silent on the matter least some thing should go wrong

‘The foliage is a really deep green with dark red new growth. It was just to sunny for taking pics.

I love reds...lol...Nice rose!

Is this the name of it Patty...>>>> The Grand Champion Red Rose / aka Meimacota ???

Here’s the tag. I found the rose at Menards. Every bit as good as Knockout.

Awesome! Thanks!

I had to cut back the Marigolds again as they got taller and wider than PLUM PERFECT...lol....Now it looks better again...But no blooms now...lol

Our Julia Child is slowly becoming engulfed in blackspot this year Patty, so, may have to make a change next year...Upper leaves now getting spots...

Funny that’s what I’ve been doing with phlox that is by mine.

My JC is doing the same thing and my weather has been the direct opposite of yours. While most of Illinois has been fine on rain. My city has only had two rains since the plants started growing. The trees in the woods behind me have now begun to drop their leaves. It’s getting rather bad here.

I think you mentioned Drift Roses do well your way Patty but here they just do not do well at all...lol...Carpet Roses do well here though...

Sorry to hear about your JC...

I only keep rose bushes that can go through HECK year after year and year after year they still perform and look decent without spraying...

Actually the only Drift rose that does very well for me every year is Pink Drift. Some of the others are really nice in spring. Then sone years good and some years yuck. I have more than one of each type and they each do the same as the other. I mentioned this earlier I think.but since Pink Drift does so well for me I have 7 and all are very good.

Other than PD flower carpets are a much better rose here.aa

Went out to check S and S it does have bs along with all of the JC’s. We are having a bit of a rain free season so far so stress is taking a toll.

I agree if a season has to be perfect every year for a rose to look good. Then I don’t want it besides who in the heck a perfect season. Have not gotten rid of much yet because I’m still reducing the size of the garden. When this is done the none doers will disappear.

Ok on the pink Drift... I contacted my local friend and he grows a pink drift that does good probably the same one... Is there only one pink drift???

So your S & S has blackspot??? Gee... I probably should watch my neighbors S&S longer before I decide to try that one then...lol...

There is only one pink drift that I know of and it is a winner in my garden as well. Sorry I don't comment as much although I have so much to say for so many of these posts but I have an old computer and it doesn't let me post or even like comment sometimes. Pink drift always has some flower and the age well until they don't! LOL! However the repeat is very fast and it is very healthy even with minimal water or a lot of rain.

Thanks vaporvac...

I ordered a refurbished computer off of Walmart awhile back... I bought just the tower for like $170 bucks... Has windows 10 and is updated with everything... Just throwing that out there for you vaporvac....

Thank you Jim! I actually have a couple of computers so it just depends where I am. My iPad is first generation and that's the one I generally sit at to read the gardenweb and it doesn't let me post. I can post to other forums Just not gardenweb. phone is the best but I hate to type on it so I usually just use voice recognition and I can't use that everywhere, if you catch my drift! Speaking of drift, red drift also does well for me but it has a slightly different growth habit and maybe a little less bloomy.

As vaporvac said there is only one Drift rose named Pink Drift. Howerver there is a Drift rose that is pink. It is called Sweet Drift. May do well for some but suffered terrible powdery mildew every year for me.

Patty, here is our neighbors S&S rose....

It looks good. I really like mine as well. Love the flowers and how they hold their color. It has been very hard season for the roses. So I don’t really care that it has bs this year. Ran out to snap a photo even thou it’s to bright.

Houzz won’t let me upload a photo so I’ll try later.

Going to try one of my older photos just to see.

Okay now what do you call this. First it posted totally faded out and upside down.

Sparkle and Shine

Nice photo of S&S Patty! I see a bee in that 1st pic of S&S...:-)

WOWSER on all those red blooms!

Yes I'm having Houzz issues also.. PAIN!

I do not mind alittle BS but when they lose alot of leaves I'm not into that...lol

Thank you....I was hoping it was not just me.