Nice to see the excavation around MOTH is moving along lol :)

MOTH today

JC

Plum Perfect

FIJI

Jim, your Plum Perfect is gorgeous as is Earth Song. I have several of PP own root but they don't seem to be very hardy. Two are looking good this year and one has flowered once. The other of the two has some tiny buds. Seems these little own roots seem to take their time growing up :-) but she's just so lovely so worth the wait.

sharon

Yes our Plum Perfect own root is also growing very slow enchantedrose... Our PP is starting its second season...Our PP did not bloom at all its first season...But has bloomed two small flushes this year so far....

Jim , I don’t know how you keep everything looking so good !! You do such a nice job. Do you get lots of hummers ? I wish I did. I only have one little family that comes. I enjoy them so much but wish I had a gang of them. I plant lots of plants for them, had a lot of feeders but now just 2. So delightful!

We have been getting alot of rain from Spring to present time... We get hot weather at times but mostly this years been mild so that helps also I'm sure...

We get a fair amount of hummers but not alot... 4-5 hummers

Took this pic of Earthsong in the rain today

Jim, I may have already asked you about this. May I ask you where you bought your Earthsong from. You’re still a zone warmer than I am. So I am still unsure if I should try it or not. I did have it long ago but it did not do well here. Can’t remember but I believe it had rmv. The best Buck rose that I ever had here was Quietness. She grew like a tree and flowered with true zest.

Our first Earthsong appeared to have RMV... So I bought another ES from Heirloom Roses which is the one I have here now...

Yes these zones can be tricky...You may even have colder zones in parts of your yard than your stated 5a by the sounds of it...

SAM in 5a also was not having much luck with Earthsong last time I heard... It would die way back then not come back well...

I'd also wonder if Earthsong may get alot of Anthracnose in your location Patty...???

But one does not know until we try something...Darn trial & error anyhow...lol

This guy in Minnesota grows alot of Earthsongs...

http://theminnesotarosegardener.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-minnesota-rose-gardeners-rose.html

Jim - your ES is amazing!!!! Well done!

Carol

Jim- lovely. I tried growing this rose twice with no success. I have no luck with Quietness either. I have Folksinger which flowers almost nonstop but it gets quite a bit of blackspot. Thanks for the link to the MN gardener. Lots of great info :-) especially about planting a garden that attracts predatory insects. But do we give up precious rose space to something else. Dilemmas, dilemmas....

sharon

MOTH & Zinnia

Julia Child

ES

CC

Well it figures and I had 3 Quiteness that grew like trees. They were healthy as could be and very fragrant. At the time I absolutely hated light pink. So when the JBs took almost an entire seasons worth of bloom. I had a moment of nuttiness and took them out. To bad there wasn’t someone to stop me.

Sometimes it’s not where you live but the plant. I tried Livin Easy and Easy Going each three times in the past. I tried them 2 times as own root and once grafted on Huey. None survived winter. Three years ago Pat’s photo got me stirred up again. I ordered them from Northland planted them in the same place as earlier tries. They are still out there healthier and bigger every year.

Thanks Pat from somewhere down south.

Jim give Julia Child a chance. She should get better for you. Mine used have some cane left in the years where temps stayed above zero. That is not often for me but my oldest JC is ten years old now. Comes back every year.

Heres JC today...Ok Patty...Shes a strong bloomer thats foir sure!

Jim, where’s your JB’s?

Where are those beetles hiding indeed. You should see the flowers on my JC or what’s left of them. :-) Good news here thou my CC’s (the three that did not come with crown gall) are starting to look pretty good.

Jim - love the trucks again! You're having fun moving them around. :) I love your Julia Child!! They're all gorgeous...but JC makes my heart sing. :)

Carol

I have a lot of JBs at the country garden this year, they even make it to the rose trees on the upper deck. I am taking it easy on spray, but I have to do something about JBs next week, if not there won’t have any blooms left.

I found about 20-30 JB's total this year so far...Most were on Earthsong...Other years I only found 5-6 per year so more this year..

Rose Midge damage is way less this year...

Jim - looks like your throwing blooms into a bag is working!

Carol

FIJI

I’m happy now that it is finally blooming for you. Makes me feel better about saying how good this rose is. Jim well you overwinter the rose in the garage/

We do not have a garage Patty...lol...I'll probably try to overwinter potted Fiji under our front porch this winter...

Own root Fiji roses seem to follow the same pattern here... First two seasons they do nothing, not much growth and no blooms at all... The third season they grow alittle bit and start blooming... I suspect it will take another 2 years or so to get a larger bush...So a total of 4-6 years to obtain a larger bush... Just a guess...lol

PLUM PERFECT:

I really don’t pay attention. Well anyway that’s a nice photo of PP.

Jim - oh wow!!!!! That's a gorgeous Plum Perfect!!! :)

Carol

Jim, it's so good to know that the Kordes own root really take off by year 4. Yours are all lovely and give me hope. My Plum Perfect has flowered once this year but is putting out new growth. I hope there's another bud hiding in there :-)

sharon

enchantedrosez5bma ,

Our PLUM PERFECT did not flower at all its first season... This is its 2nd season for own root PLUM PERFECT... Its getting blooms this year....But it's also slow growing like Fiji's but not quite as slow...lol

Rose Midge damage really declined this year...

Carefree Celebration today:

JC

CC

MOTH

ES

I'm so happy for you too! It's wonderful having blooms after such a bad year last year isn't it?

Yes it is vaporvac! Thanks!

Jim - your roses are such bloom machines! They're incredible!!

Carol

Jim the roses are looking just great. I’m happy for you. Many of mine have put on some good growth and are loading up with buds. Now if you good send some of rain my way I’d be greatful.

Ok Patty...lol..Rains on the way...

Todays photo:

Wow Jim! All that rain is agreeing with your roses!

Thanks lavenderlace! It sort of like Spring almost the entire summer here...Crazy!

Carefree Celebration today:

Earthsong today:

Finally charged my camera batteries. Some of these are a bit fuzzy but it’s the best I can do. Houzz is acting up a bit and would not let me load anything so I’ll do the text first. Pics second.

I included a photo of some Campfires just to show that they do have a nice bush. Sometimes they will stretch side ways at first. Then lateral canes come up from the center making a nice shapely bus. This rose just keeps on getting better every year.

I always wanted a Weasterland rose but it is not consistently hardy here. This orange one is Above All and has seen 4 winters. The colors for me are like a more intense Westerland. It will never be a climber here but gives lots of flowers.

Out of my many Kordes roses my current best performers are Sunny Sky and South Africa (go figure) they die back to the ground. Yet grow back wth the vigor of a good northern rose. They bloom as well as many foribunda’s for me.

My Cream Veranda’s and Floral Fairytales are in second place they just need another season to get a bit more size.

These red roses are fabulous but I’m not jinxing myself by saying any more. The oldest is 4 years. They also just keep getting better and better.

You also get a free foliage photo as the sun came out and I could not see. At least you know that I tried to get a photo of Sunny Sky.

Sorry Patty but I can not see your pics...

Red rose

Free foliage pic

Can’t load photos, I’ll try one at a time.

Above All

That worked.

red rose

They let me do 2 photos, yay.

Campfire

Free foliage pic

‘It has lots of flowers all destroyed by the JB’s and great camera shot.

Some of the photos came back. What in the heck is going on.

Houzz acts up like that sometimes Patty...I have stuff disappear then reappear....

ALL superb photos of your roses Patty! Very nice seeing all those blooms and Nice clean foilage! Thanks for sharing!

Darn JB's...

I usually see 5-6 JB'S per year but this year was a bit higher at about 40+ but that's still not that bad....Wonder what next year brings though...

Gorgeous blooms everyone!

Some zinnia with bee pics...

Is anyone else having issues with photos or is my iPad acting up. Can’t use houzz photo this morning. The photo button is showing photos faded and upside down. Then flips upright when I hit submit

I have windows 10 and I'm having issues also Patty!

Nice blooms! :-)