RE: [gardeners] killing roses
Seyfried,Alice (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 10:46:57 -0400
Thanks, Liz!! You have given me new hope. And I just happen to have a
couple spots where I bet they'd do great. I'm keeping your message as a
reminder to myself for next spring.
Alice
seyfried@oclc.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liz Albrook [SMTP:ealbrook@lewiston.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 3:27 AM
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: [gardeners] killing roses
>
> Seyfried,Alice <gardeners@globalgarden.com> wrote:
>
> > I was sad to see them go, too because I love roses also; but I just
> > didn't have the time to care for them properly.
>
> You had the wrong kind of roses. The Jackson and Perkins type roses
> require a lot of care but there are many, many roses that require
> less care than lawns or carpets. Look for hybrid rugosas, many of
> the Buck roses, almost anything from the Canadian Explorer series --
> they are carefree. Buy them as tiny twigs on their own roots, plant
> them and stand back -- they are remarkably hardy and vigorous.
>
> The more I find out about old garden roses the more mystified I am by
> the popularity of hybrid teas and floribundas. There are old garden
> roses of every size and shape (when was the last time you looked at a
> hybrid tea and thought the bush, not the flowers, was lovely and
> graceful?), that require almost no pruning, insecticides, fungicides
> or fertilizer. It's not that hybrid teas and other modern roses are
> bad -- it's that they are fussy. I'm too lazy to keep them.
>
> Liz
>