[gardeners] Very Productive 2 week vacation....

Alan Zelhart (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 04 Jan 2001 04:52:05 -0700

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Things are going well here.  It has been a very productive week off.  I have
one more week to enjoy!  I've been very busy in my rose gardens.  This week
I started pruning back all my hybrid teas, grandiflora, shrub roses and mini
roses.  I also have had quite a few new roses come in, and have them
planted, they were bare root.   I still have about15-20 more roses that have
not arrived yet. I've sort of loss track...laugh!  I've been buying mostly
Old Garden and Austin roses this year.  Although there are a few Hybrid Teas
I just could not avoid.  If you get a chance, go to
http://www.carltonroses.comn and check out Gypsy Leonidas and Fire-n-Ice.
Two absolutely stunning hybrid teas.  This will be my first attempt at
trying florist roses in my garden.  I can't wait to see how they do!

Roses I've already planted this winter:

2-Angel Face
1-Arizona
1-Barbara Streisand
1-Brandy
1-Cottage Rose
1-Cologne
2-Constance Spry
1-Eden
1-Evelyn
2-Fair Bianca
1-French Lace
1-Glamis Castle
2-Graham Thomas
1-Handel
1-Lillian Austin
5-Mermaid
1-Nicole
1-Oranges & Lemons
1-Pat Austin
1-Pinata
1-Proud Titania
2-Queen Nefertiti
1-St. Patrick
2-Veilchenblau
1-Veteran's Honor
Total: 35

Roses I'm waiting for:

1-Abraham Darby
2-Deprez a Fleur Jaune
2-Jacques Cartier
1-Just Joey
2-La Reine Victoria
2-Larry Daniels
3-Madame Pierre Oger
1-Reine des Violettes
1-Shocking Blue
1-White Pet
1-Gypsy Leonidas
1-Fire-n-Ice
Total: 18
Total roses that will have been planted this season: 53
Total roses in my garden: 123

So, as you can see, I have been and will continue to be very busy, right up
till the last rose arrives around the first week in March.  I've taken out a
lot of my desert landscaping and am going to have to think seriously about
taking out more next year, if I keep ordering them like I have been.  I'm
running out of space quickly.  I suspect this will be the last big season.
pruned, because I am dissatisfied with how they have performed.  But,
generally I give roses three years to come up to power before they ever end
up on the shovel prune list.

This year I shovel pruned two Red Masterpiece, Tinsel Town, Neon, Yellow
Masterpiece, and very shortly Betty Boop.  Betty Boop has never performed
well for me.  An old garden rose Like La Reine Victoria can take her place
and show off continuously *AND* have a wonderful fragrance.

Christmas was nice and quiet here, my family and I celebrated Christmas at
Thanksgiving.  Which is fine by me.  I think it's more important for them to
be home with the grand kids and stuff at Christmas time. I do not do the
trip to Colorado at Christmas because inevitably it snows the whole time I'm
there, and one year I ended up stuck in a snow bank till I could get help.
So I've gave up on trips to Colorado in the winter.  It's pointless to buy
snow tires or chains for that one trip every year.

I've been pruning  back my desert plants, agaves, century plant, etc., as
well.  Always something to do but it keeps me out of trouble.  I don't know
when any
of you last visited my web site, but I have put up some wonderful pictures
of Joseph's Coat in full color, weaving its way up my arbor in the front
yard, in it's many splendid colors.  It has continually bloomed all the way
through the holidays.  Also, another hobby of mine, that I have just taken
up is Bonsai.  If you go to the web site you can see the bonsai I'm working
on and a few new pictures I've taken in the last couple of weeks.  The
address is listed at the bottom of this message.

You will see my first plants in training.  I've been taking classes from our
local Bonsai club.  They helped me with these two trees. I'm very proud of
them, and just praying I don't kill them!

This week I took all the indoor and outdoor Christmas decorations down, and
they are tucked away till next year.  You can see pictures of my home
decorated for Christmas on my web site as well.  The remainder of the week I
will be cleaning up leaves, my work bench, and cleaning up the house in
preparation for my Mom and Step dad's visit on the 12th.  My Mom is retiring
then, and they are headed down here to try out snowbirding.  They will spend
a little time with me, then they want to drive down to Tucson and spend some
time down there with their Square Dancing friends.

I wish everyone the best in this new year, 2001!!

R. Alan Zelhart
Chandler, Arizona
Sunset Zone: 13

http://members.home.net/gizmoaz/~gizmoaz.htm
Where there is never a dull moment!



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Things are going well here.  It has been a very productive week off.  I have one more week to enjoy!  I've been very busy in my rose gardens.  This week I started pruning back all my hybrid teas, grandiflora, shrub roses and mini roses.  I also have had quite a few new roses come in, and have them planted, they were bare root.   I still have about15-20 more roses that have not arrived yet. I've sort of loss track...laugh!  I've been buying mostly Old Garden and Austin roses this year.  Although there are a few Hybrid Teas I just could not avoid.  If you get a chance, go to http://www.carltonroses.comn and check out Gypsy Leonidas and Fire-n-Ice.  Two absolutely stunning hybrid teas.  This will be my first attempt at trying florist roses in my garden.  I can't wait to see how they do!

Roses I've already planted this winter:

2-Angel Face
1-Arizona
1-Barbara Streisand
1-Brandy
1-Cottage Rose
1-Cologne
2-Constance Spry
1-Eden
1-Evelyn
2-Fair Bianca
1-French Lace
1-Glamis Castle
2-Graham Thomas
1-Handel
1-Lillian Austin
5-Mermaid
1-Nicole
1-Oranges & Lemons
1-Pat Austin
1-Pinata
1-Proud Titania
2-Queen Nefertiti
1-St. Patrick
2-Veilchenblau
1-Veteran's Honor
Total: 35

Roses I'm waiting for:

1-Abraham Darby
2-Deprez a Fleur Jaune
2-Jacques Cartier
1-Just Joey
2-La Reine Victoria
2-Larry Daniels
3-Madame Pierre Oger
1-Reine des Violettes
1-Shocking Blue
1-White Pet
1-Gypsy Leonidas
1-Fire-n-Ice
Total: 18
Total roses that will have been planted this season: 53
Total roses in my garden: 123

So, as you can see, I have been and will continue to be very busy, right up till the last rose arrives around the first week in March.  I've taken out a lot of my desert landscaping and am going to have to think seriously about taking out more next year, if I keep ordering them like I have been.  I'm running out of space quickly.  I suspect this will be the last big season.  From now on it will be; buying rose to take the place of ones I have shovel pruned, because I am dissatisfied with how they have performed.  But, generally I give roses three years to come up to power before they ever end up on the shovel prune list.

This year I shovel pruned two Red Masterpiece, Tinsel Town, Neon, Yellow Masterpiece, and very shortly Betty Boop.  Betty Boop has never performed well for me.  An old garden rose Like La Reine Victoria can take her place and show off continuously *AND* have a wonderful fragrance.

Christmas was nice and quiet here, my family and I celebrated Christmas at Thanksgiving.  Which is fine by me.  I think it's more important for them to be home with the grand kids and stuff at Christmas time. I do not do the trip to Colorado at Christmas because inevitably it snows the whole time I'm there, and one year I ended up stuck in a snow bank till I could get help.  So I've gave up on trips to Colorado in the winter.  It's pointless to buy snow tires or chains for that one trip every year.

I've been pruning  back my desert plants, agaves, century plant, etc., as well.  Always something to do but it keeps me out of trouble.  I don't know when any
of you last visited my web site, but I have put up some wonderful pictures of Joseph's Coat in full color, weaving its way up my arbor in the front yard, in it's many splendid colors.  It has continually bloomed all the way through the holidays.  Also, another hobby of mine, that I have just taken up is Bonsai.  If you go to the web site you can see the bonsai I'm working on and a few new pictures I've taken in the last couple of weeks.  The address is listed at the bottom of this message.

You will see my first plants in training.  I've been taking classes from our local Bonsai club.  They helped me with these two trees. I'm very proud of them, and just praying I don't kill them!

This week I took all the indoor and outdoor Christmas decorations down, and they are tucked away till next year.  You can see pictures of my home decorated for Christmas on my web site as well.  The remainder of the week I will be cleaning up leaves, my work bench, and cleaning up the house in preparation for my Mom and Step dad's visit on the 12th.  My Mom is retiring then, and they are headed down here to try out snowbirding.  They will spend a little time with me, then they want to drive down to Tucson and spend some time down there with their Square Dancing friends.

I wish everyone the best in this new year, 2001!!

R. Alan Zelhart
Chandler, Arizona
Sunset Zone: 13

http://members.home.net/gizmoaz/~gizmoaz.htm
Where there is never a dull moment!
 
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