Re: [gardeners] Sunday in the garden
George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:59:01 -0600
This area gets at least that much if not more. I'm thinking about making a rose
bed in the shape of Texas just for the hell of it.
Thanks, George
Jeannine Kantz wrote:
>
> I was told at the Antique Rose Emporium here that I should plant mine in a
> site that gets at least 6hrs a day of sun-that was the absolute minimum.
>
> At 11:39 AM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote:
> >Wow! You really had a Sunday in the garden. I would like to start a rose
> bed in
> >my front yard but it is shaded almost completely from 1:30 pm until dark
> so that
> >the roses would only get partial sun in the afternoon. A neighbor down the
> >street has the same conditions and his tea roses do okay. I intend to plant
> >nothing but old and antique roses with fragrance so wonder if such a site
> would
> >work. Any ideas anyone?
> >
> >George
> >
> >Kari Whittenberger-Keith wrote:
> >>
> >> Chiming in from cooler climes.
> >>
> >> Here in the southern Willamette Valley, we had a Sunday that was perfect
> >> for gardening--warmish (50s) a bit overcast, with the sun peeking through
> >> from time to time. I went out to mow the lawn. Four hours later I had:
> >> mowed the lawn, weeded all the beds, cut back many of the perennials I had
> >> left up for the winter, built a new rose and perennial bed in my back yard,
> >> moved a bunch (20 maybe?) of plants from a bed that I will be redoing this
> >> year to a set of beds along the back fence.
> >>
> >> Now that the new bed is built, I can turn to ordering the roses--I now know
> >> how much space I actually have to work with.
> >>
> >> And I'm only a little bit sore this morning!
> >>
> >> Kari
> >>
> >> Kari Whittenberger-Keith
> >> kariwk@oregon.uoregon.edu
> >> Managing Editor, Old House Chronicle
> >> http://www.oldhousechronicle.com
> >>
> >
> Jeannine Kantz
> jkantz@tca.net