Click on the names of the roses to be taken to an offsite information page about each rose.
4/10/06
After the driest March on record, my poor mini-tree rose, Feisty died. Being on the far end, while all the other roses were getting by, I did not notice it slowly withering away. Now, it is a dry as a twig and dead. I havent decided whether it will be replaced this year or not. It April and with some recent rains, all the roses have sprung back into life, and Scentimental, ahead of the game like usual, has buds on it. The rest are catching up after a light pruning. I am looking forward to what I hope will be a good year for my girls, and I hope to see that my efforts last year with the milky spore were not in vain. I have no desire to see my roses crawling with beetles this year.
8/25/05
It has been a hard year on my roses. They started out great, but as the summer of high heat, swarms of beetles, long rainy periods, then long dry periods, and finally, an overwhelming number of weeds, the roses are looking a little worse for wear. All of them have rebounded since the beetle massacre, and I even came home from a weeks vacation to roses everywhere, but they do not look as healthy as I would like. The summers biggest disapointment has been Midas Touch. The roses last less than a day if the weather is over 90 degrees (which it has been much of the summer). It is a much better cool weather rose. It is my hope to get into the garden and weed before the remnants of Hurricane Katrina get here next week. Its looking really rough there and I need to start getting them prepared for dormancy this Autumn.
