Other Years
Hope for Humanity
2022
June 16: I bought a plant from T&T.
20: Ben planted it.
August 21: Surviving. A few flowers.
Rugelda
2022
June 16: I bought a plant from T&T.
20: Ben planted it.
August 21: Surviving. A few flowers, but not for a while.
Morden Blush
2022
June 16: I bought a plant from LaCoste Nurseries.
20: Ben planted it.
August 21: Surviving. A few flowers.
Chrysler Imperial Rose
2014
June 20: No growth.
July 31: I found new growth today.
I don't know if it is Chrysler Imperial though,
or the rootstock it was grafted onto.
2013
May 4: I bought another plant of this variety.
I know it doesn't produce many flowers but the few you get are very well-formed and red,
and so beautifully scented.
18: I planted it in a big hole with lots of compost.
June 23: Growing well.
28: One flower bud.
July 3: Three flowers.
September 23: It produced a few more flowers over the summer
but it got overgrown by a nearby tomato.
1998
June 3: Appears dead.
1997
May 5: New growth visible.
May 19: Some manure.
June 30: Second flower opening.
August 7: 5 flowers so far.
October 30: Covered with flax straw.
1996
May 4: No green stalks detectable.
May 28: Still no growth.
June 15: New growth!
July 2: A tiny plant with 1 small flower.
1995
May 9: Not in bud yet.
I removed the mulch from around it today.
11: 1 stalk is green (i.e., alive) at the base.
Scattered iron chelates.
17: Budding.
June 15: A first flower bud is forming,
but there are not many leaves.
July 29: I have had about 5 flowers.
1993
October 17: I heaped dry leaves over the plant,
and covered the heap with plastic.
I got only 2 flowers from it this year.
Cuthbert Grant Rose
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Cuthbert Grant, 2008 |
2012
September 19: One small shoot came up but unfortunately the lawn mower broke it,
and nothing reappeared..
2011
May 11: One shoot has come up from the ground.
That's all there is; I guess the rest was destroyed during construction of the wall.
22: I moved the rose because it was too close to the wall.
I split the root into 3 then planted the 2 small pieces and discarded the large woody part.
I put a lot of compost into the new spot near the old one.
June 13: Both doing fine.
2010
May 22: Mostly dead, apparently.
There are a few opening buds on about two stems, but that's all.
June 17: Those 2 stems are growing well.
July 2: First flower.
12: Many flowers on its 2 stems.
2009
July 4: Slow this year. One flower so far.
August 3: A few flowers.
18: Still a few flowers.
2008
May 1: Leafing out.
December 31: Did fine.
2007
June 16: In flower now.
2006
April 26: New growth.
May 13: It is not doing well.
The new growth is spindly and twisted and the new leaves are very pale.
August 1: Doing ok.
It got its colour back but there were not many flowers and the plant is not very large.
July was extremely dry. The plant is getting irrigation water now.
2005
May 16: I moved the bush to the corner of the garden.
I incorporated manure with the soil from the new hole.
June 24: A few small flowers.
October 2: Still alive, not much production this year.
2004
June 6: It's coming along slowly.
I gave it a toss of fertilizer today and a toss of sulphur.
19: More sulphur and acid fertilizer.
July 2: 2 flowers.
July 5: Many buds are opening.
2003
April 25: New shoots today.
June 3: I sprinkled a little sulphur around it.
No flowers yet, but I noticed one bud.
June 11: First flower.
July 1: They have been flowering nicely.
Today I gave them some acidic fertilizer.
August 14: After a period of no flowers, there are a few again.
~October 6: Ben cut the plants back.
2002
May 5: Budding.
September 8: I saw one good display this summer, but was away too much to really assess it.
There was still the odd flower in August, but there are none now.
2001
May 1: It is budding.
June 13: First flower.
July 1: It has been a mass of blossoms for a week now.
August 4: After being bare for a few weeks, a new flower has appeared.
2000
May 7: Short shoots are out today.
16: I moved the plant, a short distance. I added manure and peat moss to the soil around the plant.
19: Mulched with grass clippings.
June 1: I picked forest tent caterpillars off the bush. They had eaten about half the leaves.
27: The first flower is opening.
July 5: The bush is small, but there are many flowers!
August 8: Few flowers since that initial flush. The bush had scarcely grown, but looks healthy.
1999
April 11: Buds on the Cuthbert Grant rose (Rosa arkansana xx ?) are red and swollen.
May 24: Doing well.
June 11: First flower,
and there are more than 50 buds about to open.
18: A magnificent display!
August 3: Flourishing nicely. It has been in flower continuously.
31: The same.
November 21: I cut the stems back.
1998
April 12: Budding.
May 2: In leaf.
June 1: Doing well.
12: Flowers.
1997
May 5: New growth visible.
May 19: Some manure. Cut back. It died rather far back
June 25: Many blossoms.
1996
May 4: Green stalks visible.
1995
May 9: Not in bud yet.
11: Budding. I scattered iron chelates.
June 15: Flower buds.
1994
May 12: Budding.
~20: I put landscape fabric around the base.
June 20: Growing well. Some coloured buds.
28: Many flowers
August 17: Not many flowers this summer.
1993
August 5: Flowering very well.
August 18: 1 blossom.
September 4: A few blossoms.
Parkview Pink Rose
2000
May 16: No sign of anything. The branch I planted fell out of the ground last autumn. I moved the Cuthbert Grant rose to its spot.
June 27: Still no sign of anything.
1999
23: I took a stem from the pink rose at Parkview Street.
The stem has 3 small shoots near its base,
and what appear to be dried up thread-like roots below the shoots.
24: Although I left it in water,
it fell out and dried out during the afternoon.
I left it soaking overnight.
The sale of Parkview closed today,
so I guess there won't be any contact with that garden now.
25: I planted it in the garden in soil and plenty of peat moss.
August 1: The bottom of the stem had remained green,
but today it looked severely sun-scalded.
31: The same.