roses – What's Growing in the Garden?

June 8, 2015June 5, 2015

Wanted: Disease-resistant roses for our demo garden

Want to contribute to the Lane County Master Gardener Demonstration Garden?

Here is a wish list for new editions to our “No-Spray Rose Garden”:

Hybrid Tea: Electron, Just Joey, Keepsake, Las Vegas, Silver Jubilee, VooDoo

Grandiflora: Love, Tournament of Roses

Floribunda: Europeana, Impatient, Liverpool Echo, Matangi, Play Girl, Playboy, Regensburg, Sarabande, Sexy Rexy, Showbiz, Trumperter, Viva

Climbers: Dortmund, Dublin Bay, Royal Sunset

All are considered resistant to rust, powdery mildew, and blackspot per http://pnwhandbooks.org/plantdisease/node/267/print

You can bring a plant by the Extension office, contribute a gift certificate to a nursery, or make a monetary contribution (checks payable to the Lane County Master Gardener Association and note that use is for the garden)

May 27, 2015

In progress: Rose Garden

Update on the rose garden: This garden area will need some renovations to make it shine. Last week we knocked down the weeds and took stock. Dead and dying plants were removed. The remaining will benefit from some pruning next winter. The plan for this area is to make a demonstration of a no-spray garden using roses that are resistant to common diseases. We also will showcase some of the different types of roses: floribunda, grandiflora, hybrid tea, etc.

Doesn’t look like much, yet-but there is a rose garden in there somewhere!

I think this one is “Birthday Girl“: Any rosarians want to chime?