Probably the easiest-to-grow, large-flowered climbing rose for California gardens is ‘Fourth of July’. I want to order a couple of bare-root climbers, but not until I hear from you. Would you please give me a short list of your recommendations. I was foolishly not writing down your suggestions. Please write to me at where your questions, comments, and plant photos are always welcome.I attended one of your talks once and someone asked you to name a few easy-to-grow climbing roses. Keep in mind, however, that perennial weeds with deep roots will return unless their root is thoroughly removed or new growth of such weeds – sometimes over a few years – is immediately removed at the soil level as soon as it appears. Where soil is extremely hard, pushing a shovel blade under weeds may be the easiest way to remove them. These hoes are best used in somewhat loose soil. The classic garden hoe has a Ten Commandments-shaped blade attached to a wooden handle while a scuffle or hula hoe has a trapezoidal blade that moves back and forth to remove weeds just below the soil surface. Weeds are more easily removed when the ground is wet. Before embarking on a weed removal project, soak the soil the night before. However, you will need to replace the silk stocking from time to time as the dead ants will eventually make a bridge over the sticky substance and this will allow their cousins to cross over and work their way up into the plant.ĥ. Keep ants away by taking an old silk stocking and slathering petroleum jelly or Tanglefoot, a product made specifically for stopping ants dead in their tracks, and tie it around the plant a few inches above the ground. Ants are a double menace since they also fight off beneficial insect pest predators that would otherwise devour aphids, scales, mealybugs and thrips. Ants bring sucking insects onto your plants. Victor Reiter is a noteworthy selection whose soft orange lanterns expand to three inches, while Moonchimes has two-inch lemon yellow blooms.Ĥ. There are hundreds of abutilon cultivars yet only a few are commonly available in the nursery trade.
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Watering it now, for instance, when the soil is still full of moisture from winter rain, could lead to its demise. This abutilon flowers year around and, like all cultivars, is not at all water needy. Tiger Eye has yellow flowers with a bloodshot look on account of being highlighted with deep red venation. Zeldin has a Tiger Eye abutilon several decades old that has vined 20 feet up into a Japanese maple tree (Acer palmatum). Utilize your abutilon, otherwise known as flowering maple or Chinese lantern, as a vine. The causes for blind shoot growth are not well known although fluctuations in temperature and water availability have been implicated in their development.ģ. Such shoots should be cut back by half to a five-leaflet leaf and new growth that subsequently forms will bear flowers. Blind shoots are shoots that grow without any flower buds forming.
Zeldin is more concerned about blind shoots. He also notes that the first five-leaflet leaf down the stem may be flimsy and so cutting back further down may be necessary. Yes, he deadheads his roses and cuts them back to a bud that will grow into a flowering stem but is not fanatical about cutting back to a five-leaflet leaf as is generally advised. When it comes to pruning roses during the growing season, Zeldin is not obsessed with it. I like to keep my roses on the plants, but will cut them in the morning for vase arrangements since that will spare them from wilting the same day.” If you use a conventional fertilizer, Zeldin says you will have to reapply it every four to five weeks to keep your roses blooming up to their potential.Ģ. “On hot days, flowers wilt by two o’clock in the afternoon,” he explains, “so it may not make much sense to keep them blooming at maximum capacity through the summer months. However, he is rethinking that strategy due to the scorching summers that we have lately experienced.
Loren Zeldin fertilizes his roses every March with a slow-release product that keeps his plants blooming until the fall. If you haven’t fertilized your roses, do so now.
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