3 Gardens in Coastal Virginia

[Barbara G]

I've loved roses since I was 8, and have grown roses in Ohio, north Texas and now here in hot humid SE U.S. I expect to move one more time, probably to South Carolina! I have a new garden here of hopefully disease resistant garden roses-- Blush Noisette, Lyda Rose, Escapade, and Distant Drums were great their 1st year. Am being patient with Sea Foam, Sombreuil, and Darlow's Enigma. I work at an arboretum with a small modern rose garden and a larger antique rose garden which is being renovated with teas, noisettes, and Chinas. My Ohio cold-climate garden was huge with many once bloomers, rugosas, and hardy garden roses so now I am becoming acquainted with garden roses for hot climates. Hello everyone!

[hannes]

Hello Barbara,
welcome to the forum! It's nice to have one more rose lover from the USA on here. Especially as it seems that you are quite an experienced 'rose grower'. As someone who is relatively new to gardening with roses I very much appreciate to learn from other members. I have somewhat mixed feelings when I think of moving and having to leave a lovely garden behind. ESpecially as I love climbers and ramblers and these often take many years to be really splendid plants. On the other hand it's a good chance to start anew and create another lovely garden ... BTW, did you have start your new garden in Virginia from scratch? Would love to hear a bit more about it.

The roses you have mentioned, Blush Noisette, Lyda Rose ... Sombreuil, etc. all sound very nice. Do you work with roses at the arboretum too? I also suppose it must be quite different to garden in a hot humid climate after living for some time in Ohio. I have moved from a colder climate to a warmer area in Austria more than twenty years ago but still seem to overdo with winter protection.

Hope you'll find the time to be on often!
Hannes

[PaulZimmermanRoses]

Hi Barbara,

Welcome to the Forum. If you do get to South Carolina come visit us.

[Maribel]

Dear Barbara
Welcome to the forum from me too :)

You have some lovely roses, and what a privilege being able to work with roses as well. I'm more than a teeny bit envious! I was interested to see you have Lyda rose, it's going to be the next rose I buy, though it isn't that easy to get hold of in Europe. PB has it but I haven't found it anywhere in Denmark and some of the other larger European nurseries don't have it either. I'd love to hear about your experience with this rose, I think she is so beautiful! Have you got any pics of her? I found her originally at home.hiwaay.net/~oliver/lydarose.htm originally when searching for HMs which I'm very fond of, and on Paul Barden's site: http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/modern/lyda.html

When you say 'Am being patient with Sea Foam, Sombreuil, and Darlow's Enigma' is it because they've had some disease in your garden so far, or a hard time getting established? Just curious.

I agree with Hannes, it must be heartbreaking to move from a well-established rose garden as you have/plan to. Ihave also often wondered what to do if I ever move. Did you take cuttings or dig any bushes up or did you have a start-from-scratch approac in your new garden? My first garden, before this one and before I started rose growing was at a summer house which we sold after 2 years, not very long to establish a garden, but I had planted a lot of things anyway. The estate agent described it in his spiel as a 'very interesting garden full of exciting plants' - but after I'd finished digging them up to take with me it was mostly full of very not exciting holes .. Not sure quite what the new owners made of that! We still sometimes drive past though and peep in over the fence to see how the plants we did leave are getting on :)

Please post some pics of your roses if you have some :)

greetings
Maribel

[PaulZimmermanRoses]

Hi Maribel,

Happy New Year



Lyda Rose

[Maribel]

Thanks so much Paul, she's beautiful! A very happy New Year to you too :)
Maribel

[nanyangrose]

Hello everyone ,
Happy new year!

[admin]

Hi Barbara,

It is lovely to have you on here! Welcome to the forum.

If you have any questions that need professional advice then why not leave a message in the "Professional Rose Advice" room of the forum.


Pete

[jnmccool]

Hello Barbara - welcome! I am also interested in what issues you might be having with Darlow and seafoam as they are both on my wish list and I live way down here in Louisiana -really hot and muggy! :)