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[which_chick]

In garden news, the following plants are free to a good home when next we meet.



There's a pink rose (flowers once, scented double blooms, healthy and vigorous) that I got from a plant swap a couple of years ago. It makes baby pink roses for free, regularly. These spawn, they need homes or I have to dig them up and kill them. I have one spawn available for adoption at the moment.

There's a purplish rugosa rose that also makes baby roses for free. Rugosas have big, pretty rose hips and DO NOT need to be sprayed. For pruning, I only cut off the winter kill parts. I have one free purple rugosa.

There's a Charles de Mills gallica rose (once blooming, not very scented, but stunning to look at, healthy, requires very little care) that makes baby roses for free, too. I have one free Charles de Mills.

I also have (free to a good home) assorted peony bushes in various shades of white, pink, and other pink. These are growing next to where the trailer USED TO BE at 629 and I am tired of mowing around them. I think there are six of these peonies. No, I cannot tell which are what color. Think of them as a surprise. Peonies do not require very much work and make flowers every year even if you ignore them. They do better if you can bestir yourself to (a) cut down the dead foliage in the fall and (b) dump about five gallons of horse manure per each clump on them in the early spring.

I have mint suitable for mojitos. I have daylilies in (a) dark red and (b) standard orange. I have iris in purple, yellow, Japanese (white, purple, purple-n-white), Gerald Darby, some kind of siberian, iris graminea, and yellow pseudocoras.

Anybody looking to add to their garden who would like some or all of the above plants, please say something in the comments and I'll try to get you hooked up.

Comments

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

What does an actual rose regimen consist of? I have 3 roses (now all growing from rootstock) that came with the house, and I kind of ignored them except for chewing Eric out whenever he accidentally mowed them (hey, 'pruning'!)

So, uh, I may not count as "a good home" for roses ;) But I am curious about all the stuff that I am not doing.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I don't grow roses that need much looking-after. I grow roses that thrive on benign neglect. Most roses, including the hybrid tea roses that came with your house, require more work than I am willing to do.

Spring: Cut off dead parts of bush. Wait to do this until the rose is mostly leafed out so that you can *see* the dead parts.

Summer: If weeds are big enough that you cannot see the rose bush, weed around the rose bush. Fertilize if you think about it. (I usually do a once-yearly application of a gentle, organic bulk fertilizer, otherwise known as horse shit, for reasons that are largely composed of "free" and "easy".) Pick off Japanese beetles if wandering around the yard looking for something to do. Enjoy roses. Dig up (or mow over) suckers, which are the free baby rose bushes that these bushes make, unless you have someone who would like a free baby rose.

Fall: Ignore.

Winter: Ignore.

[d-ubervillain.livejournal.com]

Mint for me, please. Do the mojito fixins come with it?

[cousinsue.livejournal.com]

I will take any of those that you care to give me.

I have places for all of them, and would like the mint to run wild, Wild, do you hear?

I have not tried horse manure on my peonies ... hmmm.

I won't be at the GWO though. Can we work it that they come down, and someone brings them to Matt's for pick up? ooooh...

I could plant some at Matt's...

I miss my roses from the old house.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to GWO. Perhaps there will be a midsummer (July 4?) meetup.