These are pictures of an Intrigue rose bush that is blooming in our yard this week. Intrigue is one of my favorite hybrid tea roses. It has the perfect rose shape as it’s opening. Although, it tends to fade quickly soon after it’s fully opened, and the flowers often get sunburned in hot weather.
I planted this rose bush as a bare root rose about 3 years ago. It grew poorly the first 2 years, probably because it was only getting about 2 hours of direct sunlight a day, and it wasn’t getting watered enough.
Roses are water hungry plants. I now water all of my roses daily with a drip system from April through October. Also, I moved this Intrigue rose bush to a new loaction that gets about 6 hours of direct sun daily. Now, it’s doing great. It’s tripled in size in just the past year.
August 06 2008 | Roses | Comments Off on Intrigue Rose
I visited my parents’ house this week to have lunch with my mom and check out her mid-summer garden. These are pictures of iceberg roses that are blooming in her backyard. I was really impressed by the look of pink and white iceberg rose bushes blooming next to each other. I tend to think that too many white roses next to each other looks bland and colorless. This particular combination of two different colors of the same type of floribunda rose makes for an attractive floral display.
August 02 2008 | Roses | Comments Off on Iceberg Roses
Last weekend, I purchased a new rose bush called Sheila’s Perfume from a local nursery. The flowers are extremely fragrant, which surprised me because many of the most attractive roses I have seen do not have much of a fragrance. I have heard that hybridizers focus more on looks than fragrance when developing new roses.
I am also impressed by it’s multicolored pink, orange, and white patterns. I have bought 3 new roses this year, but this one is my favorite right now.
July 27 2008 | Roses | Comments Off on Sheila’s Perfume Rose