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Growing your hair out is similar to the experience of taking care of a garden: it takes time, care, and attention in order to nurture it along. Tall trees, large ornamental plants, and climbing vines especially take a little extra time and careful pruning & training in order to achieve the results you hope for.
If you hire a cheap and inexperienced gardener to help you with your maintenance chores, don't turn your back on him, or you will get what you paid for -- a hack-job or other garden disaster! What can take YEARS to grow to perfection can be ruined in minutes.
... And so it is also with HAIR!
This is a pic of an arbor at the entrance gate to a small rose garden that I planted in Feb. of '08, & continue to maintain in the town of Castro Valley, California. The peach-colored blooms are from an old climbing Noisette rose named "Crepescule" (Dubreuil, France, 1904) -- which translated into English means, "twilight"; the dark purple star-shaped blooms are from Clematis viticella "Polish Spirit", a terrific blooming vine for a variety of temperate climates...
Enjoy!!
- Ken in San Francisco
I needed to ask if the peach climbing rose blooms last just a short time or if they last long enough to enjoy. I have Royal Sunset in my front rose garden but the blooms do not last more than about a day 2 at the most then they must be deadheaded to keep the bush putting out new buds. With the early spring up here in Oregon I see a nice load of fat buds have set on but not color yet. Just wondering. This question is off topic so please post me back at my private e-mail: daniel_lewis_frommherz@mckenzievalleymarket.com
But I would like to know the answer to that also. One really
needs to have long hair to appreciate roses. Now we are on
topic.
LOL, I will reply to Daniel, knowing the both of you will read my response!
Hairy roses are great, aren't they? (LOL)
Thanks Ken and MG; glad to see there is a sense of humor along with growing the long locks. Yes Ken my question has been answered I will need to replace 2 of my Royal Sunset this year we had a late winter (Like in March) snow on the valley floor at minus 12 and the roses had already come alive and I lost about 80 of my best roses. I thought about replacing the Royal Sunset with something of the same color but needed low climbers for that garden. I buy from a rose farm at Petaluma and love the roses that I get from them. My Double Delight's are doing okay but really want full sun while getting only morning sun in that garden. Sixteen Candles Floribunda seem to love that garden but require lots of TLC. I saved your list of roses Ken for looking at them later when I have more time which is just about never. Stopped in for some new pictures same place as last year ran into Dr. Magic and his Trainwreck "A" another long hair so I hope to post a new picture of me and my hair at almost 3 years without a clip.
Hi Daniel,
Royal Sunset is an AWESOME rose -- I have that one too, and know it well from having worked in other gardens where it was planted; but I know what you mean by the blooms not lasting very long. If picking for indoors, I cut the blooms of Royal Sunset when still in fairly tight bud. That way it will sometimes last for 3 days, 4 at the absolute max.
Crepescule is similar to Royal Sunset, in that the individual roses last about the same... neither rose has a lot of petals (don't know the exact count, but under 30), which contributes to their short bloom life. Both Crepescule and Royal Sunset repeat-bloom incredibly well -- in fact, I can't think of many climbers that are better! Crepescule has smaller individual blooms; but the mass of color is hands-down spectacular!!!
I hope I answered your question!
Take Care,
Ken
Some additional helpful rose info:
I forgot to mention that although Royal Sunset can take some amount of shade and still have healthy foliage and bloom decently, Crepescule is NOT reputed to be very shade-tolerant. Royal Sunset definitely has a stronger fragrance; but Crepescule is quite nicely fragrant also!
Have you ever grown any of the David Austin "English" roses? They are my favorites! The variety of delicious fragrances and old-fashioned shaped blooms really knock it out of the ballpark!!! Here are a few of my favorites that come most quickly to mind (in no special order):
Sweet Juliet (soft apricot/peach, very strong fruity tea fragrance)
Graham Thomas (bright yellow with "spicy" tea rose fragrance)
Golden Celebration (similar color to GT, but with a strong honey & lemon fragrance)
Tamora (apricot-orange with strong myrrh fragrance)
Gertrude Jekyll (bubble-gum pink, with POWERFUL classic old rose fragrance -- has been used in the perfume industry!)
Scepter'd Isle (soft pink, awesome fruit & myrrh fragrance
Charlotte (soft yellow, light tea & fruit fragrance)
others... I just love 'em!
You are doing a nice job with that garden Ken! Thanks for sharing the photo wit us.
Darrin
Climbing roses, irises, clematis, in my garden this morning. Our well water will need to keep this going during the drought. The veggie garden is just started in the horse manure. Healthy food makes healthy hair.
Don
Hi Ken,
You make many good points here! I always appreciate and enjoy your posts here my friend! Needless to say, I also very much enjoy the pics of your rose gardens and plants! Kind of makes me miss my Grandparents' nursery and when I worked with them. Thanks a bunch for posting this and please stay well!
Ted
P.S. Would have really liked a pic with you in it though:)