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28 FEB 09 by
digger
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We got Easy Going in 2004. Livin’ Easy had been such a good rose that we wanted to try the sport. We usually buy grafted plants but found an own root that looked very healthy and decided to give it a chance. There was a spot open between Livin’ Easy and Redgold so it got planted next to its established, grafted parent. It is on the east side of the lot along the driveway. It is protected from the wind there and has lots of snow piled on it in winter. It only gets about 6 hours of sun per day.
Easy Going is not cane hardy here. Canes die to the mounding or snow line. Spring growth usually starts early. That can be a bad thing. We get very hard freezes until mid May. Some early starters have to start over. New growth on EG takes the frost well. It begins blooming about the same time as LE, a few weeks after the first bloomers in our yard. Improvement has been steady and it now gives us 4 to 5 dozen blooms per flush. Turnaround time is average, about 6 weeks. Blooms open in a couple days and look good about a week. Deb doesn’t use many in bouquets. Fragrance is very mild to my nose. Deb says the scent is a bit stronger to her.
Easy Going gets 3 feet tall x 4 feet wide for us. Foliage is great, just like Livin’ Easy.
Blackspot isn't a problem for healthy roses here. I have experimented some with EG and LE. I didn’t wash foliage for a couple weeks. No powdery mildew showed on them though conditions were perfect for the stuff.
Excellent rose
Dave
South central Montana - zone 4/5
Note: Betty Boop and Easy Going are the only roses we bought own root.
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I always love your posts. Montana is such an extreme state and its really helpful for people to see others in non-temperate climates showing full plant photos.
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22 DEC 06 by
digger
I was 9 years old in 1961 when we moved back to the states (Air Force brat). Dad got Mom a Mirandy and a Crimson Glory. One of my chores was to care for them. The obsession began. The fragrant rascal is always one of the first roses I look for. Mirandy was the best of my fragrant reds in Sacramento. Mirandy does not like the cold weather in Montana as much as my other old pals. She survives and puts a decent show. She is not the star she was CA though. Canes die back below the mulch line. Spring growth is slow and steady (8 yr old plant). First blooms are usually a couple weeks behind the bulk of our roses and sometimes the last. Petals often quill quickly but the blooms smell fantastic. Mirandy gets 4 feet tall and wide here (as opposed to 8 x 8 in Sacramento). Growth isn't as thick as I like and she looks leggy even if she isn't tall. We get a dozen to 20 blooms per flush. Turnaround time is average, about 6 weeks. We don't have blackspot here. Don't recall having seen powdery mildew on Mirandy. Excellent fragrant red for warmer zones. Dave Boyd South central Montana - zone 4/5 |
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I wonder if your Mirandy in Sac was on its own roots? Mine is, and it is about three or four years old, and still three feet or so tall. It is still short, but produces great blooms (see pics). My plant is in only about five hours of sun per day here in West Marin Co. We get morning fog in summer, but rarely all day, and she gets some rust and blackspot, no mildew, and keeps blooming all summer and fall.
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Where in west marin? I am in san rafael, thinking of this rose...iget sun alllll day
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I’m in the San Geronimo Valley. I took out my Mirandy a few years ago. It would be better on a grafted plant I think, as it has weak growth.
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My son went to school there! And I am copres of local rose society with a gal in the valley named Connie. So many loveky gardens out your way!
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I know Connie. She’s been to my garden. I grow about 130 roses on an acre. Most of mine are older, rare roses from Vintage Gardens.
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And thanks for tips on mirandy
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1 OCT 08 by
digger
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Is Fubar an Irish term? The acronym we used in the Corps is not a name I expected to see on a rose. Interesting.
Dave
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The acronym is international. Used in Australia for geological specimens, eg fubarite. Cf leverite (as in "leave her right where she is"). "The rare fossil you've collected with your geologist's hammer is fubarite; the one still in situ is leverite."
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I'm a bit late to the party here, but in the US, it means a much less couth version of " 'fouled up' beyond all recognition".
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17 JAN 07 by
digger
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Don't know why I don't like Christian Dior more than I do. CD has been a very good rose in our yard and I tend to take it for granted. We got him in 1997 and he performs nicely every year. Reckon I just want my reds to be fragrant. Christian Dior gives us 25 - 40 blooms per flush and turnaround time is average, 6 weeks. Fragrance is mild and blooms open slowly. Deb uses them a lot in bouquets. Gotta admit they look good for over a week.
Christian Dior isn't cane hardy but takes winter well. Spring growth starts late and is steady though not spectacular. CD definitely likes it when the weather gets warm. Spring flushes are alright but flushes in the fall can be impressive. He gets 6 - 7 feet tall x 4 feet wide. The lower 4 feet look pretty full but the top can look lanky. That portion of the bush is usually longstemmed blooms so it isn't too bad. Blackspot is not a problem here. Christian Dior will show some powdery mildew if conditions are perfect. Good rose if you don't mind reds with just a little fragrance.
Dave
South central Montana - zone 4/5
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11 FEB 17 by
Alexday
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Beautiful beautiful Rose
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