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Summer’s Last Bouquet

23 October, 2007 By Dee Nash

by Dee Nash
23 October, 200727 October, 2007Filed under:
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dsc01484.JPGI have a painting by Sandi Gore Evans titled “Last Rose of Summer.” A Mason jar holds two yellow roses just turning to brown. Parchment petals litter the countertop. A lace curtain billows over the entire scene. I’d love to show it to you, but it is a watercolor and is covered by glass. This is the best I can do.The red rose on the left is ‘Mr. Lincoln,’ a hybrid tea. This is his second year in the garden, and he is still struggling to get a footing without being grafted. I live out in the country where the wind really does whip down the plains. Most of the roses I grow are on their own roots. That way, if they get frozen to the ground (which does sometimes happen) I still end up with the same rose, not some ugly grafted rootstock rose. (You know the ones . . . you see them all over town. Dark red with giant yellow stamens. They bloom once, and remain green foliage the rest of the year. ) In the spring, I’ll write more about grafted versus own root roses.
I think I get three exquisite blooms a month from ‘Mr. Lincoln,’ but he is still worth having for the fragrance which is a classic rose scent.

The yellow and orange stunner on the right is another hybrid tea, ‘Rio Samba.’ ‘Rio Samba’ is hands down my favorite hybrid tea rose. It is vigorous, the blooms are beautiful, but its fragrance is slight. I don’t grow many hybrid teas, but I have two ‘Rio Sambas.’

I cut these roses yesterday, and with today’s projected high reaching only 48 degrees, this may be my last bouquet. Buds, ripe with promise, still perch at the end of rose canes, not knowing that summer is over for them too.

Time for the rose bushes to pull back and conserve their energy for next year. Sounds like a good idea for gardeners too.

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  1. Dee says

    28 October, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    Hi Pat,

    It’s nice to see you here. Yes, in New England, you all have the terrible winters. Ours aren’t too bad. If you think of that rose, let me know. I’m sure I always have room for another.

  2. pat peterson says

    28 October, 2007 at 12:49 pm

    dee,
    my opinion of oklahoma has changed from many years ago.
    after getting into gardening and talking with folks like you in garden groups it showed me things i would never thought of.
    the image is great and nothing like those last blooms.
    living in new england we battle crazy weather as well.
    i gave my neighbor a rose bush a few years back and at the moment it is putting out its last buds, sorry dont know the name but do remember cutting roses from it one thanksgiving.
    i am also very impressed with your site, keep up the good work as i will be checking back often
    pat from boston ma

  3. CurtissAnn says

    24 October, 2007 at 7:26 pm

    Hey–

    Love the thought of following the rose bushes’ path of moving into winter. I have a Mr. Lincoln. The fragrance is exquiste. The photo is beautiful, for the spirit, too.
    Love,
    CA

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