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Please take a moment and help me decide.
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Posted by sdogwood 9 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 6, 05 at 0:10
I'm looking for a shrub that will take our sun. Are Lady Banks Roses the plant for this well meaning Rose Killer ? Are they hard to grow? Any other suggestions? The plants future site is backed with wild honey suckle and giant evergreens and visible from our picture window. It gets full sun about half of the day.
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RE: Please take a moment and help me decide.
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First of all, which half of the day would they get sun? There's a world of difference between morning sun and afternoon sun. Then--'wild' honeysuckle? You mean the horrible terrible awful sneaky crawling through, under, over, everything trying to strangle it the moment your back is turned Japanese invader honeysuckle? AAAACK!!! If you're prepared to do battle with that stuff--AAAACK!!! (I don't like it very much.) Of course, if you're talking about the lovely native honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, forget I said any of that!
Lady Banks is very pretty when it's in bloom--how long is that? Two weeks? Not fragrant I'm told--one of the major reasons for growing roses in my shy retiring opinion. Probably have to spray for blackspot every week. You said you wanted a shrub? Lady Banks is a very large-growing climber. There are any number of 'old garden roses' that bloom, usually in cycles, for most of the year. They are also often disease-resistant. And there are lots of possible shrubs, but I think for most it would be good to know about morning/afternoon sun. |
RE: Please take a moment and help me decide.
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| greenelbows...you have really got me thinking. I don't know the answers to some of your questions and haven't even considered the time of the sun. Please don't give up on me. I'll take a photo of my area in question and post it. Maybe that will help with the suggestions. Merci Beacoup! |
RE: Please take a moment and help me decide.
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| Lol! I won't give up, but I bet others have a lot of good ideas when you get that information. I grow more tropicals than shrubs so others' opinions will be important, and I know there's lots of good growers with helpful ideas on here. |
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