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Rose Festival Day Six ~ Tropicana and Others
2007-10-05 04:43:00
Bud of Hybrid Tea Rose 'Tropicana'
Rose Festival Day Six ~ Tropicana and Others
2007 Digital Flower Pictures.com Rose Festival ~ Day Six
As important as the Festival of Rose is :lol:, I have a lot of work correspondence to send out so today will be a short post. I went over to the Rose Garden at the farm yesterday and I had to deadhead about 150 flowers and there were probably a couple ...
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Rose Festival Day Five ~ Hybrid Teas Again
2007-10-04 05:14:00
Hybrid Tea Rose 'Milestone'
Rose Festival Day Five ~ Hybrid Teas Again
2007 Digital Flower Pictures.com Festival of Roses Continues
Since I have several more rose photographs to post after this one the Rose Festival will continue. I have to visit the large Rose Garden I am tending to tomorrow so it could be another photo opportunity. I have enjoyed going through the photos and getting ...
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Kordes' Rose Prominent ~ ABC Wednesday
2007-10-03 05:04:00
Kordes' Rose Prominent ~ ABC Wednesday
2007 Rose Festival Day Four
If you are here for Wordless Wednesday please scroll down to the next post of the yellow rose.
I can’t tell how beautiful I thought this rose was. It is was orange but had the slightest tinge of red in it. I saw it from across the garden and knew that my camera was going to have trouble capturing the color. I did move my ...
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2007 Rose Festival ~ Day Three ~ Grandflora Roses
2007-10-02 05:00:00
Grandiflora Rose 'Tournament of Roses'
2007 Rose Festival ~ Day Three
Grandflora Roses
The Rose Festival continues with Tournament of Roses a Grandiflora rose that is named after the huge New Years Day celebration in Pasadena, California. Here is a link to the Official website which has a lot of information on the festivities:
click here
From the history page:
“The first Tournament of Roses ...
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2007 Rose Festival ~ Day Two
2007-10-01 04:34:00
Generally considered to be the first Hybrid Tea Rose, 'La France'
2007 Rose Festival ~ Day Two
Today’s featured roses are of the Hybrid Tea class, my personal favorite. Created in the mid-1800’s the Hybrid tea roses quickly became the most popular roses of the 20th Century. Growing with straight stems with a single large bloom at the terminus the hybrid tea certainly expanded the range of ...
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2007 Festival of Roses ~ Grand Opening
2007-09-30 08:50:00
2008 All-American Rose Selection Grandiflora rose 'Dream Come True'
2007 Festival of Roses ~ Grand Opening
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To officially kick off our Festival of Roses I have decided to feature the two All-American Rose Selections for 2008. I am sure it appears I am fascinated with the AARS winners and with my project to photograph all the winners since 1938 maybe I am. These two ...
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Festival of Roses
2007-09-29 20:22:00
Hybrid Tea Rose 'Folklore'Digital Flower Pictures.com's 2007 Festival of RosesToday I went to the Bronx and visited the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden. The garden was so loaded with flowers as I walked down the stairs I thought it looked like a Rose Festival. That is when the idea came to me to have a Rose Festival on this blog. For the next seven days each post will feature one to several roses.Since my friend Ki at plants and rocks.blog is pretty much posting all the flowers that bloom now in the North Temperate Zone from his great garden I figured it was a good time to just concentrate on roses. I got a lot of good pictures in New York even though I was battling bright sun and a 20 mile per hour gusty wind and I still have some pictures from the Rose Gardens I am tending and the FDR and Vanderbilt gardens, so that should be enough pictures to cover it. Some of the flowers may have already been covered by this blog, however, these will be all new photos taken within the last two w ...
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'White Bomb' Chrysanthemum
2007-09-28 04:50:00
Chrysanthemum weyrichii 'White Bomb'(kris-AN-the-mum) (wey-RIK-ee-eye)Synonyms: Dendranthema weyrichii, Leucanthemum weyrichiiIn the category of you learn something new every I thought I discovered a new (new to me) plant called Dendrathema. After a little a research I found out that it is a botanical synonym for Chrysanthemum. These were two named cultivars I saw at the Vanderbilt Estate. I decided to try and find out about botanical synonyms and without getting too scientific found that it is a term used when plants have more than one Botanical name. The study of taxonomy can get a little complicated but generally the basionym is the first name ever given to a plant and all others are considered botanical synonyms. The basionym will accompany the plant even if it is reclassified in a new genus. Apparently the Dendrathemas started out as Chrysanthemums and were moved to the new name and back again, so now officially they are Chrysanthemums.Chrysanthemum weyrichii 'White Bomb' is a ...
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Half a Dozen Roses
2007-09-27 04:50:00
Hybrid Tea Rose 'Brigadoon'Half a Dozen RosesThe rose garden at the farm is coming along nicely and I decided to take some pictures over there. I was joking with my co-workers that I was the ‘Head Rose Grower’ at the farm. I reality I guess I am but I am also the only rose grower. I inherited all of the varieties in the garden. In a way that was helpful as I am growing a lot of roses I would have never chosen due to my own prejudices and previous bad experiences with some varieties and types. I probably would also have been worried a lot about colors. Instead I have this huge mix of varieties and colors that I wouldn’t have dreamed up on my own. I think there is a little lesson in there for me. Since there is room for about 35 more roses I will have to keep this mind when picking out the new roses.Starting out with one of my favorites, and that is always subject to change, a beautiful pink blend (really hard to describe how beautiful the color is) Hybrid Tea Rose. Bred by Willi ...
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Japanese Anemone ~ ABC Wednesday
2007-09-26 05:01:00
Japanese Anemone ~ ABC WednesdayAnemone X hybrida(uh-NEM-oh-nee)Synonyms: Japanese Windflower, Japanese ThimbleflowerIf you are hear for WW skip down to the post below. Please consider joining us for ABC Wednesday, it is open to all.This plant is always a treat in this time of year. It is an easy to cultivate perennial that tolerates partial shade. I have read reports that this plant can spread too much but that hasn’t been the case with mine. Sure it widens out but it is easily managed. I also read with some surprise that it likes alkaline soil. It has seemed to grow in just about any soil that I have planted it in. They do like a bit of moisture and so far have been free of insects and diseases. They are hardy to USDA Zone 4. I like to plant mine in the back of the border or by themselves because they can get quite tall. There are a number of different cultivars to choose from. Unfortunately this one wasn’t marked when I photographed it at the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, New ...
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New York Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii)
2007-09-25 04:53:00
New York AsterSymphyotrichum novi-belgii(sim-fy-oh-TRY-kum) (NO-vee BEL-jee-eye)I saw this Aster at the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park. It was marked ‘Professor Kippenburg’, however, after a little research I found out that is a blue cultivar and not a deep pink one. So I don’t know the name of this one but it was a colorful little plant that was full of bees. If you ever want to take a couple of photographs of bees just hang around some Asters for a few seconds.I will always have a sweet spot for Asters. They come on strong in a time of year when just about everything else looks tired. They are easy to grow with the key cultivation factor of watching for Powdery Mildew and other fungus during the year. Good air circulation is a must. I usually pinch all my Asters a couple of times during the season, even the dwarf ones. That allows for a bushy and compact plant, which beats a floppy, stringy plant any day. Asters in general are reliable blasts of color right when you need them. ...
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Floribunda Rose ‘Betty Prior’
2007-09-24 05:01:00
Floribunda Rose ‘Betty Prior’Another one from the FDR Rose Garden in Hyde Park, NY. I must admit I have seen this rose before and didn’t think much of it. However is really struck me as a pretty rose on Saturday. It was one of the most prolific blooming roses in the garden, it was also one of the tallest. It’s funny I have been posting so many pink roses. I thought that they were my least favorite but I guess I have been enjoying them while growing them, photographing and posting them. Also the fact that this rose has only 5 petals and a solid color is something I normally would say is ‘plain’. Those attributes are becoming more attractive to me. Beauty in simplicity. The first picture benefited from a quick rain shower.“Betty Prior’ was bred in the UK by D. Prior & Son in 1935. Jackson and Perkins introduced the rose to the United States in 1938. So it is a rose of FDR’s era. It was considered, at one time, to be one of the most popular roses in the United States ...
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Hybrid Tea Rose ‘Sweet Surrender’
2007-09-23 11:33:00
Hybrid Tea Rose ‘Sweet Surrender’This site seems to be loading real slowly over the last couple of days. My apologies for that. I took off some of the widgets and don’t know if I found the problem. I see quite a few people signed up for subscriptions to this blog through feedburner and for that thanks. Yesterday was the first day I figured out how to get it working. I am not sure if anybody else is like me in the fact that some areas of technology I can master easily but other areas less so. I tend to avoid those areas but when I tried feedburner again it seemed easy to set up, maybe since I am using Firefox now.Yesterday after a few work appointments I decided to drive up to Hyde Park, New York. I have been working one day a week up there at a large horse farm. It really is a beautiful area and not too far from my house. I had seen a couple of pictures that I wanted to take on the way to work and also seen the signs for the FDR Presidential Library. After a little research I fou ...
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