fiasco
07-05-2008, 02:21 AM
I had hoped to be able to share some pics of my Red Hat flower bed, but :: shakes head :: I have issues.
Here are some links to the roses I have in that bed.
Isabel Renaissance (http://helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=27650&tab=10)
Beautiful, rich color and fragrance. Some black spot this year because of all the rain but black spot isn't that much of an issue with me.
Fragrant Cloud (http://helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=1785&tab=10)
More red than coral in my garden, like a geranium-red color, with an outstanding fragrance. It's an own-root rose (all but 2 of my roses are; own-root is definately the way to go) and there's a lot of die-back. But even with only a few blooms a year, it's worth it.
Baby Faraux (http://helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=492&tab=10) Not as purple as I'd like, altho it does fade to a lovely grape color. This happy little rose always makes me smile.
I want to add another purple this year and I'm considering:
Reine des Violettes (http://helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=5179&tab=10) or
Cardinal de Richelieu. (http://helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=971&tab=10)
My bed has an unknown rose, a nice fountain shaped climber, purply-red that fades to pinky-purple.
I've also got other stuff in there, a red dianthus which was sold as an annual but which keeps coming back, bless its heart, a red coral bells, red asiatic lilies, a purple obedience, purple phlox, a thistle, a supposedly-purple daylily which hasn't bloomed yet, and a supposedly cherry-red daylily which bloomed last year as a maroony-rusty nowhere near red color. It's a cool old-fashioned daylily with a white line down the vein, but it's not red, so it has to leave the Red Hat bed. And there are a handful of orange asiatic lilies and some sort of really tall yellow perennial daisy-shaped flower-thing which were planted before the idea of the Red Hat bed came to me; they're just waiting for me to clear a space elsewhere for them (the ex left the back-yard--his garden space, mine was the front yard --in an over-grown, wildflower and weeds mess).
I've got annuals, a dark purple wave petunia, a lighter purple million bells, and the bed is bordered with red and light purple impatiens.
I do not have anyplywood folk-art of a fat lady bending over (http://thevinylvillage.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/1lg3fancyladybum.jpg).
edited to add Here's my not-red daylily; it's not even a "soft red" for me.
Libby Finch (http://www.bloomingfieldsfarm.com/lifi.html)
My purple daylily which doesn't look like it's going to bloom this year:
Prairie Blue Eyes (http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/161729/)
Here are some links to the roses I have in that bed.
Isabel Renaissance (http://helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=27650&tab=10)
Beautiful, rich color and fragrance. Some black spot this year because of all the rain but black spot isn't that much of an issue with me.
Fragrant Cloud (http://helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=1785&tab=10)
More red than coral in my garden, like a geranium-red color, with an outstanding fragrance. It's an own-root rose (all but 2 of my roses are; own-root is definately the way to go) and there's a lot of die-back. But even with only a few blooms a year, it's worth it.
Baby Faraux (http://helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=492&tab=10) Not as purple as I'd like, altho it does fade to a lovely grape color. This happy little rose always makes me smile.
I want to add another purple this year and I'm considering:
Reine des Violettes (http://helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=5179&tab=10) or
Cardinal de Richelieu. (http://helpmefind.com/rose/pl.php?n=971&tab=10)
My bed has an unknown rose, a nice fountain shaped climber, purply-red that fades to pinky-purple.
I've also got other stuff in there, a red dianthus which was sold as an annual but which keeps coming back, bless its heart, a red coral bells, red asiatic lilies, a purple obedience, purple phlox, a thistle, a supposedly-purple daylily which hasn't bloomed yet, and a supposedly cherry-red daylily which bloomed last year as a maroony-rusty nowhere near red color. It's a cool old-fashioned daylily with a white line down the vein, but it's not red, so it has to leave the Red Hat bed. And there are a handful of orange asiatic lilies and some sort of really tall yellow perennial daisy-shaped flower-thing which were planted before the idea of the Red Hat bed came to me; they're just waiting for me to clear a space elsewhere for them (the ex left the back-yard--his garden space, mine was the front yard --in an over-grown, wildflower and weeds mess).
I've got annuals, a dark purple wave petunia, a lighter purple million bells, and the bed is bordered with red and light purple impatiens.
I do not have anyplywood folk-art of a fat lady bending over (http://thevinylvillage.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/1lg3fancyladybum.jpg).
edited to add Here's my not-red daylily; it's not even a "soft red" for me.
Libby Finch (http://www.bloomingfieldsfarm.com/lifi.html)
My purple daylily which doesn't look like it's going to bloom this year:
Prairie Blue Eyes (http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/161729/)