Blooming This Week
August 23, 2010 – 10:10 amThe roses at Lougheed House are blooming this week. I miss growing roses – I used to have a large hardy shrub rose garden. All of the roses were prolific bloomers and frankly, quite easy to grow if you paid attention.
The Lougheed House garden has a small collection of shrub roses in its borders. The top image below is a Morden Blush bud, my favourite Canadian-bred rose developed in Morden, Manitoba. Foliage on all of the roses looks really good, which is amazing considering our lousy summer weather. When the weather is consistently cool, like we have had, powdery mildew is a typical problem for roses especially if they are top-watered or watered late in the day. But the gardener at Lougheed obviously knows this and is dong all of the right things. Full points.
And I applaud any gardener in Calgary who believes that a rose arbour that you can actually walk under is possible to fill in a single gardening season here. And enough faith to think that the established roses on the arbour will winter-over and be more magnificent the next year. This is a great start.
