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'JUNES GARDEN' Our V IouAy S b j, 3 Question: What van eties of roses grow best along the coast? The hybnd tea roses I brought with me from my Portland home and planted at my new home in Gearhart have not done well. After a windstorm all the new growth turned brown. It looked like they had been burned. Her favorite nursery for roses is: Heirloom Old Garden Roses 25062 N.E. Riverside Drive St. Paul, OR 97137 Mary Lee Saulsbury (Raintree Nursery) suggested Town and Country Border Landscape shrub roses. These roses come in shades of white, pink, red and yellow blossoms. They are hardy, disease-resistant, and bloom throughout the summer, growing to about 3’ to 4 ’. Available at: Raintree Nursery 101 Highway north of Cannon Beach Junction Seaside, OR 97138 Phone 1-503-738-6980 Joe Balden, (Landscaper for the City of Cannon Beach) planted Meidiland bush roses on city property. A favorite of this variety is a brilliant red-colored flower called “Sevillana” that blooms all summer and in the fall is covered with rich scarlet fruit (rose hips). Pest and disease-resistant, it grows to about 3-1/2’ to 5’. This rose has even sun ived in the city’s public parking lot where the fumes from hundreds of cars could cause problems for growing many planks. A friend of mine planted several around her home which is about 100’ from the shoreline and all summer “Sevillana” is covered with brilliant red flowers. Last fall, a magazine called “Gardens West”, a Vancouver, B.C. publication, did an article about Rosa Rugosa roses. Many catalogs list them simply as “Beach Roses”. Rugosas are the hardiest of all. Their virtues are: - - - - - - - most arc disease-resistant easy care and hardy some are highly fragrant drought-tolerant, once established withstand wind and salt air repeat blooms throughout the growing season most varieties set rose hips for winter’s beauty of K 5«»:' * 4 jft wbtfrtilb *4 _ A, S3",l b S«N«. purpose. mo ’ot<t purple, UrolM by TW/b &b i r poor W "YUy tfiebaw 4 \cHott Vvtners, ¿•¡S'tobV esrU Answer: Coastal weather is not kind to many varieties of roses. Constant damp, salt-laden w inds off the ocean can cause problems of turning leaves and flower buds brown, as if they have been burned, as you described. Three foliage diseases can bother roses: mildew, rust, and black spot. Here along the North coast, where summer rainfall is normal, black spot thrives. This year in the first part of April we had a warm spell, causing many plants to produce new growth. This was followed by a severe wind storm, rain, cold nights and hail which caused many of my plants damage. 1 live only 175 feet from the ocean front and all the new growth of plants in the path of the storm turned brown. Some of my newly-planted shrubs even lost all their leaves. Around the last of May new growth appeared on the new shrubs, and hopefully, all will survive. Many varieties of roses and other plants do well here, however. If you want to grow roses, the following suggestions from the experts might be helpful. Rita Frailey (Frailey’s Landscape, Cannon Beach, OR) has had success with two different climbing roses. Dublin Bay (red flower), which grows to about 10’, was introduced in Ireland in 1975. Dr W. van Fleet (pale pink flower), introduced in the USA in 1910, grows to 12 to 15’. Both are available from: Pickering Nurseries, Inc. 670 Kingston Road Pickering, On. L1V 1A6 Canada (Catalog is $3.00) Beth Holland (Holland’s Flowers) has propagated cuttings from many different rose bushes that have successfully grown in gardens on the Northwest coast for years. Last year I wrote about one of these roses that grows in my yard, called Dorothy Perkins. It’s a rambler rose that covers the roof of a single-story garage. The (lower is a small double pink color and blooms all summer. Beth now has these plants available: Holland’s Flowers P.O. Box 132 Cannon Beach, OR 97110 Phone 1-503-436-2574 |#c*l cVwititf' is Pcss'.Wy (\r.oq Tfos 'S 4-0 -3 Muwtír óf i'fjpr4' wt i eat« 'irti Cof«>'feX«. I t® 'nCfe. '•fccszia r« 'Ik. jenifàVtfï'S. rot QouOianÀs, t k y**"*, ^ 4 < 5ç«4 r p ry dii .'only 04yM A . la s {L'lOH a V s O' __V 4 T ÿre_ JlïfK bfoVM w'ik ¿Le,} <tays Sr«. lia n s w u n llC loAS '*\ î 4 litffaiS'siS Tiok'- ke ST4 W yetijviS. 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OR 97280 Pacific Northwest Gardener: The Best News Yet about Gardening in the Northwest The two troublesome features of most Rugosas are: - many have exceedingly thorny stems and this makes it difficult to weed around - also, many send out runners, but this can be a plus if you have a large area to landscape Research the Rugosa before you plant. These roses are available in many nurseries including a few I’ve mentioned in this article. In my own garden I continue to pamper the few hybrids I chose because of their beauty and fragrance, but possibly it’s not going to be a winning battle. I spend hours washing off aphids, picking off leaves that show black spot, mulching, fertilizing and watering. The hybrids I chose are: - Tropicana (well-known for black spot) - Double Delight - David Austins (English Elegance) (Abraham Darby) All of the above arc very fragrant. My climbers are: - Sunny June (from Roses of Yesterday & Today, 801 Brown’s Valley Road, Watsonville, CA 95076) - Alchymist (from Picketing Nurseries) If I were to start from scratch, I would do more research to find roses that have fewer problems. It’s really not kind to plants, nor smart for the pocketbook, to try to buck the inclement coastal weather, as there are many varieties of roses and other plants that do thrive,here on the coast. An interesting publication is the Pacific Northwest Gardener, which has a calendar of events and other news and information pertaining just to the Northwest. It can be picked up free at most garden shops, or you may subscribe for 12 months for only $12.00. Write to Pacific Northwest Gardener, P.O. Box 19638, Portland, OR 97280. I’d like to hear from you. Please send any comments or questions on coastal gardening to June's Garden, P.O. Box 74, Cannon Beach, OR 97110. pacific picnics Luxury You Can Afford. 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