Roses that Preformed Well In Central Florida After a Period of Neglect

Welcome to the Art Lady's home. Today I'm going to share with you my newly planted rose garden and this is one year old and it is in central Florida, zone 9b. The focus of this video is going to be on roses that can survive with a little bit of neglect. So I'm going to share with you what roses did really well for me this spring after pruning with almost no care. They were pruned back mid-February to the end of February and then what happened was I ended up going on an impromptu vacation but I left for a month and a half, a little bit over a month and a half. And so the roses after their spring pruning were pretty much neglected. They did get water and so I'm going to show you what roses really performed well under not ideal situations. They were given no fertilizer at the time of pruning. I don't do a routine spray and I like to spray on some of the roses that I know have problems when the growth is just starting because all those new baby leaves, they are vulnerable and there's a lot of leaf-sucking insects that really like them and so they're vulnerable to that. So I did not spray because I wasn't here. So basically the roses just got overhead water which is not ideal. It's really bad for the roses and what I did was I adjusted my sprinklers because I knew I was going to be gone. I adjusted them so that they could water as much of the rose garden as possible. This is a new garden and I don't have proper sprinkler systems installed yet. I'm going to be installing drip but this is the sprinkler I have here and I made it extra long while I was gone just so that it could hit more of the spaces. My neighbor was watering and I didn't want her to have to hand water a lot of stuff. So she did hand water some areas that weren't covered by the sprinklers but mainly this area was just overhead sprinkle watered and like I said it's not ideal. So I'm going to show you what survived, what thrived, and then I'm going to show you some varieties that didn't do well with some a bit of neglect. So I thought that this was really interesting because it was so it was like night and day just coming to the garden after a month and a half of not seeing it and then I could see what was amazing and then I can see what really struggled and I have about 60 a little between 60-65 varieties. I could have a little bit more I stopped counting and so the ones I'm going to talk about are the ones that did extremely well. So I'm going to share that information with you which is valuable because when you're starting out you want to start out with roses that are going to be tough and can survive a little bit of neglect. So first of all I'm going to give you a little bit of quick background. These roses are planted in really good soil. It is a combination of composted horse manure and peat moss that's mixed into the planting hole and then I give it a lot of organic fertilizers. I do have a lot of videos that go into how I built up this soil and about soil health so go ahead and check those out because the most important thing in a garden especially for roses is the soil. I would say about half of the roses before I left have been in the ground for six months to a year and then I did have quite a bit of new roses that I planted just recently or I transplanted just recently and so they had a little bit of a disadvantage. For example this one was a Princess Charlene that I just recently transplanted and despite that she still performed really well with a bit of neglect while I was gone and so I'm really really pleased with her. This one came from K&M Roses and I was pretty nervous about the the young roses that I just got in. It was like four days before I left and this one survived really well. This is a I believe a teasing Georgia I think it's Oz Baker but she survived in very little black spot despite the watering at night right there and then I did have I think this is an Evelyn here and she did really well too and I don't see black spot. I do see a little bit of bug issue which I need to spray with some spinosad but I think they are doing really well. Here is some amazing climbers. This is one plant and this is perennial blue. This one I did a video on her right before I left and it was how I trimmed her and cut her back and and stripped out a lot of the leaves. I think almost all the leaves were stripped off so what you're seeing here is a month and a half of growth well now it's about two months and it's just phenomenal. So she just did incredible and again I didn't fertilize but I did give them the composted horse manure. This is Clotile Super and she did phenomenal and actually she is one of the ones that I have had in my garden for this is I think her fourth season could be five going on five. I had her before I retired so she did get a lot of neglect but this is an old garden rose and she can survive some neglect. She very rarely gets anything wrong with her and while I was gone she flowered. Her whole thing was loaded with flowers but this is a really good tough as nails easy to take care of beautiful rose. She does smell pretty but she does have tinier flowers but they tend to be in little bouquets at the ends and of course the Peggy Martin. She does extremely well with neglect and very little care and she is one that I've had before I think I purchased her actually at the same time as I purchased Clotile and she does really really well here and she did have a little bit of black spot while I was gone but for the most part she can hold her own. Here's another phenomenal rose this is called the Louis Philippe and it looks like it's a little bit behind times it's about to do a huge show for me. I did cut it back quite a bit this spring and it's now starting to do a lot give me a lot of buds. I don't think it did much while I was gone but this is going to be phenomenal but I don't see black spot I don't see any bug problems so this is a pretty good one for our Florida environment and my particular one is more of a magentary pink and then you can see as it fades it gets a little bit lighter in the center. Sometimes it gets a little bit deeper I think in the summer but particularly here it's for me it doesn't get real bright red which I'm happy because I don't really care for the true reds. On this arbor I have two climbing roses I have a Nahima which did phenomenal I don't see too much of a black spot and I don't see well I see a little bit of a bug issue so she does need to be I think sprayed for some bugs but there she is as a flood as a bud and this yellow rose here is what did phenomenal while I was gone not only did she put out hundreds of flowers while I was gone her leaves are spectacular I don't see a lot of bug damage I don't see black spot despite the watering conditions so we're loaded with beautiful healthy looking leaves and then of course all those flowers too I'm you know I'm not even seeing any stress from giving me all that all those buds and flowers while I was gone and I did cut her back a few days ago all the spent blooms I missed a couple here and I actually found a few little buds too so she may give me another show and she's been planted in the ground one year she is a yellow climbing rose from Nelson's Florida and when I go to Nelson's I go there personally and then I talk to the people and then I ask what does well and so they recommend things to me and I think this was recommended because I wanted a climber yellow wasn't in my color family at the time and I grabbed it anyways and I'm so glad I did it was labeled just as yellow so I don't know the variety it could possibly be golden showers or golden gate we'll post some closer pictures so that you can see but they did have it and it's on a Fortuniana rootstock so that's what we need for central Florida this little girl here she's called the dark lady and she's a David Austin but she's grafted onto a Fortuniana rootstock and I think she is a retired David Austin so you may have to hunt for her but she did exceptional while I was gone I trimmed her back and it looks like she had flowers all over her and I don't see too much bug damage and black spot so she is a big keeper for the garden and here is another one and I did cut her back to about half so I did do a pretty good cut on her and I did read that she takes a while to bounce back after you do a strong cutting she doesn't like a lot of that but this is called mrs br can't and she is loaded with buds she doesn't have any black spot and I don't see any problem with bugs or any disease here so she's a real tough as nails one this one gets huge and I have her put over here to the side I did transplant her about a month and a half before I left so she may have gone through a little bit of transplant shock but she's growing really well especially for being neglected and that's mrs br can't she's on a Fortuniana rootstock the majority of my roses if they're in the ground they're on a Fortuniana rootstock unless I'm doing an experiment with them this is a teasing Georgia um I think this is Oz Baker and here's a flower this is almost spent and this isn't typical what she looks like her flowers are usually a little bit bigger and they can be all different kinds of colors this is really fading though sometimes she's even in a peachy color here she looks more yellowy um but she didn't have she had a little bit of that black spot but the bugs don't seem to bother her and what I find is a lot of the David Austen's do phenomenal they really give me so much growth and they are just I they're just such a powerful rose because they um they're bred they're bred to be disease resistant they're bred to be vigorous uh flower a lot you just have to test some of the varieties for Florida because sometimes they don't like it for the heat but this one is teasing Georgia and I've been I've had a lot of success with her and since we're talking David Austen's I'm just going to show you my David Austen's that did well this one is tranquility she throws out long long canes that are really healthy just where the water hit this she did develop some black spot but most of her leaves look fine up here they look really healthy she did flower while I was gone I had to trim it back a lot and she's still producing flowers here but you can see where it's almost night and day where the water hit her so let's look here and you can see I've got some black spot settling because the sprinklers just barely touched the bottom of her here and so she did get some black spot from that but I think if you water her properly she will be fine for the black spot this is a David Austen and this is a Lady of Shallot this is the first year that I've seen a lot of black spot on her she's never looked this bad and she doesn't give me as much flowers she does flower for me and it could be because she's going on this one particular is going on year three she's a full two-year-old girl she's planted in the ground and this is a test for me I'm testing this one out but I was disappointed in all her leaves gone and this black spot problem because I never had that before on her so I'm still testing her so I don't I wouldn't go buy her I would wait this one is a young James Galloway and this was planted from bare root about a month before I left and here we have a little over just a hair over two months since it was planted and look how beautiful it's a little mini bouquet gorgeous healthy thick huge leaves I do like to spray this with spinosad though because I think there's a little bit of stuff going on but this plant is just so big and healthy that a little bit of bug stuff isn't gonna hurt the big huge overall once it grows but here it is it's three feet maybe almost four feet tall since I planted it I do see a little bit of black spot here on this one but I'm not really concerned about it but that's not too bad for just being watered while I was gone and no other care here's a young bloom here you can see how they're different so when flowers are new and young they're going to be different than what you end up getting but I can tell that's a climber because it's shooting out big beautiful stems so now let me show you the comparison so this one you're seeing in this pot is a little over two months old from bare root the one behind it is one year old so almost a year later this is the comparison this one has an incredible amount of growth at the bottom and just this one's not her this is another one just huge strong amazing canes coming up now anything scrawny this summer I mean this spring I did cut back here's her little buds coming right now she's got little clusters she did flower while I was gone but the majority of her leaves I mean this is just a strong really healthy plant that's why I really love David Austin because their roses just are so energetic there's so much energy inside them I mean that's what I see in my little experience with roses and this did flower quite a bit this flowered for its first year it flowered sporadically all summer long but this is really amazing this had a little bit of black spot I picked some of those leaves off but nothing to be concerned about here right next to it I also have a really tiny this is a new little band that I had planted last year and it's a slow grower and I think this is climbing impressionist and it's just struggling but I think once it catches on it'll be fine because I see some pretty good growth here but sometimes roses are real slow growing and the David Austins are definitely not slow growing the impressionist is an old antique rose but you can kind of see the difference this is a climbing lavender crush see a lot of amazing growth coming out of this one and I did have some black spot on her this is a delish I'm pretty impressed with this one this is a rose I think from like a box store you bought her it might have been bare root last year she's one year old but very little black spot I'm seeing a little bit of bug damage so she may need a spray so but she smells amazing I mean you can be a few feet away and smell her and I think she's worth growing because of the smell she looks pretty prolific right here this is a little rose it looks like it's extremely healthy and I had just planted her before I left and she was really scrawny and see how tiny the flowers are but she is prolific she flowers continuously and does a really great show she has buds that are already on the plant before everything is fading and she does have a little bit of yellowing leaves but I think she will do phenomenal and she was recommended to me by Nelson's Nursery she's on a Fortuniana this is pretty impressive here this is a really great performing rose for me I do have it in a pot I don't have it on a Fortuniana rootstock but it performs well this is going to be year three it finished two full years in my garden and it had a beautiful big spring show healthy leaves I'm not seeing much black spot and it seems like the pests aren't eating it like crazy the flowers it was just a big beautiful show there I had a lot of spent blooms to cut off when I came back here's another David Austin that's extremely healthy in my garden and it flowered a lot while I was gone it put out two and a half feet of growth right here this is a fading bloom here but I don't know the variety of this one and I'll try and find it for you and put the information here this was a mislabeled one that was given to me but it is a more delicate flower and it's just a bush form here for me and I don't have any problems with black spot at all the one right above it is an Eden and I do have black spot on but this one she's worth growing in your garden because her flowers are this is almost a spent one here are non-stop for me and I mean I have some black spot but I think if you just spray you'll be you'll be okay and I think if you take care of it properly she does need look here she does need some bug spray and here's one here this is an older bloom too but these stay on the plant for a long time and she was just loaded with spring flowers for me I haven't trimmed her back yet I mean she's just loaded all over the place I miss this whole show for her and I heard she was gorgeous while I was gone right here but you can see the difference right above her this is the Eden and here's your David Austin right here so same growing conditions and this one is pretty disease resistant so you know here's the look there's your nice David Austin rounded shrub and then there is the Eden this is a little bit messier so it's going to take a little bit more work so it's just if you're going to decide do you want to do that or do you want to just simply do this the benefit of this Eden though and I'm going to get more of Eden's flowers just stay on for so long I mean and that's important in a garden because you spend all this time all this money and then for two days three days some flowers some of them last three days and are you going to do that for three days I kind of like it a little bit longer that's why I like the Peggy Martins too she stays on for a long time and this amazing little rose is Violet's Pride this one flowered for me all summer long it just pumped out I didn't even have to wait in between flushes what it does is it pumps out a flower and then just continuous because I just finished cutting off all the spring blooms but there was already all this all these buds here on the plant even though I had all the spring blooms to cut off and she's just amazing she has that brighter green leaf here and I put her in this purple and white bed here and I think she pairs well with distant drums so let me show you up close here which is another Nelson's that grows good too but the distant drums is has a little bit of bug problem I found but this one doesn't have too much of a bug problem or a black spot problem and I'll show you so you have that beautifully light purpley color and then here is distant drums which is really pretty it's I mean I just love two-tone colors and I like it to show the stamens in the center here that's just pretty I think it's gorgeous with purples there is my Violet's Pride and that is a one-year-old in ground bush so she's been in the ground for a year and let me show you a brand new one so this one was so much smaller when I planted it it was just a tiny little almost like a band it was real young so I think it did exceptional while I was gone and just had it neglected I mean it just got water but that's it and it did really well I don't see black spot and this got soaked this is the area that got soaked with water from the sprinklers those high sprinklers that I have but this is just gorgeous she's doing really well and this did so good in my garden this first one here that's why this spring I went back and I bought two more so this light purple is going to surround the center here and that's the tranquility tree in the middle eventually I think what I'm going to do here is put a tripod of rebar and put a climber going up some kind of a kind of a viney rose climber I'll have to look for some that I have I have a bunch that do like trailing and things so I think that'll be real pretty and I do want to just mention something really quick too here's that really pretty salvia that grows down the edge this is new to my garden but what I noticed yesterday is we have some powdery mildew so if this is going to be a problem I'm not going to bother getting more of them this propagates easy though so I could just continuously propagate it it could be just as it's getting older it's just so clumped in here and it could be just the conditions because it was watered at night so that's all bad that promotes all this but I don't want to promote or grow things that are going to cause me problems in the future because this is a retirement garden and I just want to have fun playing in here and maintaining I don't want to have to fight problems I hope that you learned something from my gardening adventures and happy gardening to you and if you need any help setting up garden beds like I have I do have a son who is willing to help you with the construction part of it he's got the muscles if you've got the dirt he's also available to put together and install arches or the raised up metal beds in addition to the gravel pathways he is a licensed medical professional and not a landscape designer or a he does not own a landscape business but he does this out of enjoyment and he will travel anywhere in the state of Florida I will put the contact information down under the title of the video so just click on the title if you want more information and don't forget to check out other videos on my channel