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Roses with a history David Austin English Roses add distinctive looks and fragrances to your garden By Carole McCray More Content Now
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f you love roses and are an Anglophile, David Austin’s English Roses named for characters, places and various themes from English history are the perfect roses for your garden. For spring 2020, gardeners have three delightful David Austin English Roses to grow, all soft-hued with distinctive looks and fragrances. Named for English novelist Emily Bronte, the rose with the same name features a two-tone flower in soft pink and apricot. “Emily Bronte” adds a splash of soft color to the garden, and its blush pink dense petals have a shimmer of palest apricot. Toward the center, the apricot color darkens, adding visual depth and charm. “In scent, ‘Emily Bronte’ delivers an unexpected plot twist. Flowers open with a fine tea fragrance, waning in midbloom and an Old Rose fragrance comes on strong, followed by teasing hints of lemon and grapefruit,” says Michael Marriott, technical director and senior rosarian at David Austin Roses Ltd. in Albrighton, England. Adding to the rose repertoire, for spring 2020 there are two more new David Austin English Roses: “Totteringby-Gently” and “The Mill on the Floss.” “Tottering-by-Gently” has a light musky scent with fresh notes of orange peel. Named for a British cartoon series by artist Annie Tempest, which has appeared weekly since 1993 in Country Life Magazine, “Tottering-by-Gently” is an outstanding soft yellow shrub rose
with a relaxed look. It adds interest to wildflower gardens, large perennial borders and informal plantings in grasses. Marriott says, “It blooms freely with repeat bloom of masses of single yellow flowers held in large, open sprays from early summer till frost. If not deadheaded, it will produce a very fine crop of large, long-lasting orange-red rose hips.” “The Mill on the Floss,” named for the novel by English writer George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), published in 1860, the English rose is a full-bodied garden rose with deeply-cupped flowers with dense petals, initially mid-pink. Once fully open, the flower color verges on lilac-pink and pales, heightening the distinctive carmine-red picotee edging. David Austin’s English Roses are known for combining the classic flower forms, perfume and bushy habit of antique roses with the expanded color range and repeat flowering characteristics of modern roses. They are bred for disease resistance and can be grown in full sun or partial shade.
David Austin English Roses “The Mill on the Floss” (top right), “Emily Bronte” (center) and “Totteringby-Gently” (below). [DavidAustinRosesLtd.com]
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HOME HELP TIP OF THE WEEK
GARDENING
HOME RENOVATION
INSTALLING A RAINWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM
BENEFITS OF PLANT COVERS, PLASTIC MULCH
THESE PROJECTS ARE WORTH THE INVESTMENT
1. Place several solid-concrete barrel blocks in the garden next to a downspout and ensure they are level.
For those in colder climates, growing warmseason vegetables can be challenging. By using plant covers and plastic mulch, however, gardeners can create warmer air and soil temperatures around the plants, increasing the growth rates. In The Columbian, Vancouver gardening specialist Allen Wilson describes the benefits of these covers and mulch.
According to the National Association of Realtors’ 2019 Remodeling Impact Report, the home renovations with the greatest recovered cost percentage at resell are new wood flooring, hardwood flooring refinishing, HVAC replacement and insulation upgrade.
2. Set a rain barrel on the blocks with the spigot facing toward the garden. 3. Detach and remove the downspout. 4. Use self-tapping gutter screws to attach a water diverter to downspout elbow. 5. Mark and trim the top end of the downspout with aviation snips to accommodate the diverter. 6. Slide downspout onto the diverter and secure with gutter screws. 7. Attach a rubber hose to the diverter outlet and use nylon cable ties to fix the hose to the downspout. 8. Install soaker hose to the barrel’s spigot, run the hose around the plants in your garden and cover the hose with a thick layer of mulch.
Plant covers come in two types: Clear polyethylene covers use metal hoops to support tunnels over the plants; spunbonded polypropylene covers, however, require no support and are laid directly over the rows of plants. The spunbonded polypropylene covers allow water through for irrigation. Both trap radiant heat, provide 2 to 4 degrees of frost protection and guard against insects. Plastic mulch is used to warm soil and the air around the plants. “Black, red and solar plastic mulch also prevent weed growth by blocking light,” according to Wilson.
NARI members estimate that homeowners who install new wood flooring recover 106% of the costs. Hardwood flooring refinish follows at 100% recovered. HVAC replacement came at 85% and insulation upgrade at 84%. The projects ranked by value at resale without regard to price were: complete kitchen renovation, kitchen upgrade, HVAC replacement and a new master suite. More Content Now