Being the most popular flower in the United States I thought that Dawn Gardens should have a rose garden. I had my daughter, Corrie, lay out the paths with flags and then my crew came up from the Bay Area and installed the steel edging and the DG (decomposed granite) paths.
Here are some of the 150 roses at Dawn Gardens:
Miniature Roses
Miniature roses have small flowers but the plant can be as large as other roses – 1-6’.
Cal Poly photo taken in May
Cal Poly photo was taken on December 18.
Incognito
Old Country Charm
Minnie Pearl
My Sunshine
Irresistible
Bee’s Knees
Cupcake
Bambino
Climbers
Climbers need to be tied to a trellis, fence or cable.
Buff Beauty
Kathleen
Newport Fairy
Purple Splash
Eden
The Impressionist
Altissimo
New Dawn
Jeanne Lajoie
Sparrieshoop
Yellow Lady Banks Rose(Rosa banksiae banksiae over 100 years old growing on a Sycamore tree in Auburn, CA.
White Lady Banks Rose (Rosa banksae lutea) This one is very fragrant.
Dancing in the Wind
Albertine
Bukavu
Climbing Roses should be pruned in January and thebranches trained horizontallyalong the fence or trellis.
Groundcovers
The Snake – very fragrant
English Roses
Tea Clipper
Pride of England
Charles Austin
Lawrence of Arabia
Jude the Obscure
Brother Cadfael
Happy Child
Geoff Hamilton
Graham Thomas
ModernHybrids
Nice Day
Lazy Susan
Easy Does It
Nicole
Shockwave
Double Delight
Dark Night
Fired Up
Joseph’s Coat
Ketchup and Mustard
Sally Holmes
Katerina
Tournament of Roses
Chicago Peace
Fragrant Hour
Hot Cocoa
The fruit of the rose are called hips and they are high in vitamin C and make good tea. Rose petals are edible and used in salads.
The rose garden in the fall
ROSE PRUNING
Roses are usually pruned in January when they are dormant. All of the leaves should be removed and the plant cut back to half its height. All the dead wood should be removed as well as crossing branches and small twigs. TheRose should look likethis:
The pruned rose garden looks like this in January:
The rose garden in March has many spring blooming bulbs such as Narcissus and Grape Hyacinth.
After pruning, all of the roses are sprayed with a dormantoil and copper spray to kill thefungus spores and insect eggs
ROSE PROBLEMS
Black Spot – This is a fungus disease that is common on roses on the spring. The fungus spores are spread by splashing rain. As long as it is raining it is a difficult disease to control unless you spray a fungicide on the foliage often.
The leaves will turn yellow and drop off. They should be raked up and disposed of in the garbage so they are not around to spread the disease. The disease automatically goes away in the summer when the rain stops unless you spray irrigate. In that case be sure to irrigate in the morning so the foliage is not wet at nights because it takes several hours of standing water on the foliage for the spores to germinate.
Rose Slug – larvae of a fly that skeletonizes rose leaves. Control by chemical means or hope that the birds get them.