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Wanted: Disease-resistant roses for our demo garden

Want to contribute to the Lane County Master Gardener Demonstration Garden?

Here is a wish list for new editions to our “No-Spray Rose Garden”:

Hybrid Tea: Electron, Just Joey, Keepsake, Las Vegas, Silver Jubilee, VooDoo
Grandiflora: Love, Tournament of Roses
Floribunda: Europeana, Impatient, Liverpool Echo, Matangi, Play Girl, Playboy, Regensburg, Sarabande, Sexy Rexy, Showbiz, Trumperter, Viva
Climbers: Dortmund, Dublin Bay, Royal Sunset
All are considered resistant to rust, powdery mildew, and blackspot per http://pnwhandbooks.org/plantdisease/node/267/print
You can bring a plant by the Extension office, contribute a gift certificate to a nursery, or make a monetary contribution (checks payable to the Lane County Master Gardener Association and note that use is for the garden) IMG_6009
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In progress: Rose Garden

Update on the rose garden:  This garden area will need some renovations to make it shine. Last week we knocked down the weeds and took stock.  Dead and dying plants were removed.  The remaining will benefit from some pruning next winter.   The plan for this area is to make a demonstration of a no-spray garden using roses that are resistant to common diseases.  We also will showcase some of the different types of roses: floribunda, grandiflora, hybrid tea, etc.

Rose garden-in progress

Doesn’t look like much, yet-but there is a rose garden in there somewhere!

Birthday Girl?I think this one is “Birthday Girl“: Any rosarians want to chime?