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Brighten up your yard with these perennial planting combinations for colorful flower garden ideas.
If you’re looking for an almost maintenance-free rose that is also very resistant to pests and diseases, you can’t go wrong growing a Knock Out, as its primary maintenance requirements are sun, water and a feeding now and then as well as a light snip.
Learn how to care for your knockout roses. Get tips and tricks on how to keep them blooming all year long. When you follow these easy tips you'll be blown away by the results! The secret is out!
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'Knock Out' roses might be the best landscape rose in existence, but even they need pruning. Read our guide to pruning and growing 'Knock Out.'
Gardeners love the disease-resistant, long-blooming, and low-maintenance nature of the Knock Out rose (Rosa x 'Radrazz'). To grow them, all you need to do is
‘Radwhite’ PP 20,273 We welcome to the Knockout Rose family a most exciting addition—the White Knockout Rose! It has all the best qualities of the Knockout Rose series—abundant, repeating blooms throughout the growing season from spring to fall, manageable mature size without getting monstrous, and BEAUTY! Single white flat blooms contrast strikingly against dark green foliage, and the White Knockout Rose takes the prize for drought tolerance. It won the blue ribbon for outstanding, low-water performance in the 2017-2019 Water Use Classification of Landscape Series trials. Plant the White Knockout at the back of a sunny border, or try it against that hot brick wall you don’t know what to do with! For a more relaxed vibe, mix with Pugster butterfly bush, Drift rose, forsythia, lilac, and hibiscus for a show-stopping cottage garden.
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How to Prune Knockout Roses
If you’re looking for a low-maintenance and beautiful rose bush to add to your garden, look no further than the Knock Out Rose. This popular variety of roses is known for its hardiness, disease resistance, and long-lasting blooms, making it a favorite among gardeners everywhere. But even though these roses are relatively easy to care […]
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When Knockout Roses have holes in leaves from insect pests chewing on them, the plant ends up with unsightly holes in the foliage. [DETAILS]
Read our guide to learn more about Double Knockout Roses, including the main differences between Knockout and Double Knockout Roses.
The stars of the show in my garden this month have to be the Hydrangeas. Whether they be mopheads, paniculatas or oakleafs they all shine in their own way. But the true prima donna has to be m…
With rose buying season upon us it's time to explore some of the great new garden roses becoming more widely available in the United States. Read on to learn about these knockout roses in the Easy Elegance Series.
All of you know that I pretty much despise the wildly popular 'Knockout' rose, right? No surprises there for any regular readers. Well, I'll show you a rose that, if we must have a rose whose primary purpose is to bloom and bloom for landscaping enhancement, has 'Knockout' and its relatives beat to shame. That rose is 'Champlain', a 1982 Canadian rose of the Explorer series, named to honor the founder of the city of Quebec, and touted everywhere for its continuous flowering habit by everyone who grows it. In fact, it is the third longest blooming rose of the Canadian releases. I have two, one in full sun in a long border in the garden proper and a shaded one in my front landscaping near the house that has only a northeast exposure. The latter also has a tree to its immediate east, so it might see direct sun 4 hours a day in the summer and barely at all in the winter. Both bloom their heads off, although I have to admit the one in the sun does have a more continuous bloom pattern. 'Champlain' is a healthy rose, free of mildew and almost free of blackspot (I see a little on them in humid August every other year and they lose some lower leaves). Flowers are bright red (a much better red than vivid pukey off-red 'Knockout'), are 6-7 cm in diameter, and have 30 petals. There is an occasional white streak to the petals as you can see in the second picture. 'Champlain' is a complex hybrid of a cross between 'R. Kordesii' and 'Max Graff' on one side and a seedling from' Red Dawn' and 'Suzanne' on the other. It seems to be easy to start from softwood cuttings because that is where my 2nd plant came from. Hardy to Zone 2, it has never had any dieback here in zone 5. Canadian climates do have some dieback as noted in Robert Osborne and Beth Pownings Hardy Roses. In front, part sun So how many ways is 'Champlain' better than 'Knockout'? Let's see, better color, better hardiness in the far northern climes, and likely a more continuous bloom. I'm actually going to count weeks this year for the 'Double Knockout' and 'Champlain' in my garden to determine the latter once and for all. 'Champlain' has a better shrub form, with thinner canes than the hybrid-tea-like gawky canes of the original 'Knockout'. But most importantly, both my 'Champlain's have grown to three feet tall and wide and have NEVER been pruned. Never. Not a single cut. Around here, many commercial places trim their 'Knockout' to the ground each year, or at least trim them to keep them within reason because it can get to be a six foot bush when left alone. 'Champlain' seems to reach an "adult" size and then just stop growing. How cool is that? Heck, even Martha Stewart approves of it. In back, full sun Sadly, although it is listed in Ag Canada's Winter-Hardy Roses as having a little fragrance, I can detect none with my middle-aged male nose. I point out that single drawback solely in hopes that not all of you will choose to grow this nearly-perfect landscape rose. If 'Champlain' was grown everywhere by everyone, I'm sure that I wouldn't like it nearly as much. I'm peculiar that way.
It's that time of year again when I go overboard and load up on more perennials, annuals and basically anything that flowers to give my yard, porch and pots a spring pick-me-up! While I always end up
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Flowering shrubs and bushes add color and beauty to your landscape and attract pollinators and birds. Here are long-blooming perennial shrubs for a colorful 4-season garden.
Black spot is one of the most common rose diseases. It weakens the rose and ruins its appearance. Here's how to treat and prevent it.
'Knock Out' Roses (Rosa 'Knock Out') are vigorous, easy-to-grow blooming flowers. Here's how to grow and care for these unique roses.
Discover ten essential rules for growing beautiful roses in your garden year after year. Includes rose planting tips, rose care advice and rose pruning guidelines.
Read our guide to learn more about Double Knockout Roses, including the main differences between Knockout and Double Knockout Roses.
As one of the most beautiful flowers in the world roses are easily incorporated into any garden decor. These rose garden ideas are your inspiration to make your backyard the best in the neighborhood.
This beauty is prized for the unusual qualities of its flowers, which bloom continuously from spring until frost.
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7:30am I found a bag of 15 mixed beans marked down at Kroger. Was $2.96 paid $1.49. I put about 3/4ths a bag in a pan of water to soak. I want to make a big pot of ham and bean soup for supper. I saved the other 1/4 bag and put it with my garden seeds. They say you can plant store bought bags of beans. You just can't plant the split peas. Beans in this bag- Northern, Pinto, Large Lima, Yelloweye Bean, Garbanzo, Baby Lima, Green Split Pea, Kidney, Cranberry Bean, Small White, Pink Bean, Small Red, Yellow Split Pea, Lentil, Navy, White Kidney, Black Bean. 10:05am Got the garden watered this morning and hung the grape vine on the trellis. I also got all the weed debris raked up that I took down from along the fence yesterday. I have baby radishes beginning to sprout. I planted them May 14th so it took about 7 days to get this far. I also have some Zinnias coming up that I planted in the tomato beds. Now to get a game plan for this back fence and planting a flower bed in front of it. This is where I'd like to plant 4 rose bushes and 5 hydrangeas along with other flowers. This is where the back of the yard slopes downwards. Hard to tell by just a photo. Doesn't look to hard to do right? Well you figure each fence panel is 8 feet wide times 7 of them will make this flower bed 56 feet long. Now that I look at it this way I should have bought all the remaining rose bushes Big Lots had marked down half off. I might plant 2 hydrangeas (pink and hot pink but they could change their color to blue once planted in the soil) at each end of the fence then plant one in the middle of the fence. Plant 2 rose bushes (pinks and reds) on each side of the middle hydrangea. Then plant a low growing white flower like asylum in front of everything. I know everything won't fill in right away and may take years to grow so I need to have patience, lots of patience! I would so love to accomplish this look one day except with white alyssum in the front instead of hostas. Alyssum Now all I have to do is dig out a flower bed and any grass in the area in front of the fence. Hmmm, how do you make a flower bed border for cheap especially one that is 56 feet long. So I'm Googling some cheap garden edging options because you know me, cheap is my middle name, lol. Here is what I came up with- Pallet edging. You can find pallets for free. I like free! Cut the pallet slats as shown. This also includes the stakes to pound them in the ground! Paint them black to make a more dramatic flower border. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3:30pm Got a big pot of ham and bean soup on the stove. I let my beans soak for 7 or so hours. In a large pot I added 4 cups water and 2 packets of sausage flavored country gravy mix along with a teaspoon of better than boullion chicken base. Then drained the beans and added them into the gravy. I have it all simmering on the stove on low for the next hour to hour and a half and I also threw in a large ham bone with ham. Would love to add in a little celery, onions and carrots. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3:45pm My tipsy planter petunias are starting to take off and fill in their pots. Each day I dead head the old flowers so they keep producing more and more. I like to show progress in the garden and how fast things grow. The Daylilies behind them are getting ready to bloom. April 22 May 21 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 4:35pm I filled up the birdbaths this morning. One metal birdbath bowl I put on the ground for the squirrels. Today a pair of doves stopped by for a bath. ------------------------------------------------------------- 9:00pm This evening we took all the yard waste to Tony's work to drop off. When looking for a dumpster to put it in I drove by one that had 4 trellises hanging out of it. Of course I stopped and had to have them, lol. The top two weren't so bad getting out. It was the bottom two that were a real pain because two heavy pallets and other things were on them. I was wore out by the time I was done getting them out. I figured I can wash them up and attach them to the back fence for climbing flowers. Well I am off here for now. Me and Tony are trying to plan our Father's Day weekend vacation. Very rarely do we actually go far away for a vacation and do something. The farthest the whole family has been for vacation is either Indian Lake or Hocking Hills. This year Tony wants us all to go to Michigan to a NASCAR Sprint Cup race. His friend took him free last year to a Nationwide Series race in Michigan. He loved it so much now he wants to take us. We'll go up Saturday and get a hotel room. Go to the race Sunday then back to the hotel that evening til Monday and then head back home. He's taking off a total of 5 days including the weekend. That way we have time to recover at home for a few days. It's one thing to plan for places that you have been to or know the area and it's completely different to do it with an area you've never been to. I don't know where hotels, fast foods and all that jazz are. I plan to take food for lunches and supper to try and cut the costs down. I'm sure breakfasts are free at the hotel. At least kids tickets to the race track 17 and under are half off. Still, tickets for the four of us is going to cost around $240. Oh yeah I see a headache coming on trying to figure all this out. I priced hotels and it would cost us $300- $400 for 2 nights. Then comes the idea of camping. HA HA HA. I saw the price of $229. Hmmm, wonder if we could all sleep on a blow up mattress in the back of the Suburban? -------------------------------------------------- 10:45pm I just saw this unclaimed funds link on wbns 10 tv on Facebook. Unfortunately I don't have any. So I started typing in names of people I know. Hey, if you are my aunt or a cousin that name starts with a "T", I saw that you are owed money :0) For my aunt type in your last married name. Doesn't say how much, only under $100.
