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Showing posts with label Hollywood Cemetery Roses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood Cemetery Roses. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Want to Hear Me Talk About Hollywood Cemetery?
I will be presenting my program about the roses at Hollywood Cemetery for the Ginter Park Garden Club on Thursday, January 11, 2018. at 10:00 am, at the Ginter Park Women's Club building, 3016 Seminary Avenue, Richmond, VA 23227. (The building is on the corner of Rennie Avenue and Seminary Avenue. Enter on the Rennie Avenue side.) Click HERE for a map.
The public is welcome to attend.
The public is welcome to attend.
Friday, June 16, 2017
Barn Garden Progress
When we last saw the 15' x 18' expansion of the Barn Garden earlier this week, I had marked it off and laid landscape fabric in the area.
The next step was to add an edge. In this case, salvaged 4x4 fence posts from our dwindling stash, cut to size and fastened with ground spikes. They're not beautiful, but they do their job ... keeping the mulch IN and most of the creeping weeds OUT.
The final step, in this part of the process, was to add a generous layer of mulch.
The combination of landscape fabric and mulch will block the light to the grass underneath, and most of it should die within the next few weeks. By the time summer is waning and temperatures begin to cool, the area will be ready to plant. What am I planting here, you ask?
Some of them are:
The next step was to add an edge. In this case, salvaged 4x4 fence posts from our dwindling stash, cut to size and fastened with ground spikes. They're not beautiful, but they do their job ... keeping the mulch IN and most of the creeping weeds OUT.
The final step, in this part of the process, was to add a generous layer of mulch.
The combination of landscape fabric and mulch will block the light to the grass underneath, and most of it should die within the next few weeks. By the time summer is waning and temperatures begin to cool, the area will be ready to plant. What am I planting here, you ask?
Some of them are:
"Talcott Noisette" from cuttings at Hollywood Cemetery.
"Tutta's Noisette" from Rose Petals Nursery.
"Ryland Rose" from cuttings at Hollywood Cemetery.
"Lathrop Noisette" from cuttings at Hollywood Cemetery
"Woodbine Rose" from cuttings at a cemetery in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
"Isaacs Rose" from cuttings at Hollywood Cemetery
For now, these babies will continue to live safely in their little pots ... where I can give them a lot of attention, till the weather is favorable for them to live in the ground on their own.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Heritage Rose Foundation Conference, Next Month
One month from today, rose lovers from all over the US (and at least a couple of foreign countries) will spend three rose-filled days in Fredericksburg, Virginia, for the 2017 Heritage Rose Foundation Conference.
It's not too late for you to plan to join us. Let me show you what we are going to do.
The conference will begin on Thursday, May 18, with an optional pre-conference bus trip to Charlottesville to visit the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Tufton Farm, home of the Leonie Bell Noisette Garden, and to tour the gardens and mansion at Monticello, home of President Thomas Jefferson. Lunch is included.
Friday, May 19, we will enjoy a day of presentations at Belmont, Gari Melchers' home and studio in Falmouth, Virginia. Continental breakfast, buffet lunch, and tours of the mansion and garden are included.
I am very excited to have put together this slate of speakers:
Benjamin Whitacre, who paired a fascination with ancient texts and roses as a college student in Williamsburg, Virginia, before spending a year at the Arnold Arboretum researching Harvard's historic rose experiments. He has also worked with roses at Mount Auburn Cemetery, the American Horticultural Society, and at Monticello.
Beate Ankjaer-Jensen, who has served as Cultural Resource Manager at Gari Melchers Home and Studio since 1999. She led the research and restoration of the gardens and historic buildings, and directed the creation of native grassland meadows and trails that interpret the cultural and natural recources on the 29-acre estate.
Scott Dean, who became interested in roses at age 5, when his father entered a rose in his name in the youth class in a rose show. He combines his hobby of studying the Middle Ages, as a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, with his interest in roses, researching the rose varieties grown in Europe prior to the year 1600.
Mike Shoup, who opened the Antique Rose Emporium in 1984, with the goal of creating a resurgence in the preservation of rare and beautiful roses. Specializing in the re-introduction and distribution of historic roses, the retail center has theme gardens that show the versitility of antique roses in garden settings. Mike is a past president of the Heritage Rose Foundation, and the author of three books and numerous national articles on the subject of using Old Garden Roses in today's gardens.
Saturday, May 20, we begin with a bus tour to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond to learn about the history of this 19th Century garden cemetery and its roses. Goth Gardener and I are writing a new tour especially for this event. As part of the day's activities, we will be replanting three lost roses to their original locations! Lunch is included.
Saturday evening is the part of the conference that I'm most excited about ... a buffet barbecue dinner under a big tent in my garden here at Hartwood Manor! My roses should be in full bloom for the guests, and I have been working SO hard to make everything look its best. Roses will be available for sale. A Heritage Rose Foundation banquet would be incomplete without the star attraction of the evening, Stephen Scanniello, president of HRF, acting as auctioneer for a wonderful assortment of rare roses and rose items ... including an oil painting donated by my very talented artist husband.
Registration fee is $210. This all includes activities on Friday and Saturday, including lectures, tours, and meals, as noted. An additional $85 fee is required for Thursday's optional tour to Charlottesville. We also offer registration for individual activities, for folks who have scheduling conflicts and cannot attend the entire conference. (If you can only come to one thing, the banquet is the one that I recommend. It's going to be so much FUN!!)
Edited to say: Registration is closed, because this event is now history .. and it was FABULOUS. You should have been here!)
I am coordinating this event with a little bit of help, but not much, and it has required an ever-increasing amount of my time and thought processes. Folks who are coming have told me that they are very excited to come see the world of roses that we have here in Virginia ... and I am over-the-moon delighted to be their hostess.
It's not too late for you to plan to join us. Let me show you what we are going to do.
The conference will begin on Thursday, May 18, with an optional pre-conference bus trip to Charlottesville to visit the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Tufton Farm, home of the Leonie Bell Noisette Garden, and to tour the gardens and mansion at Monticello, home of President Thomas Jefferson. Lunch is included.
"Bremo Musk" in the Leonie Bell Noisette Garden.
Friday, May 19, we will enjoy a day of presentations at Belmont, Gari Melchers' home and studio in Falmouth, Virginia. Continental breakfast, buffet lunch, and tours of the mansion and garden are included.
'Tausendschoen' in the garden at Belmont.
I am very excited to have put together this slate of speakers:
Benjamin Whitacre, who paired a fascination with ancient texts and roses as a college student in Williamsburg, Virginia, before spending a year at the Arnold Arboretum researching Harvard's historic rose experiments. He has also worked with roses at Mount Auburn Cemetery, the American Horticultural Society, and at Monticello.
Beate Ankjaer-Jensen, who has served as Cultural Resource Manager at Gari Melchers Home and Studio since 1999. She led the research and restoration of the gardens and historic buildings, and directed the creation of native grassland meadows and trails that interpret the cultural and natural recources on the 29-acre estate.
Scott Dean, who became interested in roses at age 5, when his father entered a rose in his name in the youth class in a rose show. He combines his hobby of studying the Middle Ages, as a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, with his interest in roses, researching the rose varieties grown in Europe prior to the year 1600.
Mike Shoup, who opened the Antique Rose Emporium in 1984, with the goal of creating a resurgence in the preservation of rare and beautiful roses. Specializing in the re-introduction and distribution of historic roses, the retail center has theme gardens that show the versitility of antique roses in garden settings. Mike is a past president of the Heritage Rose Foundation, and the author of three books and numerous national articles on the subject of using Old Garden Roses in today's gardens.
Saturday, May 20, we begin with a bus tour to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond to learn about the history of this 19th Century garden cemetery and its roses. Goth Gardener and I are writing a new tour especially for this event. As part of the day's activities, we will be replanting three lost roses to their original locations! Lunch is included.
One of the roses that we will replant is 'Safrano' on the Waller lot in Section Q near Presidents Circle.
Saturday evening is the part of the conference that I'm most excited about ... a buffet barbecue dinner under a big tent in my garden here at Hartwood Manor! My roses should be in full bloom for the guests, and I have been working SO hard to make everything look its best. Roses will be available for sale. A Heritage Rose Foundation banquet would be incomplete without the star attraction of the evening, Stephen Scanniello, president of HRF, acting as auctioneer for a wonderful assortment of rare roses and rose items ... including an oil painting donated by my very talented artist husband.
'Shailer's Provence' in the Fence Border, at Hartwood Manor ... home sweet home.
Registration fee is $210. This all includes activities on Friday and Saturday, including lectures, tours, and meals, as noted. An additional $85 fee is required for Thursday's optional tour to Charlottesville. We also offer registration for individual activities, for folks who have scheduling conflicts and cannot attend the entire conference. (If you can only come to one thing, the banquet is the one that I recommend. It's going to be so much FUN!!)
Edited to say: Registration is closed, because this event is now history .. and it was FABULOUS. You should have been here!)
I am coordinating this event with a little bit of help, but not much, and it has required an ever-increasing amount of my time and thought processes. Folks who are coming have told me that they are very excited to come see the world of roses that we have here in Virginia ... and I am over-the-moon delighted to be their hostess.
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Josiah Ryland's Rose
There is a small rose growing in the shade beside an ornate iron fence in Section B at Hollywood Cemetery. I have visited it many times, but I have never seen a flower on it ... till last month.
This flower is not much to look at, definitely past peak and a bit tattered, but it's a beautiful flower to me.
Timing was perfect and the plant was in good enough condition to allow me to carefully snip five cuttings ... to try to propagate it, preserve it, and possibly determine which rose it is.
I checked on the cuttings this morning and I saw a root!!
More roots!!
Whatever this rose is, it rooted VERY quickly. All five cuttings are in this container, planted on May 19, and multiple roots are visible on the side and bottom of the container three weeks later, today, June 9. (Six to eight weeks, maybe longer, is more typical.)
These roots hold the promise of plants that represent the opportunity for me to grow Josiah Ryland's rose under more favorable conditions than it has at the cemetery, to share it with others, and (fingers crossed) to figure out which rose this is.
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Click HERE to go to my Rose Rooting Tutorial, and see how simple it is to root roses and other plants for yourself and to share with friends.
This flower is not much to look at, definitely past peak and a bit tattered, but it's a beautiful flower to me.
Timing was perfect and the plant was in good enough condition to allow me to carefully snip five cuttings ... to try to propagate it, preserve it, and possibly determine which rose it is.
I checked on the cuttings this morning and I saw a root!!
More roots!!
These roots hold the promise of plants that represent the opportunity for me to grow Josiah Ryland's rose under more favorable conditions than it has at the cemetery, to share it with others, and (fingers crossed) to figure out which rose this is.
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Click HERE to go to my Rose Rooting Tutorial, and see how simple it is to root roses and other plants for yourself and to share with friends.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Friday Flowers from Hollywood Cemetery
Yesterday was a beautiful day, with bright sunshine, mild temperatures, and a light breeze. It was a perfect day to make the one-hour trip south to Hollywood Cemetery to gather flowers to take with me for Doug's funeral tomorrow.
My first stop, as always, was to visit the Crenshaw Musk Rose. Yesterday, I could smell it before I saw it, as its sweet fragrance wafted on the breeze. Late summer and fall is the time when this rose is at its best.
Within this plant, which produces primarily the double-form flowers, is a section with canes that produce the more primitive five-petal single flowers. I was able to gather sprays of both for my arrangement.
I next visited two plants that are special to me, the large Noisette on the Ritchie plot (which is very similar to the rose known as 'Mary Washington') and the smaller Noisette on the Bolling plot (which is grown at Tufton as "Hollywood Pink Cluster").
There weren't very many other flowers for me to gather. I needed ones that would hold for two days, and most of the other plants I visited had flowers that were too far open, and would fall apart in the next day or so, or had buds that were too immature to open within my time frame. Not to worry, I have a plan.
I can supplement these flowers from Hollywood with a few Noisette flowers from my own garden ... most of which came from Hollywood or Tufton originally, or are my own foundlings. I will put my arrangement together later today, and I will show it to you tomorrow.
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I can't leave you today before I thank you for the lovely comments and notes that you shared in response to my tribute to Doug in my last post. I am comforted, and humbled, by your kindness.
My first stop, as always, was to visit the Crenshaw Musk Rose. Yesterday, I could smell it before I saw it, as its sweet fragrance wafted on the breeze. Late summer and fall is the time when this rose is at its best.
Within this plant, which produces primarily the double-form flowers, is a section with canes that produce the more primitive five-petal single flowers. I was able to gather sprays of both for my arrangement.
Double
Single
I next visited two plants that are special to me, the large Noisette on the Ritchie plot (which is very similar to the rose known as 'Mary Washington') and the smaller Noisette on the Bolling plot (which is grown at Tufton as "Hollywood Pink Cluster").
"Ritchie Noisette"
"Hollywood Pink Cluster"
There weren't very many other flowers for me to gather. I needed ones that would hold for two days, and most of the other plants I visited had flowers that were too far open, and would fall apart in the next day or so, or had buds that were too immature to open within my time frame. Not to worry, I have a plan.
This was my harvest from the cemetery. I wish I could attach the fragrance of these beauties to this post, so you could experience how heavenly my kitchen smells because of them.
I can supplement these flowers from Hollywood with a few Noisette flowers from my own garden ... most of which came from Hollywood or Tufton originally, or are my own foundlings. I will put my arrangement together later today, and I will show it to you tomorrow.
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I can't leave you today before I thank you for the lovely comments and notes that you shared in response to my tribute to Doug in my last post. I am comforted, and humbled, by your kindness.
Friday, June 5, 2015
Friday Flowers: Open Garden on Sunday and Roses for Sale.
This whole week has been chilly and gray and rainy ... okay for helping the roses in the garden hold their remaining flowers (instead of frying in the heat, if we had heat) ... not so great for this gardener who had grand plans for sprucing up the place in preparation for visitors on Open Garden Day on Sunday. Oh, well, the roses look better than they probably ever have even without any additional tidying.
One job that I couldn't put off was organizing my pot ghetto to separate the roses that I'm keeping from the roses that I plan to sell. I wanted to do this well ahead of time, so I could compile an inventory list and gather photos for this post and for FB. Most of these are extra plants from my propagation over the last year or two. A few of them are roses that I was going to keep but have decided to part with instead.
Highlighted links below each photo take you to the rose's listing on Help Me Find, the best rose reference resource on the 'Net.
(In addition to the ones shown, I also have "Dr. Peck's 12th Avenue Smoothie", a found Hybrid China rose from California.)
Roses will be available for pick up during Open Garden on Sunday, and I am happy to ship to folks who can't be here in person. Roses are all $20 each and quantities are VERY limited. (Some of these have already sold in response to my post on the Hartwood Roses Facebook page last night.) Send a PM to connie@hartwoodroses.com or leave a comment here with questions or to place an order. Include your ZIP code, please. I will confirm your order, calculate postage and handling (to cover materials and such) and send you a PayPal invoice. (For those who don't use PayPal, a good old-fashioned check in the mail is just as good.) I cannot ship to CA, AZ, OR, and a couple of other western states that I don't remember off the top of my head.
I'm excited to see what this year's Open Garden brings. Lots of people have told me that they're coming, and this place could be a madhouse... just the way I like it!
(I will do what I can between now and next week to take photos of the garden and put together a virtual Open Garden post for those of you who can't be here in person. A photographer friend is coming by today to shoot, and I always have a camera on hand, so you will want to check back in later to see what we come up with.)
One job that I couldn't put off was organizing my pot ghetto to separate the roses that I'm keeping from the roses that I plan to sell. I wanted to do this well ahead of time, so I could compile an inventory list and gather photos for this post and for FB. Most of these are extra plants from my propagation over the last year or two. A few of them are roses that I was going to keep but have decided to part with instead.
Highlighted links below each photo take you to the rose's listing on Help Me Find, the best rose reference resource on the 'Net.
From Hollywood Cemetery:
Once blooming, fragrant, and disease resistant. Collected from a plant that grows on the Brandt lot in Hollywood Cemetery.
Vigorous, repeat-blooming rose that thrives in hot weather.
Sold out.
"Hollywood Currie Multiflora"
Lanky, sprawling rose that grows on a cast iron fence on the Currie lot in Hollywood Cemetery. May be a very nice example of 'Tausendschoen'.
"Hollywood Haxall Russeliana"
Large Hybrid China/Multiflora rose that grows on the Haxall lot in Hollywood Cemetery. Recently identified as 'Russeliana'
Roses from other cemeteries:
'Banshee'
Very large, spring-blooming rose, that will spread moderately via suckers ... which is how I got mine. Very cold hardy. (this rose is too large to ship)
"Cemetery Musk Seedling"
Chance seedling found in the Sacramento City Cemetery rose garden. Large shrub, repeat-blooming, and fragrant.
Hybrid rugosa. Repeat-blooming. Collected at Thornrose Cemetery in Staunton, Virginia.
From the collection at Tufton Farm:
"Cross Manor Blush Noisette"
Identical to 'Blush Noisette' in commerce. Collected from the garden at Cross Manor in Maryland.
Same as "Mrs. Woods Lavender-Pink Noisette"
"Ruth's Tiny Polyantha"
Tight clusters of 3/4" flowers, start pink and fade to white, on a plant that is less than three feet tall in the garden at Tufton Farm.
"Ruth's Wavy Leaf Noisette"
The foliage is glossy and healthy, and it has a slight wave to each leaflet. Tall and fragrant. Reblooms.
Other assorted roses:
This rose is among the first to bloom in my garden. The color is the same as 'Louis Philippe' and many of the other red China roses. Needs fungicide for blackspot prevention. (This rose is too large to ship.)
'Excelsa'
Hybrid multiflora rambler with large clusters of cherry red flowers, spring blooming. Collected in Hanover County, Virginia.
'Lucetta'
David Austin English rose. Large, repeat-flowering, and fragrant.
'Nozomi'
Climbing miniature rose that looks best when allowed to drape. Spring blooming, with healthy foliage. (this rose is too large to ship)
'Pookah'
Large, graceful Polyantha with large clusters of pink flowers that fade to white and very healthy foliage.
(In addition to the ones shown, I also have "Dr. Peck's 12th Avenue Smoothie", a found Hybrid China rose from California.)
Roses will be available for pick up during Open Garden on Sunday, and I am happy to ship to folks who can't be here in person. Roses are all $20 each and quantities are VERY limited. (Some of these have already sold in response to my post on the Hartwood Roses Facebook page last night.) Send a PM to connie@hartwoodroses.com or leave a comment here with questions or to place an order. Include your ZIP code, please. I will confirm your order, calculate postage and handling (to cover materials and such) and send you a PayPal invoice. (For those who don't use PayPal, a good old-fashioned check in the mail is just as good.) I cannot ship to CA, AZ, OR, and a couple of other western states that I don't remember off the top of my head.
I'm excited to see what this year's Open Garden brings. Lots of people have told me that they're coming, and this place could be a madhouse... just the way I like it!
Monday, April 20, 2015
Upcoming Spring Rose and Garden Events in Virginia
At this time of year, there are SO many choices of things for rose and garden lovers to do in Virginia. (For those of you in other parts of the country, I'm sure that there is plenty of stuff for you, too, wherever you are.) Below, you will find the events that I plan to attend ... I will be enjoying these as a plain old attendee at each of them but one.
Virginia Garden Week
April 19 - 25, 2015
There's nothing like Virginia Garden Week anywhere else in the country. Home and garden tours are scheduled in many locations throughout the state. I'm touring Fredericksburg on Tuesday, Warrenton on Wednesday, and Middle Peninsula on Friday.
Click HERE to go to the Garden Week web site for schedule and details.
I will be speaking at the April meeting of the Chesapeake Bay Garden Club, delivering my program "Documenting and Preserving the Roses at Hollywood Cemetery"
Festival Hall, Reedville, Virginia
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Virginia Garden Week
April 19 - 25, 2015
There's nothing like Virginia Garden Week anywhere else in the country. Home and garden tours are scheduled in many locations throughout the state. I'm touring Fredericksburg on Tuesday, Warrenton on Wednesday, and Middle Peninsula on Friday.
Click HERE to go to the Garden Week web site for schedule and details.
Azaleas in full bloom in Fredericksburg for Garden Tour.
I will be speaking at the April meeting of the Chesapeake Bay Garden Club, delivering my program "Documenting and Preserving the Roses at Hollywood Cemetery"
Festival Hall, Reedville, Virginia
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 12:00 pm
A beautiful example of statuary, and 'Safrano', at Hollywood Cemetery
Lynchburg Old City Cemetery Antique Rose Festival
Featured guest and speaker is my friend, Rev. Douglas Seidel
Heritage roses propagated from the cemetery's collection will be available for sale.
May 8-10, 2015
Schedule of activities at the cemetery's web site HERE.
'Dortmund' climbing on the porch of one of the museum buildings at the Old City Cemetery.
Sunday Picnic at Hollywood Cemetery
Pack a picnic, bring a blanket, and relax to sounds of great entertainment. As an added bonus, I expect the roses at the cemetery to be putting on quite a show.
Unknown red China rose, on the Dorsey Cosby lot at Hollywood Cemetery
Monticello’s Tufton Farm Wine and Roses Open House
Featured speaker is Peggy Cornett, Curator of Plants at Monticello
May 30, 2015 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Details are HERE, at the Monticello web site.
Details are HERE, at the Monticello web site.
'Baltimore Belle' blooming in the garden at Tufton Farm.
Hartwood Roses Open Garden Day
Date to be determined, as soon as the roses in my garden let me know when full bloom time will be.
Details will be posted here, on the Hartwood Roses Facebook page, and on the Hartwood Roses web site as soon as I have them.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Sunday Snapshot ... Hollywood Cemetery Rose Work Day
Saturday was the day that I look forward to, and plan for, all year ... the day when volunteers gather to provide annual maintenance to approximately 100 of the roses at Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. The weather was glorious, the volunteers were excited to be a part of the event, and the roses are always better for the pruning and attention that they receive. I love coordinating the event ... and I am always very relieved and exhausted when it's over.
This year, I took two photos ... two ... that's all. I left my camera in my car, because I didn't want to haul it around and/or worry about it while I was working.
I didn't take a photo of this rose before we started on it. The "Crenshaw Musk Rose" is one of the most historically significant roses at Hollywood Cemetery. It didn't look its best last year because I forgot to do any work on it ... there were weeds growing around and through it, and lots of winter-killed and bloomed out canes clogging the plant. It took us almost two hours to do this, as three of us carefully worked our way from the bottom to top, outside to inside, evaluating and reshaping the entire plant.
Pruning like this is appropriate for a vigorous, repeat flowering rose like the Musk Rose. It maintains the rounded, upright shape of this rose. I would never do this to Hollywood's once-blooming roses like the Hybrid Chinas and free-standing ramblers ... it would ruin their shape and rob them of most of their personality. (Yes, I believe that roses have personalities.)
The staff at Hollywood Cemetery does a great job of helping me prepare for the arrival of the volunteers, and the Friends of Hollywood provides yummy boxed lunches for everyone. I ate mine in the sunshine, while chatting with some of the volunteers.
At the end of the day, I was spent. Goth Gardener was there, as she promised. We ended the day with another Silly Selfie ... one that documents our extreme level of fatigue.
It is such a relief to be finished with this. There are a few roses that didn't get worked on, and I will inspect and do what I can for them in the next couple of weeks, and review and document the other roses to help prepare for next year's Rose Day.
My attention now will be to focus on my OWN garden. I'm energized and raring to go ... once I rest up from yesterday.
Happy sunny Sunday, Everybody.
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Sunday Snapshots are posts that are devoted to a moment in time that represents a slice of life in Hartwood, or wherever else I happen to be.
This year, I took two photos ... two ... that's all. I left my camera in my car, because I didn't want to haul it around and/or worry about it while I was working.
I didn't take a photo of this rose before we started on it. The "Crenshaw Musk Rose" is one of the most historically significant roses at Hollywood Cemetery. It didn't look its best last year because I forgot to do any work on it ... there were weeds growing around and through it, and lots of winter-killed and bloomed out canes clogging the plant. It took us almost two hours to do this, as three of us carefully worked our way from the bottom to top, outside to inside, evaluating and reshaping the entire plant.
Pruning like this is appropriate for a vigorous, repeat flowering rose like the Musk Rose. It maintains the rounded, upright shape of this rose. I would never do this to Hollywood's once-blooming roses like the Hybrid Chinas and free-standing ramblers ... it would ruin their shape and rob them of most of their personality. (Yes, I believe that roses have personalities.)
The staff at Hollywood Cemetery does a great job of helping me prepare for the arrival of the volunteers, and the Friends of Hollywood provides yummy boxed lunches for everyone. I ate mine in the sunshine, while chatting with some of the volunteers.
At the end of the day, I was spent. Goth Gardener was there, as she promised. We ended the day with another Silly Selfie ... one that documents our extreme level of fatigue.
It is such a relief to be finished with this. There are a few roses that didn't get worked on, and I will inspect and do what I can for them in the next couple of weeks, and review and document the other roses to help prepare for next year's Rose Day.
My attention now will be to focus on my OWN garden. I'm energized and raring to go ... once I rest up from yesterday.
Happy sunny Sunday, Everybody.
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Sunday Snapshots are posts that are devoted to a moment in time that represents a slice of life in Hartwood, or wherever else I happen to be.
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