Roses and other picky plants -- Hatchery Day, 10th of Germination, Year 224

[neotoma]

Also, I pruned back my rose bush yesterday. Hopefully this means I will get enough roses at the same time this year to make rose petal ice cream or rose petal jam.

I'm also thinking about buying a pair of dwarf blueberries for my container garden. They'd need a little extra care, because they need acidic soils, but I've already got a rosebush, two banana plants, and a phal orchid, so it's not like I don't like a challenge.

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[fyrdrakken]

I've been working on roses for the past couple of years, starting with some experimental mini-roses in containers and branching out to full-sized. The four I put in the ground last fall are thriving, the three I've planted this spring are deciding how they feel about our clay soil, and the mini-roses are explosively productive (though I lost a number of plants getting the five survivors).

Tulips, now -- tulips are the next challenge. The ones I planted weren't impressed with our soil at all -- next year I'm going to try growing tulips in pots.

[madripoor_rose]

I've been eyeing those dwarf blueberries for a couple of years....lord knows we must go through twenty or thirty pounds of the things a year, so having some garden-fresh would be nice.

[neotoma]

Burpee has a couple of varieties of container-friendly blueberries. I wish I had the space for the Pink Lemonade cultivar, but it's big.

[madripoor_rose]

Oh, just looked those up and they're so pretty! Pink blueberries!