When I transplanted my tall blue potato vine, blooms lavender all year long to the left side in with the tall Santa Cruz hibiscus tree, to bloom together, I opened the whole right side for a marvelous addition.
From the front street clear now view, I will have 20 hybrid tea roses, now at Home Depot for $3.27 each. That will be planted within the ruella or Mexican petunia hedge effect already there, imagine their daily flowering of hundreds of lavender flowers with the reds, pinks, yellows and whites of the roses within!
I will first soak the packaged bare rooted roses in a Superthrive solution overnight, trimming all of their stems back to 3-4 inches. That will take them a bit longer to bloom, because of that severe pruning, which will force them to redevelop their root systems, but done, they will arise in an explosion of blooms!
Those shorter stems will minimize the wax coating
dripping down on the leaves in the heat, damaging them. Thus the stems will breathe better.
Then every 7 days I will apply my secret fertilizer solution on their leaves, then I'll bet you, I will have 5 to 6 inch diameter blooms.
www.geocities.com/jbarta00/SECRETFERTILIZER .
So sometimes in March come by and view them, they should be spectacular, if not as, the ruella all around them will be!
In the meantime inbetween, I'll sow English peas, which willl add nitrogen to the soil.
Aint I clever.
