Win Flower Carpet® roses in our "Great Gardens" 2011 contest!
Submitted by Lisa on Fri, 2011-06-17 10:16
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Hey gardeners! Three of you will receive a collection of all three colors of Next Generation Flower Carpet groundcover roses – offering supreme heat and humidity tolerance – as part of the Your Easy Gardens blog's “Great Gardens” contest being held this summer!
Complete contest entry info and rules can be seen on Tesselaar's online newsroom.
During the contest, which starts in July and runs through September, we're asking for images and stories from your gardens in three different categories:
- Best Plant Combos (July)
- Best Story About Your Garden & Why Gardening Is Important To You (August)
- Best “Easy Gardening” Tricks & Tips (September)
One category will be featured per month, and the winner of that category will be randomly chosen at the end of that month.
Gardeners can enter more than once by answering that month’s feature question and engaging in conversation on the blog. Monthly winners will receive a canvas totebag, a stunning coffee table book called The Rose, with writing contributions from five of the world's most respected rosarians (including Tesselaar Plants cofounder and president Anthony Tesselaar) and the entire collection of Next Generation Flower Carpet roses – Amber, Scarlet and Pink Supreme. The roses will be shipped next spring at the appropriate planting time for the winner’s area.
“This is all about sharing what works in your garden and why you garden,” says Anthony Tesselaar, cofounder and president of Tesselaar Plants. “We would love to see those winning plant combinations that make your garden a special place.”
The contest begins July 1 and will run through September 30, 2011. No purchase is necessary to enter or win. You can enter as often as you’d like but each entry must be a unique answer/comment. The contest begins at 9:30 a.m. on the first day of the month and all entries must be received by 10:30 p.m. on the last day of the month until the contest ends on September 30, 2011. Winners will be selected and notified at the end of each month.
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Candie
Hi Candie,
Please let me know how your Carpet rose did over winter. While I’m not in Zone 4, I do live along Lake Ontario in New York (Zone 6ish) and we have lots of snow and ice, then a January thaw, and then more snow and ice. It’s the temperature differences, I’ve noticed, not how cold or icy it gets, that causes the soil to freeze and thaw and then heave… So a good layer of mulch, about 2 to 3 inches, is the best thing to do for winter protection. Sounds like you’ve already done that, though! Good luck! Let me know how it turns out!
Your husband's from Rochester
Hi Linn,
Sorry, I was going through old comments on the blog and found that I’d missed this one. So your husband’s family is from Rochester? Whereabouts? I’d be curious to know!
Lisa
Carpet rose
I read about Tesselaar’s breeding technologies in a gardening mag.
For the last few years I’ve bought Knock Out brand roses.
Stumbled on the Carpet Rose (red) at local Home Depot.
Bought one in July.
I’m in zone 4, with gravelly acid soil, which I amend. Even then its less than ideal.
This red carpet has out bloomed the other, magnificently. Has a more horizontal growing habit, so needs more room. Its mid Sept. has several blossoming and budding branches.
The real test will be the ice and snow of the winter. I’ll mulch a little over the soil, but that’s it.
I will wait.
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Hey Emily:
That is why post like this are so great. It helps all of us learn more about gardening. The tips, hints and ideas of others helps the garden of our minds to expand ever more.
Lisa my husbands family come from Rochester.
Walk in peace,
Linn
Best combo
For me this year the best garden combo was my beautifully huge purple clematis next to the Black Tropicannas blooming. The reds and oranges of the tropicannas against the purple clemaits was awesome. The blooms on the clematis were about 8-9 inches across. I have planted a snow white clematis in the same area. Of course as we all know the blooms will not be awesome for at least a year.
Have a great gardening day.
Walk in peace,
Linn
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Lisa, is the image displayed in your article from your garden? The landscaping is exquisite, and the flowers are very pretty!
This contest makes me really wish that I was more familiar and knowledgeable about gardening so that I could participate. It sound like a fun contest to follow! I look forward to reading peoples’ stories. Maybe it will help me to learn some helpful and practical pointers about roses. Pretty timely, but I actually just wrote an article about the history of roses last month for June, since it’s the month of the rose. Perhaps it will interest you! http://blog.dotstaff.com/index.php/2011/06/17/june-the-month-of-the-rose/#more-458
Flower Carpet Rose contest
This looks like fun and I look forward to entering your contest in August! Thank you
carpet roses
I have seen your roses before, several years ago, but always remembered they looked so beautiful I really like the Amber best
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