Marina, many of our folks have been asking: "How do you manage to have such a wonderfully healthy and robust garden of roses, as shown on the Garden Tour of your home in July 2006?".

And she answers:
I use Banner Max, Mancozeb and Bayer Disease Control, alternating the last two every two weeks with Banner max, and so far I applied two applications of Messenger. As feed I used Mills Magic Rose mix twice so far ( I really like the stuff), and 10-10-10 once. Also, in early May I used Mills Easy Feed - liquid fertilizer, and for the first time I used Clearex also in early May. Seems like a lot, but I'm a sucker for things that seem to benefit my roses. If you have any spider mites, I have Floramite too (they almost demolished all but a few of my bushes last year, and at that point I did not care how much anything that will take care of them might cost) - two applications per season maximum, 21 days apart, the stuff is very potent. That is it.

Thank you again so much for visiting my garden, hope to see all of you again soon.

Marina