<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Colorado State University Extension</title> <meta content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> <meta name="description" content="Colorado State University Extension"/> <meta name="keywords" content="Extenstion, Outreach, Colorado State University, CSU, Fort Collins, CO, environment, lawn and garden, water issues, water conservation, soil and crop sciences"/> <meta name="author" content="Colorado State University Extension"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../main page/general.css" media="screen"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../main page/print.css" media="print"/> <meta name="generator" content="CoffeeCup HTML Editor (www.coffeecup.com)"/> <script src="../Scripts/AC_ActiveX.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="../Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> <div id="page"><!-- Use the wrapperOneCol div attributes (one_column.css) on the 1-Column page --><div id="wrapper"><!-- begin header ssi --><!--#include virtual="../_ssi_1colheader.html" --><!-- end header ssi --><!-- begin topnav ssi --><!--#include virtual="../_ssi_topnav.html" --><!-- end topnav ssi --><div id="content"> <div id="content-group"> <div id="twoColContent"> <a name="market"></a> <h2>Timely Tips</h2> <table class="bodyTable" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="bodyTd" valign="top" width="150"> <img alt="CWC Garden" align="top" src="../images/gardner_150.jpg" width="150" height="226"/> </td> <td class="bodyTd" valign="top" align="left"> <p>Master Gardeners provide useful information to help your gardening efforts all year long.</p> <h1 class="bodyTable">Hybrid Tea Rose Change Color?</h1> <p>Hybrid tea roses are the most popular garden rose and what is commonly used in florist bouquets.&nbsp; Rose gardeners buy hybrid tea roses for their particular characteristics.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Color, fragrance, susceptibility to diseases and flower size can determine the selection.&nbsp; It is disappointing to enjoy the perfectly selected rose for years and then one summer it may bloom a totally different blossom, almost always inferior.&nbsp; The problem is not your gardening skills.&nbsp; Most hybrid tea roses are grafted onto hardier stock roses.&nbsp; When a hybrid tea rose begins flowering in a different color, the root stock has bloomed and not the grafted plant.&nbsp; Any growth originating from below the graft, which is the bump on the stem, will be the root stock.&nbsp; If it is vigorous, it can kill off the grafted plant.&nbsp; At this point, the original grafted rose will not come back.&nbsp; At times, the grafted cane blooms and the inferior root stock cane blooms also.&nbsp; In this instance, find the main stem and carefully dig below the graft.&nbsp; Carefully tear off, not prune, any suckers growing from below the graft, because pruning encourages growth.&nbsp; This situation happens infrequently, but does explain why there is different rose blooming in your garden.</p> <p>Kimberleigh Anders<br /> CSU Douglas County Master Gardener </p> <h1 class="bodyTd"><u>Pull Those Weeds in April</u></h1> <p>April is the 3rd snowiest month in Colorado.&nbsp; However, it snows and then melts on balmy days frequently during the spring months and the ground doesn&rsquo;t remain frozen.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you are just itching to get into your garden, take advantage of a warm spring afternoon and do some weeding.&nbsp; The ground should to be thawed, not frozen.&nbsp; When the ground is moist, the roots pull out easily.&nbsp; Of all the times to spend toiling over creeping weeds, it is more pleasant when you can&rsquo;t do much else in the garden.&nbsp;&nbsp; So lather on some sunscreen and head out into the sunshine!</p> <p>Kimberleigh Anders<br /> CSU Douglas County Master Gardener </p> <p>Other Timely Tips:</p> <ul> <li class="pdf" value="0"> <a href="hort_docs/TTOrderingfromSeedCatalogs.pdf" target="_blank"> <em>Ordering from Seed Catalogs</em> </a> <br/> <font size="-2">by Kimberleigh Anders, Douglas County Master Gardener</font> <br><br></li> <li class="pdf" value="0"> <a href="hort_docs/TTWinterTreeCare.pdf" target="_blank"> <em>Winter Tree Care</em> </a> <br/> <font size="-2">by Laura Simpkiss, Colorado Master Gardener</font> </li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div><!-- end twoColContent div --></div><!-- end content-group div --><div id="leftnavParent"><!-- begin left navigation ssi --><!--#include virtual="../_ssi_leftnav.html" --><!-- end left navigation ssi --><!-- Note: the leftnavParent div has been set up so that if you wanted to add links underneath your leftnav area (which is imported as a server side include, you could add more links using <ul>'s; 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