{"id":5990,"date":"2010-02-07T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T17:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2010-02-07T10:46:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T17:46:59","slug":"roses-masquerade-as-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/roses-masquerade-as-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Roses Masquerade as Resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4323347148\/\" title=\"Masquarade Rose\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2774\/4323347148_a43ec02db3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Masquarade\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a bit late to be setting New Years Resolutions for 2010 but I intend taking more interest in Roses and more care of Rose trees this year. Normally the one thing I give up for lent is my new years resolutions but since I am a late starter this year I will stick to the Rose this time.<br \/>\nThis month I will be ordering some new bare rooted roses of &#8216;Ruby Wedding&#8217; and will leave you to guess why.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nMasquarade Rose<\/strong><br \/>\nMasquerade&#8217; (above) is a floribunda rose with dark green foliage and semi-double flowers of mixed yellow turning red as they age.<br \/>\nAs a climber the Masquerade will grow upto 6 feet tall and repeat flower through the season. It has fine colouring, negligible scent but is OK for a north facing position.<br \/>\nBaby Masquerade is a cross with tom thumb but retains all the Masquarade charecteristics on a 10&#8243; high plant. <\/p>\n<p>The velvety, deep red rose (below) was established in my garden when I moved in almost 30 years ago and I have never known its name. Perhaps I should do some digging through rose catalogues to find out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4323351650\/\" title=\"Rose \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4051\/4323351650_1a15057e92.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Rose\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a bit late to be setting New Years Resolutions for 2010 but I intend taking more interest in Roses and more care of Rose trees this year. Normally the one thing I give up for lent is my new years resolutions but since I am a late starter this year I will stick to the Rose this time. This month I will be ordering some new bare rooted roses of &#8216;Ruby Wedding&#8217; and will leave you to guess&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/roses-masquerade-as-resolutions\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trees-and-shrubs","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}