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What's the Secret Rose Code? - Living in Bloom with J Schwanke
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Life in Bloom's J Schwanke and Shelley Irwin get together to crack the rose code!
Life in Bloom's J Schwanke and Shelley Irwin get together to crack the rose code!
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What's the Secret Rose Code? - Living in Bloom with J Schwanke
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Life in Bloom's J Schwanke and Shelley Irwin get together to crack the rose code!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle bright music) - Roses are red, what follows that J.?
- Yeah, that's true.
These are red, these are spray roses.
So you'll notice that a spray rose, super great value, because we've got all of these little roses that come up that stem, right?
- Yes.
- And so this is probably priced a little bit less than this.
- So that's a spray rose?
- Spray rose.
- This is a hybrid tea rose.
But, you know, so this is the long-stem, single rose that we might see.
This one is called cherry brandy, because of its color.
It's red on the outside and orange-ish, kind of peachy on the inside.
Did you know that women's favorite rose is not red?
- I did not know that.
- Women's favorite rose, uniformly throughout the country, most generally, is a peach or a pink rose.
- Well, I'll take a dozen red, please.
And these don't smell?
- Well, these don't smell.
You're absolutely right, because what we do is there is a link between the fragrance of the rose, and also the longevity of the rose, and the thorns.
The more fragrant a rose, the less it will last, and the more thorns it will have.
So we try and raise roses that are thornless and last a long time, but thus they have no smell.
- Yes, yes.
- So in your garden they will.
- Okay, all right.
I'll make sure that we get them planted ASAP.
- (laughs) Yes, right.
So today we're gonna make the 7-4-1.
So this is a secret system to make your roses always look beautiful.
- I knew we'd learn the secret code eventually.
- The secret code, exactly.
So you have seven roses, four roses, and one.
The very first thing that you're going to do is you are going to cut your rose, I'm gonna guess, about this long so it sits on the edge.
- And I'm doing that with each rose in the front?
- You're gonna do seven roses in a circle on the outside.
- [Shelley] And I'm going underneath the leaf, shall I say?
- [J.]
Sure, and pull off that bottom leaf before you stick it down, this guy.
- Oh, yeah, yeah.
- Pull this one off.
- [Shelley] It's okay, see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya.
- There you go.
- Okay, next.
- Oh, see you're perfect.
- Well, that's it, it's all about the teacher.
- Yeah, all right.
- All right, so we do this with all seven.
- All seven of those.
7-4-1, so this is the seven.
And over here in mine now, because I'm using spray roses, I'm gonna still cut them short, but I'm only gonna do like three around the base.
- Okay, all right, is this a race?
- No.
- Okay.
- I'm just trying to keep up with you, you know, so that's good.
- [Shelley] This is beautiful, so all around.
And there is a reason for starting with the seven, correct?
- Well, the reason for that is we wanna fill in all the way around the edge, and you've done perfectly, like that, so now your next four are going to sit up a little bit longer.
- [Shelley] So cut a little bit longer down the stem, as the say.
- Correct, there we go.
- Thank you, and that will go on the inside.
- And let's see, oh, that's a little too long.
- Okay, all right, I'm learning from you.
- So we wanna go there.
- All right.
- And we're gonna do those four in the middle there.
- All right, I look forward to seeing what we do with that last one that is waiting for us, how's that?
- [J.]
(laughing) I knew you would want to know.
- You're doing yours as well.
- Right, right, I am.
So I've made a little edge around the outside, and I'm going to stick a couple in the center as you are.
- All right, all right.
- So with this one, it isn't necessarily 7-4-1, because my roses are a little bit more in a little cluster.
- All right, J., here we are, okay.
- There you are, now, where do you think one's gonna go?
- One's gonna go in the center.
- In the center, on the top.
- All right.
- Exactly.
- [Shelley] But I need to, I guess, measure, this needs to be cut a little longer, even here?
- [J.]
Correct, 'cause you're gonna go in the middle, and you want him to sit up above on the top.
- Oh, I think I need to trim it.
- Yes, you do.
- Yes, see.
- Your inkling was correct.
- Okay, that would be- - You had a wonderful inkling.
I'm just adjusting for you.
Everything's perfect.
- Putting on?
- Uh-huh, there you go.
- Okay, so down we go.
Is there a name, oh my goodness!
That's crazy.
- 7-4-1, and you're done.
- Wow, thank you, J.
- You're welcome.
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