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| Ok I quess the time has come and i must start digging a hole for her. I received a small peggy martin rose 3 years ago this coming May while attending a plant swap. I'm not into roses,I really despise roses just because I never have any good luck with them, either with disease such as rose rosette, which got into my knockout roses a couple years ago. I'm more into Clematis and other vines, but this rose needs to be in the ground this year and I have the purfect spot for her..I transplanted it after I received it into a large 20 gal pot and last year she put out about 5 long 3 foot shoots, but no blooms. Being in the pot just isn't going to work I quess..So this weekend I'll start the hole digging process, I have plenty of farm processed cow poo for her and see how she does this year. What are the chances she will also get Rose Rosette also? Please note I live on a 100 acre cattle farm and we have plenty of fence rowes with wild rose bushes that also get the Rose Rosette Disease. There is no possible way to get rid of the thousands of wild roses on this cattle farm, so don't even suggest that.. |
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- Posted by sweetannie4u midOK_z6b/7a (My Page) on Fri, Feb 22, 13 at 14:32
| Or...you could send her to me! LOL I'd give her a good home. ~Annie |
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| OK, I've been thinking about your query -- and please understand that I am in Southern California, where RRD is rare, so bear with me. It is my understanding that most roses CAN get RRD, so I doubt there are any guarantees. But I gather that some are a bit more subject to it than others, and that Multiflora roses, or roses that are largely Multiflora might be among the likeliest candidates for infection. "The Peggy Martin Rose" Is a Found Rose, but it appears to have a pretty major dollop of Multiflora genes in its pedigree, so I think I'd be nervous about it if I were surrounded by hedges of infected roses. Roses that are said to be LESS susceptible to RRD include the setigera and bracteata families. Horvath worked with setigera, so his roses might be in there. 'Long John Silver' would be one. (I'd avoid the ones with a Polyantha parent.) And as for bracteatas, well, there are things like 'Mermaid,' and 'Alba Odorata' -- not to mention R. bracteata itself. I'd probably avoid Polyanthas, myself. I hope some of that is helpful. Jeri |
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| Thanks Jeri for the information. I worked most of the morning digging and planting my Peggy Martin. All I can do is hope for the best for her. |
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| Sandy, that's all we can ever do in like circumstances. Well, that, and prayer. :-) Jeri |
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