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| Hi everyone! I saw some lovely roses on heirlooms website under their category of their own roses. I was hoping to maybe order four to add to my garden this year. Which ones do you grow? Care to share pictures? And any advice regarding them is welcome. I would love to hear what you'll have to say about them.
I am considering Rebecca louise Fragrant masterpiece Magnificent perfume Pink morning Possibly Joan Fontaine Thanks so much! |
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| Lily, I've only heard that Heirloom Roses sends out smaller sized bands, so maybe if you have them delivered later on in the year they will be larger. They still will have to be wintered over in your garage for the winter if you are in zone 6a, I don't know about 6b. Usually you can't plant them out this year if they are small plants unless very well protected. This year we are supposed to have another drought so make sure they are moist and not given full sun on super hot days. |
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| I only do well with Heirloom roses if I pot them up in gallon pots and keep them there until they are big and strong before transplanting out. I have probably lost 1/2 to 2/3 of the ones I bought until I Figured this out. Now they mostly all make it and have brought me many interesting and beautiful roses. I especially like Heirloom's own roses bred by John Clements. Of the ones you listed I have tried Joan Fontaine. IT was beautiful the first few years then began to dwindle as did all the other roses in this spot. I moved my English Roses but did not move Joan...I keep meaning to try to start a cutting off of her instead of moving the whole big plant, but I think I will try moving the plant this year because I want to grow blueberries where she is. She is along a fence Line and I suspect voles have eaten some of her roots. Anyhow, lovely creamy cupped flowers that covered the bush at her prime. |
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| lizalily, I have always supposed that Clements' roses were acclimated to PNW conditions. Do you happen to know if he, or if Heirloom now, has ever tested his roses in other parts of the country? I know he used David Autsin's roses as parents in a lot of his breeding. Are the Heirloom originals in any significant way an improvement over DAs roses? |
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| I don't know whether the roses have been tested in other parts of the country. I do know that where they are grown has a lot of weather extremes. It has drizzled on me when I have been there in June but it also gets quite hot and dry in mid summer, and winters can be either moderate or quite cold, varying from year to year. I have found the Clements bred roses to be quite disease resistant with shiny firm leaves for the most part. They also are mostly quite fragrant...really nice roses. I did loose a very pretty Robert Clements through unknown causes. Perhaps it froze that winter but its first year it was beautiful. That is the only disappointment I can remember. I usually buy my David Austin roses from them so I can get them own root, and they have done very well for me. Even when they freeze back during unusual weather conditions, they make a nice come back from their roots. Some of my most prized roses come from the carload I bought our first year on this property 13 years ago. They are the beautiful Kordes climber "Summer Wine", Graham Thomas, Clair Matin, Dr Robert Korns, Flower Girl, Portlandia, Jans Wedding (Not so good foliage), Louise CLements, James Galway, Darlows Enigma (Grows HUGE!), William Morris (Another very large rose), and a number of pink Austen roses that have long since lost their tags. Oh yes, love Teasing Georgia, Windrush as fence climbers! I have purchased many David Austen roses in the years since, because Roses on Dr Huey don't like my very acid soil. I especially Like Benjamin Britton, Jubilee Celebration, Tamora, Queen of Sweden, the Shepherdess. I think my beloved Abraham Darby is the only one I have banished to a back corner due to black spotted awful leaves. I have bought a few own root that failed to take hold after a long trial time. Blaze Improved is one that after 5 years has one meager root and a spindly 2' growth...I guess it just doesn't like the soil here. (I wanted it for sentimental reasons, because my mother grew it up both sides of her porch from as long ago as I remember. I tried to grow it to mingle with Fourth of July. |
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- Posted by kittymoonbeam Sunset 23 CA (My Page) on Sun, Mar 4, 12 at 12:29
| I have Lexi, Peach Silk, Fragrant Masterpiece and Mag. Perfume. Perfume is the short one and has very sweet rosy perfume with a sporadic bloom for me. Masterpiece is a big tall monster with a spring only bloom for me. Very strong Myrrh which to me is like licorice X paperwhite narcissus. Be sure you like Myrrh before you go for this one. Lexi was slow to establish but now is getting to be a good size bush with long cascading canes so I draped it on a trellis. Not sure it should be grown like this but I'm just working with what it's giving me. Has been an off an on bloomer so far but to be fair it has been small and only this year has it grown large enough for me to expect greatness. Peach silk the climber has been the best of them all. It blooms with a great profusion in spring and keeps putting flowers out here and there through the year right into November. Maybe it's only at its best in warmer places. I didn't see it on the list. I never grew a climber as fine as this one. I'm in So. CA near Disneyland where we have a long warm season. Mag. Perfume really likes the cooler months so I would think it might be your best choice. The bush seems slow to regrow after pruning so I would give it space to just grow how it likes without having to cut it. The flowers are always pretty and the perfume is top quality. |
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