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Sun, Apr 8, 12 at 12:40
| Last August, I asked for help on dealing with a gigantic rose bush. At that time it was 15' tall, scraggly and appeared to have bloomed very little. I was told it was a climbing rose and I was encouraged to prune it. I did and it's just begun blooming and has many new buds! But I still don't know what kind of rose it is. Here's a link to pics from last year and of this year's new growth and flowers. Any ideas on what kind it is would thrill me! Thanks. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Giant Rose
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- Posted by kentucky_rose Z6 KY (My Page) on Sun, Apr 8, 12 at 13:17
| Is this Altissimo? |
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| Dr Huey? |
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Sun, Apr 8, 12 at 13:28
| Looks like Altissimo to me too (leaves do not look like the doctor). Livinginoz - if you go to Help Me Find/roses, you can look up roses by name. If you type in Altissimo, you will get a description. Then in the upper left hand corner there is a button "photos". Click in it and you will find several pages of pictures of Altissimo, so you can compare it to your plant. Have fun, and let us know what you think- Jackie |
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| That definitely is NOT Dr. Huey who is more dark purplish red and the overall bush has a somewhat different look. Altissimo sounds like a good guess to me. Kate |
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| If it is Altissimo, that rose is a tall, stiff, and upright grower. While it can be forced down onto a trellis, it can also be a self-supporting shrub. For the latter, it should be pruned each spring to leave canes of all different heights, which is exactly what you did. (Yay!) If you prune to a uniform height, it only blooms at the top. |
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| Looks like a happy 'Altissimo.' But to confirm, I'd check to see whether 'Altissimo' was released in OZ, and if so, under what name. It was a Delbard rose, so could well have gone to Oz, but might have been released under a different name there: Alternate listed names are: � Altus � Climbing Altissimo � � DELmur � Sublimely Single It was released in the UK in 1966 as Sublimely Single. (And that's a great name, too, I think.) Jeri |
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- Posted by livinginoz 7 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 8, 12 at 17:37
| michaelg - that's exactly what it is! A tall, stiff, upright rose! In fact, in my post last August, that's exactly how I described it! Upright and leggy! So glad to know I pruned it correctly. I left a few of the larger canes 'just in case' and it's working beautifully! Everyone here was has been so helpful! Thanks!!! Oh, and jerijen - my Oz is the Ozarks of Missouri (not Australia! :-) |
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| Looks like Altissimo to me too. Here is a picture of one I took outside a local store. Really tall stiff canes that supported itself to the top of the 10ft. column. Clare  |
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| 'Altissimo' does get monster fat canes. Might be. |
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- Posted by livinginoz 7 (My Page) on Mon, Apr 9, 12 at 16:41
| Thanks, Clare. That's definitely it! I'm glad to see different ways to prune it, too! |
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