L. Odier

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~Christopher

My goodness - I just love your Munstead Wood!!! Heavenly!! I tried to get that one this year - but they were all sold out.

Your Louise Odier - how does it bloom?? Does it bloom as often as a hybrid tea does - or is it just two bloom cycles?

I'm agog over your Sunsprite - talk about neon!!!
Carol

Christopher -- I started gardening about 4 years ago, and my oldest roses are 4 years old. Your garden is only a few years behind. Unlike your garden that is well designed and thought out, mine is purely a result of my plugging whatever suited my fancy at any particular moment into whatever place I can find. So it is all impulse, no organization or planning. But I am learning as I go along and having a lot of fun!

Carol --- Each of my Louise Odiers (4 and 3 years old respectively) has a second, far smaller flash in the fall, and scattered (very scattered) blooms through the season. It does not bloom as often as a hybrid tea. One of them does better than the other in terms of overall heath and bloom quantity. The one that does better gets afternoon shade. For the most part, I think them mostly as once bloomers as what few blooms they have in the summer got fried quickly in the summer sun and the "flush" in the fall is nothing to write home about. I think that this might be a rose that would enjoy cool weather and lots of water. I don't know whether it would be hardy in your zone, but here (6b) it is tip hardy. My impression is that, the cooler the weather, the more vibrant/layered the color is.

Summereve -- my two ZDs are 4 years old bands, growing as bushes. They get "pruned" a bit by "my" groundhogs each spring. Must be because they are thornless as these things don't seem to bother my other roses.

Kate