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mollyjanea z5 RI (
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Tue, Sep 25, 12 at 13:28
| i saw some enormous fairy roses in a new england garden this summer, but the owner was unavailable to answer questions re: how they got so big. they were gorgeous. mine are pretty, but not stunning like these. never have seen them look this big and lush. i have some ideas, but does anyone know more about this? |
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RE: huge fairy rose
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| There is a climbing sport of The Fairy that runs 20' wide with support. Judging from reports here, there may also be a sport that makes canes about 6' long. Also if you let canes of the bush form tip-root into the soil, the plant can spread pretty wide. But my plant of the original bush form, which is 25 years old, is only about 2 x 2-1/2', with moderate pruning each year. |
RE: huge fairy rose
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| My sister-in-law has a giant one too. It grows in partial shade in No Cal. Zone 9, but it gets even hotter where she is than here. Hers was about 6 ft deep by 5 ft high by 10 ft wide the last time I saw it. Climbing sport makes sense. Jackie |
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| Huh. I have 2 that are about 3.5-4 feet tall and 5 feet wide each, with light pruning. But I didn't buy them as The Fairy; they were passalong plants from eBay. I would swear they are The Fairy, so that's very interesting. If anyone wants cuttings of whatever mine is, give a yell. They set little red-orange hips, too. |
RE: huge fairy rose
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| The Fairy is a small compact plant if grown on Dr. Huey--it gets much bigger it on its own roots (cuttings). |
RE: huge fairy rose
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Meredith, (Hi!)
If your plant sets seeds abundantly, it probably isn't The Fairy as The Fairy seldom sets seeds. The ones I've had here, in Louisiana and Texas all might set four to ten seeds per bush by fall of each year, and they were mature plants several feet across and as tall. There are lots of multiflora-related pink polys out there that do set seed (and Lady Carolina sets seed with abandon although she's a lighter pink, you might have offspring from her.) |
RE: huge fairy rose
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| Hi, Ann! It had never occurred to me that mine aren't The Fairy, but they probably aren't, huh? :) How interesting! I always wondered why folks didn't talk about the cute hips, lol. |
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| There sure is a climbing Fairy, bred in the 90s I think, known as Superfairy. There is also a sport of Excelsa too. Think the breeder was Hetzel. The catalogue name for Superfairy is Helsufair. My neighbour has a huge one. |
RE: huge fairy rose
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| Midsummer in Rhode Island. Are you sure that the big bushes weren't ramblers going into their first bloom? The other thing that distinguished the Fairy (and her big climbing version May Queen) is that they both bloom significantly later than almost every other rose in the garden.
Along the shore line of the Sound, multiflora doesn't bloom until early July. Inland multiflora-related roses may bloom even later. Could the rose that the O.P. saw that so enchanted her be the classic Dorothy Perkins, the rose that made Jackson and Perkins a household name? |
RE: huge fairy rose
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| Meredith, I would love a cutting from your rose. You can e-mail me via Garden Forum if you're still offering:-) |
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| about 8-10 yeara ago I ordered 3 roses sold as Fairy Roses from Jackson and Perkins. I thought they would be nice little mounding bushes but they now snake way up into the shrubs on either side. I think they were called Crystal Fairy, Lovely Fairy and I forget the 3rd one but they are a pinky red, a lovely soft pink, and white. Perhaps these are what you saw in the New England garden. And what is the difference from the Fairy Roses I thought I was getting? I really like these and fortunately have a place for them, but I am curious about them. I cut thousands of these each summer, a spray at a time and they never run out of blooms! The darker rose red one is blooming away up in the top of a Dawn Viburnum bush now by my back door. |
RE: huge fairy rose
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| Apparently the Fairy can escape like magic. I bought a no-name at Lowes earlier this year. (The tag said "rose".) But i'm near certain from the blooms that it is Fairy, and it has begun to reach out of its pot and try to grab people. |
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