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Wed, Oct 31, 12 at 16:54
| Love this color. Thanks! |
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| I do grow it. Its vigourous own root, but it doesn't have that grey tone that I was looking for; its more of white. It also doesn't repeat very well for me, although it is healthy. If you would like to try it, I'd be happy to send you cuttings in the spring. Mine is in partial shade, which may be part of the problem. Tammy |
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| Tammy, Ash Wednesday isn't a reliable repeater. If you get ANY, you're doing quite well. I grew it for a number of years in the old Newhall garden. It was healthy and vigorous, but hated the high heat. You probably have better color growing it in partial shade as the lavender/grey tones do fade out quite quickly in brilliant sun and high heat. Kim |
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| Kim, So basically, I should be happy with it how is it! I think HMF said Spring flush with scattered later bloom. I only get maybe one or two after the initial flush. Mine is only 3 years old and was purchased from RVR as band. It's already about 8-9ft, so it does well is that respect. In all honesty, moving it at this point would just be a major pain anyway. It's intermingled with CL Blue Angel (one of my favorite climbers), and seperating them, without killing them, would just result in alot of cuts and scrapes on my arms! Susan, here's one of the few pics I have of it in our Tennessee sun...not exactly like most of the HMF pics, but you get the idea :) Tammy
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| That looks pretty accurate for what I observed from it here all those years, Tammy. In a cooler climate, it would probably be more "gray" to lavender. I also think in a milder, longer spring climate, it may give what appears as a "repeat", but would probably actually be a longer spring flowering. Banksiae roses do that here along the coast where it remains spring-like from almost February to nearly August. It isn't unusual to find them flowering nearly that length of time, where they only bloom for a very few weeks inland where it's both hotter and colder. You'll probably do best with it leaving it where it is. Who knows? Perhaps it may develop a longer flowering, or even a bit of "repeat" once it matures? Silver Moon is a once flowering rose (supposedly), but in the old Newhall garden, once it grew to the size of a mobile home, it repeated over much of the summer. A lot more is possible than we suspect. It all depends upon how much the climate and conditions are to the rose's liking. Kim |
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- Posted by poorbutroserich nashville (My Page) on Thu, Nov 1, 12 at 9:35
| Yes, Tammy, I would love to try a cutting. Tell me about Blue Angel... |
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| I have Ash Wednesday growing on a south facing porch in upstate NY. In our climate we do see the greyish pink tones and they are quite beautiful. No rebloom at all, but the foliage remains healthy throughout the season. Excellent cold hardiness, so far. It appears to need no protection whatever down to at least -5F. Noisettes, teas and gigantea hybrids for the southern gardeners, and the equally wonderful, in their own ways, Kordesei and setigira hybrids and the New Dawn progeny for cold zones. |
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