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| I really like this rose but I have resisted the temptation to get it due to her reported powdery mildew tendencies. PM is the primary fungal pressure where I live and I tend to shy away from real PM magnets, more so if they are once bloomers. So, is Albertine a real PM disaster even if planted where she can receive lots of sun and air circulation? Will she bloom OK despite the mildew or does mildew destroy her blooms and young shoots as I've seen happening with other very mildew prone roses if left unsprayed? Anyone growing her in a mildew pressure region? Apart from the PM issue, is she a good rose for a med type climate? Nik |
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- Posted by kittymoonbeam So CA Sunset 23 (My Page) on Fri, Jan 3, 14 at 13:02
| I'm not having any mildew on the young one we placed on a North wall. Even now it is very clean but it has nothing else nearby and air circulation is very good. |
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| From what I've seen in pictures she's a beautiful rose when in bloom, which I understand is for 3-4 weeks, but I wouldn't plant a rose in a Mediterranean climate that gives so little for the space she takes up. You have a climate, Nik, where you can probably have a gorgeous tea or tea-noisette that will bloom ten months out of the year, for the same outlay of water and care. It would be an easy choice for me. Ingrid |
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- Posted by nikthegreek 9b/10a E of Athens (My Page) on Fri, Jan 3, 14 at 13:59
| Hi Ingrid, In an acre of land, with fence running all around, I can accommodate many kinds of roses. Most of them are repeaters but I feel I would be loosing something if I didn't have any once bloomers. The show they can put on in the limited period they are in bloom cannot be equaled by any repeater, I think. Also, I feel it's good to have to wait for something that happens once a year. I have many plants which only put a once a year show, as well as fruiting trees. I enjoy winter magnolias whose season is oh so short over here, one week and the show is off. Citrus are all orange and yellow at this time, then they will be fruitless, then the spring flush will come and next there will be the fragrant flowers and so on. I tend them all year round just to be able to enjoy a juicy fruit in the winter. I wouldn't want to be without once bloomers in the same way as I wouldn't want to only have evergreen bushes and trees around. I like the marking of time and the changing of the seasons. |
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