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| This has been bugging me for a couple of years now. There is a rose bush at Bohner botanical gardens here in milwaukee wisconsin and his name is Queens Knight. He is tall really tall like 20 feet i can tell he has been there along time he grows up into the trees. He is in rose garden but off at the end mix in with the trees that separate the roses from the peonies. He looks like a cross between Zephirine Drouhin and a william Baffin. I have called the gardens but they cant answer and tell me they will have someone call me back but that never happens. I have even gone in there to talk to someone but they are just workers and never know anything. It really bugs me i want that rose! Even thought about going and getting me some but that just isnt me. When spring come ill post a picture i know its hard to guess with just my words but thought somebody may know or heard of the name. Thanks for reading me. Julia |
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| Ok i just searched again and that name came up ( i haven't looked for it for couple of years. It said that Louis A. Stoddard bread it in 1980 its parent was Don Jaun (thats the only name they gave). The color doesnt match and this thing was huge! I will find out who she is and hopefully with your help Searching Julia |
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- Posted by roseblush1 8a/Sunset 7 (My Page) on Sat, Jan 5, 13 at 0:18
| I've added an expanded REFERENCE for the rose from the American Rose Society's MR 12 online database to the rose page. It is a cross of 'Don Juan' x 'r. laxa. Smiles, Lyn |
Here is a link that might be useful: Queen's Knight on HMF
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| You know i don't know how i feel about this. I have been thinking about this rose for about ten years. i stop awhile back couldn't believe that after i posted it half of what he was came up then with in a couple of hours you found the rest. Which brings up more questions. Why isn't he known or available . He looked really healthy and would make a great climber in the colder zones (way bigger then William Baffin or at least the one i seen). Ill have to look more into this breeder and see if i can find more answers that way. If any one has this or knows more about him i would love the info. I must have him now :-). Thanks roseblush Julia |
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| Ok what i found was he was an amateur rose breeder that has now passed (r.i.p.). He used the Bohner botanical gardens for his test roses. I will go over there this spring and ask around i would hate for all his work to not live on. I hope they will help me out with some cuttings of his work. Thanks Julia |
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| So William Radler breeder of the knock out roses must of worked with him . William was the director of the Bohner botanical gardens until 1994 So now all i have to do is get ahold of William to find out more about Louis's Roses. I know he lives within a half an hour from me and the men that put in my outdoor fireplace worked in his gardens putting in showers. Now to put this all together. With his success i am pretty sure he may be under armed guards. He has no facebook page but i may have an address pretty sure its his maybe just write him a nice letter. If anyone knows for sure how to contact him could you let me know? I am feeling strange about this cause i am sure this man has strangers bugging him all the time but at the same time i think he may be able to answer all my questions and more. What do you all think? Am i a crazy stalker or just a crazy woman that wants some answers? Always Julia |
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| no, of course you aren't (a crazy stalker). Write him a letter - fellow gardeners have an almost genetic predisposition to help, advise, share and communicate with each other - at the very worst, he may be too busy to respond immediately but I have found other gardeners, even revered and famous ones, to be keen to share knowledge and expertise. |
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| I have an email in to the garden club in the city were he lives and asked them to forward it to him. They had a garden walk last year and his yard was one of the ones on the list so i know they work with him and have his info. Hopefully i will hear something back. |
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| I too love the QUEEN'S KNIGHT rose that grows at Boerner Gardens in Milwaukee, WI In the 1990, another gardener who was admiring that rose told me that QUEEN'S KNIGHT have been bred by an amateur gardener from the Milkwaukee area. It had never been in commercer or offer for sale. The breeder gave the rose to Boerner Gardens The man who was telling me said that the Boerner Gardens staff had given him some cuttings of QUEEN'S KNIGHT. One had rooted and he had the rose in his own garden. This was in the 1990's. I also have this rose, from a friend of a friend. Like the QUEEN'S KNIGHT bush you saw at Boerner, it is a lovely rose. But it can grow to be 20 ft tall in 10 years. Blooms heavily in the spring, and sporadically after that. Boerner Gardens has a second bush of QUEEN'S KNIGHT inside the rose garden, along the outer edges where they have their climbing roses. Those are pruned frequently and get more sun. The QUEEN'S KNIGHT bush inside of the main rose garden produces 3 flushes of flowers a year. I haven't been that successful. |
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| i need some clippings! |
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