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How White Will These Be?
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Posted by meredith_e 7B Piedmont NC (My Page) on Wed, Feb 3, 10 at 1:49
| I am doing a white, blue and yellow garden where I want the whites to be very white :) I have other places for these if they aren't totally white:
Mme. Joseph Schwartz
Rose-Marie, Austin
Bouquet Tout Fait*
*Does anyone know much about this one? If he shows pastels, I'm putting him beside Blossomtime. Good?
Thank you! |
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RE: How White Will These Be?
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| Mrs Joseph is not stark snow/appliance white, but she is definitely white, not leaning to cream or even ivory. She is one of the roses I could not live without. Her fragrance, her daintiness, her reliability. A lady! I don't know about the others. |
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| For me Mme. Schwartz varies from season to season but right now in our cooler weather the center is definitely a sort of salmon pink, and I don't think I've ever seen her when she is completely white all the way through. Even now in January she has a lot of new growth with some blooms and many tiny buds. Ingrid |
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The really pure whites among roses are the Rugosas; while I haven't studied the subject, my impression is that most other white roses are more or less tinted, which I like.
Melissa |
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| Thank y'all!! Yes, I should have said after spring. Spring is always a bit of a surprise :) It gets hot enough here so soon that most of my pale roses fade out. I don't grow many whites at all except singles, but count on some fading! Let's see, my Clothildes don't get as pale as white. So whiter than that. And any suggestions for great whites are always welcomed! I've been such a sucker for that pale, pale pink as a 'neutral' but I'm expanding this year :D |
RE: How White Will These Be?
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| Frau Karl Druschki, Kron Princessin Viktoria, Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria, a nice little gem Flocon de Neige |
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Pure white and beetle proof, and sometimes evergreen foliage through winter: Rosa bracteata. Wicked thorns but doesn't take that much to control it in our colder climate.
(Nice to see you posting again, Meredith) |
RE: How White Will These Be?
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- Posted by kaye 7a AR (My Page) on
Sat, Feb 6, 10 at 22:35
| Hands down here..Kron Princessin Viktoria, no thrips damgage to speak of and stella the rest of the year. No balling in wet weather and pure white. |
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