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Curious About Tea 'Mme Melanie Willermoz'
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Posted by windeaux z8 (My Page) on Fri, Feb 5, 10 at 7:49
| Wondering if anyone is familiar with this Tea. I welcome any opinions/observations. Especially interested in learning if, at maturity, MMW is as small/compact as the few descriptions I've found seem to indicate. |
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RE: Curious About Tea 'Mme Melanie Willermoz'
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| I have a young plant of Mme. Melanie so cannot comment on what it will be like at maturity. Usually you can gain some idea even at an early stage, especially since I have quite a few young teas, some of which have shown the propensity to grow much faster even at this stage then MWM. It has lovely flowers, very delicate of color and of a somewhat different shape than other tea roses. I consider it a very worthwhile rose. Ingrid |
RE: Curious About Tea 'Mme Melanie Willermoz'
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| I am also interested in this one. I saw it on the Roses Unlimited website and emailed Pat about it. She says she has it growing in a pot, that it has beautiful flowers and is a small plant. Not much to go on but it sounds nice. I'm hoping I get a chance to actually SEE it when I go up to RU later this spring. Sorry I don't have more infor than this. The pictures I've seen look very nice. |
RE: Curious About Tea 'Mme Melanie Willermoz'
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| Thanks for the responses. I've yet to find a Tea that works really well in a container, so I think I'm just going to have to see if this one will. |
RE: Curious About Tea 'Mme Melanie Willermoz'
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| Well, then each day upon entering your garden in spring, strike the best muscle pose you've got, announce in your deepest bellow "Thripslayer is here!", and believe that your macho impersonation will convince them that you are who you say you are. An Austrian accent might help. Sherry |
RE: Curious About Tea 'Mme Melanie Willermoz'
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| Sherryocala, are you saying that, in your experience, MMW is more susceptible to thrips damage that other light-colored roses in your garden? I'm wondering how my Viennese mother would have reacted to of your final comment. I think I know. Hmmm . . . maybe I should encourage my cousins to visit during the worst of thrips season, you think? |
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| windeaux, no wonder you're confused. I'm positive that I posted my above remarks on another thread where thripslayer said she took the name as wishful thinking. So sorry, I do not have MMW. No offense meant to you Viennese grandmother. I was referring to Schwarzennegger/Terminator. It's so bad when I have to explain a joke. :(( Deepest apologies for the interruption. Sherry |
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| Sherry -- No need to apologize . . . I was entertained by the vision of my mom goose-stepping thru my garden doing a loud 'macho impersonation' with her big hair while wearing one of those gaudy caftans that used to embarrass the bejesus out of me. She probably could have done a fairly impressive job of it, actually. But I suspect it would have taken more than one gin & tonic. ;) |
RE: Curious About Tea 'Mme Melanie Willermoz'
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| Windeaux: I keep going back and forth on this one. I just wish I knew more about her. I like that she is said to stay small--which is GREAT for a Tea. I like the idea of growing something that is a bit less common. However, she looks like the kind of rose that thrips would really enjoy--but I just don't KNOW. Here's hoping SOMEONE will chime in with some more information. |
RE: Curious About Tea 'Mme Melanie Willermoz'
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| Gardennatlanta, I've yet to find a pastel rose that thrips DON'T really enjoy. Thrips are the bane of my early summer existance because the rose preferences of thrips mirror exactly my own preferences. Thankfully, the worst of the thrips plague doesn't last very long. Don't know if they merely complete their cycle, or if they want to get out of Dodge just before the JBs invade and commence their all colors are game/equal opportunity destruction. Locally, there were greatly reduced numbers of both thrips and JBs in '08 and '09 -- esp in'08. Must be some kind of cyclical thing. No doubt they'll soon return in full force. |
RE: Curious About Tea 'Mme Melanie Willermoz'
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| I've seen a mature plant of Mme. Melanie W. and was underwhelmed, even though Tea is my favorite rose class. The hue was like watered down orange-juice and the bloom lacked the sublime elegance that is to me, a great virtue of most members of the Tea class. I adored a small golden-orange-blend Tea rose plant at San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, for the last 7 years it has remained just under 3 feet wide by c. the same height, with shapely and utterly beautiful medium gold-orange Tea roses in abundance, of good substance, on a plant with a twiggy growth habit. THAT's the short orange-blend Tea rose I want. Sad to say it has no sign, no tag and is not listed in their catalog.
Short Tea rosebushes are in short supply within this class and I wish someone would bring this "Unknown Golden-Orange blend Tea rose" into commerce. It has as good of a saturation of gold-orange as Crepescule, or better.
Lux. |
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| luxrosa, when you talk about a small, beautiful golden tea at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden I wonder whether you might mean Oneto Home Saffron which was offered for a short time by Vintage Roses and which they obtained from the SJHRG. I'll be obtaining this rose as a band in spring and I believe Masha might have one and even posted a picture not too long ago of this rose. Ingrid |
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