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Sun, Feb 17, 13 at 13:29
| I bought a band-sized plant of the Austen rose "Mayor of Casterbridge" from Heirloom last spring, and then for one reason or another...it went ignored all summer, and I waited until October to pot it. At one point it looked like it was close to giving up. Well...it seems to have been perfectly happy all winter in its pot, and just this morning I noticed that it has sent up new basal growth and at the edge of the pot, I found a sucker! Which made me wonder...what on earth will I have on my hands when I put it into the ground? What experience has anyone had with this rose? |
This post was edited by zjw727 on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 1:33
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| Sadly, this rose was banished from my garden because it was such a martyr to disease. Shame, since it really was a very pretty flower. You won't get large blooms from this one, a maximum of about two 2 1/2 inches, but they're very pretty. |
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- Posted by jumbojimmy (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 2:56
| I grew Mayor of Casterbrige back in my old house and I really LOVE that rose. It was healthy for me. No diseases. By 3rd year, it was already matured in the ground. It became very huge and Tall (because I don't like to prune mine i want it to develop it's framework first) and the spring flush was magnificent. I had neighbors commenting how pretty that rose was. Mayor of Casterbrige looks very cottagey.. the leaves look old-fashioned and the blooms are small and perfectly cupped with interwined petals - they remind me of The Fairy rose. I might grow this rose again if I could find it here. Sadly for me, I only get one magnificent spring flush that could last for about a month and that was it. Are you sure it's a sucker? It could be canes of MoC popping out from the root stock. It can get quite wide too. |
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