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Posted by gardennatlanta z7atlantaGA (My Page) on

Sun, Mar 21, 10 at 20:17

I was looking at some roses on HMF just now and came across a Tea rose breed in 2003 by a cross between Duchess de Brabant and Francis Dubreuil. The photos and the description sound great.

Does anyone here know anything about this rose and especially where one can be located?

Thanks.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sweet Passion on HMF

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Posted by bellegallica 9 (My Page) on
Sun, Mar 21, 10 at 22:11

YUM!

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Posted by ingrid_vc Z10 SoCal (My Page) on
Mon, Mar 22, 10 at 13:53

Oh my goodness, what a glorious rose! This rose just has to become available. I love the extremely full flower, just packed with petals, and the wonderful color.

Ingrid

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Posted by sherryocala 9A Florida (My Page) on
Mon, Mar 22, 10 at 22:00

Absolutely gorgeous, but is he stretching it by calling it a tea since we're pretty sure the Francis Dubreuil in commerce is the HT Barcelona? Just a thought. It does LOOK like a tea. I'd love to get a whiff.

Sherry

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Posted by bellegallica 9 (My Page) on
Mon, Mar 22, 10 at 22:37

My thoughts were the same as Sherry's. He'd have to call this a hybrid tea--though in the early style. And with those two parents it must smell incredible!

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Posted by zeffyrose_pa6b7 6b7 (My Page) on
Tue, Mar 23, 10 at 9:53

It looks delicious

Florence

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Posted by labrea 7NYC (My Page) on
Tue, Mar 23, 10 at 23:20

Yep delicious!

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Posted by gardennatlanta z7atlantaGA (My Page) on
Fri, Mar 26, 10 at 11:22

I got a return phone message from John Starnes, the breeder, yesterday telling me that Sweet Passion is not in commerce at this time. I really appreciated the call from him. Maybe one day, it will be available.

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Posted by sherryocala 9A Florida (My Page) on
Fri, Mar 26, 10 at 12:23

I was afraid of that, but then at least some poor rose in my garden is very happy because she/he :)) won't have to be homeless. Oh, how easily my head is turned. I should be more faithful to my brood - starting now.

Sherry

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Posted by ingrid_vc Z10 SoCal (My Page) on
Fri, Mar 26, 10 at 16:29

I have the same problem Sherry: firm as a rock in my determination to buy no more roses and weak in the knees when I see pictures like that. I shouldn't even look, but fat chance of that ever happening!

Ingrid

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Posted by gardenbuddy (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 3, 13 at 13:57

As the breeder I consider 'Sweet Passion' to be an archetypal Hybrid Tea, not a Tea. Moments ago I got a tragic e-mail from Brent Dickerson who grew it for years.....a few months after he mailed cuttings to Ashdown Roses per their request (they oddly threw them out without even trying to root them) it died! And the vast number of ones that Weeks trialed both own root and on Dr. Huey, that Tom Carruth was going to mail several each of, ALL ended up in the burn pile due to a careless mistake by his then field manager. So it seems to have truly lost! I am so sad as the perfume was heavenly and the color shift from winter to summer was amazing.

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Posted by floridarosez9 10 (My Page) on
Tue, Sep 3, 13 at 17:50

How heartbreaking.

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Posted by lou_texas 8a N Central TX (My Page) on
Wed, Sep 4, 13 at 16:15

It's hard to imagine the disappointment you must feel. Such a glorious color. Wish we could have smelled the fragrance. Lou

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Posted by odinthor z10 CA (My Page) on
Wed, Sep 4, 13 at 19:18

It was a wonderful, distinctive, rose to have in the garden, with its good foliage and unique steely color. But not only was it averse to being propagated, it also would literally--and I do mean "literally" *literally*--go into shock if even the smallest number of the most remote twigs were cut off for propagation purposes. After I saw how the plant reacted to cuttings being taken, I would allow a full year before another try--and was very reluctant to put it through the experience that next year, knowing that the plant would resent it. I was aghast one year, having sent off the requested cuttings with high hopes, to be informed that the worker who opened the box simply discarded them, evidently not realizing that these were the cuttings for which special arrangements had been made. The next year, as the plant declined, I managed to find some promising material, and sent it off in high hopes that finally at least perhaps one rooted cutting would result. The mother plant then quickly dwindled away completely; and it was with a sad heart that I heard that the cuttings--well looked after this time--were simply refusing to root. Such is the tragedy of 'Sweet Passion'.

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