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| I won my very favorite rose (this month) Bouquet Parfait in the VCRS auction! Hurray! I have a new spot, very large, especially cleared out for it. VERY EXCITED.
Thanks, Jeri! Renee |
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| I'm so glad! That's a lovely rose -- Cass's images of it make me jealous! Jeri |
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- Posted by meredith_e 7B Piedmont NC (My Page) on Sun, Mar 13, 11 at 0:23
| Yay! I love that rose. |
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- Posted by organicgardendreams z 10 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 13, 11 at 1:09
| Congratulations, Renee! I just looked it up on HMF and Bouquet Parfait is truly a beauty. Cass' photos of it are amazing. Lucky you! Enjoy and please, let us participate by posting photos of it when it is in bloom :-)! Christina |
Here is a link that might be useful: Organic Garden Dreams
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| Every picture I've seen of this rose has been beautiful. Congratulations! I'm sure it will be stunning in your garden. Ingrid |
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| Awesome!! I'm jealous that you got to be at the auction. I had to do my bidding through a proxy. The good news is that I got four of my six choices: Red Wagon, Torch of Liberty, Pink Clouds, and POOKAH!!! I wanted that last one BAD. (I used to belong to a theater company and 'Harvey' was probably my favorite play that we did.) It feels like Christmas, doesn't it. |
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| Connie, the BEST part was coming home with nine fewer roses than I donated! LOL! Kim |
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- Posted by isabelleolikier Belgium (My Page) on Mon, Mar 14, 11 at 15:55
| Lucky you ! That rose is wonderful. Look at it in my garden : http://a-little-bit-of-paradise.over-blog.com/article-eclosion-d-une-r
ose-bouquet-parfait-67842586.html Did you know that this rose was born in my country ? (Louis Lens) |
Here is a link that might be useful: A Little Bit of Paradise
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- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Mon, Mar 14, 11 at 21:25
| It does, Connie! I bid by proxy too. I picked it up today at Jim Delahanty's (sp?) and he gave me some good advice about planting and caring for it in gopher country. I also saw a pretty climber at his house called Ava's Rose that I am going to look into for the front of the house where I guillotined Lady Banks. Thank you, Isabel, for the link. I didn't know that. Kim, you crack me up. That's how I feel about irises. Renee |
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- Posted by jimofshermanoaks 9/21SoCal (My Page) on Wed, Mar 16, 11 at 2:36
| I would be interested in knowing how well 'Pookah' does in the Virginia climate; I plan on entering it into the Biltmore trials next year. JimD |
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| Thanks Renee, I can understand that about Irises. They grow with such wild abandon. My mom had bazillians she got from her mother. My sister still grows them. I do love them, I just hate having to trash so many to keep room for other things! It was funny listening to Bob Martin theorize how Bouquet Parfait arrived here from Belgium. He speculated that a well known SoCal rosarian smuggled it in as she traveled to Belgium often and knew Mr. Lens. Well, she didn't smuggle it in but she was the "mule" between Mr. Lens and my garden. He wanted a number of things I grew and as there weren't the restrictions bringing things INTO Belgium there were bringing them back, she literally carried at least three large garbage bags of things from here to there. As a "thank you" I received a proper, legal shipment of wonders from his nursery, including Bouquet Parfait, Walferdange, Rosy Purple, Violet Hood, Yellow Lights, R. hibernica, Verdi, Ragtime, Jacqueline Humery, Ragtime, Jet Flame, Belgian Lace, a few others whose names escape me right now, and my absolute favorite, Pink Mystery. These were all imported legally and held in the required two year quarantine in West LA by a mutual friend who was the perfect steward of such treasured plants. Mr. Lens knew my passion for obscure species as we shared it and I'd sent him things like Minutifolia. He used Stellata mirifica to create Pink Mystery and it is gorgeous! I shared it far and wide in these parts to keep it around, but it seems no one was able to maintain it as even I lost it eventually. This is one I would dearly love to grow and play with again. He created some splendid roses and had a great deal of imagination. I'm enjoying getting his Mutabilis hybrids going now as I've been breeding roses with it and have a few seedlings of interest from it. A friend is propagating Plaisanterie for me, and my cuttings of Patricia Beucher and Apricot Bells appear to be taking. I hope those I shared with friends of Souv. de Rose Marie make it as mine aren't. I completely understand the sentiments about Bouquet Parfait. And, to my nose, in my garden, it DOES have fragrance. Kim |
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