Also, I heard a couple years ago that someone was going to do a gene test to determine if the rose is Lamarque, does anyone know if this was done and what the outcome was?

Jeri

Haven't seen your name here for a long while.

You sent me Rosaium Uetersen and Rhode Island Red a few years back. RU last year had what looked like a sport. Waiting this year to see if it will do it again. A really beautiful flower!

So what's the story with Lamarque?

Jeri, here's a House Eater photo from several years ago. At that time, the house was empty and the rose was growing through the fence, so I was able to take cuttings. Several rooted, but then croaked on me. :o] The scent is wonderful, very lemony.

Jeri

Jeri

I had it, but gave it up along with most of my other roses when I discovered chilli thrips on them.. It bloomed early on and the scent was wonderful. It reminded me of the scent of "Marechal Niel".

The winner was not the Flores St rose. It was, however, a 'Lamarque' that had been growing in the same location for at least 97 years (in 1987). Welch doesn't report the size of the plant, but does state that it had been badly neglected/abused for several years. There must have been a happy ending for that rose, though. Welch concludes his remarks on that old 'Lamarque' by writing, "--but it soon demonstrated the resilience of the old varieties."

The Flores St rose is/was a remarkable specimen. I wonder if, among American rose plants, it was surpassed in size only by the Tombstone, AZ banksia. Does anyone know?

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The contact information has to be changed on 'your page' for your email addy to appear. But you know how to contact me so if you decide you want some cuttings, or my friend might even have some rooted cuttings which is what I got from her, just let me know and put a contact address within your email.

Or maybe just get a Larmarque since many believe it is the same rose.

Wishing you all the best in roses!

Jeri

Part of the author's harrowing childhood was spent in Tombstone, site of so much gun violence during Arizona's territorial days.

His remarks about what he refers to as the World's Largest Rosebush: "It's my favorite place in all of Tombstone, the only pure thing in this whole town, the only attraction that doesn't depend on somebody dying."

Tombstone, today, seems to me to be so tawdry. But if you get to that little museum at the right time, and open the door out into that shaded area under the rose, the scent of violets wraps all around you.

Even when it was younger and smaller, it must have been an oasis of sanity in a hard world.

Jeri

I always had a crazy dream of getting spaces purchased in the So. CA cities to make greenways that would link cities together so that you could walk or bike and never see a car. Every now and then would be a park. We have the Santa Ana river trail that goes to the ocean but it's not that green. Still, it's something and you can see herons and other birds there. I was reading how people were fighting to save some invasive trees that had grown in the LA river channel. They wanted to remove them to restore the channel in case of flooding but the people loved the wildness of the trees and the birds that came there and fought to save it.