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| I propagate roses for fun, and am planning to root 3 or more plants to donate to the Old Rose Celebration raffle. I'm so grateful for this wonderful event. I'd like to know which roses are likely to sell the most raffle tickets. are there any roses on this list that you would you be likely to buy a raffle ticket for? ( 12 tickets cost only 5 bucks this year). I'll take three cuttings from each of the 3 most popular roses voted for here. I figured I'd post here since folks who read about Old Garden Roses are likely to have similar tastes in roses as those who attend the Old Rose Celebration. Thank you for your time. Old Garden Tea class: Tea- Noisettes --- Polyantha; Hybrid Tea, classic cl. Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria cl. H.T. red H.T.; Souvenir de Claudius Denoyal all of the roses listed above are disease resistant in our no spray garden. Lux. |
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| My favorites would be Reve d'Or, Cl. Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria, Mme. Jules Bouche and Souvenir de Pierre Notting. How nice of you to do this and offer some of these beautiful roses for so little money. Ingrid |
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| I myself would vote for Souv de Pierre Notting, but mostly because I lost mine and would love to replace it. Perhaps the rarer roses would be a better choice because more desirable, though I have seen beautiful examples of quite common roses bring great prices at auctions. A Chevy Chase in full bloom is the one that comes to my mind. For example, I'm thinking that MAC is widely available in the Old Rose world, besides being a mildew magnet in much of the Bay Area. |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Sat, May 24, 14 at 0:56
| I would buy tickets for any of those roses. Not a lot of help right :) |
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| I would ask you to sell a rooted cutting of Kaiserin or donate the proceeds to the Celebration. I cannot find her anywhere... |
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| I have many of those. Even OGR lovers are missing a few. I just gave some cuttings of Reve d'Or to a fellow OGR lover that didn't have it. She gave me a bunch of ones I didn't have. My Rose Society does a rose raffle each year. I've came home with many roses from there. This was the first year I donated one. I SP my Mary Rose and now another member has it and is happy with it. |
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- Posted by anitasacramento z9/14 CA (My Page) on Sat, May 24, 14 at 9:50
| We have a gorgeous budded (by Burling when she was at Sequoia - she now owns Burlington Rose Nursery) Kaiserin August Victoria in the Sacramento cemetery. We've had no luck propagating one own-root. If you can get a healthy plant started, I'd definitely throw in some raffle tickets. I've never seen the climbing form, but the bush form is a wonderful rose. Westside Road Cream Tea produces huge, citrus-scented creamy flowers and frequently repeats. That's my other pick on the list! |
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| I would definitely go for the cl. Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria, Mme. Jules Bouche or the R. moschata -- not that the others aren't highly desirable, too, but I already have, or have had, most of the rest... |
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| Cato's Cluster. My band from Vintage never made it. It would also be wonderful if you could grow some plants just to sell at the Celebration/not as a raffle and proceeds donated to the organization. Diane |
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- Posted by muscovyduckling 8-9, Australia (My Page) on Sat, May 24, 14 at 22:19
| I would buy about 1000 raffle tickets for Secret Garden Musk and Annie Laurie McDowell, I desperately want to grow these two but they're not available in Australia :( Not much help to you, but I need to vent about this sometimes! But perhaps, on that note, the roses that are least available in commerce where you are would sell the most tickets. |
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| Rosa moschata Westside Road Cream Tea Lady Hillingdon I wish I could buy tickets! Rosefool |
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| All good choices but in addition to them I would add: Westside Road Cream Tea Marie Van Houtte Definitely Souvenir de Pierre Notting Sonbie |
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| muscovyduckling, I wonder if you are aware that many of our garden plants arrived in the New World via the luggage of beautifully dressed ladies, distinguished by their lovely manners and "customs smile"? Plants do have a way of arriving where they are wanted. I had Secret Garden Musk Climber; it is one of the most exquisitely beautiful roses I have ever seen; I can't imagine how the name of so fine a rose could have been lost. |
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- Posted by muscovyduckling 8-9, Australia (My Page) on Mon, May 26, 14 at 21:41
| Haha Nastarana, a couple of my rosey friends in Aus and I have discussed taking to the high seas and becoming pirate smugglers for just such a purpose. We did agree it would be worth making an appearance on the reality TV show 'Border Security' if we could get our hot little hands on this one. As I've said before, I do love this forum, but it can be a cruel and unusual form of torture for those of us not in the States. |
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| Thanks so much for all of your feedback, Rosefolly, you're right about M.A.C being a p.m. magnet here and easy to find so I've scratched her from my list. The idea of taking cuttings from the more rare roses is a great idea; I'll take 3 cuttings from cl. Florence Bowers' Pink Tea while I'm at it, along with 2- 3 of the following. Westside Road Cream Tea thanks again |
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| I only just saw this thread, but I think you should just do cuttings of the Climbing Kaiserin- you did such a good sales job there, only a crazy person wouldn't want one! Mme Jules B is a beauty, but I would happily buy tix for almost any of the roses mentioned. Clementina, Florence, Westside, Le Pactole- oh, dear, I'm about to list them all... The thing is that even if people already have a variety, if they really like it, they often will buy another, so I think that whatever you donate is likely to go like the proverbial hotcakes. Props to you for your donation! |
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- Posted by organic_tosca 9/Sunset 14 (My Page) on Sun, Jun 8, 14 at 19:56
| Totally ignoring the fact that I have no garden, I'm voting for the ones I love: Mons. Tillier, Mrs. Dudley Cross, and Lady Hillingdon. And since, as mentioned above, I don't have a garden, I can also totally ignore the fact that two of those three would need a good bit of real estate. You are a good and generous person! Laura |
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