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| Where are those lost and forgotten roses? Keep your eyes open. They're everywhere. Here is a rose collected at a vintage building in Nevada City, CA. The building was under renovation, preparatory to being put up for sale, so we had no qualms about taking a cutting from its deserted and dying garden. We call it "Historic Powell House." You see the blooms we photographed in situ, the historic marker (courtesy of E. Clampus Vitus) and the rose as it grows in my garden. I think it is at least "Of The Family Of" 'Baronne Prevost,' a rose which excelled here for a couple of decades. I'm sure glad I've got it. Hope you enjoy it. :-) Jeri |
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| Lovely rose Jeri. Always happy when you rescue a rose. Keep it up! Diane |
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| Lovely rose. It reminds me a little of photos I've seen of 'Président Dutailly', but maybe with a more scalloped look to the petals. Or maybe it's the original 'Amanda Patenotte'... Whoever it is, that's a lovely flower, |
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- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Fri, Sep 19, 14 at 9:16
| That's great Jeri. The Temple HP was in a vacant lot where it was hard to tell there ever was a house in Nevada City. I spied it with my eagle eye, two small canes in high grass. It must have been mowed down for many years. It lived another 5 years there after we found it and then disappeared. |
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| That is a beautiful rose, so glad you were able to save it! |
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| That's such a sadness -- when a rose that has survived on its own for as much as a century is finally lost. In some places, if we were unable to get cuttings to root, the only thing left is photographs and memories. So, when one DOES make it -- I'm really happy. |
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| I'm eager to get into an area where there ARE more of "them" around me. The usual I encounter now are the "these roses have been here thirty years and it's time for them to go." Also, the usual is, they turn out to be Simplicity, both pink and white. I found the tags around the bases. Kim |
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| HURRY! As the climate becomes drier, old plants are dying. We must find them soon, and propagate them, or many will be lost. I observed this rose for years (and yes we did get cuttings) but now, I am told, the mother plant is gone. The culprit here may have been gophers . . . (God, I really hate gophers!) Jeri |
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- Posted by mendocino_rose z8 N CA. (My Page) on Fri, Sep 19, 14 at 18:50
| You are right Jeri. It is getting harder for them to survive. I am thankful for all the ones that have been saved. |
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