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Sat, Nov 1, 08 at 17:33
| A year ago I received a special propagation gift certificate from Kate, Vic's gardenkeeper. With the aid of my friends here I selected a tea that turned out to be very difficult if not impossible to propagate. Upon talking with Gregg I said I'd be happy with Mme. Dore, an elegant Bourbon that I'd admired for many Spring Dirt Days. I finally understood that it was on the availability list and all I had to do was add to it! I can add...So here is my new special propagation times four and I couldn't be happier.
Mme. Dore-perfect pale pink blooms. Monsieur Cordeau another bourbon"bright carmine scarlet overlaid with maroon and violet-very fragrant and long blooming with handsome dark foliage" my kinda of guy Gloire de Chardane Guinoisseau--massive claret-purple flowers with a silken central button eye. and Monsieur le capitainLouis Frere--globular, crimson, very fragrant and full of petals(one of Gregg's favorite roses.) The alternates is Susan Louise. I am just a little bit thrilled at the possibility of more Bourbons and Hybrid Perpetuals--it is always touch and go in a no-spray organic garden but some like Anna Scharsach have done brilliantly, enough to give it another try. Thanks to Joe and Kate who are such an inspiration(I dislike the term enabler and it's implications.)This is going to be great fun. la |
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- Posted by paparoseman z8 WA. Tac. (My Page) on Sun, Nov 2, 08 at 12:12
| Luanne, I have had Madame Dore for years. She is still blooming in our ever increasing fall rains. I had Monsieur Cordeau but she did not like my garden for some reason. Your two picks in the hybrid perpetual class are roses that I have been looking at getting. You should really look at Robert Duncan, he bloomed really good this past summer. Even better than some of the teas. He is also extremely resistant to blackspot and did not develop any mildew in August. Lance |
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| I myself keep looking at the HP Arrillaga, currently on the Vintage custom propagation list. I'm intrigued that it is one of two surviving roses of Father George Schoener, 'Padre of the Roses', and a Bay Area local. It looks like it could be one of yours -- many petaled, fragrant, and soft silvery pink. I've never seen it in person, but it might be another rose you'd like. Rosefolly |
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| I just looked up Robert Duncan and but for the color he sounds like a very likeable rose but I believe my mind is made up, being drawn to those huge purple smelly roses and having a fair amount of carmine pink in the garden already. Thanks for the input Lance, you are always so knowledgeble.You too, Paula but if there is one color I am even more fraught with, it is soft silvery pink and blush roses. I succombed to Mme. Dore for her beautiful form and the proliferation of her blooms |
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