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On the other rose you'd mentioned - Doris Day - I planted this for the first time last year. I pinch off buds in the first year so I think only one bloom was able to sneak past me. It was a nice rich golden color but I don't recall any particular scent. I have high hopes for hardiness of this one, but I know you grow yours in pots and pull them in for the winter so it's not a huge issue for you. If this were the only yellow I was ordering, I'd go with something more reliable like Julia Child or Molineux, but the dark gold isn't a frequent sight except in things like Henry Fonda or other dark gold HTs.
FWIW - not much yet to go on though, as it's a new introduction last year.
Cynthia

Krista - thanks! I'm sold!! As to the others - they're not available here. But I'll keep them in mind. I've thought about Harlow Carr before. Mmmmm.
Marlorena - Candy floss sweet!!! Be still my beating heart/nose. LOL That sounds perfect!!
Cynthia - Doris Day sounds like a no go, because fragrance is key for me. However, let us know on the forum how the scent goes - maybe the scent will come through this summer.
Thanks!
Carol




Pink GAA is a great plant. It will keep blooming all season and the shape of the plant is beautiful and full.
Sister says I should have planted enchanted evening in that place but it's happy by PJPII so I'm not messing with it!
Savoy Hotel and Quietness look so pretty. I wonder if they would be happy in a half barrel. I worry that the tree roots will eventually take over if I planted in the soil. My barrel is sitting on a large round stone to keep roots from coming in the drain holes. That's what happened before when it was under another tree. That tree's gone and I got this new flowering tree. If I have to rake leaves then I want flowers. I have lavender and white roses under the pink crepe myrtle and so I thought to reverse it for the other.
If I had a magic wand I'd have a pale pink raubritter that re blooms like iceberg!



IMHO, if you really want Jasmina,you ought to give it a try. On HMF, it is listed as being hardy to zone 9b. There is no "heat tolerance" rating given, but among the comments, the only thing I can see that addresses the heat tolerance issue is a comment by a poster who says that his one-year-old plant, in hot, dry, difficult soil, wasn't thrilling him. Kim responded to this by pointing out that, under these conditions, many a great rose would indeed flounder,plus, one year is just not enough time to see what a rose can do! Difficult, dry soil can be amended and mulched to improve it dramatically,btw. And, worse come to worse, you ARE in the USA, where as far as I know there are no serious problems with Rose Replant "disease",so if it winds up being totally unconvincing, replacing it with something else shouldn't be too big of a deal.
Might I ask, where did you read that this rose can't really tolerate heat ? regards, bart

Hi Jean,
We must be pretty close to each other. I'm out in Hidden Springs, and just went down Hill Rd today to visit...Edward's! The pop up park was nearly ready to go (on the 24th) and looked great. I still haven't decided which roses to get from them, since I've run out of room. And now to get a new rose, I have to dig out an old one.
You will like Love Song and Twilight Zone (I hope). Edward's roses are 5 gallon and you can have them keep your advance purchases in a separate greenhouse until you are ready to pick them up. By then, they are about half grown it seems like. I think their prices are very reasonable for such huge healthy roses.
Have you ever spent time visiting their outstanding borders? Those are eye popping, free, and better than the botanical garden (I think). We hit Edward's for our entertainment often.
Good luck with your new roses.
Diane

Hi Diane,
My dad's assisted living place is right near Collister, so just a mile from Edwards. It works out good :-) I was able to order Anna’s Promise, Big Momma, Dark Night, Intrigue, Love Song, and Twilight Zone. She said I could pick them up around 4/15 and because I ordered them early I got 10% off. Yippee. I'm way on the other side of N Meridian in the boons.
I used to go to Edwards and take pictures of the surroundings including some of the older houses in the neighborhood.
Thanks again!
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Anyone else with opinions on the above roses?


Seil ...
'François Rabelais' has been a solid plant for me. It does slow down a bit during the hottest part of the summer, but not for long.
Ingrid ...
Many of the roses on Maurice's site were once available here. We lost the availability of so many roses in the last several years.
Smiles,
Lyn

The color is beautifully saturated, bluegirl, which is the one thing I've always enjoyed about it. McGredy seemed to love those colors as evidenced by his Orangeade, Trumpeter, Sherry, Brown Velvet and a ton of his other "fry your retina" colors. Here, as with many of his roses, it tends to be rather "vigorous". I don't know what to tell you to expect in Texas, but I've enjoyed it. Kim

Yes, "fry your eye", indeed! I love the Orangeade I got last spring. It makes me almost laugh each time it's in bloom--it's so outrageously, screamingly, unashamedly, blacklight -poster, ORRRRAAANNNGGE!!! Like a wildflower rose.
Glad to hear COB is vigorous, at least in CA. It's one of those I've looked at for years, but never read any posts re. it. Thanks for the info.

Sigh!!! such beauty. Googling the Bernstein Rose now. Golden Buddha is a deep yellow, but it stays short. It's available from Rogue Valley Roses as a band. I bought one last year. Happy Child is supposed to be a smaller Austin that is a pale yellow. I have not grown this one myself. There are lots of pics of it on the internet.
Nanadoll thanks so much for the inspiration that your garden is .I got Ascot rose Mauve/red .(Sorry a little off thread for good reason) from Palantine due to your pictures and it shot up to a 7 foot wonder covered in blooms in only 6 months!! Pleased to see you posting again.
Best wishes in your search NVL4.
Shops


Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I need to sit down here some night and comb the internet for rose suppliers. Time is a premium right now. I should have started looking in November when life was quieter.
I just moved into this house last Jan. I was able to go to my old garden and dig to my hearts content. I managed to bring at least 25 roses with me and have tried to start some cuttings but of course the rose lust never ends. I have grown at least 500 roses in the last decade and I still have not tired of their beauty.
Valerie

Christopher, I think you have put your finger on it - it is all about gardening styles, not what actual roses you use. My HTs are intermixed with old roses because I like it that way. I let them grow way more wild than someone with them in a formal bed would.
Jackie

ratdogheads makes a good point about some of the Austins having modern-looking foliage. I was very disappointed when I saw the foliage of The Dark Lady. Fortunately this rose was bright red in my garden and I was rather happy to see it deteriorate in the drought so I could take it out.
The point that a few others have made about appearance being more important than origin is one I totally share. Everything should blend together in one area and that matters a lot more than whether it's a noisette next to a hybrid tea. What's most important to me is whether I love that particular rose and just have to have it in my life.
Wonderful pictures, everyone, and they add much to the discussion.
Ingrid


Frances, I'm midway between Huntsville & Birmingham. I do spray my HTs with fungicide for blackspot as needed...usually several times a season. Blackspot on Firefighter had previously been controlled with minimal spraying, but blackspot was worse than usual with most of my roses last year. I probably sprayed Firefighter monthly, and it was still frequently spotted. It never quit blooming because of it, but lost some foliage and what it didn't lose often didn't look so great.





I ended up planting 3 pears, 2 plums and 2 peaches and 1 each Apple, apricot and Plumcot.
The blueberries are moved as well as some clearing, transplanting and new varieties in the cane berries. I still need to get some more strawberries
Let hope we get that promised rain next week
Since I have palm trees and oak trees growing up in the middle of my rose bushes along with some roses reverting back to rootstock, I will be digging those roses out of my backyard bed. That means putting in new soil and amending it with compost, earth worm castings, organic fertilizer, bat guano, etc., before I put my new babies in the ground.
I am also getting plants coming up from the greenbelt area behind my house and am wondering (its either this year or the next) whether or not to put a root barrier the entire length of my back yard fence. UGH! Had to do that in the front yard with the fence I share with my neighbor last spring.
If I do this, that means my narcissis will be gone for the most part along with some other bulb plants as they border the fence. It will also be expensive too.
While I am digging things up, the electrical lights I have on my planters are not lighting up. Time to be replaced. I have tried the solar ones but they don't put off enough light for me.
I also need to get rid of my weaping santa rosa dwarf plum tree and my nectarine tree. The Santa Rosa is diseased and needs to go. It has lived out its life. The nectarine tree never produced good nectarines so I am thinking of getting a fruiting quince for that spot.
I am still waiting to see if I need to replace my varigated lemon tree as the freeze two years ago did quite the number on it. It was a waiting game all last year and I will see how it does in the spring.
My Myer lemon is also not doing well and I may have to move it to a different spot where it gets more sun. It did fine in this location for two years and now not so good. It is in a large pot so moving it shouldn't be too bad.
I will be moving my passion fruit vines to where they get more sun and hopefully more fruit next year. That means moving the veggie part of my garden (these are all in pots).
On the side yard there is a dying Japanese Maple tree that needs to go. I am thinking of replacing it with a purple crape myrtle similar to the one I just trimmed yesterday. It should provide enough shade for my more delicate Austin's that prefer a bit of afternoon shade during our hot summers.
My Pink Muhly grass needs to be probably removed in the front. It borders my and my neighbor's yard. She never takes care of her side and so crab grass has gotten into it and I can't seem to get rid of it. So, looks like I will have to start from scratch again. She just replanted her yard, so I am hoping I can get rid of the crab grass once and for all.
Whoooose! I am tired just thinking about this (although it is exciting) and then there is the every day work of keeping up with things, getting rid of dreaded oxalis, etc.
Next year, I am hoping I can finally afford my patio pergola, but I think that will probably be another couple of years down the road.