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So gorgeous!! And her scent really is wonderful.
Mine is one of my favorite roses, and it's hard to choose, so that says a lot. I'm so happy to see her with buds already :) Last year the polar vortex during horrible winds nearly killed her, and she had to re-grow everything above ground! She got a few nice canes since then, but this year is when I'll get to enjoy the blooms again :)
She's probably hardier than I make her sound, too, y'all. Mine was grafted, not buried, and wasn't protected. This year I had her buried to go ownroot, and I did protect her base all winter. Her canes did great, and we dipped as cold as last winter :)
I'm very impressed with 'Munstead Wood', but any dark red rose is going to get fried in hot sun to some extent. A dark red is a dark color that is going to absorb a lot of heat and dessicate--the nature of the beast. MW is darker than WS2K and Darcey Bussell.
If Red Eden (Eric Tabarly ®) isn't too tall, I love him. He's very shrubby, so keeping him a shrub is easy, at least where I am. But watch out if you are in one of those areas where balling is a big problem, because his petals are already slow to open. He's got a very globular, very double bloom form (that I love).
Memorial Day, Beverley, Frederic Mistral, Double Delight, Firefighter, Barbra Streisand, New Zealand, Evelyn, Sonia Rykiel, Ebb Tide (afternoon shade), Felicia (afternoon shade), Big Purple, Perfume Delight, Stainless Steel, Crimson Glory, Granada, Fragrant Cloud. These all grow superbly and are flower machines in my zone 10 garden with long hot and dry summer heat.
I'll second Granada, and throw in Gold Medal. GM seems to have more fragrance to my nose. Austin's Tamora (top photo) smells terrific, I think, and has done brilliantly here in hot'n'dry land (SoCal). That picture was taken during a spell of triple-digit days last year. Gold Medal's in the foreground of the bottom photo, Granada in back of it.
Jerri Moore, this is an old thread. You might want to start a brand new thread to get better answers.
Exposing seeds to cold is called stratification; some seeds need it, others don't. It simulates what the seed would experience in nature. I can't help you with more than that. Some people say rose seeds need stratification, some people don't. It might also depend on the type of rose.
Another thing to keep in mind is that seeds from a hybrid rose won't be the same as the parent. Because of the complex hybridization of roses, they do not "come true" from seed. Only species roses (those found naturally, that existed before humans started hybridizing) come true from seed.
True hybrid teas like 'Savoy Hotel' are not very attractive plants to have straddling your sidewalk. 'Mother of Pearl' is bushier but would still give you the type of cutting roses that you want.
'Julia Child' would be fine. So, for that matter, would be 'Knock Out'. The size can be controlled to about 4' x 3' wide by pruning to 2' in spring. But maybe they are planted too close to the sidewalk, or you just don't like them.
If it's been warm, like 60 and above, for some time now where you are then yes, I'd say the one that hasn't leafed out is dead. Sorry. Even very good nurseries can have duds. I have a potted Peace, not even a bare root, I got from a very good local nursery that I think isn't going to make it either. It happens. Most places will replace plants that don't live within a year. If you can call them maybe they will replace it for you.
I like that Black & Blue salvia too!
It's been a lovely spring here in western Missouri, I would have been pleased with one survival from this group so two is just a bonus. I hope your Peace recovers, the ones at the rose garden are beautiful. We got a Angel Face last year that I was convinced was dead earlier this spring. Pruned it back and gave it some time and now it is looking great. I'm still working on the patience that loving roses seems to require...
The scent is missing from my roses and I'm so disappointed! I have Rose de Rescht, Comte de Chambord, and Zephirine Drouhin and the David Austin Rose, Falstaff...and only sometimes if there a faint whiff of scent. I thought I was losing my sense of smell, but I can smell the aromas from my lavender, thyme, rosemary, mint and marjoram and anise hyssop (and my apricots which are stewing as I write!). So it's not my nose. Maybe my garden's too dry. Anyway, thanks for the information, glad to see it's not just me & my garden, & glad I joined this site.
I agree with all the above. Often when I take cut roses to work I cannot smell much of the fragrance while I was in the car but once I take them out of the car the strong fragrance hit me in the face straight away. My roses here in hot dry climate smell their best in autumn. Spring is less good and summer is the worst. There are a few roses that continue to impress with their strong fragrance in hot dry summer though - Firefighter, New Zealand, Memorial Day, Felicia, Ebb Tide (in the morning) still manage to pump out lots of scent at 40 degrees C.