Susan H. Simko wrote:
saki wrote:


My Climbing Souvenir de la Malmaison does exactly this. It hates the
rain---that is, hates it when it comes at a particularly sensitive time
in bud formation. We've had more than our normal share of rain this
spring in Southern California (I noted that the poster who asked about
this problem is also located here), in particular a full-day rainstorm a
couple or three weekends ago.


My Blue Girls did that this year. We were getting a lot of rain early
on and the first flush had brown spots at the edges of the outside
petals of the blooms. The rain has slacked off and this flush of blooms
are beautiful. I didn't do anything in between just decided to wait it
out. The Blue Girls were the only ones that did this, BTW.

Interesting. There are only two roses amongst my 100 plus roses which
exhibit this phenomenon of getting damaged by the rain also; one is Blue
Ribbon and the other is Sheer Bliss. Just two ... I wonder ...

I wonder if it is a function of certain kind of petal weight and colour
combination. All the roses the three of us have mentioned so far - SdlM,
Blue Girl, Blue Ribbon and Sheer Bliss are heavily fragrant as well as
lightish pink to mauve roses, aren't they.

Craig, I have forgotten now - that pink rose of yours that showed the
damage in the picture that launched this thread (of thousand posts?
heheh ...) - what kind is it and is it fragrant? Just curious, thanks.

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Radika
California
USDA 9 / Sunset 15