Julie wrote:
Radika Kesavan wrote:

I second the same "excellent choices!" exclamation about Purple Buttons.
PB took a little while to find its feet in its first year around here,
with may lackadaisical rose care, but when it settled down and in its
second year, it was quite fabulous.

Thank you. PB has been on my wish list for a long time. I keep
trying roses of this color without much success, but I think this one
will work out here. At least I'm hopeful. The key will be its BS
resistance or lack thereof. If it can keep its leaves, I'll be
thrilled! The scent and number of blooms are secendary.

Good luck. Out here, before it settled down, it suffered from rust, in a
sunny and open spot, which is very unusual. Every time I removed the
rusty leaves, new and vigorous ones sprung up very quickly. Needed a lot
of water, and finally, settled down beautifully with lots of leaves,
flowers and everything. I will be very eager to know about its blackspot
resistance. Since it is a gorgeous rose, I wish for your sake that it is
able to hold on. It might take more than a year for it before you can
given an honest assessment of whether or not it is a keeper.

LOL! Depends on whether the other people in the household like their
lawns as much as we like our roses, I suppose.

I see you understand my situation very well.

Heh Heh. Right.

Gruss an Aachen

That't good news. Small and bushy, I need to choose more roses like
this, instead of the really BIG ones that require so much space. But
I really, really like big roses!

Same here, Julie. Big, tall, beautiful and handsome, very productive,
self-supporting, disease free - I might as well be describing what I
would like to see in an adolescent girl or boy :-).

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Radika
California
USDA 9 / Sunset 15