On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:40:20 GMT, (Shiva) wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:04:08 -0500, dave weil
wrote:


My best? I have to note this caveat - this rose is only 2 months old
(in the ground).

Belami.

You are not the first I've heard rave about this newcomer.

Here's a pictu

http://www3.pbase.com/image/19804079

Hmmm. I thought Belami was a blend. Yours sure looks p-p-p-PINK! Also,
I have an aversion to quilled petals. Strange, I know. But I just
don't like the look.

Ohhh, this isn't a Shiva rose, that's fer sure. It's p-p-p--PINK.
Sure, it fades to a creamy whitish-pink and all that. But it's PINK.
Not salmon, not yellow-centered, not orange-tinted. PINK. It's as pink
as pink can be. It's Pinky and the Brain. It's Pink, the singer. It's
pinker than pink.

I know that I'm pretty new to this rose thing and all, and that this
might not be the kind of extraordinary performance that some of you
might be used to, but frankly, I haven't had *any* HT that has come
close to thowing the kind of blooms that this one has in its first
season. There are 29 partially opened to fully opened blooms on the
three bushes and another 7 buds yet to open.

I would call that truly amazing. None of my bare root hts has
performed that well the first year.

I've been pretty astounded. My other Belami didn't do that well, but
it wasn't in full sun all day. It was sandwiched between a rapidly
growing Felicia and my house. That one is doing pretty well now that
I've transplanted it next to my side porch. It's still a little leggy,
but it's thrown some really nice blooms this year...

Amazingly, as I write this, three more blooms have gone
"over-the-hill" since i wrote my earlier post early this afternoon.
However, this shouldn't be interpreted as not long-lived. The
fully-opened blooms have been around about a week...

P.S. Get another Europeana! I am getting several. Great rose, a fav of
the voles. I'm like Charlie Brown always falling for that football
Lucy holds for him. But for Europeana, it's worth it.

I'm sure I will. I just won't get it as one of those plastic-wrapped
$3.00 semi-bare-rooted, moss packed supermarket delights with a fuzzy
pic of the bloom on the wrapper.

....don't say it...why did I get them in the first place? Impulse buy,
babee!