Fragrant Plum for a sorta climbing Purple smeller, or feller ?
"Radika Kesavan" wrote in message
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Bob Bauer wrote:
Radika said:

Double Delight in a nonscientific poll ... west of the Rockies,
it is fragrant and east of the Rockies, it is not.

So do you think that it could be a humidity thing? Smelly when dry?

That might be so if all else was equal. All else is never equal, is it -
there was no control set in the "poll" for from where folks bought the
rose. Mine is from J & P, and it is very fragrant. Both of them ...

So, sorry but do not know the answer to that. I would have thought the
humidity made the fragrances more intense, for the heavily-scented
tropical blossoms do smell heavily out there, but, who is to say; there
are too many uncontrolled variables.

The 5 or so roses among the many that Bob grows that he can
predictably have people be delighted by their scents

What are the other four in your garden?

Number one would have to be 'Frederic Mistral'. Always killer. I
hereby require you to get this one, Radika..... g (and anyone else
who is listening...... just go get one)

LOL! Yeah, the monster rose is wonderful indeed. If I ever can make room
for it, I would really like to have it. My husband liked this rose a lot
too when we visited the Portland ARS test garden, and that usually
inspires me g.

The thing is, if I make a room for another Romantica, I would really
wnat Peter Mayle. It is a gorgeous rose and quite fragrant too.

'The Prince' 'La Ville de Bruxelles' (any Damask for that matter)

Oh, yeah - I forgot; I have Ispahan, and that is a mighty
strongly-scented Damask.

'Sonia Rykiel'

How is this one doing for you? Mine is third year in the ground and is
not too vigorous in growth, and am seriously considering digging it up
and getting rid of it. I agree, the blossoms do smell wonderfuly well
though. Sigh ...

'Purple Passion'

Yes, you have spoken highly of this one before. I would like to meet it
in person one of these days. Unless I am tempted by it at the bare-root
season next year ... how big does it get for you?

Tradescant

Sometimes very fragrant, sometimes not at all


Gertrude Jekyll

Sometimes very fragrant, mostly slightly to moderately fragrant


Don Juan

Fragrant 1/2 the time


Tamora

Fragrant 1/4 the time

Do you see any correlation between roses' fragrance and amibient
humidity since you go from very dry to very humid ("monsoon?") times in
your place?

Florence Delattre

Fragrant when it blooms, which is not that often.

Ah, well. FD blooms much more than Sonia Rykiel for me. Too bad.

Others that are fragrant more often than not for me: 'Mirandy'
'Fragrant Cloud' 'Sweet Surrender' 'Sutter's Gold' 'Summer Fashion'
'Abraham Darby' 'Graham Thomas' 'Barbra Streisand' 'Fragrant Apricot'

Barbra Streisand, the rose, does not appear to do too well around here,
or so I am told. I have not met Mirandy, but the rest are quite fragrant
to my nose.

Just got Fragrant Cloud this year, and I know this will be one of
those by and by. This is one that you think fragrant too, right?


Sometimes you want to glue it to your nose, other times, nothing. Go
figure.

Interesting. We saw this at the Portland test garden, and both of us
could smell it some 10 feet away on that cloudy, cool and humid day.

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Radika
California
USDA 9 / Sunset 15