"torgo" wrote:
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We hear about it all the time since it's so common as root stock, but
seeing it bloom made me wonder - does anyone here intentionally grow
Dr. Huey?

English rosarian Peter Beales thinks it's worth growing.
I have a couple bushes of it, neither bought on purpose
but the result of the rootstock surviving when its charge
did not. I've read that it is surprisingly resistant to attack
by soil nematodes, though not as tough in that respect as
Fortuniana, the preferred rootstock for Florida. (I probably
have less of a nematode problem than most Floridians have,
what with much clay in the soil and with hairy indigo as the
principal exotic weed on my land -- it's supposed to suppress
nematodes. Also I'm fairly far north, in the middle of the
peninsula when it starts to become a peninsula.) The flowers
are attractive and the growth vigorous, and at least it bloomed
this year, unlike the Leontine Gervais (on Dr. Huey rootstock,
yet!) that just keeps getting bigger and bigger and after 4 years
has not bloomed for me so far.

Mark., one can do worse