I admire roses and the people that have that "special" talent it takes to
produce those wonderful blooms.
I have a few climbers and have just acquired a couple of the Gordon Thomas I
hope to train over an arbor.
I have always loved roses just never had the time it took until this past
year so I am now rekindling my love since
retirement. The yellow Harrison rose picture is beautiful..
The ars.org consultants should be able to help you. I just contacted the one
in my area (Ga.) for advice and she was very
helpful with suggestions on which types and planting this late in the
season. We are already in the 90's and very humid, lots of blackspot to deal
with. Last summer I took a cutting of the wild pink one that grows down
here. This year it is sending out some huge canes and not a sign of the
blackspot. That's what I like about the old fashion ones, very tough and
disease resistant and hard to kill. :0
Elaine
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Picture brings back memories...nice family photo. I was born in '49.
Can't make out the rose. I remember my Mom had a light pink rambler that
she tried desperately to kill even with gas and burning. Poor thing
always came back and is at the old homeplace to this day along with the
wisteria that covers every thing in its path!
Good luck in your quest.
The world rose people wrote right back and referred me to the CR people at
www.ars.org which has a list of consultants for each geographical area. I
sent them a lengthy email, wish I could have been more succinct, but I
also asked them about three other old roses I'm trying to grow, had some
nice photo links for those. One we think is the Harison's yellow and the
other might be a Charles de Mills. I was discouraged about my cuttings
looking bad, but I read on their cutting instructions page that so long as
the stem is still green, the plant still has life so not to give up too
quickly.
I shrink at the thought of killing a rose but don't know the
circumstances. I have one particular red one that has grown from root
suckers when the hybrid Queen Elizabeth died off and was going to dig it
out because the canes are shooting everywhere. So many people have
commented on how pretty it is (that particular one is a huge rambler) that
I am going to try to get it trained on a trellis which will be a problem
coordinating because the house needs painting.
Always something. It will probably take them awhile to sort through my
roses. One is so pretty somebody on a rose forum suggested a grower might
be interested in it.
http://www.white-peacock.com/OldRose2.jpg
Also trying to root this one. None of the cuttings looks good, but the
above one is going a little better; I was able to get longer stems from
that one.
http://www.white-peacock.com/MysteryRose.jpg
The scent of the second one is heavenly.
You've all been great about my rose id problem, and I heartily thank you
all.
Even WITH a photo, it is sometimes difficult. That first one bloomed
completely differently this year I guess because of too mild temps too
early affecting the blossoms. I guess roses do that. Before I got so
interested and infatuated with these heirloom roses (and my childhood
one), my idea of growing roses was to go to the nursery and buy an
expensive, potted hybrid one, dig a hole and mix with don't remember,
water, prune, etc.
From now on I only want to grow own root roses.
Here is what I hope my struggling, scrubby little Harison? Yellow (that is
the closest we can find on that one) transplants from suckers will turn
into one day, although I'm going to try to prune them to make them a
little bushier if I can without ruining them. Most of the ones on the
property where the donor gave them to me are on tall woody, extremely
thorny stems, extremely hardy. This picture doesn't reflect that so much,
but that's the way most of them are.
http://www.white-peacock.com/Helen2.jpg