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lms wrote:
Fire Meidelland

Fire Engine Red, some people say. ...

I liked the name, of course, and just want to believe.

It is better to believe in names of roses sometimes.

Geranium Red, my own root rose from Amity Heritage Roses, produces roses
that are really the red of the Geraniums. And AHR has been a very good
place for this rose, travelled all the way from San Jose HRG to AHR's
current home in (way) northern CA and came back all the way here. Folks
said that this red is very difficult to "place" in a garden, and I have
it in a grouping of the coral Cl Margo Koster, white Bouvardia (of
wonderful fragrance, a great flowering plant for this climate, am sure
it is not hardy enough for you
(http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...ongiflora.html))
and a little red supermarket miniature rose. I was not trying to "place"
it, but that was the place for it, against a white wall as the
background. I don't believe in "placing" except ti suit the plant's
grwoing needs and my needs to live and work aound it.

Nice colour, Geranium red, a good rose.

I have Pearl Meidiland, it's not there yet, but might get there.

You like that pearly sort of shell pink colour, right. It works well for
me too. I really like it in Souvenir de St. Anne's. Am not sure if SdSA
will survive in your climate, but it is a great rose, especially for its
colour and fragrance and sturdiness and staying the right size and so on.

Pink Meidiland, what a great rose, though==coral pink, white eye,
very orderly, not a wild thing, no dieback.

Coral? I like the coral colour a lot, but in the Star Roses' site, this
rose looks red in the picture.

From where are you getting this?

See, you failed to answer that. From where are you getting Fire Meidiland?

And also, why aren't you getting Fuschia Meidiland? It is darn
pretty - and since it is mauve, you can call it a coffee rose, no?

Fuschia now, it does sound interesting.

Aye, it does, doesn't it. That colour will work very well mixed with
red, I have noticed, at least to my taste. I have a hedge of Eugene de
Beauharnais that actually produces (what I call) Fuschia coloured
blossoms like this http://www.uncommongarden.com/r/euge...auharnais.html
besides a hedge of very easy-going Red Simplicity. It is all interpersed
with tall and creamy Oriental Trumpet Lilies, and it is all very
pleasing together.

maybe next year, I have a firm handle on the insanity. have plenty
to look at. heh.

Julie here (handle Unique Too) says that wisdom and roses don't go
together, but I reckon she might be a tad younger than me ;-). I am also
getting there, sort o, slowly.

I want them both, I think. Better than growing miniatures ...

miniatures--planted so many, have so few. tough life around here.

Who are the survivors and is there a correlation between their colours
and their survival g?

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Radika
California
USDA 9 / Sunset 15