"joevan" wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 15:57:38 -0600, "Radar" wrote:

This is the hybrid tea rose 'Opening Night', which is one of my
favourites.
Every bloom is just about perfect, it's fragrant, and it's the most
amazing
true, saturated red colour with none of the bluish or magneta shades many
red roses have. I've also managed to get it to survive through two
winters
in a climate that should be too cold for hybrid tea roses....Canadian zone
2a. The secret is to plant them deeply. The graft should be at least 3
or
4 inches below ground level and it doesn't hurt to mound extra soil over
the
base before the ground freezes. This is only one of 12 tender roses that
have survived through two winters for me, and this past winter and spring
were really, really nasty!

Regards,
Rick A

Good for you. That rose is so perfect, and the leaves, that one might
suspect it to be arttificial. Wow.

Thanks! It's a gorgeous rose that I would highly recommend to anyone who
wanted to grow a red rose. Whether it's widely available though, I don't
know.

I have to admit, I did edit out a white spot that was on one of the petals,
but it wasn't a flaw in the rose. It was a tiny piece of something that I
didn't notice until after I had taken the photo, otherwise I could have just
blown it off the petal. The rose itself is as flawless as the photo shows.

I've been really lucky so far this year with few disease or insect problems
(knocking on wood). I've had to remove a couple of leaves from some of the
roses that were showing the beginning signs of black spot, and one had some
rust starting, but I couldn't spray anything if I wanted to, because we've
been having rain every second or third day this summer. Which makes it all
the more remarkable that everything isn't covered with fungal diseases!

Regards,
Rick A