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one of my favourite roses
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 |
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one of my favourite roses
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. |
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one of my favourite roses
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"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 begin 666 openingnight01July2209.jpg [Image] end Yes, perfect. Almost looks like velvet. -- 8^)~ Sue (remove the x to email) ~~~~ http://www.umbrellahatsociety.com/ http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ |
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"joevan" wrote in message ... 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 |
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"Suzie-Q" wrote in message ... In article , "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 begin 666 openingnight01July2209.jpg [Image] end Yes, perfect. Almost looks like velvet. -- 8^)~ Sue (remove the x to email) ~~~~ http://www.umbrellahatsociety.com/ http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ Thanks, it does look like velvet doesn't it? I was happy the photo captured that, although it's actually even more velvety looking than it appears in the picture. Regards, Rick A |
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