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Iceberg vs. Fabulous- comments please?
"JimS." wrote in message news:Aae2a.76346$be.56636@rwcrnsc53... ANYWAY- I see Iceberg makes lots of people's "Top 30" lists, and I've also seen easy local availability of Fabulous! On www.helpmefind.com I noticed that Fabulous! is descended from Iceberg. Any comments on one vs. the other? (and not, "hey, just get both..."...can't do it!) Hello Jim, "I don't know nothing about Fabulous, Mizz Scarlet", but I can give you an earful about Iceberg. Climbing Iceberg that is. Gorgeous, fragrant, hates to be pruned, it punishes you by holding on to her blooms for dear life if you cut a single inch of her day-old wood. Bees love it so don't plant her near any walk that you may not want to find filled with workers. It is a beautiful rose. I never grew the others because having that one was enough. It was heavy with canes and heavy with blooms, and at least here in Portland bloomed early in June and then again I think it was either September or October in the years we had Indian Summer. Then she went clear until Thanksgiving. I imagine that the others have to be as good or better as the climber, and for the fragrance alone Iceberg is worth the trouble in my book. She can get really big, tho. But I imagine you are going for anything but the climber? If I remember correctly I got it at Edmunds when they still had the greenhouses in Oregon. Can I enable you into an ogr instead? I have seen some gorgeous ones and my favorite still is Kaiserina Augusta Viktoria. That is one babe to die for! We went to Washington last Sunday, all because of JD who show me the way to Bird's and got both Rouge Royale and Taboo, the latter because BH fell in love with it when we moved into this house and while cleaning the back I found cane borers going in and out of it like through a tunnel. A hole as big as a fifty cents piece! So since he loves the color, I am putting it among the old girls and see how it holds its own. What else are you replacing, moving, shovel pruning? Allegra |
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