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Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
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wrote: In article , says... lms wrote: says... wrote: Average to big. I don't think it would mind at all if you pruned it, I just never have. Other than dead wood--it and Voodoo both have always done the deadwood winter thing. Granada's a Hybrid Tea you can spot from the foliage alone, those crinkly petals. I thought it was trying to mildew. Whew. Glad to know it's that way. Already in its second flush. I'm sitting here looking at a vase of 6 blooms. My family is ectastic I finally grow a rose that looks like something they can buy at Safeway hahahaha (except it has scent). Granada was definitely my first fave rose. I suppose I take it for granted too much, I'm jaded into looking for a bloom that beats all before it. It's a tough job for any rose, but getting *real tough for this particular unit. You need better. I need different. At the thought of Granada's leaves, it brings to mind the best Hybrid Tea foliage of any of em--the first time I saw it I thought it was just me. heheh. But that'd be Silver Jubilee, the Cocker rose. Magnificent, real dense, very shiny, deep green. I grew it a number of years ago, grew into a stout unit, was most puffy-chested about it and then one day one of the canes turned *brown and the next day three more and just like that it was dead. I've always planned on getting another. And the flowers are killer, that's the kicker. I'll check that out. I know I saw it in the gloom of the UK summer but don't remember being in love. How tall? Gotta be big or it will get weed whacked. easy 5 feet, though at the time it suddenly croaked it was till heading up and out. I am not kidding you though, it's a beautiful bush. I came away with the big four HT's with perfect foliage and nice looking plants: Rosemary Harkness, Painted Moon, I didn't have Painted Moon long enough to erase it from the map. I liked the name, didn't know the first thing about it, had never even heard of it. But how much do you need to know about a rose named Painted Moon? Speaking of names, I think I got more jazzed about losing Moviestar than any rose in memory, and I'm telling you, that includes some heavyweights. Strange, the attachments. And don't aks me the color of Moviestar, it's a mystery. My Joy and Eden. I have RH, PM and Eden own root, and Eden is the one that is growing like corn. Painted Moon is doing okay, and Rosemary Harkness was such a weak little 2 inch tall nothing that the nursery gave it to me. Hasn't died yet and will probably make it. I don't think I'll ever find My Joy, another Norman rose. I know this is exactly how it works out here. Like I don't even remember exactly where I planted Painted Moon. Actually I'm just assuming it's dead, I'm not really positive. When I cleaned out the raz patch this winter, I found two minis, Sweet Chariot and another, and neither has a very good excuse for being alive. You grow Rosemary, That would be overstating our relationship. Wanna grow. Gorgeous peachy gold and great scent somewhere else. http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eberndoo...es/RosemaryHar knessClose.jpg I grow Ena Harkness, which reminds me of a rose, a long journey, and a rocky crag. Astonishing beauty in unlikely places and in small doses, it's right up my alley--a two-caned wonder since day one a dozen years ago, this one has the good fortune of being camouflaged until bloom time by the forsythia and the pussy willow. I don't go looking for that brilliant shining, it just happens. 1946. I forgot. I have Ena too. Smells as good as Crimson Glory and hasn't died as fast. Miserable little POS on its OR. Could be one of my first budding adventures in a year or two when the rootstock takes off. Okay, work with me here. See if you can check out this foliage in the pictu http://home.earthlink.net/~cbernstei...s/Eden1949.jpg I know, I know, it's 1950. Eden's a Peace baby by Kordes but the foliage has nothing, zippo, zero, in common with Peace. The bloom I'm looking at, fully open, is a good 7 incher a week old. A keeper. choice. when I was watching the pic unfold the first thing I thought about the green leaves was Peace, I swear. I hadn't read the next lines. Deep green, leathery, that's what your leaves look like--and what Peace is famous for, actually. I don't see the lush foliage on the Climbers that I see/used to see on the HT at the southeast corner of the house-- I could always tell that one was positively as happy as a rose could be. I still prefer having the enclosed porch though. If that's what Peace is famous for, what they hell did they sell me??!?!? It was crappola, soft, thin tender so-called leaves, as bad as any bourbon. I gotta study Peace in a few gardens to convince myself you speak the truth. So maybe I got a hackroot Peace lookalike. I don't honestly remember. It flowered but every leaf rusted and mildewed all at once. Blew away in the fog wind right before I hacked it up. Safrano lives there now. Now that's how bad that Peace plant was. Safrano has it beat. |
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Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
"R & L Porter" wrote in message ...
"Theo Asir" wrote in message news:1b29ff20925c8ab3e2d5df2e39be2f10@TeraNews... Hey Laura, I grow it w/ no die back or damage. Really tough rose. Really yellow too. Thanks Theo. No die back whatsoever? I'm impressed. It does look extremely yellow in many of the pics I've seen. Not for the faint of heart. Might go nice with my yellow lilies. My next rosy purchase (and first of this year) will be Graham Thomas. The local nursery (as in within spitting distance of my house) is carrying it for the first time. There are three or four more they are carrying that caught my eye that would fill those empty holes in my flower beds quite nicely. I'm going to keep my eye open for Sunsprite. Laura I happened to see your post while looking for something else and wanted to jump in about Sunsprite. I used to live in Buffalo, NY (Zone 5) and had a Sunsprite for 8 years. It was very vigorous and withstood the last two winters I was there (2000 and 2001) with no problem. Those two winters had 5 and 7 feet of snow, respectively, beginning in November and December, and we didn't see ground until Spring both years. No problems at all. It is a dark yellow, gold really, and I planted a row of Stella D'Oro daylillies near it. Both were a striking yellow with bright green foliage. This was planted on the far side of my pool, so the strong yellow showed up nicely from a distance. In the same bed, I planted a Graham Thomas, which is more of a soft, butter yellow. Because it's a much subtler color and a delicately shaped flower, I often wished that I'd planted it where people could see it up close. |
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