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Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
"Radika Kesavan" wrote in message ... , clear yellow. ... Any suggestions much appreciated. Sunsprite, Sunsprite, Sunsprite! Here, take a look: http://www.helpmefind.com/sites/rrr/pl.php?n=6077 Out here, it does not so much repeat bloom as blooms constantly. And it needs a lot of sun, in our climate, a minimum of eight hours was recommended by the locla nurseryman from whom I bought this rose four or five years ago. Anyone have any idea of hardiness in Sunsprite? Is anyone out there successfully growing it in a colder clime? I've heard raves about this rose for years. Laura |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
Hey Laura,
I grow it w/ no die back or damage. Really tough rose. Really yellow too. -- Theo in Zone 5 Kansas City "R & L Porter" wrote in message ... "Radika Kesavan" wrote in message ... , clear yellow. ... Any suggestions much appreciated. Sunsprite, Sunsprite, Sunsprite! Here, take a look: http://www.helpmefind.com/sites/rrr/pl.php?n=6077 Out here, it does not so much repeat bloom as blooms constantly. And it needs a lot of sun, in our climate, a minimum of eight hours was recommended by the locla nurseryman from whom I bought this rose four or five years ago. Anyone have any idea of hardiness in Sunsprite? Is anyone out there successfully growing it in a colder clime? I've heard raves about this rose for years. Laura |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
"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 |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
R & L Porter wrote:
"Radika Kesavan" wrote in message Sunsprite, Sunsprite, Sunsprite! Here, take a look: http://www.helpmefind.com/sites/rrr/pl.php?n=6077 Out here, it does not so much repeat bloom as blooms constantly. And it needs a lot of sun, in our climate, a minimum of eight hours was recommended by the locla nurseryman from whom I bought this rose four or five years ago. Anyone have any idea of hardiness in Sunsprite? Is anyone out there successfully growing it in a colder clime? I've heard raves about this rose for years. I know that gardeners grow it with no trouble at all with dieback in Chicago, which is what - Zone 5? I see that Theo has given you an answer from first-hand experience which is far, far better than my reported answer. Be warned though - it is a very spritely yellow, which I happen to love, but some folks find the clear yellow colour grating. -- Radika California USDA 9 / Sunset 15 |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
It has been slow getting going
this year. It just sat there while rose mary rose and america were leafing out and getting buds. Then suddenly there were new leaves two weeks back and the first flower opened today. Talk about a sprint. America & rosemary rose have still not bloomed. -- Theo in Zone 5 Kansas City "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 |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
On Mon, 12 May 2003 15:16:24 GMT, "R & L Porter"
wrote: "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 One thing that I noticed about GT during its first season was that it tended to droop around 2pm in the afternoon in full sun. in the middle of the summer. I pretty much had to water it every day to keep this from happening here in Nashville (zone 6b) Some of this could have been transplant shock and I'm interested in seeing what happens this year, now that it has a season under its belt. I've heard that it's susceptable to this and my limited experience backs this up. I'd try to arrange some sort of midday June, July and August dappling shade if at all possible. Meanwhile, GT is looking good for me at the moment. |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
"dave weil" wrote in message ... One thing that I noticed about GT during its first season was that it tended to droop around 2pm in the afternoon in full sun. in the middle of the summer. I pretty much had to water it every day to keep this from happening here in Nashville (zone 6b) Some of this could have been transplant shock and I'm interested in seeing what happens this year, now that it has a season under its belt. I've heard that it's susceptable to this and my limited experience backs this up. I'd try to arrange some sort of midday June, July and August dappling shade if at all possible. Meanwhile, GT is looking good for me at the moment. Thanks for the advice. That is a problem I have with many of my roses in the front bed. They get sun pretty much all day and nearly until sun set at 9 or 10 pm in the summer. This problem is compounded by our long winters and short growing season. By the time the roses are in bloom it is hot, hot, hot. July is the peak of our summer and the peak of the roses. There is no kind, gradual introduction for them. Several just wilt after a day or two, particularly my gallica rose Tuscany Superb. I have considered moving it again, but this would be its third move in three years and I want to give it another shot this year to see if it can establish itself. Does GT shatter as easily as I have heard? As bad as Heritage? Laura |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
"Radika Kesavan" wrote in message ... R & L Porter wrote: "Radika Kesavan" wrote in message Sunsprite, Sunsprite, Sunsprite! Here, take a look: I know that gardeners grow it with no trouble at all with dieback in Chicago, which is what - Zone 5? I see that Theo has given you an answer from first-hand experience which is far, far better than my reported answer. Be warned though - it is a very spritely yellow, which I happen to love, but some folks find the clear yellow colour grating. -- Radika California USDA 9 / Sunset 15 At the moment I have only one yellow rose - Goldbusch - and even that is not a pure yellow. I also have Morden Sunrise, but that too is not a pure yellow as it is edged in red/orange. (This is not counting my species roses). It is time for a nice, strong yellow. It would be a real test for Sunsprite to survive our looooooong winters. That is something that I have only begun to realize. I may be in the same zone as many people farther (or is that further?) south than me, but the shortness of our growing season does not always make this an accurate comparison. Rain again today. At least my grass is finally green. A few of the roses are tentatively putting out leafs, while most are still breaking dormancy. Only 5 weeks to the first bloom. What's blooming in your garden, Radika? Laura |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
nice, strong yellow. It would be a real test for Sunsprite
to survive our looooooong winters. That is something that I have only begun to realize. I may be in the same zone as many people farther (or is that further?) south than me, but the shortness of our growing season does not always make this an accurate comparison. It does seem bizzare doesn't it. I had a friend who worked in Paris for a year and he came away from the experience feeling deeply deeply depressed. Apparently Paris is on the same line as central Canada or some thing but in winter there is only about 8 hours of sunshine and even in summer they never get that bone liberating deep sun & heat. I can only shudder about london & britain. Many of my roses have finished their first flush though many are still in the middle of their flush. -- Theo in Zone 5 Kansas City |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
R & L Porter wrote:
"Radika Kesavan" wrote in message ... Be warned though - it is a very spritely yellow, which I happen to love, but some folks find the clear yellow colour grating. At the moment I have only one yellow rose - Goldbusch - and even that is not a pure yellow. I also have Morden Sunrise, but that too is not a pure yellow as it is edged in red/orange. (This is not counting my species roses). It is time for a nice, strong yellow. King's Ransom is a wonderful yellow, as Mack also mentioned it, but he says that it did not survive even his New Mexico (Zone 6? 7?) winters. Too bad. You would really like it too, it has foliage that is made of pure deep green steel. Gorgeous rose, but may be fit only for California? It is also grown by every gardener who loves hybrid teas in my native city in Southern India. Needs no spraying or any coddling in that hot and steamy climate; pure green leaves, absolutely stunning in contrast with that yellow. What is nice too is that as long as it is half-open, the blossoms are high-centred and when the flowers open fully, the petals curve every which way revealing a really old-fashioned beauty. It would be a real test for Sunsprite to survive our looooooong winters. That is something that I have only begun to realize. I may be in the same zone as many people farther (or is that further?) south than me, but the shortness of our growing season does not always make this an accurate comparison. Aye. I can well imagine. Zone 5 South-Western Ontario is very different from your Zone 5, isn't it. Rain again today. At least my grass is finally green. A few of the roses are tentatively putting out leafs, while most are still breaking dormancy. Only 5 weeks to the first bloom. Hurray! We have had no rain in Jan, Feb and may be even March, but then, in April we have been breaking all kinds of records. Wreaks havoc with many things including the bees pollinating our cherries, plums and apples. Oh well, better than a drought. What's blooming in your garden, Radika? Almost everything, Laura, excpet the peonies and the hibiscus (the tropical ones) are still sitting with tightly balled buds; the deciduous hibiscus (Rose of Sharon) are all leafed out, gorgeous looking but no bud setting yet; they are more a late summer / early fall bloomers anyway. Oh, the Gallicas are not yet blooming, though the Albas finished their shows. With this weird weather we are having, the specie roses and the semi-species (is there such a classification?) such as Rosa foetida bicolor and Rosa banksiae are all blooming at the same time as all the HTs and Austins. Among the Austins, Othello is ahving the best show I have ever seen. For two years in a row, I have chosen to not prune Othello in winter at all, though I cut long-stemmed flowers for the vase from him every now and then, and he seems to really like it. The mock-orange and the citrusses finished their fragrant flowers a while back, and the Chinese Jasmine went before that. The bearded Irises are blooming over a very long period this year. The perennial sweet peas are beginning their big show, some of the clematises are blooming (Niobe, for example) but not others (Polish Spirit) though everyone looks very happy. Some polyanthas are going gang-busters (Cl. Margo Koster and Excellenz von Schubert, for example) but the spray Cecile Brunner is demurely holding all her buds still shut though the nighbour's bush CB is filled with blossoms. OTOH, when the spray CB opens up, it is going to be a spectacular show! Cass gave me an own-root Gruss an Teplitz when I met her at the Spring at Guadelupe Park Festival this year, and I am cherishing it as the treasure that it is purported to be. I have not yet decided where I ought to plant it, so I am nurturing it in a pot. She told me that it misbehaves in a pot, but Man, if *this* is misbehaving, I would love to see what it would do when planted in the ground! She was also kind enough to pick up an own-root Lavender Lassie for me from one of her local nurseries during our earlier get-together, and I am still pondring where to set it in the ground. There are other uncertainties in life which makes me want to defer these decisions till those factors clear up. OTOH, it is sort of like waiting for the waves to subside to bathe in the ocean (that is a probverb from my mother tongue, btw). And you? How is life treating you? It sounds like they et you out of school for the summer may be? How did you fare in the class of the professor whose test for law students is the proper use of the comma? It is very nice to "see" you around these parts once again. -- Radika California USDA 9 / Sunset 15 |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
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Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
lms wrote:
says... wrote: Hey, better mung you addy. Some Asian porn site harvested my email addy and now I'm spewing spam all over the internet for anyone who wants to grow a bigger penis. (Mine's big enough already.) The annoyance is the bounced messages come to me, hundreds a day. So it's Granada and Voodoo there now. Big guys both, pushin 15. 15 what's? Years or feet? years. they're in the glade, in the glen now, but still trying. Had years of glory getting here, that's why I'm not so frantic over their decline. There are places I remember, right? :) I should probably get another Granada and plant it in the sun, that one's as good as they get. Granada's always been the junior, 7-8', Voodoo 9-10'. I need to plant Granada in da ground ASAP, and I don't know how big. 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 (except it has scent). 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. I came away with the big four HT's with perfect foliage and nice looking plants: Rosemary Harkness, Painted Moon, 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. The Lady was pretty, a bit insipid, but perfect foliage, only the size of florries at that point and thus likely victims of neglect here until they learn how to grab some attention. http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eberndoo...s/FrameSet.htm Hard to believe they don't mulch. And what they did mulch was some dyed chit that was sort of ghastly orangish brown. 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. |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
"Cass" wrote in message .. . lms wrote: says... wrote: Hey, better mung you addy. Some Asian porn site harvested my email addy and now I'm spewing spam all over the internet for anyone who wants to grow a bigger penis. (Mine's big enough already.) The annoyance is the bounced messages come to me, hundreds a day. Cass just as a tip I'd recommend inserting the anti-spam block into the server address rather than your user ID. That way it is the spammers server that gets hammered by return mail and not your server. What happens is the bot harvests your e-mail and sends a message but you server replies saying this user does not exist. But since the bot knows the server exists it escalates the response till some human figures it out and snares your correct address. -- Theo in Zone 5 Kansas City P.S. This advice is from the guy who gets 20 spam messages each day that purport to grow various portions of his anatomy. |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
In article ,
says... lms wrote: says... wrote: Hey, better mung you addy. Some Asian porn site harvested my email addy and now I'm spewing spam all over the internet for anyone who wants to grow a bigger penis. (Mine's big enough already.) The annoyance is the bounced messages come to me, hundreds a day. I only get about 25. 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. :) 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. The Lady was pretty, a bit insipid, but perfect foliage, only the size of florries at that point and thus likely victims of neglect here until they learn how to grab some attention. 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, 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. http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eberndoo...s/FrameSet.htm Hard to believe they don't mulch. And what they did mulch was some dyed chit that was sort of ghastly orangish brown. 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. m |
Sunsprite hardy? was Repeat Blooming Scented Yellow Rose?
In article , lms
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. |
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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