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I live near Cincinnati and was wondering what the most vigorous and possibly unique roses to the area are. Did those old German's bring any over on the boat? Wondering what would be an authentic kind of schrub or climber for an old German neighborhood. Show blooms are neat, but I like that all summer long kind of color and scent. How old do your Germans have to be? Several of the century's greatest rose breeders are/were German, one of them was even unofficial reich rosarian before he successfully separated himself from the situAtion, as they say. Roses did not stop being bred in Germany during WWII, and it's interesting to me to read which ones were introduced during those years. I think Trier is in Germany, no? Trier, then. The Rose Trier. It's small and white, with a yellow center, and literally blooms by the thousands, and there is never a time, from first flush to fall, when it does not have blooms on it, this is not any kind of exaggeration. And it's immense, it's a statement, a huge round ball that says ROSE like no other I know and the Fragrance is Intense, and can fill a whole garden--EAsy. People will gawk at it, there will be car wrecks. I got mine at Heirloom Old Garden Roses, along with Sparrieshoop--or did I get that one from White Rabbit Roses?-- which is another entirely appropriate German selection. Kordes is either from Sparrieshoop, or does business there. It's quite different from Trier, big pink single blooms, not densely bushy like Trier--you could call it a climber, you could call it a rambler. Hundreds of blooms go the length of the long canes, blooms profusely. 2 warnings on Sparrieshoop. Very beautiful pink but it fades to white in about 19 hours and will literally jump at any opportunity to get blackspot. It's a problem I ignore--every few years, when El Nino(a) turns New Mexico into a sweaammp, this one acts like a terrorist. If you actually need a rose of color, then go here http://www.helpmefind.com/Roses and do a search on Kordes or Tantau--you can list all roses by either artist, I think-- and you can find a rose with a Name or anything else that suits your fancy. There are just *so many to choose from. Dortmund is another Kordes rose which can make a statement on its own, easy. Huge 5-petalled blooms, white eye, very striking. Very bushy with climbing tendencies. I once took a 'stem' of this one to the County Fair--not any bigger than would fit in a vase-- and there must have been a hundred buds on it, with large numbers unopened--and I had this local hoser lady ask me-- What is THAT?, like she didn't even recognize it as a rose. Like it was from another planet. The leaves remind you somewhat of holly with impossibly huge clusters of roses. m -- Tom Line -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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