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Such a good rose! Always draws people in our garden.
What an amazing photo. I'd have thought it was an old Gallica, Belle Sultane or something along that line.
Years ago, we visited the Taylors in south Alabama. They had hyridized and introduced the mini rose Fairhope among other minis. They assumed we wanted Fairhope, which I did. But walking through their greenhouse, I saw IHT and I had to have it. And did. It was so good for so long until the voles/moles found how tasty the roots were. I'm about to plant horseradish in that part of the yard in retrobution.
Yes, zone 9b in Southern CA. It’s a great rose!
In Lakeland Florida, on 'Fortuniana' roots, it grows probably 5-6 feet tall by at least as wide. We prune it rather hard every spring. It then starts flowering about 2 weeks after most of the other roses.
A great rose in central Florida as well!
Malcolm, that's really good to know. Amazing that the "real" name of a rose that good, can be lost.
I've only tried a few, but I find them to be quite variable. 'Arnold' roots easily, giving nearly 100% sucess. Hansa and R. rugosa rubra give maybe 50-60%. We use probably a 4-5 inch cutting with at least a couple leaves at the top. We use Dip-N-Grow diluted 1 part to 8 parts water. And we root in a full-sun intermittent mist bed.
They tend to send out runners. I have one I severed and am nursing--hopefully it makes it through winter. I've heard and found cuttings don't do well.
Aaron Rosarian Zone 5b The 3 that I did ground layering (runners) with worked very well.
The first photos are so very different from typical 'Crépuscule' that I wonder -- could two different varieties have been budded to the same rootstock, so that you have branches of each?
@malcolm_manners, thanks for your thoughts. I agree they look like two entirely different roses. So different, in fact, that the old rose specialist I bought it from didn’t recognise it as crépuscule either! But I‘m pretty sure its all the same rose, which only has two canes (then and now) and buds on both are currently showing the typical apricot/sunset tones.