Beautiful bountiful John Davis

melissa_thefarm

10 years ago

I need pictures like this. Today we got half a foot of snow, then the snow turned to rain which is supposed to continue for the next week. It's not cold for the time of year, and we're marching toward the spring equinox. But I can't see or think anything but gray.
Inspiration. Inspiration.
Thanks for posting.
Melissa

portlandmysteryrose

10 years ago

I love the Explorer series--especially climbers. Your John Davis is like a breath of cotton candy. I can remember waiting and waiting for snow to melt and roses to bloom. I used to live in Minnesota. Brrr. Carol

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Judy, I have 3 of these roses. One is new. The other 2 have grown very tall around 6-7 feet. They grow wide, around 3 or 4 feet, but I prune the side branches to encourage growth upward. Its a great rose that gets some powdery mildew towards the end of the gardening season. I don't spray my roses since I have 3 dogs and they love to be in the garden. I'm sure that you can use some commercial product to get rid of it. Other than that, you'll love this rose for the heavy flush of blooms, hardiness, and sheer beauty.

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This rose is so prolific, covered with the most beautiful pink blossoms of pure enchantment, such an exuberance of pure beauty and style! I am completely dizzy from the blossoms covering it all, I think if I smell it the feeling will be heavenly... You are lucky to grow such beautiful roses.

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Melle: Joan Senior from a distance looks pure white, but if you put it alongside a white Penta, Calibrachoa, Zinnia or such you can see that it's not the standard bedding plant white color. For a daylily though it's pretty amazing...............Julia: Half Moon Key is a pretty one. I'll keep it in mind. Yes on the pots. 95% of my daylilies are grown in pots. Our soil is horrible clay............Kay: Thanks for the offer on Faye's address. I think she's on her own since Johns death a few years back with little to no help. Not faulting her products or delivery, I just couldn't connect with her to talk about placing an order.............Kate you and I both kind of ignore Joan Senior. She's just so darned reliable. Like everyone else, my daylilies are scattered around. Some get full sun (Wayah Valley for instance), and some get sun until mid to late afternoon.......Nan: I really like the color on No Way Jose. It's not the most vigorous daylily I grow, but we all have ones we grow just because they are so darned pretty.........Debra: I showed a picture of Dearest Valentine to one of my rose friends in California. She thought it was beautiful, and when I told her one of my daylily friends was the hybridizer this is what she said in part: " Honestly, I am constantly in awe of people who create things". To think where you started and how far you've come is amazing. Our slugs have been ghastly this year with all this rain. I've even found a couple in the house that must have come in with some pots. EEEEEK. Not something you want to discover in the middle of the night with your bare feet.............Maryl

lavender_lass

10 years ago

Thank you! Now, I know what my little one will look like in a few years :)

seil zone 6b MI

10 years ago

It's gorgeous, Vicky, thank you!

ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9

10 years ago

That picture is a bit of magic. It immediately made me feel happy, and fortunate that such beautiful things exist. Just the thing to get by during a season of almost no roses (although at least mine aren't buried in snow!)

Ingrid

shopshops

10 years ago

Oh this is so lovely. Just what I needed to get over my winter blues. I miss my roses so much. I cannot wait for the Spring!

vickysgarden
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10 years ago

Hey, thanks everyone for your kind comments! For me, every day is a good day when I have a rose like this to look at! God is so good to create such beauty!

daisyincrete Z10? 905feet/275 metres

10 years ago

Vicky, I disagree with you about the individual blooms being nothing special. Looking at that gorgeous, yummy photo, I love the circle of slightly, frilly, pink petals, with a nest of golden stamens in the centre. Just right for getting your nose into.
Lovely.
Daisy

prairiemoon2 z6b MA

10 years ago

I was debating getting John Davis when I made an order last month, and finally culled it from the list. It's such a pretty rose! Your photo is making me wish that I had ordered it. :-) But, I wonder if it has any fragrance? That is usually a deal breaker for me, because I have so little full sun, and not very much room for roses.

I agree with daisy, I love the blooms. Pink is not always my favorite color but some shades of pink make it my favorite color. This shade is really nice. Not too pale, not coral. And the habit of the plant, the way the blooms are held on the bush is so full and lush. Wish I had more room, that's one that would make my list.

vickysgarden
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10 years ago

Because I have not read much about this rose on the forum, I will tell a little more about it from my perspective. I have never noticed much scent....at least compared to the Austins and Old Garden roses. If there is, it is faint. It is definitely very floriferous in its first bloom...a real showstopper. It first arrested my attention when I would see it at the Chicago Botanic Gardens...a stand-out among hundreds of roses because of it being literally covered with blooms, many of them rather old-fashioned in shape. I could not believe there could be SO MANY BLOOMS on one bush!!! I just stood and stared and stared. (Of course, I have not seen many of the old once-blooming roses in their full glory except in pictures and the descriptions of gardener-writers.)

Although some grow it as a climber, I have chosen to use it as a self-supporting shrub, and as such, it excels. I love the way the branches hold the roses very strongly. The foliage is mostly covered up in first bloom, but I still get more blooms throughout the summer, just not nearly as many. The bush is very attractive when not covered with flowers because the foliage is very dense and healthy, and the canes sometimes take on a reddish appearance which contrasts nicely with the green leaves. It is growing, as you can see in the picture, in partial shade from a maple tree that is about 30 feet away, and is also tolerating competition from its shallow roots....I suppose because it is a vigorous grower.

Prairiemoon and Daisyincrete, I agree with you about the color pink....that is part of the reason I chose it, because it is a very true, clear pink, no shades of salmon or coral or anything else. Portlandmysteryrose, yes, it is something like the color of cotton candy! When you stand and gaze at it, it just kinda takes you away!

iris_gal

10 years ago

How is it regarding thorns?

Your picture is lovely.

vickysgarden
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10 years ago

Irisgal, It's funny, I couldn't remember about the thorns, so I looked it up online...apparently, it is "almost thornless". I think there are some, but not bad ones.

vickysgarden
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10 years ago

Irisgal, It's funny, I couldn't remember about the thorns, so I looked it up online...apparently, it is "almost thornless". I think there are some, but not bad ones.

gothiclibrarian

10 years ago

Vicky, how big does he get for you grown as a self-supporting shrub?

...Still working on my wishlist this year...hard to buy when you don't know what you'll have to shovel prune after this winter of garden attrition.

Cheers!
~Anika

vickysgarden
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10 years ago

Anika, isn't that the truth?! I don't know, either, what to expect after such a winter as we're having in the midwest. Anyway, John Davis for me, after maybe 8 years or so, is about 4 feet wide by 5 feet tall. I do cut it back pretty low most springs...otherwise I think it would get even bigger.

Nearby is The Dark Lady (Austin rose), which has just been limping by year after year, not doing nearly as well...although I have to say, last year, it showed more promise and grew up as well as the wimpy, mostly sideways, strange laying-on-the-ground kind of growth it had been putting out.

gothiclibrarian

10 years ago

Thanks for the size/hacking info!

I would love to add a bunch of the Canadians after this winter is done doing its dirty work (really though, I am glad for it...I've done too much zone pushing, it's true, dose of reality is good), but I am worried that they'd get 'too big' for me.

Personally I don't think you can ever have too many pink roses...they're all *slightly* different, right?

Cheers!
~Anika

nanadollZ7 SWIdaho

10 years ago

Vicky, I adore your John Davis blooms. What a lovely, cheerful display. Where can we purchase John?
Thanks for the beautiful photo. Diane

vickysgarden
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10 years ago

Thanks! I think I purchased mine years ago from Jung Seed Company, but they no longer sell it. I did a search and saw that a number of online companies stock it...Heirloom Roses, Spring Valley Roses, Pickering, High Country Roses, Northland Rosarium.

nanadollZ7 SWIdaho

10 years ago

Thanks for the info, Vicky. Diane

vickysgarden
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10 years ago

Anika, thanks for posting the photo! To me, it looks like a big, happy "family" of blooms..."Papa" on the left, "Mama" on the right, and the 9 "kids" in between, each one looking a bit different from each other but still with that "family resemblance", hahaha!

Krista_5NY

10 years ago

Yes, one can never grow too many pink roses! Beautiful pics to brighten a winter day.

thorngrower sw. ont. z5

10 years ago

I tried John Davis but it had horrible mildew for me. I really wanted it badly..Soooo I tried John Cabot which turned out to be a whole different experience....If you want small don't plant JC..
John Cabot on the left, Konigin von Danemark on the right..
Love both, but they are large and thorny....

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