Fragrant Masterpiece of Magnificent Perfume?
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The most beautiful and fragrant pink H.P.s , and Portlands.
Comments (7)luxrosa, I am growing Yolande d'Aragon in San Diego inland and it has been a great rose for me. The flowers are really big, have the mid pink color that you want (it is definitively a deeper pink than Grandmother's Hat, which I grow too) and are very fragrant. I would say the blooms of YdA are showstoppers! It repeats also well for an Hybrid Perpetual. It is a very vigorous, easy growing, and disease free rose in my garden and the growth habit and leave color is exactly as nastarana states, therefore I would also agree that is a rose for the back of the border. I love, love, love this rose! Portland from Glendora I have only seen growing in a friends garden, who is living close by but I have to say I was not impressed. I am pretty sure his plant is own-root, so when it is on rootstock as you intend to grow it might be a different story! The rose was a couple of years old, had a little bit of a spindly growth habit and topped out at approximately 5 x 5 feet. I found the individual flowers not very attractive because they are nondescript informal, small, and an almost boring deep rose pink. One thing that speaks for PfG though is the strong fragrance. With this rose it is rather about the whole bush, than about the individual flowers. Definitively more a cottage garden rose in my opinion. If I would have to make a decision between the two roses I clearly would go with Yolande d' Aragon! Good luck with the choosing. Please let us know which one you will get. At least I am curious to know! Christina Here is a link that might be useful: Organic Garden Dreams...See MoreWhat do you classify this scent?
Comments (26)I only have Sharifa Asma and scepter D'isle from your list. Sharifa smells along the lines of Abe darby to me- so fruity rose. Scepter Di is VERY strong myrhh. I initially hated this rose and was horrorfied -like you are with your Tamora :-0--- when i first smelled it because it reminded me of those urinal deoderant cakes (diaper pail deoderizers too smell like it-- and not the urine, btw) (possibly the phenol??) and so I would eye it with a big frown as it exploded and reloaded immediately in blooms all summer. SHe starts early, quits late. Nothing comes close to SD'is blooming abundance for me. And it's flower is so cheerful and lovely. Eventually i became accustomed to its myrrh scent and now I like it. It smells clean and pure and fits the rose. I love that rose and blow it kisses now! Maybe your Tamora will grow on you too, ;-). (i have tamora too and it smells different each time i smell it- but You might like Abraham darby as the blooms are pretty similar, just a little more pink.) My golden celebrations only have moderate scent comparatively- And smell like roses and peaches to me. It's not on your list, but in my garden Lady Emma Hamilton wins top honors from my husband for strength and character (citrusy rose). She blooms well too -- just behind abe darby. Though LEH bush is so well behaved and the awesome purple stems make her special. FWIW, in my harden Fred mistral (romantica, not DA) and sharifa smell rosy delicous but are t that abundant bloomers. Fred's young so maybe he'll improve?...See MoreA Fall Challenge
Comments (49)Thanks Dublinbay for your compliment on the Fairy. Mine pretty much blooms non stop from early Spring until frost. It's a great rose. Just give yours a couple of years to get established. Thanks also for your compliment on the porch garden! What you can't see is what is behind the fence to the right of the picture... the pond, the waterfall, the roses, the pot getto, the ... You get the idea. Karolina11 - Relax! Your Lady of Shallott will spend a year adjusting and then, take off big time! The adage that roses sleep their first year, creep their second year and leap the third holds true for the Lady. The first year mine just sat there. It produced a couple of small, off colored blooms and had me worried that I'd even received the right rose. This year (creep year) it's bloomed like crazy even through temps in the upper 90's. Height is about 3.5 feet. Next year? Yikes! I think a severe pruning is in my future! LOL And Ebb Tide? Geez. All I can say is that I really, really want one! LOL You're such an enabler! K...See MoreYour Most Fragrant Rose?
Comments (27)The wafting scents are wonderful: I got a noseful of 'Cornelia' today while I was cleaning around her. Other big wafters are 'Mme. Plantier' and 'Felicia', both beautifully scented. Very fragrant are 'Centifolia' and 'Sharifa Asma', and 'Cl. Etoile de Hollande' is so stronly scented I can't eat with a bloom of it on the table; but there are endless wonderfully scented roses. A few years ago I got a miniscule cutting of a rose growing in the yard of a farm wife on the other side of the valley, a woman fond of flowers. It rooted, I stuck it out in a hot dry area of weedy clay, I forgot about it. My starved little plant is currently blooming, cherry red semidouble blossoms, very fragrant. Its scent is a mixture of old rose with something sharper and fruitier, what I think of as a hybrid scent; some of the Bourbons and HPs have this kind of fragrance, so does 'Noella Nabonnand' if I remember correctly. I'll have to take a closer, more respectful look at my rose. I'm guessing it's a passalong old rose as one sees here and there, saved by its facility in rooting, its color and rebloom and scent, its will to live....See Morekittymoonbeam
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