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14 years ago

The orders are in and I want to thank all the enablers on the forum who helped make these orders happen, through the persuasive desriptions and photographs that made these chosen few impossible to resist. I am pretty clueless as to where I will plant most of them.

The Cochets---Niles, White Maman, Maman

Safrano, and her daughter Isabella Sprunt

The found ones---McClinton Tea, Westside Road Cream Tea, Trinity

Marie van Houtte and Mrs. Dudley Cross---couldn't decide, so I got both

Devoniensis---need I say more, hope she likes heat

Marie d'Orleans---love those quills

Alliance Franco-Russo---lots of good press,

LeVesuve---thanks to pretty much everybody and esp. Sherry!

Mme. Berkeley---supposed to be big and beautiful, lots of +s

General Tartas, The Bride---both good and bad press, but I get a good feeling about these

William R. Smith---its popularity speaks for itself.

Bouquet d'Or and Alister Stella Gray--love those tea-noisettes

I won't go into my Pickering order...

Please feel free to share the particulars of your spring order(s), both submitted and those still on the drawing board...

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ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9

14 years ago

In a few years you are going to have a killer tea rose garden! Great choices! I have five of your roses, all of them very young, and have grown four of them in the past. I can't wait for you to have blooms and look forward to seeing photographs of all these roses.

Ingrid

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sherryocala
14 years ago
No orders for me, greybird. :(

General Tartas has always tempted me. I love his color. But three generals in one garden? Would that work?

William R. Smith - did you know that this rose is also called Blush Maman Cochet? One parent is Maman Cochet. Sure wish I had room.

You're very welcome for any encouragement you got from me. Everyone should grow Le Vesuve.

Sherry
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melissa_thefarm
14 years ago
Always happy to enable a fellow gardener! It's a fine list, and I suspect you'll enjoy your roses for the rest of your life. Melissa
jerome
14 years ago
Those are beautiful roses. Of what you mentioned, I have all 3 Cochets (magnificent); Safrano - wonderful; Mrs Dudley Cross x 5 (you get the idea); Marie van Houtte (strange, for some people in So. Cal Marie does better than Mrs. Dudley Cross...just the opposite for me, but both are nice); Devoniensis - please be patient, it's worth the wait; Alliance Franco-Russe wonderful even in a pot ghetto; Mme. Berkeley - a wonderful rose; General Tartas, very nice - very fragrant to my nose; William R. Smith is a fantastic plant.

Tea noisettes do not do as well for me. I have a Bouquet d'Or. It's slow...but I forgive it with every bloom. Alister Stella Gray is 2 years old and hasn't bloomed (?!) and I am wondering if I got a dud.
greybird
Original Author
14 years ago
Ingrid, will get on the picture thing when I get them. I was very happy when I spotted the Westside Road Cream Tea on the RVR site last evening, hope they have one to add to my order.

Sherry, what other Generals do you have? I can't wait to see how GT does. And I did not know this about WRS, I need all the Cochets!

Jerome, Tea-Noisettes are slow for me too. But when they mature and are good, they are really good. And I have gotten two Crepuscule duds (maybe it just doesn't do here, duh?) Thanks for the good reports on the others.

I feel alone, is anybody else ordering for spring?
pfzimmerman
14 years ago
Very nice list. When is the open house!?
sherryocala
14 years ago
Greybird, I have General Schablikine and General Gallieni. So far they're totally different, GG being much slower to gain size - like GS is 4' tall and GG is 6" tall with only a year difference in age. GS is wonderful.

BTW, all the roses on your are super. Great choices.

Sherry
greybird
Original Author
14 years ago
It might be a year or two before open house. :)

Sherry, I have been eyeing General Schablikine. I gotta find a place to stop...
sherryocala
14 years ago
Not yet, greybird.

Sherry
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
14 years ago
I'm getting Coquette de Blanches, Souvenir de la Malmaison (my second), Burbank and Cels Multiflora on January 18 and Clair Matin, Miss Atkins, Leonie's Appoline and Oneta Saffron Tea on March 23. These will be my last orders until I have occasion to dig up roses that I don't like or are not doing well since the areas I want to plant roses in will be completely covered. I'll have 91 roses which is already more than I have ever wanted to have but I have no regrets. It's going to be wonderful experiencing all these new roses!

Ingrid
luxrosa
14 years ago
Greybird,

My heart swelled with love and admiration for the Tea roses you've ordered.
May all your roses thrive.

Lux.
greybird
Original Author
14 years ago
Ingrid, Coquette des Blanches is a great rose, on the smaller side and blooms it head off, even in roasting heat and sweet, sweet fragrance. Mine doesn't look so hot, even after 3 years. I rec'd it as a 2-gallon, brutally hacked for shipping (is why I prefer bands). I really don't think this particular one is ever going to recover and have propagated another to take its place. SdlM, you just can't have too many!!! I want Cels too, waiting to buy from a great ebay vendor that offers it each year. My Clair Matin is a very slow grower, but has done well, even in the heat. 91 roses is a lot. It's pretty amazing how fast they populate. I don't really know how many I have now. Are you really supposed to count the ones in the ghetto? I will have to try and find that little formula for calculating just how many roses one has...
I too am in the process of relocating a bunch to the ghetto. Real estate is limited at my camp and I give them 3 years to perform. They really have to get to looking like real dogs before I move them.
I wish I could have known then what I know now when I started the garden. Trees I planted are progressively giving more shade, not always a good thing. And if you plant the roses closely, you almost have to plant all at the same time, else the larger will not allow growth of the smaller. To me, it is very sad to see a rose that performed well in the past go bad and have to be moved. I look back at the photos and see what it once was.
Lux, I have the highest hopes for all these teas that are moving into my garden. The teas I currently have are excellent performers in my garden.
sherryocala
14 years ago
greybird, nosey me just looked at your rose list on your member page. In fact, I copied & pasted them into a document with columns (hard to read in paragraph form). Don't bother counting them - just say you have them ALL. I am green with envy at all the roses you can grow in Zone 7. Amazing! We have been doing some serious enabling!!

Sherry
greybird
Original Author
14 years ago
Sherry, my zone 7 is a pretty good place to grow a wide variety. The downside is the wildly flucuating spring temps that can promote early spring budding, only to zap it with a hard freeze, heartbreaking.
Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
6 years ago
Greybird. Any updates and photos? I'm sure we would all love pictures and comments.
cathz6
6 years ago
Sheila, IIRC Greybird (or possibly Greyowl) had decided to stop growing roses because of tremendous losses due to the Texas droughts.

Cath
Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
6 years ago
Oh no, Cath! I'm so sorry to hear that. What a heartbreak. Thank you for letting me know.
cathz6
6 years ago
You're welcome, Sheila. Yes it is sad. I tried to coax her to stay but failed.

Cath

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