Felix Leclerc - first of the new Canadians
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mariannese
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Comments (9)I chuckled too. Being somewhat older I remember having a week or two each winter of -5F or less each year. I did not grow peonies then only iris. It seemed the colder the winter the larger the flower. With the climate changes that we have been experiencing we are lucky or unlucky to have more than 1 or 2 days below 0F. I think the mid 80's was the last time I heard my breath change to ice crystals in the air and sing on the way down. In parts of Canada that experience is probably normal. In twenty years time a terrible winter will probably only have a few cold days. For those that worry about peonies being too cold to survive many come from mountain regions and are well adapted to the cold. What damages them more than anything is dry cold where the temperature takes the moisture out of the newly emerging growth. When the plants are under ground they are more protected....See MoreMagnolia 'Felix Jury'
Comments (98)Let's exhume this thread. I live in Spokane, Washington, zone 6, and the nurseries where I have worked since 2004 have been selling Jury magnolias, starting with 'Black Tulip', then 'Felix', and most recently 'Burgundy Star'. One thing I have noticed about these precocious magnolias is that once they break dormancy, they might as well be tropical. We would bring them in from zone 8 Oregon in bud/bloom, and they would get nailed by a moderate frost. For that reason, we started bringing them in in late summer to overwinter here, and the trees would then come out of dormancy later (only now starting to swell) and bloom later. We have cold nights compared to our days, sometimes 30 degrees cooler at night, and that seems to help hold things back. We INSIST that people who buy these trees site them where they will never see the morning sun and will be protected from wind (especially 'Felix'). I have refused to sell them when I have doubts about the buyer's location. I only know of two times when we have had to credit a customer for a loss, and only one of those was winter damage. The other was because someone forgot to tell the buyer not to mess with the roots much. I think that people who live in climates where winters are relatively mild but have occasional, poorly timed freezes will have a harder time with this group then those of us who have a more consistently cool to cold winter climate where dormancy is prolonged. On a side note, I have a recording of an episode of 'The Victory Garden' dating back to the late 80's (I think) with Peter Seabrook in Dunedin, New Zealand. He's visiting the garden of Nora Dunlop, who shows him her Pieris formosa var. forrestii 'Wakehurst' (zone 7) which was covered with fiery red new growth. He lamented his failures with this plant; the new growth emerging and invariably being burned by frost. That happens in his zone 8/9 garden in England!...See MoreCanadian Heritage Roses - Cold Hardy Roses
Comments (41)Frances - I doubt not spraying has anything to do with the hardiness of the rose unless you think the rose is less healthy going into winter? My few roses die back almost to a foot high most years. I do understand if you are looking for a climber, it is so much better if they are tip hardy. And I see Captain Sam Holland is a climber. I took a look at that Felix LeClerc and it’s gorgeous. No fragrance I suppose? The photos on HelpMeFind don’t look like the photos the nurseries present. Beautiful coloring if the nursery photo is correct. John Davis is one of my favorites but because there is no fragrance at all, I have not bought one. So pretty though....See MoreFragrant Climbing roses in New England
Comments (14)Vaporvarc, E.B. LeGrice is quite a big climber. It can easily get 14' across on a 4' fence with no difficulty. The flower production is abundant and continual. Few climbers match it in this regard. The individual blooms are about 2.5-3" across, filling the canes on short, 3-4" laterals in 3-4 bloomed clusters, and have no fragrance to speak of that I can remember. They do not nod. Stamens show when fully open. In the public garden where I observed its progress for about 5 years, it drew you in. No,other climber there did that. I haven't seen it 10 years, but it made such an impression on me, I can still see it in my mind's eye. It was sprayed there very regularly, but it seemed to be so vigorous, I wonder how much it really needed spraying. An old Franciscan monk recommended that the in charge folks at the garden plant it, and they very wisely did. In the same garden, Fourth of July (unimpressive), Darlow's Enigma (ditto), Jeanne LaJoie (great in spring, thereafter a dud), New Dawn (same as JLJ), Aloha, and all the other climbers could not compare to E.B. LeGrice. Above all it exuded vigor, willingness to bloom, and poise. Now, Climbing Pink Don Juan is a winner in EBLG's league, but is nowhere as large a climber. CPDJ's blooms are 4-4.25", pretty petal packed, very fragrant, 2-3 blooms together or singles, and held on about 8" laterals. They both bloom more continually than any other climber I know of, even my Lady Ashe, no slouch as a repeater by a long shot, but Lady Ashe is a true climbing hybrid tea, making single summer blooms on up to 30" laterals, straight upward. In spring the first-round is 3-4 blooms on 14" laterals, then mostly long stemmed singles until late fall. Moses...See More
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dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8
8 years agoHi everyone. Any new comments on the Canadian Artist Series roses? I've planted four Campfire which are now in their first new year in my garden. They're doing so great, with a third flush of blooms so far. Am thinking of backing them with Felix Leclerc if I can find any for sale. My garden is warm, zone 8 however soil is poor, acidic and exceptionally fast draining. Own root roses do far better. To date, my most successful rose variety is Eden.
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8 years agoHi Cynthia. The picture from my first post was of 'Eden', a climber that does very well for me. Here's a picture of Campfire. I purchased mine at a box store last year. Can't remember which one. There are currently four Canadian Artist Series Roses, Felix Leclerc, Emily Carr, Bill Reid and Campfire. Emily Carr is red with beautiful rose flushed foliage. Bill Reid is yellow.
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8 years agoThanks for the list of Canadian Artists series roses, TrueBlue and Dara. I was able to look Campfire up on hmf (great picture, Dara), but I didn't know names for the others. It's embarrassing, but I didn't know Felix LeClerc was a Canadian painter till this thread came up, even though I've had the rose many years, hence the need for a commemorative series!
True Blue - until last year, I'd have said Felix was a once bloomer like most of the Explorers (however Alexander MacKenzie has been giving me some repeat bloom lately). However, just this year Felix has decided to bloom more or less continuously. Here he is in May at a peak bloom, and I'd say just yesterday he was at least within 75% of that much bloom. Even if he stopped tomorrow, that'd be three months of solid blooming, since he's such an early start on the blooming season at the beginning of May.
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoUPDATE:
I bought one just today...couldn't resist.
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