Twilight Zone Grandiflora
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Comments (12)A few words about HMF and how you can use it to search for disease resistance. As many of you know, I've worked on the database for many years. Before I started working on HMF, the early volunteers did not always add the REFERENCES where they got their information. Nor, were there all of the features on the site that are there today, so volunteers are slowly going back to fill in the blanks. AND there were already tens of thousands of roses entered into the database before I started working on the database. Where disease resistance is reported for a rose, the information generally came from a published REFERENCE open to public scrutiny or the plant patent. When a member adds a COMMENT to the rose page, we sometimes ... depending on how many people are working on the database at that time, will bring that information forward to the main rose page and put a note in the NOTES section ending with "See MEMBER COMMENTS". That's telling you the the disease resistance came from a site user's experience with the rose. If you want to get a sense of rose grown regionally, there are two ways, both of which only work if site users enter their gardens on HMF. When you open a rose page, you can click on the GARDENS tab and if you see a lot of gardens growing that rose in your region, it is an indicator, yes it's subjective, that this rose is a good rose for your area. You can also tick the GARDENS tab and select to view them by a specific state if you want to view listings of roses grown in the gardens in your state. Yes, it's still kind of vague, but it does narrow down your search. Also, you can post a question on the Q & A forum and many site users will respond with their experience. The best way to do this is to go to the rose page for the rose you are researching and click the MEMBER COMMENTS tab and then the POST A COMMENT button. Another way to look is to do a SEARCH of the Q & A. The most recent posts will appear first and is kind of cumbersome, but it's a lot better than when I first started working on HMF. If you are a premium-member, you can do an ADVANCED SEARCH on more than one criteria. Yeah ... I think just this one benefit is worth the $2 per month, but that's up to you. You can select CLASS and then drop down to GROWING and select for disease resistance. It's a database. There are lots of different ways to find information. There is no staff to answer questions, so you have to do the research. The information always comes from public REFERENCES or site members. The webmaster is open to new suggestions for how to do things, but many people haven't already experimented with the tools that are already available. Even if that is true, the webmaster is very open to suggestions to improve site users' experience on HMF, but remember he has a very long list of suggestions, so you may not get an immediate response. It's a tool and you can make it better with your participation. Supporting a site that you use regularly, whether or not you use the premium-member benefits, is just the right thing to do, but no one is checking. The support for HMF has increased ... and thank you .... but, to date, it still does not cover the cost of keeping HMF available to you. Smiles, Lyn...See MoreGreat rose deal from Brecks
Comments (2)Love Breck's bargains too. I got 7 sets of Summer Collections, and 2 sets of Rainbow collections this year. :-)...See MoreTwilight Zone and Pretty Lady roses
Comments (43)In my yard, Pretty Lady Rose is a good front yard rose. For me, it handles the heat well, but it does get a lot of shade. It is also handling the shade well too (but it's very hot here - with dry heat - so that may be different elsewhere). It has really healthy foliage though and lots of blooms! Not strongly fragrant, but it is fragrant and it's a nice classic rose fragrance....See MoreAn possible alternative to ebb tide and twilight zone
Comments (85)Gardening_7b I am not an expert, I just like purple and some of those are newer and small. Lol After looking at HMF, it looks like the Purple Princes are two different roses. My BPP was planted last fall so is very small, a little over a foot tall, but has bloomed and it was a medium-dark magenta so far, it seems very healthy so far. It may change when it matures. I live in z5a Wisconsin so can't comment on da "heat". We rarely get up to 95 degrees in the summer, we can get bad humidity and low 90's for 7-10 days in the summer just as -10-20 in the winter for the same number of days, 46 inches of rain per year average. :) Diane, your roses get so huge! I get some rogue canes that are 5' tall but so far nothing consistent. That Clown Prince is a very pretty rose with the variations of color. I put Ebb Tide so it gets late afternoon shade because I didn't know if it faded and the hottest time of the day here is about 4:00. We'll see what experience I get with Big Purple, it's always fun to compare with other areas of the country. :)...See More- 10 years ago
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