Peggy Martin (Pics included)

13 years ago

I asked this question in the general Rose Forum, but am reposting here to get replies from you all too.

Does anyone have experience with Peggy Martin blooming both pink and white flowers? This is the first year I noticed a white bloom, and will wait for the rest of the bud cluster to bloom to see if all the buds on that one branch will turn out white.

Peggy sure is a vigorous grower. Below are pictures of a two year old Peggy.

Regular pink blooms...

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Then I saw this white bloom! Where did you come from little buddy?

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Let me know if anyone has experience with Peggy Martin blooming both pink and white flowers. Thanks!

Audrey

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michaelg

9 years ago

When you get a color sport, mark the branch that produced it so you don't prune it off. Sometimes all the tissue that grows out of it will carry the sport, which can then be reproduced.

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zeffyrose
13 years ago
I would love to have this rose----It sure is a survivor---

Florence
jerijen
13 years ago
No. But I've seen some similar ramblers do this periodically.

Jeri
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armyyife
13 years ago
I love this rose, I ordered two of them and waiting for them to arrive. Yours is beautiful and I love how vigorous she is. Interesting on the white bloom. ~Meghan
organicgardendreams
13 years ago
I can't answer your question, since I am not growing 'Peggy Martin', but I want to say that your PM looks very beautiful! It is rare that a rose produces so many blooms being just two years old, and it seems to be very healthy and vigorous.

Christina

Here is a link that might be useful: Organic Garden Dreams
vuwugarden
Original Author
13 years ago
Aw shucks! Thanks everyone for trying to figure out the mystery.

I will take Jeri's answer as ramblers have a tendency to do this.

Heehee, Christina, I cheat by buying larger own-root plants from ARE. Peggy is outperforming my Madame Alfred Carriere! MAC is known to be a vigorous grower so it's weird that Peggy is doing so well.

I don't mind though :-)

Audrey
pancakegirl0311
13 years ago
drooling :) it's soo pretty!
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
13 years ago
I don't know about your pretty rose specifically, but my white Mme. Joseph Schwartz has had pink roses like her mother plant, Duchesse de Brabant, several times now. If there is a white rose in Peggy Martin's ancestry that would probably explain it.

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saldut
13 years ago
Does Peggy re-bloom ? or is she just a once-bloomer? I sure love her but don't have the real-estate for a once-bloomer.... if she does re-bloom, how often?, how soon does she repeat ? Thanks, sally
sayhellonow
13 years ago
I'd like to know the answer to Sally's question also. That's one lovely rose, Audrey.
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
13 years ago
On Helpmefindroses in Member's Comments there is some discussion about repeat. Apparently it does, but not always in the first few years and not with anything like the spring flush. I thought I'd try to answer your question in case Audrey misses it.

Ingrid
vuwugarden
Original Author
13 years ago
Sorry ladies for the late reply, been very busy with overtime at work.

My Peggy is only two years old so it's too immature to provide a repeat flush in the Fall.

I did hear that older specimens do repeat once the plant is mature -- not a grand flush as the Spring flush, but some repeat in the cooler months of Fall.

Next year is Peggy's year to "Leap" so let's wait to see if she'll offer any repeat :-) Wish me luck, ladies!

Audrey
summersrhythm_z6a
9 years ago
Audrey, How is your lovely Peggy Martin now? Does it rebloom for you?
armyyife
9 years ago
I can guarantee that you would not be disappointed in this rose! You cannot kill it, in fact it seems to thrive with neglect! I bought this rose from a grower in SC and basically left it in its little original pot for a full year and then some while sitting in an old herb bed by my patio. During that time it threw out huge laterals across my patio like an octopus! Then on a hot day just before it was about to bloom (it was completely covered in buds) I did the biggest no no in the gardening world, I dug it up and because the rose had grown through the pot and into the ground I had to hack off most of the roots. I literally dragged it across the yard and to the fence we had just had installed. Well the ground there was so hard that I couldn't cat a proper hole so I just did the best I could and packed some of the hard clay dirt around the exposed roots. I cut off most of the laterals and watered and left it alone. I basically forgot about it, and then decide to go see how it was doing, well as one would imagine it didn't look to good at all, in fact I would have said it was toast. So I left it again and figured I would dig it up later. A week later that rose had put out a bunch of new laterals and was covered in new growth! She even bloomed again that same year! Now she is the biggest rose and healthiest rose I have and she's the youngest too. An absolute beauty! And to top it all off she produced a seedling while she was in that herb bed and now I have two of her! Best rose ever!
armyyife
9 years ago

This is her just about to bloom. This is Peggy Martin in her second year after I actually planted her but as I stated she was in the same container she came in for a year before I hacked her up and placed her here. All of what you see is from the same plant.
summersrhythm_z6a
9 years ago
Wow, it's a big girl! :-) Thank you very much for the best news of the week! :-) Very happy to see your Peggy Martin doing so well, I hope my four PMs can grow up like yours, the rabbits ate a good part of them, they have to start from 10-12" again (2nd year). I guess you don't have rabbits in your yard. :-) Can't wait to see yours in bloom!! Thanks again.
armyyife
9 years ago
Thank you! I'm sure you will have good luck and with four of her you're bound to have success! I have a rabbit, but she's kept in a cage in my daughters bedroom! Haha maybe you could put some 1/2" gauge wire mesh around it to give it a chance?
summersrhythm_z6a
9 years ago
Thanks dear, I will have to get more gauge wire mesh this weekend. :-) I put chicken wires around each rose band, but some how the rabbits still ate most of the canes.
altorama Ray
9 years ago
I have a pink mystery rambler that has done the same thing. It also happened on Mary Rose.