Young Lycidas or Princ. Alex. of Kent
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andreark
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jo_pyeweed (z9 SF Bay Area)
10 years agoI have both.
My Young Lycidas is in its 4th year. The canes are pencil-thin and don't hold up the blooms well. I have him in a raised bed and the flowers appear to better advantage arching over. The leaves are wrinkly, as Andreark has noted. They appear diseased, but are not. He is constantly in bloom and fragrance is very strong - old rose. Don't skimp on his water. He's about 4 feet round.
Princess Alexandra of Kent just completed one year in my garden. She's 5 feet tall and 7 wide, and has bloomed non-stop since arriving. She's also been covered in mildew which I hope she outgrows. Her blooms have balled for me in cooler and damper weather but have been gorgeous this spring. And, yes, she's fragrant too.
I really like both.
Edited to say: YL would be my preference, Carol, if I were forced to choose between them. In my climate, YL has a stronger fragrance, better disease resistance and more compact growth. His color, as Ingrid notes, is unique. The magenta color with a silvery sheen isn't quite captured by camera, and even the David Austin catalogue picture doesn't do YL justice.
Jo
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jo_pyeweed (z9 SF Bay Area)
10 years agoAnd, here's Princess Alexandra of Kent. Her canes are much thicker than YL's but her blooms are heavier so they flop down too but I think she'll get better as she's older in this regard. You get an idea of how wide she is.
The pic is from last week. I thought I had more recent pictures with PAOK flowering more heavily.
Kippy
10 years agoI have both. Both were 5g plants, but YL has an extra season on PAOK in our yard.
The blooms look totally different.PAOK has had maybe 6 blooms in a year+
YL is absolutely loaded with giant deep pink blooms.Because of all the blooms I smell YL in the yard, PAOK have not noticed.
YL I can pick a bouquet just off the blooms that want to open too low to view them
PAOK holds her blooms up
YL flops them on his neighbors.I would get both, YL is a favorite of mine for cutting and taking in just do to the sheer volume of blooms
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10 years agoThis is what I like about YL, so many blooms I can make a bouquet just cleaning up the canes on the ground
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