New AARS winners announced for 2011

socks

14 years ago

Love the Sunshine. Dick Clark is too much like DD.

queenbee_1

14 years ago

When will these be for sale or are they for sale now.. New to roses... Thanks

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Yes - the secret ingredient to use with Bayer is Pentathlon. Formerly known as Mancozeb (liquid) or Manzate (powder), the powder version is no contest when it comes to price. I really don't know why anyone used the liquid form - more than double the price because someone else mixed it. Anyway, it was SOP around here a few years ago - or at least with Banner Maxx at the time, before Bayer got so plentiful. Pentathlon (formerly Manzate) is an absolute fungus contact killer. It will kill what Bayer will not - Botrytis, for instance. At the same time, it serves as a rotation, even though you mix it in with the same thing you're trying to rotate from (Bayer). If you have a BS problem, start with Bayer + Pentathlon and it will absolutely knock down the BS. Continue with the Bayer once a week for 2 or 3 more times and you should have it licked. If not, another application of Bayer + Pentathlon will nuke the fungus for good.

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flaurabunda You along with many others here, fail to realize the market for roses is tiny compared to cars, pharmaceuticals, and video games. You did hit the nail on the head though with the question "There isn't ONE company willing to drop an ad or two on any of these networks?" Keep in mind though, advertising costs for hit shows on major networks and many independant cable networks are outof sight and probably more than the total yearly net income for most major rose growers. Their audience isn't all that big and I doubt an advertisement for rose bushes would have a very big payback. While we think we on the rose forum buy a lot of roses, our contribution to the total number purchased each year is minimal. Each time we cheat and root a cutting from a patented rose we're reducing that amount. Any time there's an economic downturn, people cut back on everything but basics. Among the first things they stop buying are landscaping plants and materials. Because roses are our hobby and first love in plants, we think most people should feel the same. While the rosebush market is huge, it's small in the overall scheme of things. With less money being spent on rose bushes, what remains has to be divided up among all the nurseries. Big outfits like J&P, Weeks, Park Seeds, etc. have a lot of overhead and fixed costs. Imagine the taxes on all those growing fields! There's a bigger return growing houses and shopping malls than there is roses. With the crackdown on imigration, labor cost are going up. The US unemployed fail to answer ads for farm workers, not enough pay, hours suck, and the work's too hard. We'll have to support the remaining growers, big and small, or they'll be none left.

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Well, the AARS WAS a trade organization, but as reported in the below thread from the RHA, they have disbanded. Here is the quoted email at the link below. Of course they would release the latest winners to capitalize on the "value". Kim "Dear Test Garden Supervisors and Judges: As you are likely aware, todayÃ¯Â¿Â½s difficult economic conditions have created challenges for many American businesses. Unfortunately, All-America Rose Selections is not immune to these realities. As a result, we have been forced to make some very difficult decisions. I am sorry to inform you that at the recent AARS board meeting we have decided to stop our trial program effective immediately and will also cease to exist as an organization." This is a sad day. I have witnessed first hand the progress that has been made in creating roses that were free of black spot fungus at least for the two years some of the roses were in trial. In the Dallas metroplex Blackspot is the number one problem of roses. The AARS test gardens have not used chemicals for the last 5 or 6 years. bill cashin Argyle, Tx Here is a link that might be useful: RHA link

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kstrong
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14 years ago

Not until next year's bareroots come out in your area. In Southern California, that's December. So, they truly are 2011 roses. (It's not like cars, where the model year is almost over when the calendar year starts).

And funny thing, socks12345, I had just the opposite reaction-- The one of these two I am attracted to is Dick Clark, not the yellow floribunda. I have lots of yellow florries -- I just bought Monkey Business and Shockwave and am wondering how different Walking on Sunshine could be.

But a Double Delight that doesn't get disease (it's a disease magnet here) -- that would be double delightful.

Kathy

socks

14 years ago

Well, I only have one yellow, so I guess that explains it. I have Mellow Yellow, and what a top bush that has been for me--blooms all summer long. Hey...just noticed we're both in So CA.

Cindy Ehrenreich

14 years ago

We picked up a Dick Clark at our Rose Society District Convention last month. Can't wait to see it bloom. Weeks always sends their new releases to be auctioned off. We also picked up 2 florabundas to be released in 2011, Colorific & White Licorice. (I think Rosemania had a limited supply of these.

the_morden_man

14 years ago

One rose lists a heading/classification for disease resistance (Walking on Sunshine) and the other rose (Dick Clark) does not list this. Peculiar omission.

lagomorphmom

14 years ago

I'm with Kathy. Cherry Parfait, at least according to one nursery person that I talked to before it was released said that they had it in their test gardens, and it was supposed to be the next 'disease resistant' Double Delight. With respect to any that adores it, in So Cal, it is not even close AND it has no fragrance. Just shovel pruned my second try. I don't see enough yellow in the center for it to look like DD, but if has the yellow center, smells like DD AND is resistant to rust and mildew it would be a grand slam winner out here.

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14 years ago

Very interesting, thanks for that link. I was surprised to see 'Fourth Of July' as a parent of DC, a very different rose!

My AARS of this year, 'Easy Does It' just produced its first flower. I was surprised at the color--it is much more orange than the picture. Pretty flower though.

mjaesp

14 years ago

I picked up Dick Clark this year. It has already bloomed for me. It turned red pretty fast. The flowers have lasted over two weeks on the bush. I can not wait to see what this will look like in a couple of years. Also it has not got black spot yet even though it is right next to a rose that is covered with black spot.

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