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'Dragon's Blood'

12 years ago

Might be off Topic, I guess, but 'Grandmother's Hat' is one of her parents -- and in fact it fascinates me that a color like this could have come from GH!

We saw this poor little plant at a rose society meeting in January -- in a 5-in pot, and pruned to about 4-inches. We felt so sorry for her, we brought her home.

Now, PART of why we brought her home was that I checked HelpMeFind, and learned that she was a Paul Barden rose, and bred from G'Hat. How could I resist?

So she's grown like a weed, is completely disease-free (no surprise there) has beautiful foliage, and wants to bloom. This is the first bloom opened:

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I was going to get a shot of the whole spray, but Katie ate them. :-)

Jeri

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floridarosez9 Morgan
12 years ago
Wowzers,
jerijen
Original Author
12 years ago
Yeah. That was MY reaction. Now, I don't know exactly where I'm going to put it, for visual separation from clashing colors, but something that looks like that, and is that clean, well -- it's for sure got a home HERE.

Jeri
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Terryjean -- Blackspot is a very rare visitor here. Our fungal diseases are rust and mildew -- and don'cha know -- roses billed as "disease-free" because they don't blackspot can be rusted, mildewy messes here. Dragon's Blood hasn't (so far) done any of those things. It remains to be seen how orange it will be, in summer, in our normally temperate climate. (Almost no one here has ever had air conditioning.) But I believe I will plant it in afternoon shade. O'course, there's always the possibility that the unusual heat we've had for the last week could become our "new normal." If that should happen, rose color will be the least of my worries! Jeri
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Great hedge of Julia Child, Kristine! Yours totally puts mine to shame since I can't get mine above knee high. I think it's one of those roses where zone 6 is substantially better than zone 5. Along those lines JC, you might consider how tall the roses you are looking for get in your zone. HC, CdM, DB, and BGFT all hover around 3' in my zone and would be dwarfed by even a small evergreen hedge. I have all the roses against the front of my house with the yew evergreen hedge BEHIND the roses, and I can keep all of them trimmed to 3-4' even if some like Music Box and Sweet Fragrance really want to get bigger than that. I can't imagine an evergreen hedge other than the ground cover type under 1' that I could plant in front of roses. In your zone that might be different, but you should check with folks like Lilyfinch in your zone to see relative heights of the plants. I suspect you'd want more of the HT bush shape than floribundas to rise above the hedge, and About Face and Surreal both fit that style. I think the color schemes you've picked will look great in front of those russet colors in your house. Other roses that might pick up that color scheme could be Honeysweet (a Buck rose), Koko Loko (that tan-lavender), Foxy Lady (a great russet Jalbert rose from Palatine), or perhaps Pat Austin (though I think Austins are blackspot prone in your zone). Having an evergreen in front of your roses might help hide some bare canes if they do blackspot, but the heights would have to work. All in all, what you've described sounds lovely but it's a different configuration than would work in my zone. I'm not your best advice about what would work for you except as far as colors go. Cynthia
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aimeekitty
12 years ago
wow, really deep color!
TNY78
12 years ago
I love that color!! I've looked at Dragon's Blood many times on the RVR website. Paul Barden seems to put his new introductions through vigorous trials before releasing them commercially, which I think is great for the consumer.

I think it would be great mixed in with my species rose "Dragon Wings." It would bring lovely color blooms to those beautiful wing-like thorns Dragon Wings has. Plus, how many other roses are named after dragons?

It would also look very nice with a cream colored rose I think....

Tammy
jerijen
Original Author
12 years ago
Name-wise -- 'White Pearl In Red Dragon's Mouth.'

But it is red, so colorwise, it won't work. :-)

Jeri

Anyhow, I am very glad that this baby strayed my way. I'd not have gone out to look for it, but now that I have it, I am very pleased.
melissa_thefarm
12 years ago
Oooh la la! Quite a rose. Glad it found a happy home with you.
spiderlily7
12 years ago
It's a wonderful rose here in my 8B/9A south Louisiana garden. I positioned it next to some russets (Brown Velvet, Rusty, Smoky, Hot Cocoa) plus tan and grey roses such as Aschermittwoch. Looks fabulous.
seil zone 6b MI
12 years ago
Oh, Jeri, I think it's gorgeous! Do find a good spot for it!
organic_kitten
12 years ago
Oooh. What a beauty!

kay
jerijen
Original Author
12 years ago
It's still in a container. Now, I am more than half inclined to plant it in one of the very large containers we have. I'll find a spot for it, because it's too good not to keep. A striking rose.

It WAS funny tho -- I went out there to see if the other buds on that stem had opened, and there were four little "necks" where there used to be bloom and buds.

I KNOW Katie ate them, the little devil. ;-) So I guess it must also be tasty.

Jeri
Terry Crawford
12 years ago
Jeri, I've grown 'Dragon's Blood' for about 4 years in Zone 5. It's proven to be winter-hardy and depending on the winter...mostly cane-hardy. I don't winter protect at all either; just oak mulch at its feet.

I find its blooms start out russet in the Spring and then tend to deepen to red-orange as Summer progresses. I garden in BS-central, so I do have to spray. It gets about 3' tall and maybe as wide.

One of the things I like about 'Dragon's Blood' is its open, airy, graceful artistic growing form....fits its' name. Very unique and one of my favs.
jerijen
Original Author
12 years ago
Thanks Terry Jean -- I suspect that if I give it some afternoon shade, in our generally-cool climate, it may be less-red-orange. And I suspect that, with no winter, it may be a little bigger.
This is not a color-class that I normally favor, but there are exceptions to every rule. I may have just the right spot for it, too -- near roses that are mostly white, and where I will pass it daily. :-)

Jeri

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