Is Lavender Lassie (hybrid musk) a no-spray rose?

16 years ago

I posted a similar question over at the Roses Forum, but thought I'd give it a chance here as well.

Is LAVENDER LASSIE suitable for an organic rose garden?

Garden is located in coastal Virginia, USDA Zone 7b. I want to train the rose upward onto a heart shaped trellis affixed to an East facing white wall.

What has your personal experience with this cultivar been like? Please describe disease resistance, growth habit, vigor and size, flower form, fragrance, vase life, etc.

Spraying is limited to a single application of lime-sulfur during the winter and the Cornell Formula once-a-month during the growing season.

I'm also considering CAREFREE BEAUTY (aka Kathy Road Pink) as an alternative. Will it climb?

Thanks,

Patrick

BTW, pictures are very welcome.

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luxrosa

16 years ago

I'd suggest "Bubble Bath" which has a fragrance that can waft several yards from the plant, plus its' foliage is dark and very attractive. It can be grown as a climber or a bush. Here it gives 4 gorgeous flushes of bloom each year and is already in its second flush in early May. It is slightly more healthy than these H.M.s in our garden: Callisto, Cornelia, Prosperity, Queen of the Musks "Bubble Bath" does well with only Cornell in our microclimate where pm is a frequent visitor in spring and b.s. in Autumn.
I gave my "Lavender Lassie" away, because it required frequent applications of Cornell, and rather than lavender, in this part of California the color of bloom is a hard pink, not the prettier hue it normally is in cooler climes.

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lori_elf z6b MD
16 years ago
It's only a no-spray rose if you don't care if it keeps its leaves :). It has a lot of vigor and will grow to be a beautiful climber, but only have leaves in spring to early summer and then refoliate by fall with a scattering of repeat bloom.
cecily
16 years ago
In Stafford, VA Lavender Lassie was about 50% foliated grown no-spray. I grew it as a big mounding shrub, perhaps it would be better on a trellis with air circulation.
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olga_6b
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My experience here in MD is similar to Lori's, have to spray to keep leaves on. Will loose 100% leaves. Wonderful fragrance, by the way and sometimes it really wafts. I keep it for this fragrance but spray. Every year I consider removing it, but it is too big, so it stays.
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random_harvest
16 years ago
I grow her no spray in Dallas, Texas, and she's one of my healthiest. Fragrance wafts. Flowers are two inches diameter in clusters of five to seven. She started blooming 4/14 and still has a few to go. So far (she'll be four years old this summer) she doesn't repeat. I'm very pleased with her.

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Molineux
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16 years ago
One hundred percent defoliation plus no repeat? I think I'll plant something else. Thanks for the information.

Patrick
carla17
16 years ago
Patrick, I saw one this week and it was lovely and made me want one. I don't have any pics.

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olga_6b
16 years ago
My LL repeats well.
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mendocino_rose
16 years ago
My Lavendaer Lassie has thrown herself up into a tree. She repeats and is very beautiful. I guess I wouldn't call her entirely spray free. We have dry summers so she does better.
the_bustopher z6 MO
16 years ago
My Lavender Lassie is gorgeous when it blooms, but needs spraying badly. It also does not have a big rebloom. It may have some scattered flowers in the summer, but they are more pink rather than lavender. The lavender color is more apparent in cool temperatures. It does rebloom some in the fall, but it is nothing to brag about. I have found that the hybrid musks that I have grown are very iffy about reblooming habits.
brhgm
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I don't have defoliation problems with HM roses either. Some rebloom well, like Danae and Felicia. Others like Ballerina and Penelope bloom in spurts and others are stubborn like Cornelia. Katy Road Pink is a great rose. Does get powdery mildew sometimes. It's very heat and cold tolerant with frequent reblooms.

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