Laura, I know what you mean about MAM. My band has been in the 1-gallon pot for a couple of months, and her blooms are VERY impressive. Since I think she's supposed to be a smaller bush, my plan is to put her in a big pot in my narrow sideyard along with a few others. Hopefully, she will be happy there and less apt to get "Florida HUGE".

Sherry

Laura,
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying MAM, as I believe I'm one of the people who enabled you into buying it in the first place. She is a grand rose.
Sherry,
How big are you thinking of? My MAM that's planted at the foot of the terrace is about 7' wide and 6' tall, and I don't think she's done growing. However, she looks like she could be kept withing bounds (say, 5'x5') by pruning.
Melissa

Egad Melissa, 6 x 7? Wow, I thought it would be a diminutive tea and planted accordingly. I can remove things around her, I guess, she's the best of the best, and everything said about her above is right, lovely flowers, wonderful form, beautiful bush shape and foliage.

Laura,
I could not agree more, it is a beautiful rose. One of my favorites, her size is nice and robust. I have not pruned mine much, except to remove dead wood etc. I think this year she might need some very light shaping, but her form has always been pleasing to me, and her flowers are a work of art!
jenn

{{gwi:269934}}

{{gwi:269936}}

My potted 'Madame Antoine Mari' just produced its first flower, too. The purity of color was incredible and the tea scent was fresh, strong and delicious. She is already one of my favorites! :-)

My tea and china bed is small with ONE PLACE LEFT! I thought the last spot would go to Baronness Henriette de Snoy. Sounds like I really need to consider MAM! Help me out here you guys! (The bed has Rosette de Lizy, Georgetown Tea, Mme. Jos.Schwartz, & chinas Spice, Comtesse du Cayla, and Archduke Charles).

There's such a thing as a small Tea?

My two MAMs that are out on the Rose Road, not watered, not fertilized, not pruned, not anythinged (mulch) are probably about 4'x4' and totally healthy looking. They're in full sun and have plenty of fresh air. They're the from the same batch of cuttings that gave me my large MAMA (typo, but let it stand), but didn't get the protection of a wall and the dribble of water that the one at the foot of the terrace enjoys. So if you give your rose a good spot and starve her, she might stay compact. The problem is, most people who love their roses don't grow them that way.

Melissa

lol, Melissa. Mine has just put on two buds; it was planted early this spring. Maybe next time I'll skip her in the alfalfa tea distribution and see if she'll stay small. She is at the front of a border, so if she did, I'd be very happy.

I am so looking forward to those blooms!

Barbarag happy, get Madame Antoine Mari. You won't be disappointed.

Sandy

Thanks Jenn. I was hoping someone would post a picture. She looks lovely, like a desert.

Carla

Glad to hear that everybody else loves MAM too!

Melissa - I DO remember you being one of The Enablers! And I remember that you cautioned me about the size. I dithered quite a bit about that, but, in the end, decided that I was already so besotted with the pictures I had seen that I just had to go ahead and get the rose. I know two gardeners who would probably LOVE to have it if it proves to be too big for me to handle - as Shakespeare and Jean-Luc Picard would say, " Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"... Thanks again for the enabling.

Laura

Gee, Melissa, are you sure the "ASPCR" won't haul me away if I starve MAM. Really, I'm afraid the pot would be cruelty enough. I don't know what to do. I was toying with the idea of moving Natchitoches Noisette out of its prime location. I'm not really enamored with it at this point. 4x4 I can handle but not 7'. Will have to rethink this.

Sherry

Oh, Melissa!!! That is SO WONDERFUL! I swear I will do right by my little Mme. Antoine, whatever she wants. What a beautiful and evocative plant, and what a great photo.
Laura

I agree...What an amazingly beautiful rose! Thank you for posting that photo, Melissa! :-)

Melissa, very beautiful! What is the yellow tea that Madame is planted near? I wanted to plant mine near Lady Hillingdon, but she doesn't get the pink edges like your yellow tea does. Do you think she'd look good anyway in that position?

Sandy

That's the very first photo I've posted to Gardenweb: glad you all like it! Yes, that's Mme. Antoine Mari. Give her a halfways decent hole and sun (and a warm climate, I have to add) and she won't disappoint you. That's the miracle of Teas: you just plant one and keep it mulched and what happens is what you see in the picture.
Sandy,
They wouldn't clash, just the opposite: my Lady Hillingdon is always pale colored, too much so to be a good companion to LH who is pale in overall effect as well. Perhaps you have a different and more colorful clone (I'm suspicious of my LH clone). The yellow you see on the left with Mrs. B.R. Cant hulking over her is Souvenir de Pierre Notting. The Mrs. got blown over in the storm, too, and she's so awkward to pull back that I haven't gotten around to it. I may have to prune her back, which is rather awful to think about, or else SdPN will have to be moved come fall. To return to MAM, I would put a more deeply colored rose next to her than she is, preferably with apricot or yellow tones as you're evidently thinking.

Melissa

Sandy,
Whoops, I meant Mme. Antoine Mari is pale in overall effect. Probably you knew what I meant, but I wanted to make sure.
Melissa

Ispahan:
I forgot - we were going to keep each other up to date on the progress of our new roses, because of our similar situatons. How are the rest of yours doing?
Laura