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16 years ago

Is this Peace? A lot of guesses for it in my Mystery Rose blog (updated today for many of the bushes if you're playing along with me)

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Another shot on June 9

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Taken around June 14

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Taken June 16th

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Taken June 18th:

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June 24th:

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erika412
Original Author
16 years ago
Forgot to post my blog for anyone that wants to look at the latest..

Here is a link that might be useful: Erika's Mystery Roses
reg_pnw7
16 years ago
IMHO, no. The color should be on the edges of the petals, not in the heart of the flower.
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michaelg
16 years ago
Foliage should be glossy and yellowish green.
ehann
16 years ago
Peace has a lot more petals as well.
patricianat
16 years ago
No, I don't think it is. The distribution of color does not seem right. It has been several years since I had Peace. Mine declined as it was virused, but I don't think the form or the color is exactly right.
dublinbay z6 (KS)
16 years ago
Looks like the Peace I grew for years.(Don't have it now.) It did not always exhibit those big fat full blooms we often associate with Peace, and sometimes it was flushed like your pics show, other times it was almost completely creamy. And sometimes it was various degrees between the two extremes.

Does it get BS? That ought to be a clue--and the reason I finally got rid of mine.

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hoovb zone 9 sunset 23
16 years ago
The foliage on Peace has kind of a bubbly slightly convex shape, not flat. The foliage looks too flat. Just doesn't "feel" like Peace to me. Nay.
ramblinrosez7b
16 years ago
Peace does not have much of a fragrance, so you tell that way. I agree with reg pnw7, the pink color should be on the tip of the petals and not in the middle of the bloom. It should have more yellow towards the middle.
erika412
Original Author
16 years ago
Sigh....

This is so hard. I wish the previous owner had kept records of what he planted.
bluebetty
16 years ago
I think it is...but I'm no expert. Here are 2 pics of my peace

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athenainwi
16 years ago
It looks like Peace to me. There should be more petals than that but that could be natural variation. You can't tell by scent, my Peace is very smelly but several people have said theirs doesn't have a scent. It should start out very yellow with a pink edge, and gradually turn all pink. Try going to a local nursery and see if their Peace matches the rose you have. Almost any good nursery should have Peace and hopefully a few in bloom.
karl_bapst_rosenut
16 years ago
A picture with the bloom 3/4 or more open with the center closed and not blown might be easier to ID.
greenthumb102
16 years ago
It is definitely not Peace....I'm 100 percent sure. I have a peace rose and the foliage is all different. Peace has a darker green leaf with a good degree of gloss. Also the flower is mostly whitish with hints of yellow and pink.
harryshoe zone6 eastern Pennsylvania
16 years ago
I, too, feel the foliage is wrong for Peace. The blooms look close, but Peace has more petals here.
bethnorcal9
16 years ago
I agree with the others. PEACE has a very definite type of foliage. The leaves are sort of puckered. Yours doesn't have that type of foliage. Where did you purchase the rose?
Noni Morrison
16 years ago
I was just looking at your mystery roses and number 17 looks like what I just cut off of the rootstock of my Abbye de CLuny rose. IT is a very pretty little pink like that but with no fragrance at all....would it be manetti? I think I bought my Abbye from Wayside about 6 yrs ago so no idea what rootstock it might have been on.

You have some real beauties among those roses!
erika412
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks for the compliment Beth.

I didn't purchase them. They came with my house. It was either learn how to take care of them or kill them off with stupidity.

And now that I'm learning, I'm so curious of what kind he put here, but there is no record, no labels, nothing. It is so frustrating.
meredith_e Z7b, Piedmont of NC, 1000' elevation
16 years ago
I think the pink is too dark and in the wrong place in some of your shots to be Peace. Of course, Peace may always be faded here due to heat, but I've neer seen that on her.

I haven't noticed the foliage on mine enough to tell a difference.

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