Lets talk about 'Mrs. Herbert Stevens'

14 years ago

Could someone please tell me the mature height of the regular form of 'Mrs. Herbert Stevens'? I love Tea class roses best, but the white Teas I've grown have defoliated from powdery mildew.

I've admired the climbing form of 'Mrs. Herbert Stevens' which is grown as a free-standing plant at the Berkeley Botanical garden. That plant is c. 8 feet tall by nearly as wide, which is a bit too large for my purposes.

"Mrs.Herbert Stevens" has blossoms that are more similar to any Tea class rose, that I've seen, particularly in their delicacy of petal substance and shape. It also has a fair share of the seductive Tea fragrance I crave.

It is one of only a few extant H.T.s that had a Tea parent, and because of that, I would consider "Mrs Herbert Stevens" as being a Tea hybrid, being bred from the exquisite 'Niphetos', which I can't grow in our cool coastal garden, near San Francisco.

Thanks for all your advice,

Luxrosa

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ermingarde
14 years ago
I grew Mrs. HS in zone 4 in dreadful conditions, she was tough as nails. I love her so much, I'm thinking of trying her down here in zone 9, but am a little worried about two things: She was vigorous and large in the desert with nights in August getting down to 20 degrees, how huge will she get here on the California Coast? Also, one good thing about the desert was that mildew, fungus, and bugs couldn't survive either. And they thrive here. I still think she's probably worth it!
User
14 years ago
It's kept at about 3 to 4 ft at Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
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mendocino_rose
14 years ago
It's six feet tall here. I don't like to prune that sort of rose heavily.
michaelg
14 years ago
Ermingarde, maybe you should go to HelpMeFind and correct the hardiness zone there (6b is given). This could be helpful to somebody, since white HT are usually tender. Sounds like Frau KD communicated a lot of her hardiness to this daughter, as she did to 'Gruss an Aachen.'
sherryocala
14 years ago
Luxrosa, she really is a lovely thing, but where are you going to get her. The only American nursery listed on HMF is Vintage, and they only have her as custom root. I looked everywhere I could think of and couldn't find anyone who has her. She's very tempting - even to someone who has no room!

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mudbird
14 years ago
I grow the climber which is very free flowering. The petals get a bit of damage from moisture in my coastal southern California garden during the cloudy spring-early summer, but otherwise it's a trouble free rose. Very elegant looking flowers, quite large and beautiful scent. The leaves tend to be light green, maybe a touch chlorotic in my soil.
luxrosa
Original Author
14 years ago

Fiddlede dee,
only a couple days ago, when I posted this, vintage still had "Mrs. Herbert Stevens" for sale, now they are all gone.
I could cry. I think I will.

Lux.
P.S.: Sherrycola thank you for searching for MHS.
jaspermplants
14 years ago
I purchased Mrs Herbert Stevens as a band from Vintage a few months ago and planted it directly in my garden. To me it was lovely as a band. It had a gracefulness even as a very young plant.

It is still small, of course, but in my Arizona garden it is now blooming lovely small blooms when few of my roses are blooming in the heat.

I don't know how large it will get, but I hope you can get your hands on one.
ermingarde
14 years ago
I will try to get onto HelpMeFind and change the zone, I'm not very computer-savvy... I got mine from Heirloom in Oregon, I don't know if they still have it in their catalog, but they might custom-propagate it if they have it in their garden.

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