Oh, yeah! That's striking! We have nothing quite like it here.

Jeri

Hugo is a beauty..
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i added it to my hmf wishlist after visiting peplills site! Saw a thread awhile back that said something like Fiddletown Cherry=Frances Grate's Tea=Hugo Roller per Vintage Gardens. I checked their catalog but didn't see anything about HR. There is just a single description/entry for FC/FGT. The picture for Fiddletown Cherry kind of looks like Hugo R but the picture for Frances Grate's does not. Well-i ordered FGT anyway because it was in stock and reasonably priced. I will report back.

I saw it listed in Canada at Hortico. Don't know if it is the same rose as we have/in the book.

Particularly not coming from Hortico.

Jeri

Mauirose,
I am so glad you pointed that out. I lust for Vintage's FiddleTown Cherry. When I wrote they told me that it was the same as Frances Grate's Tea. But, I have not ordered it because the pics do not look like the same rose to me.

On the other hand, the written description of FGT at the Vintage site says "this smoky, lilac-pink Tea is heavily shaded creamy white; "

I am confused. I think the cure is Hugo Roller. Lol.

Here is a link that might be useful: Fiddletown Cherry

Here's another pic looking a bit more like Fiddletown, showing more cream and tinted more towards cherry. The colours do change with the weather.
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Ooooo...be still, my heart.

No, seriously... That is just painful. First, Jeri's Lady Roberts, and now this.

Kill me now,...tell me about the scent.

Thonto-Go to Vintage right now and check out the price-order now-what's to lose??

That's a beauty. Do you think it's similar to Niles Cochet?

No -- I think from the pix that it's closer to the character of Rosette Delizy.
(And if you don't have that one, you need it, as well.)

Jeri

I thought Hugo was very similar to RdL myself.

The one that is catching my eye is Madame Lambard. Sort of like a salmon pink Marie d'Orleans (which is dark pink in my yard). I love that pointy petal look.

Safrano is also very interesting looking.

Buford -- Mme. Lambard is a rose bent on confusing us.

Gregg Lowery notes that at one time they had 12 different Teas, under 12 different study names.
ALL looked different when collected.
ALL are 'Mme. Lambard.'

Having Mme. Lambard is like having a dozen different roses, since her color, and to an extent her form,
vary from one day to the next.

I love her!

Jeri

Jeri, I saw that they have her on Vintage, but not Safrano...so I put an alert on Safrano. I'm hoping that teas do well here, although mine in the ground don't seem to want to rebloom at all this summer. Probably because of the drought and I haven't been extra watering them.....

Buford, The Asian roses evolved to go dormant in drought conditions.
So, if they get no water, they will stop blooming.
Probably won't do much growing, either.

Out here, Teas do bloom through the summer -- tho the blooms may be small.
But that's because, in our part of the West, we have ALWAYS had to irrigate.
We have NEVER had summer rain, and nowadays we're not even getting much winter rain.
No irrigation, no garden.

If you water your Teas, they'll bloom.
If they are well-established when drought hits, they will shut down, but there's a good chance that
they will survive.
If they are new, young plants, and they have no water, they may not make it.

Jeri

Jeri's right. I've been watering my teas a lot lately (it's scalding hot here this time of year), and they have been blooming a lot. Mrs Dudley Cross especially has some beauties on her right now.

Randy

I have Rosette Delizy but keep wishing the blooms were bigger. Hugo Roller's blooms look bigger in the first two pictures.