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Clotilde Soupert----Attn: Patrick

15 years ago

Patrick---Here is your baby----Thanks again--she is a beauty and smells delicious-----

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Florence

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Molineux
15 years ago
Thank you Flo for posting the lovely image. I was worried something fierce that she wasn't ever going to open up and show her bloomers. Speaking of blooms, do you like them? I'm just crazy about the color: pristine white blushed lilac-pink in the middle. Of course the delicious fragrance doesn't hurt a bit, and the Old Garden Rose flower form is sheer perfection. Vase life is superb so make sure to cut some of the roses for the indoors. If she balls, blow hard on the buds and they will eventually open up.

BTW folks, this is CLIMBING Clotilde Soupert. I have two of the shrubs but they just don't do justice to the climbing sport. Excellent disease resistance, good repeat and very few thorns on the flexible canes. She'd be just about perfect if it weren't for that little balling habit.

Best wishes,

Patrick
rjlinva
15 years ago
Patrick,

I agree with you about the climbing version of CS. It is wonderful in every way.

Robert
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Molineux
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Flo how is your CLIMBING CLOTILDE SOUPERT doing? My two little shrubs are blooming their hearts out. She never seems to rest.

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zeffyrose
Original Author
14 years ago
Hi Patrick,
CS has grown beautifully this year and was loaded with blooms . Sadly they all turned into brown balls

It has been extremely wet this year. I was so looking forward to all the buds opening up----Maybe next year it won't be so wet---

Otherwise she is a very healthy bush.

Florence
liralen
14 years ago
In the spring most of the buds on my bush were also brown balls. But right now, while everything here is crisping from our triple digit Texas heat, she's vigorous and pumping out beautiful scented flowers. Maybe she just really likes when it's hot and dry?
geo_7a
14 years ago
I'm sold, as I'm liking the bush form but I do see its inadequacies; I plan on getting the climbing form next year (perhaps my last big rose push).

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