A love letter to Climbing Clotilde Soupert
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Clotilde Soupert in bloom today....plant shots
Comments (19)Thanks Carla, Carol, Brandy, Randy, DUchesse, and Predfern. The photos were not taken at night. I looked up the hardiness and I've got it as hardy from zone 6. I hardly ever see any dieback here in zone 7. I forgot to mention that my Clotildes have hardly been watered all summer..I think I watered them twice and we are in one of the worst droughts in recorded history here. It is still blooming away and even though it has been high 80's or 90's this week. It's just a trooper. Here's a front yard pic or two. I planted my front yard full of roses because the soil in front is good, the morning light is good, and I have a less than wonderful view out of my front door so I created a little enclosed feeling with big wild roses. Altogether it's a bit untamed and I do get offers to cut them down to size like they should be. This is a few years ago: Gertrude Jekyll ( no longer with us) Linda...See MoreClotilde Soupert----Attn: Patrick
Comments (6)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...See MoreClotilde Soupert, so excited!
Comments (27)I've been growing it for many years and have never seen it send out a long, sprawly cane. The climbing version does. The regular version is very shrubby, densely branched, and tends to be a rounded plant here. It's tough and vigorous. I've planted it in tough spots where I thought other roses might not make it. It comes through in shade or dry, gravelly spots. Mine bloom in big flushes on and off till winter. I don't have a very good whole plant pic but you can see these two plants had a lot of blooms: Clotilde in shade on the right....See Morebest for trellis -Cl Pinkie, Cornelia, Le Vesuve, Cl Clotilde Soupert?
Comments (12)I've only grown Cornelia & cl. Pinkie of your list, but here's another vote for Pinkie. In both zones I've had it in TX--the humid coastal prairie & here in the hill country--it's a happy, ever blooming fool. Individual flowers are little nothings, but it has tons of them in huge cascades, flush after flush. This is in no-spray gardens with very indifferent care. Here, it's growing in extremely poor soil, partly shaded & very rarely watered. But it's as boisterous as it was down south with 3 times the rain. Great rose. Heck, you can even pick it up at HEB in February--that's where I got my current cl. Pinkie....See Morerozannadanna
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