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Narrowing list for Pickering

16 years ago

I love all these roses, but I feel I need to narrow my list. Of the ones listed which would be at the top of the list?

Charles LefÃ¨bvre

Botzaris

Rose du Roi

Duchesse de Buccleugh

Armide

Crested Moss

AnaÃ¯s SÃ©gales

Duchesse d'AngoulÃªme

Orpheline de Juillet

Beau Narcisse

Duchesse de Montebello

Empress Josephine

MarÃ©chal Davoust

Mme Louis LÃ©vÃªque

Willam Lobb

Moonstone

Neptune

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Comments (9)

lynnette
16 years ago
Duchess de Montebello makes a nice upright bush as a focal point. Every garden should have one.
Botzaris also makes a tidy bush
Duchesse de Buccleugh good shape and wonderful colour
Orephine de Juilet also a good shape
Armide can be a monster and also will bend over, but loads of flowers
Anais Segales and Beau Narcisse has stayed on the low side for me
Neptune flowers were beautiful and had a good fragrance but they discoloured quickly in my garden. I hope someone will contradict me.
Most Mosses in my garden tend to droop over at the top especially Marechal Davoust, he does need to be staked but many blooms. A friend has Empress Josephine and she doesn't stay in bloom very long so I never got her. Again please say it isn't so.
autumnshowers
Original Author
16 years ago
Angel Face was my first rose bush I grew. Neptune, I believe, exceeds her. I appreciate the info.
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patriciae_gw
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what is not to like about any of them. Botzaris and Armide both have very long blooms for me, but Botzaris is the cleaner rose. I have ordered the Orpheline two years in a row and what they sent both times is not Orpheline de Juillet but a very nice medium pink rose. All three Duchesse are really wonderful. Oh dear, I guess I am not much help. I am working on my own long list.

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riku
16 years ago
Lynnette 2 weeks at the longest for me.
judith5bmontreal
16 years ago
They are all lovely roses, but the only one I have is Empress Josephine. She was planted this spring, and started blooming in June, for a good 3 weeks or more. Guess I was just lucky? I think her flowers are just beautiful.

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riku
16 years ago
Out of the list I have not grown Botzaris, with experience varying for the others from 5 to 7 years, or too new to comment and in the case of the gallicas most gone due to issues with my climate. But ignoring climate differences and based on memory or continuing experience, and if I had only 4 choices they would be:

Duchesse de Montebello
Duchesse de Buccleugh
Charles LefÃ¨bvre (make sure shaded in afternoon)
Rose du Roi
Vic007
16 years ago
Do you spray? Moonstone is beautiful early in the season, but it's one of my most blackspot-prone roses and defoliates and becomes rather mangy by mid-summer.
autumnshowers
Original Author
16 years ago
I do spray. I had Moonstone in the past. It has a very unique coloring like Grey Pearl.
gnabonnand
16 years ago
I'm anxious to see how Duchesse de Montebello does in Texas. The photos I've seen of it really appeal to me. My 'Heritage' sometimes reminds me of photos I've seen of DdM.

Randy

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