Barden roses: Siren's Keep, Treasure Trail, Mel's Heritage
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Comments (16)Sigh - looking at those pictures of Treasure Trail makes me doubly regret my email from Rogue Valley today that they won't be able to send TT this year after all. I do love Barden roses, and so far I've been tremendously impressed with Golden Buddha and Mel's Heritage just in their first years. They seem to have overwintered just fine and are putting up very nice growth. I could only find photos of a few of my Barden roses, but they're all keepers. Dolly's Forever Rose is a vivid splash of color and rock-solid hardy for me. Incantation is a lovely mix of bright colors and a good bloomer. And Pam's Choice is a hauntingly beautiful "greyge" oddball color, like Nimbus, that's impossible to capture in photos like this. Thanks, Paul, for breeding such wonderful roses! Cynthia...See More‘Mel’s Heritage’ 2018
Comments (32)Yours is looking good, Sheila! I love your bright coral bud! Some of mine that are more shaded by other canes and other plants are a deeper coral like yours, too. I’m also seeing some larger blooms this flush than I’ve seen before. Mine is still rather young, although it’s hard to believe from the size of it! I remember wondering the first year, if it would EVER bloom! It turns out, MH just wanted out of that container ASAP! As soon as my son planted him, he grew and bloomed very quickly. I’m now eyeing these hundreds of blooms and hoping they won’t need to be deadheaded. Jeri, will a good shake or blast with the hose be good enough to dislodge any remaining spent petals? I can’t imagine cutting each cluster off. There are FAR too many for that. I’m already grateful the drip system is watering Mel’s Heritage, because it’s difficult to get to the base, the way he tumbles down the slope. I’m SO glad I’m not dragging the hose up there to water him anymore. Jeri, it makes me very happy to see you possibly offer Jo a start of ‘Mel’s Heritage’! I do so want her to have him again! Lisa...See MorePaul Barden’s Rose Varieties Are Becoming Rare
Comments (146)Sorry for the late reply to your query Joe. I haven't been on the forum much over winter, busy with other things. I did go up to the Summerland Ornamental Gardens yesterday to do a quick check on the roses. We had a very difficult winter with a warm November and December, and in early January a sudden flash freeze with temperatures as low as -27 C for a week or so. It is still late winter here and the soil is yet frozen to a degree. Summerland is rated as zone 6b, but we had 5a temeratures with strong arctic catabatic winds and wind chill during the cold snap. So, on to the roses. Most of them will be going into their 3rd growing season this summer, and so are still immature plants. I am happy to report that all of them survived. Many have quite a bit of cane damage, but they all have live cane close to the ground and some have swelling buds already. The collection at the Gardens consists of the following: Marianne, Gallicandy, Oshun, Jerry Jennings and Treasure Trail. We also have Allegra, Janet Inada, Mel's Heritage and Won Fang Yon in the greenhouse at Fraser Valley Rose Farm in Deroche. I will continue to look for viable opportunities to acquire more varieties if feasible, but won't be actively seeking them out. We imported six cuttings of each, along with many more early Austin varieties and a few other hard to find varieties last spring. Jason stuck the cuttings and has been growing them on over winter. I have not spoken with Jason for a month or so, but he is doing an inventory and I will know in a few weeks what took. As well as putting Paul's Plants into the collection at Summerland, Jason will be growing Barden varieties as well and will no doubt have some for sale in Canada in a few years. We too will propagate from the plants in the Summerland collection when the mother plants are mature enough. We will sell our resulting plants at our spring plant sale and our annual Rose Tour held in June. The proceeds will go to help support the Ornamental Gardens. So by my count, we have nine of Paul's varieties in the two Canadian collections. They should be secure for a long time in our Public Garden, which is now 110 years old. We of course were unable to get all of the varieties that we might have liked, but we did pretty well in my books. Because the whole idea of the project was to secure and currate some of Paul's varieties in a safe place, I guess we have a success. An additional intent was to allow us to propagate and share these lovely plants with others. Jason will be able to do that better than we can at the Gardens in the next few years and may in fact eventually begin shipping to the US as his new nursery grows. But again, that will be a few years down the road. Even propagating plants for sale here in Canada is still a year or two away. But then this project started in 2019 and we are now entering year six, but we are on the road to reaching our long term goals. I know many on the forums are familiar with Jason through his You Tube Videos and website. he is young, energetic and a cutting edge nurseryman and Rosarian who shares my passion for preserving rare, garden worthy varieties. For those of you in Canada, check out his website and support him if you can....See MoreGrowing Mel’s Heritage without a support?
Comments (28)Thank you Dianela and Jeri for your confirmation on Mel's vigor - I'm so happy to hear that! I will proceed to plant him at that spot in front of my fence next spring then. Weekend Gardener, if you are still contemplating on planting your Mel against a fence, maybe having trellises in front of your fence like I described above might work for you as well when the time comes to replace your fence after a few years? We had our fences all replaced last year, so I'm planning way ahead. But based on what I saw last year, anything planted near the posts got badly disturbed as the workers needed to dig up the old posts and the underground concrete that was poured to hold the posts in place. So if you do decide to plant your Mel by a fence, have him in the middle of a fence section to minimize the potential damage later. --Lin...See Moreracin_rose
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10 years agoI'd really like to have this one, but I don't see it on Rogue Valley's site.
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