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New Comments on 'Florence Bower's Pink Tea'?

11 years ago

I see that there have been a few rather tentative remarks on the foundling 'Florence Bower's Pink Tea' in the past. I wonder if anyone has anything to add about this interesting rose? Is the "founding specimen" (i.e., the original one from which the current propagations derive) known and still around? I wonder what form the bush of that old original has taken...? Are the specimens continuous bloomers? In warm areas such as mine (coastal Southern California), what is the coloration of the flowers? Is the foliage satisfactory? --So many questions, because I've bought one (coming to me in a couple of weeks), and a space directly in view of my bedroom window has opened up, so . . . it is undergoing the scrutiny a candidate for such a position has to undergo. Any and all comments about 'Florence Bower's' would be welcome. Thanks!

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mendocino_rose

11 years ago

I've grown it for a few years. In my garden it is vigorous and disease resistant. It doesn't get a lot of extra care here. I guess I would call it a warm pink. I would call it a winner.

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g-in-fl
11 years ago
I also bought Florence Bower's Pink Tea. (Received from Vintage last week)
I don't have any answers to your questions, but if you google her on Google Images, someone has posted some great photos of her plant when it first bloomed.
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nastarana
11 years ago
Perhaps listing this foundling, with pictures, on HMF would elicit some informed responses.
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11 years ago
Nastarana, Florence Bower's is on HMF (but no pictures). I can never get it to come up with the whole name typed in, even with quotation marks. The easiest way for me to find it is to just type in "Florence" and scroll down.

I am sorry to have not taken and posted some pictures of blossoms on HMF when mine was in bloom this summer -- too busy -- but will do so when the next bloom comes around. I like it -- the color here, so far, ranges from ivory with warm peachy pink tones (in the first flush, especially) to pink, getting pinker as it ages.

My plant is only two years old and just one year in the ground, so it is much too young to know how it really is. This first year in the ground, it has had three flushes of blooms, put up two 8' canes, and has had spotless leaves, so I don't think it gets powdery mildew too readily, the main scourge here. Thus far, my sense is that this is probably going to be a good rose.

~Debbie
odinthor
Original Author
11 years ago
catspa, thanks very much for that information--the 8' remark is especially helpful, as I'd very much like a Tea which will quickly fill a hole where my adjective-deleted neighbors removed a beautiful birch tree which had given me some privacy (I now can wave to them from my bed whenever they're on their front step; maybe I can get a "pay per view" thing going). Your posting pretty much decides the matter. I'll think of you every time I go to bed. Wait a minute--that didn't sound right... ;-)
jerijen
11 years ago
"Florence" sounds like a real winner!

Jeri

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