Difference between The Fairy polyantha and The Fairy miniature

karima_2008

14 years ago

Hi,

I have heard that " The Fairy Polyantha" is a beautiful hardy floriferous rose. I like to have it in my garden.

But the nurseries here, selling it as a miniture rose. And their flowers are very tiny about half an inch across.

In the photos the polyantha rose seems a bit bigger.

Is there a difference between the two?

thanks

karima

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catsrose
14 years ago
I doubled checked on helpmefind.com/roses. There is no Fairy miniature listed, so I presume it is the same rose. However, the flowers on the polyantha are small but not that small--an inch or more--so someone could have bread a minature and called in the fairy. Check the helpmefind website; there are lots ofphotos of The Fairy." It is a great rose.
mike_rivers
14 years ago
There is a seed strain of miniature roses called 'Rosa chinensis var. Minima' or 'Angel Rose' or 'Fairy Rose'. Packets of the seed don't seem to be as widely available as they once were but a local nursery here still sells the plants and they title them "Fairy Roses". Maybe this what your nursery is carrying. They are clearly not closely related to the polyantha 'The Fairy'.

Here is a link that might be useful: Fairy Rose, Seed Strain
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The 'Rosa chinensis var. Minima' or 'Angel Rose' or 'Fairy Rose' start off small for a couple of years but then many change to large bushes/climbers. Our local rose society sold small germinated plants as a fund raiser. As far as I know everyone who purchased one was happy with their purchase. I still grow a number of them. They give garden color when very few other roses are in bloom.
york_rose
14 years ago
There are also (at least in the USA) apparently different strains of The Fairy with differing growth habits.

I'm not aware of any that have 1/2" flowers (more like 2/3" in diameter, in good-sized, clustered inflorescences), but the size of the bush varies with the strain. It has thorns, but no more than typical. There are many roses with far more thorns than The Fairy. The flowers are always a pink color often associated in the USA with the birth of a baby girl. They are also scentless.

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It's not my favorite because it's scentless, but I've grown it before and aside from its scentlessness I can strongly recommend this as a good to excellent rose to grow (provided you get a dependable strain of it)! If you get a good strain it gives you pretty little roses repeatedly during the summer while putting up with surprisingly poor conditions.

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