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Fair Bianca...Jeri?
Comments (43)I think David Austin's best white has to be ROSE-MARIE, the white sport of HERITAGE. It is a good bloomer, vigorous, and forms a graceful shrub. The vase life of the bloom is shorter and the color is more of a creamy white, but still a very beautiful bloom. BTW, if you are going to get any vase life out of the rose you must cut the bloom while it is still in bud. Don't worry if the bud hasn't cracked yet. As long as one or two sepals are down you should be fine. I didn't like GLAMIS CASTLE because the myrrh fragrance was obnoxious (the blooms also shatter easily). As you folks have guessed "myrrh" can vary quite a bit. With Fair Bianca the fragrance is acceptable because of a subtle vanilla-like base note, which is why the rose marries so well with the annual Heliotrope. Tamora has a delicious myrrh fragrance because of a fruity top note. CLAIR AUSTIN is the hot new English white right now but I haven't had a chance to grow it yet. I'm dying to try BOULE DE NEIGE, a white Bourbon hybridized by Francois Lacharme in 1867. I have its pinkish-white sister COQUETTE DES BLANCHES growing in my mother's zone 7b garden and it is an exceptionally beautiful plant. The blooms are small but are blessed with perfect OGR flower form and appear in lovely sprays on a graceful (and healthy) shrub. CdB has a very strong, sweet fragrance that must be smelled to be believed. Of course no white rose can compare in beauty to the classic Damask MADAME HARDY (1832). I've searched my whole life as a rosarian for a repeat blooming substitute and have yet to find it. That is why I like Fair Bianca so much. The bloom is similar. Alas the fragrance isn't as fine, the chartreuse button eye doesn't have as much visual punch as Mme. Hardy's emerald green pip, and the plant ... well it's a joke to even try comparing the two for vigor and graceful growth habit. SOMBREUIL is a gorgeous white climber but the blooms are more of a flattened rosette verses Mme. Hardy's silky white quartered perfection. Sigh......See MoreHave you ever seen Carl in Flower? Neither had I
Comments (3)Very. I wonder if it likes blistering hot Texas sun. So many of the sedums get burnt out. here....See MoreStrangest hosta I have ever seen
Comments (9)YES!!!! I have a Fragrant Blue doing exactly that on 2 leaves. I've been out there a few times trying to piece the spikes back together thinking it's ripped and I can't figure out the curvature & where it ripped. Reality...it didn't rip, it's just weird. I just bought it (a larger clump) last year, so this is the first year coming up on it's own. I planted it well, so there's nothing irregular with the site / how I planted / depth, etc. I've grown many over 10 years. This is the first I've seen this. Being the first year of growing up on it's own, can't comment on whether this happens from time to time on this plant. Gayle...See MoreWeeds Are as Bad as I Have Ever Seen Them
Comments (16)Brad , I hear you ! We too are having a time with Polygonum persicaria aka Lady's Thumb, Persicaria Redleg, Spotted Lady's Thumb , Adam's Plaster . ( weird names for the same plant). This stuff is only one of the many many weeds I am fighting here . I had one weed ( not sure of the name (when I find out I will post it here ) that covered over a 4 foot area . I thought it was a bunch of individual plants but when I got around to tearing it out ......it was all one plant . I couldnt believe it ! We wont even talk about Creeping Charlie. Also fighting the pretty blue Commelina and Sow Thistle but the absolute worst of all is a gorgeous tall blue bell flower called Campanula rapunculoides aka Creeping Bell Flower aka Zombie weed . OMG , this stuff has established itself here and I doubt I will ever be rid of it . It is beautiful but sooooooooo invasive !...See Moreingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
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