Fragrant drift roses.. Do they exist?
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Difference between Peach Drift and Apricot Drift?
Comments (14)Kisa, Neither one looks quite like my Apricot Drift, of which I have 8 bushes. Your second photo comes closest, and photo #1's color and single petaled blooms are not typical for the Apricot Drift. The flower color of Apricot Drift is very much like Austin's, 'Ambridge Rose,' but more pink with pale yellow suffused with the pink tones as well. The very full petaled flowers (50+ petals), of Apricot Drift are large, bigger than the typical 1.5" sized Drift Series bloom. They are mostly 2.25", 3/4 inch larger. A.D. also grows less sprawling, more compactly, almost dome shaped, at about 16" X 24" for me, but I give them a good shaping each spring which keeps them limited to the stated size by season's end. CJrosaphile, I would recommend Apicot Drift, my favorite Drift, for the even, very tailored growth habit that it exhibits for me. Also, its larger blooms, for a Drift, are heavily petaled for a Drift, too. It's flower production for me is not profuse for a typical Drift, but still plenty adequate. My second favorite Drift rose is Popcorn Drift for its cupped blooms. Third is Sweet Drift, the bush gets 3' wide for me, a bit sprawling, but its blooms are heavily petaled, which I like in a small bloom (concealing aging, browning stamens very effectively), although the bloom's petals quill annoyingly as they age. Moses...See MoreExperience with Drift roses?
Comments (18)I just saw ICY DRIFT for the first time, just now. YOWZA! Not a bloom in sight, yet, but who cares! The foliage is GORGEOUS!!!!! A bright, happy yellow-green, and so packed with tiny leaves you couldn't see the canes. Icy Drift was in the same section with all the other groundcover roses at Madison (Mississippi) Garden Center, and there was no comparison. If the foliage stays anywhere near that nice, Icy Drift is up there with Mermaid and New Dawn as one of the greatest of the greats. I'd love to know how it looks after a year or two. I HAVE grown Peach Drift, when we lived in Madison before, and it seemed happier in the pots than once I (finally, after years of procrastination) got it into the ground. Still, they persist after seven years, being given sporadic care by the busy young surgeons who bought the house. We stopped by last week, before closing on our new Mississippi home, and the Peach Drifts I planted were looking happy - already leafed-out, with bronzy/maroon new growth: still small, though. Their new owners like them pretty well. Peach Drift continually sends up short blooming canes with showy clusters, in a delectable color range: basically, all the colors you'd see on ripening peaches. Once they start blooming, they continue up to the first frost. The ones I planted never attained the 'three-high/four-wide mound' size/shape I'd hoped for. But that may be my lack of soil amendment, or shortcomings in subsequent care. In Mississippi at least, Peach Drift tolerates a good bit of shade, and keeps right on blooming. Does not defoliate in the dead of Summer, and is semi-evergreen in Winter. I'm hoping Icy Drift will do the same. Has anyone down South grown Icy Drift for a few years? I'm tempted to send the truck by, to pick up every one the Garden Center has. But I'd like to know how the plant evolves over time. I'm thinking of planting a drift of Icy Drift beneath the sunny side of a clump of 'Shoal Creek' Vitex Agnus Castus (thank heavens the estate's last owners compiled a comprehensive set of books on the plantings... and the soil amendments... and the locations of the French drains: so I know exactly which cultivars I have of EVERYTHING, down to the Green Mountain Boxwoods). Anyway, I find blue to be cold and disturbing as a flower color, and white blossoms would be too cold, without the yellow-green foliage I saw today on Icy Drift. Can anyone tell me if the foliage continues to lean toward 'Lime', rather than maturing to a straight-up standard green?...See MoreComparison of Different Drift Roses
Comments (17)We mass-planted Peach, Coral, Apricot, Sweet and White in our garden for landscaping use a few years back. They have been bulletproof in terms of performance reliability, foliage disease resistance, heat & cold tolerance. Peach has the most handsome foliage and the first to bloom, coral has the most dwarf form after six years in ground, apricot is similar to peach but paler green leaves, and sweet/white are the tallest and their blooms come in the last. They all are beautiful in each’s own way and offer great impacts in the various locations we assigned them. By the way, White’s bloom form is the most double, has that old garden rose look....See MoreGround cover roses comparison - Drift vs Sunblaze vs Vigorosa
Comments (22)I have one red Sunblaze rose that I rescued from a grocery store last year. The colors on the rose are gorgeous and this year, it is starting to take off. I have a ton of blooms on it at the moment that are just getting ready to open. I have not had any issues with diseases but then in my area, I am not prone to having plants with fungal diseases. My rose tends to grow more upright rather than cascading. However, it is still a baby so I don't know what the final result will be. So far, I am happy with this rose. Color stays a true blue red, not orange. My phone does not photograph red roses well so sorry for the poor picture. I have not taken a photo this year (just video) of the bush, so I don't have anything that is a better picture for you....See Moreshopshopsz8texas
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