Odd things in the Fridge, and Orange Roses with Yellow Reverse

11 years ago

I was driving around Pleasanton yesterday, and took a hard turn into the Rose Pavilion, a boring shopping center, surrounded by hundreds of the most fantastic rose bushes, all the same kind. I MUST find out what rose this is.

No fragrance. Big, approx 5" blooms, bright dark orange (almost as dark as Fragrant Cloud but not quite), with striking yellow reverse. I first thought maybe Folklore, but didn't detect any fragrance. Color contrast more like the photos I see of Leonidas, but these appear to have SUPER high pedal count, and not ruffley edges like the Leonidas photos I see. Help Help - I'm in love.

So, I grabbed a handful of giant bright red hips, put them in a baggy, and brought them home to put in my fridge (yeah, I know the seedlings likely won't look like parents). After which I was then sad, as I had put a baggy very cool old rose hips I gathered a month ago when I had Jury Duty, that I must have accidently thrown out with science experiments from the fruit/veggie drawer. I looked around my poor fridge, mostly vacant of food, and filled with horse semen extenders that had expired as we haven't bred any horses in a few years, and loaded with horse injectables needing refridgeration.

Any ideas on bright orange, big bloom, non-fragrant gorgeous HTs with yellow reverse? And what strange things do you have in your fridge?

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hoovb zone 9 sunset 23
11 years ago
Not 'Brass Band'?
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Nothing much in the refrigerator at all.
bethnorcal9
11 years ago
Too bad you didn't get any pictures. If the roses have been there for a long time, could be maybe something like TODAY, DYNASTY, IMAGINATION, LAS VEGAS? There haven't been that many newer roses in that color combo for awhile. So I bet it's an older variety. Probably something that Weeks or J&P had.

My (second) fridge, that's in the breezeway, houses some creepy stuff. I was looking in there the other day and thought, "man I need to clean this puppy!" I don't think I've cleaned it in over 5 yrs! We store the extra milks, juices, and other overages, plus my husband's beer stash. He was having some issues with cholesterol a few yrs back, so he used to not eat the egg yolks from Sat-Sun breakfasts, and would save them for me to use in my deer repellent concoctions. There are still a couple of tupperware containers full of yucky, (I'm sure STINKY) partially dried-up eggs in there from (I'm guessing) maybe 3-4yrs ago! And in the freezer, there's probably "who-knows-what" in tupperware containers from yrs ago, that got partially thawed out in the 5-day power outage we had about 5yrs ago!! It's probably the pulp from veggies we made juice with way back when we had the Jack LaLanne juicer. I used to make soups with it. Hmmmm... think it's time to go throw out some stuff? Yeah....
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kittymoonbeam
11 years ago
I thought you were going to say you had flowers in the fridge. For my sisters wedding, we ate out so the fridge would be empty and kept loading in the roses until the big day arrived.

In years past I have had a takeover of bulbs in brown bags with sulfur dust in them. My sister always hated it when I did that because of the sulfur smell and also I banned any fruit or onion bulbs during the 2 month tulip takeover.
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11 years ago
science experiments - I wonder if these are the same as my 'science experiments' - usually various attempts to reproduce penicillin, especially plentiful in the bottom salad drawer.
Urk, Beth, afraid I am another fridge slacker - there are still gooseberries from before mine got american gooseberry mildew - at least 5 years. and some ancient broad beans and various ends of tenderloin and such.
harmonyp
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11 years ago
I was so excited, I went by on the way to work today and took photos. Hoovb - that Brass Band is UNBELIEVABLE.Speaking of science experiments, I swear you are creating some crazy rose steroid.

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Kippy
11 years ago
Does film count? All exposed a while ago too (some might be test shots from a camera I had and sold...not sure which rolls and I don't know that I want to pay to process...lol)
fig_insanity Z7b E TN
11 years ago
Odd things in the fridge: fig (ficus carica) cuttings, deer meat, camellia seeds, pet antibiotics (maybe not so weird), homeopathic medicines from Russia (from a dear friend), something unidentifiable but of vaguely vegetative origin??? that I forgot to label....ok, I should stop typing now and clean out the fridge, lol.

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kittymoonbeam
11 years ago
Is that ketchup&mustard? I don't like the name at all. It's nota rose I grow called half time ( not a favorite name either ) 1/2 time is more thorny than this is but every bit as beautiful. Vintage has a virus free version listed. I put pictures of my 1/2 time up in the rose gallery recently around thanksgiving. Not the best bloomer, but the blooms I get are wonderful.
kittymoonbeam
11 years ago
Not an orange/yellow, more red/yellow but I agree with the comment on HMF that the petals are sort of pearly and luminous.

Here is a link that might be useful: half time pictures
bethnorcal9
11 years ago
Looks like LAS VEGAS to me.
harmonyp
Original Author
11 years ago
The red is my phone camera in bright sun. It really is bright orange in true life. I have K&M, and K&M's blooms are true red with bright yellow, and less than 1/2 the size of these blooms. I LOVE my K&M!

Have to love "help me find". Yes, this rose looks just like the Las Vegas photos. Thank you Beth, think you nailed it!
harmonyp
Original Author
11 years ago
Ah Beth, I just noticed some of the Las Vegas photos on HMF are from you. I'm curious - how many roses do you have - seems like I've seen hundreds of the most gorgeous photos from you. Yours is a garden I'd love to see.
floridarosez9 Morgan
11 years ago
A flat of Stoke's Aster seeds that have to be cold scarified for 6 weeks, rose cuttings in plastic bags, some out-of-date pudding cups and yogurt cups, carrots, some rotten lettuce, horse meds--this is in the barn fridge. The only reason the house fridge is any better is because I just cleaned it. I HATE cleaning out the fridge.

Brass Band is gorgeous.
seil zone 6b MI
11 years ago
Right now my veggie crisper has a package of not so fresh celery and a big bag of rose hips in it waiting to be cleaned, stratified and hopefully germinated!
lola-lemon
11 years ago
Culd it be About face?

edit: i just looked AF UP and i have the colors reversed, so it's not AF.

This post was edited by lola-lemon on Wed, Dec 26, 12 at 22:22

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