Sherry, I have the exact same question about Mme d'Enfert! I have a rose whose tag says that, from Vintage, so ownroot, but she's in a pot ghetto with too much shade. I'd never let her bloom till this year. I'd swear I was crazy and she couldn't bloom single flowers, but my Clothilde Soupert had crazy-small, much less double flowers this year. I'm not familiar with petal count and flower-form issues in the Spring. I've never noticed such drastic changes. **If I may tag on, is it possible that a kind-of-young Enfert in too much shade blooms with a low petal count and no cupping? Everything else fits very well for la Mme.** Most of my very double OGRs look kind of like Noisettes this Spring! Clothilde is changing back now, btw. So weird.

Ok .. this is odd but all my posts are going missing and I have to post them twice to get them to show up on the forum. Anyway .. I emailed the greenhouse again and asked if she could have a look at the picture. She called this a Gaffrey Lye but an internet search only brings up one page with no information what so ever. Here is a link that might be useful: Gaffrey Lye

Richard, it is your last sentence which really tells the tale. So many mycorrhizal preparations have had meager research results and it seems likely that getting the fungi to survive in their new home is a large part of it. This is a rapidly changing field of investigation though, and I can report that "helper bacteria", which appear to set the table, so to speak for the mycorrhizal organisms are being looked at. We talked about that complexity earlier and this is one such area of further detail that is being worked out....or at least that's the goal. The other stumbling block is that strains of these various mycorrhizal fungi can be host-specific. Not in every case mind you, but for some plants, there is one and only one fungal partner. So take larch for an easy example: They appear to "work with" the bolete (a type of mushroom) Suillus grevellei almost exclusively. And Suillus grevellei may not partner with an adjacent species. Not wishing to talk out of my depth here, I'm going to leave it at that. I may be interested in this stuff and have been for decades now, but I'm no mycologist, and should one wander in here, they could perhaps see some problems with bits that I've written. Overall though, this is what appears to be happening. I do not see any harm however in "inoculating" with a bit of forest soil. First, by volume, it's too little to get you into all the stuff we usually decry in soil amendments. Second, it just might work in some fashion............who knows?

I got Darcy and Carding Mill from Wayside. I already have Tess. My Darcy is pinkish red but not the same shade as Tess. Carding mill is def orange peach. They were selling lots of Darcy's toward the end of the sale so perhaps its Darcy? My Tess is own root and huge, 10ft but I keep cutting it back a little but it still grows right back.