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Show us your Romanticas/Generosas-in the vase/bush shots etc

16 years ago

Hey everyone,

I hope you don't mind ME not posting-don't have a camera yet-but I wondered if anyone would like to show us your favorite Romanticas/Generosas?

Also, bush shots, or in the vase would be great too!

:0) Phyl

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snowheather
16 years ago
Well, these aren't the greatest, but here's two pics two start off.

This next one is Sweet Promise. It doesn't look as much like Liv Tyler as it appears in the pictures. It is more salmon colored. Both are in their first year in my garden and growing very well. They are frequent bloomers and the blooms are large and very scented.

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peachiekean
16 years ago
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My favorite Bolero photo
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rosalindas84
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kathy9norcal
16 years ago
Favorite by far, Jean Giono, (yellower in spring)

then, Comptesse de Provence,

Yves Piaget (not pictured) although I have a few good photos, has done dismally for me in that it balls up almost all season long--in cold, in heat, in rain, etc.

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Jean Marion (z6a Idaho)
16 years ago
Yves Piaget (with purple asters) doesn't ball here...

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bethnorcal9
16 years ago
Most of mine are too new and haven't bloomed yet. But here's a few...

YVES PIAGET
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JOHANN STRAUSS (I'm not sure if it's considered a Romantica or not, but if not... it should be!)
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VERSIGNY
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MARQUISE ORSOLA SPINOLA
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And how about one from the Poulsen Renaissance series? Thanks to Marina for enabling me on this beauty!
SANDRA RENAISSANCE
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phylrae
Original Author
16 years ago
All I can say is WOW!
I don't know what else to say. I think I have been drooling over most of them for awhile now....

Liv Tyler (Comtesse de Provence)/Sweet Promise...gorgeous! Love the quartered blooms!
Bolero-thought it was Eden at first-love the pinky inside!
Guy de Maupassant-look so big and heavy! Do they really have deep fragrance to your nose?
Jean Giono always reminds me of a yellow/orange dahlia!
Yves Piaget-had once, died, want another. Reminds me of our peonies here. Think it was the source (Wayside) and a sale rose at that.
Beth, your last four shots...wow. I read that Versigny is hard to find? I've never even heard of the others (except for Johann Strauss!)

Thank you ALL for sharing these awesome photos! I so want spring to arrive. It's brutally cold outside.
:0) Phyl
bethnorcal9
16 years ago
Phyl, I got VERSIGNY and several other Generosas from Roses Unlimited. I also got from them PAUL BOCUSE, ELIANE GILLET, ELIZABETH STUART, SONIA RYKIEL, MME PAUL MASSAD, WILLIAM CHRISTIE and NICOLE MIOULANE. Unfortunately, none of them bloomed yet. They were still rather small plants. But I expect them to be very big and nice in the coming season! I can't wait for spring!
phylrae
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks, Beth. I love RU...finally decided on four roses from there this season-Traviata, Cafe, Paris d'Yves St. Laurent and Yves Piaget. I have a Mr. Lincoln, Strike It Rich and two Wm. Shakespeare 2000s coming from Pickering as well. It is snowing now...weird weather these past few winters...rain, warmer than usual, not as much snow on a consistent basis.
:0) Phyl
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16 years ago
Generosa
Don Poncet I got this by accident the wrong Generosa was delivered nice enough not as quick a rebloom as Paul Bocuse
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Paul Bocuse (great fragrance my favorite of them )
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and fully opened very full clusters of 3 and 4 blooms
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Versigny I donated it last year to a Nursing Home Garden I liked it well enough but needed the space for another rose

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phylrae
Original Author
16 years ago
Thank you! Oh, some day I have GOT to get myself a Paul Bocuse! I drool over him everytime I see him! Your other shots are just gorgeous....you are a wonderful photographer, Labrea. :0) Phyl
jackie_o
16 years ago
Joe where did you get your Paul Bocuse from? I just love that color and I'd like to order one. (sorry Phyl for busting into your thread!)
phylrae
Original Author
16 years ago
That's ok, Jackie...
BTW, I know that RU was offering Paul Bocuse, but I'm not sure if they have any left, as I mentioned in an email to them that I would like it, Colette or Pure Poetry as substitutes if the ones I originally ordered weren't all available. Pat wrote back that Colette was still available (but no mention of the others!)
Phyl

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