Which roses would look good together?
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Comments (27)I will forever love Louise Odier. She is the rose that got me started in my rose obsession! Her fragrance is intoxicating, her shape is just beautiful. Check out this website below. A few years back, I was googling something and came across it. It interested me enough to buy a rose bush, then 2, then 3... Here is a link that might be useful: Louise Odier - be sure to scroll all the way to bottom!...See MoreWould Belinda's Dream and Duchesse de Brabant look good together?
Comments (10)BD and DdB are very different roses in style and growth habit. BD is a modern (1988) shrub rose, and DdB is an old tea rose. From the pictures I saw on HMF, BD makes a rounded, small to medium shrub with almost hybrid tea shaped blooms, which are all the same color and do not vary from a medium pink towards the blue end. Duchesse de Brabant gets MUCH bigger in warm climates - check out the pictures on HMF. Its growth habit is that of an old tea - all over the place until it matures into a rounded, but very large, bush. I have it in my garden and love it. The colors of its blooms vary from medium pink to a paler pink, to sometimes a much darker pink towards the yellow end. The blooms are the old elegant tea style - relaxed and frequently nodding. They are sometimes almost translucent in the sun and incredibly beautiful. So in my opinion they would not look good together. It is just a matter of personal preference which style you like better, but I would pick one and stick to it for the roses nearby. DdB looks great with Mrs. Dudley Cross, another, although smaller, old tea rose which is a light pink/yellow blend. Look up Maggie - the color is almost cerise, it is such a dark and bright pink. It is also an old tea, so it would look fine re growth habit, but I am not sure about the color. If you want to have Belinda's Dream, I would keep it away from the old teas - it is a much more formal shape - perhaps you could tuck it in somewhere where you have some sun and only room for one smaller rose. Just my thoughts - Jackie...See MoreWhat purple rose would look good mixed with albas and damasks?
Comments (16)Hmmm, bman1920 said "purple" and "Gallica" in his original post, but I see we have wandered far afield, and so I'll add a couple more suggestions. I like the idea of purple roses too, but there are also Gallicas that start out purplish pink and then age purple-lavender-gray, and that are good. 'De la Maitre-Ecole' (the name has variations) is very good, with large fragrant blooms and a sturdy grower--it does sucker--and a favorite of mine, which might require better treatment than some, is 'Ypsilante', with big scented velvety flowers. I wish this one WOULD sucker. Actually I have met very few Gallicas I didn't like, and most of the medium- and darker-hued ones lean to purple or lavender at some stage of bloom development. Leaving Gallicas behind, a rambling rose I like, even though it's scentless, is 'Rose Marie Viaud'. This has little double blooms the shape and color of a Parma violet. I'm currently trying to figure out a place for mine where it won't die of chlorosis. Oh, and finally, two purple Mosses: 'William Lobb', very tall, vigorous and obliging, and 'Capitaine John Ingram', low-growing and Gallica-like, the flowers little velvet purple rosettes with a button eye and a smooth lavender reverse. Both fragrant, of course. Melissa...See MoreWhich "found rose" would you like to grow next to which 'known rose'?
Comments (87)For me Grandmother's Hat is a nice rose but not one of my most frequent bloomers. She only blooms in small flushes and no more than others of my HPs. HPs in general do well here as do Bourbons. Mme Pierre Oger is a monster (from Vintage who obtained a virus cleaned clone so maybe that accounts for some of the robustness???) Bourbon, healthy as can be and blooms repeatedly. Souvenir de la Malmaison is more demure in size but also a very healthy Bourbon with very good repeat. I can't remember whether she has many thorns. However, my HP Reine des Violettes is thornless and repeats about as much as Grandmother's Hat. Another HP I have is Comtesse O'Gorman, she is quite healthy and has few thorns. GH, RdV, and COG all seem to have very flexible canes, not twiggy/stiff like what I think of as HT habit. The HP that has bloomed the most for me is Baronne Prevost. She has also never shown any disease and has flexible canes. I have an HP from Eurodesert that came misidentified as Symphony but Cliff said it clearly wasn't. It's very pretty and healthy but quite strange. Grows in a very narrow, elegant, upright shape. I don't have a single rose that has that particular growth habit. Some canes are bristley while others are entirely smooth. I wonder how many of the found roses aren't any particular historic rose but rather seedlings of them. We know that in France back in the old days if you ordered a rose with a certain name you just might get a seedling. So what do we know about very old American nurseries? What were their practices? Did they always sell the actual variety or were seedlings sent? I really don't know but am curious about it. In addition, it seems modern day roses can easily get mixed up in commerce, so I have to wonder how many times that happened in the past, and we just don't know about it. Or if someone, way back got a seedling and that rose did really, really well, it might have been passed on to friends and spread because it was such a good plant. It won't match precisely a famous antique variety because it isn't. But should be treasured because of garden merit. With roses at Sangerhausen, I wish someone or a group would visit and discuss, in depth, the ID's of roses such as Cornet and Mrs. R. Sharman-Crawford with staff. How certain is Sangerhausen that these roses are correct in their garden? Do they have documentation that helps in the ID, and can this be viewed? Were these plants growing in parts of the garden that were bombed to heck during war, or in areas that came through unscathed? Then it would be nice if DNA of GH, Cornet, and MSC could be compared to see if they are related or are any of them identical....See MoreSophia
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