Crown Princess Margareta
Prettypetals_GA_7-8
7 years ago
This is my second year with this beautiful rose and I love it! I may have to find a support for her to keep her lovely billowing blooms off the ground! Take a peek!!
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aprilscott12
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Advice for my Crown Princess Margareta climber
Comments (9)Rick, excellent question and one which has never been answered adequately. IMO. In 'The English Roses' (Timber Press, 2005) where Austin has grouped his roses he lists the following as being capable shrub-climbers. The only criteria I could figure out was: they grew 25% taller against a wall. An 8 footer became a 10 footer (mind you this is in England). Perhaps bushiness was a disqualification? Not stated. Some vy. tall roses omitted. A Shropshire Lad (leander grp.) James Galway (leander grp.) -- (8ft on pillar, 10ft on wall) Malvern Hills (musk grp.) St. Swithun (old rose hybrid grp.) Snow Goose (musk grp.) Spirit of Freedom (old rose hybrid grp.) The Generous Gardener (musk grp.) The Pilgrim (musk grp.) Another Austin book: says 'Falstaff' is too bushy to be considered a natural climber but grown against a wall will attain medium height (so bushiness is considered). At the Austin site: Crown Princess Margareta was classed as a very large shrub for the back of the border. A different place at the site classed her as a rose for small arch or pillar. Maybe you can figure out something from this mish-mash of information. I've decided shrub-climber is the best term. A shrub doesn't need support and the climber part alerts you that it's going to be tall. Your Crwn.Prin.Marg. is going to be gorgeous whichever way you choose (support or free form)....See MoreWOULD LIKE: Crown Princess Margareta
Comments (2)I dont kniw if you saw my next message, but I can send you some next spring, or possibly this fall....See MoreCrown princess Margareta vs teasing Georgia
Comments (54)I grew both Teasing Georgia and Crown Princess Margareta in Eastern Ontario, 4B. Both had a lot of winter die back and needed protection. CPM struggled and only bloomed infrequently, though she was also in a poorer site, less sun. Teasing Georgia was by far the better of the two. She would grow back from less than a foot high in late March to as much as seven feet by end of July. Her canes were also quite flexible and twined easily on a decorative obelisk where she bloomed a lot, repeatedly and often. She was also very healthy in a humid climate. I am growing CPM here in my new garden in zone 7a, Okanagan Valley. In fact it is the same plant I had in Ontario which I brought with me. I very much like her flowers form and colour. She is very vigorous and healthy here, but still only blooms in 3 or 4 flushes a season with some scattered flowers in between. Though this may be partly because she has only had two seasons in the ground here after the shock of a transcontinental move. We shall see this summer. I definitely feel that TG is Austin's best yellow climber and will be getting another plant this year to grow her again in a more clement climate. I would suggest growing grafted plants of either of these in your colder climate if you can find them. Bury the bud graft 4 inches at least. Hope this is helpful. Cheers, Rick...See MoreViability of Crown Princess Margareta in a pot?
Comments (23)Shay: David Austin catalog 2019 offered some own-roots, but I look through David Austin Catalog 2020 .. own-roots are no longer offered through them. From your pic., it's a grafted-rose. If your rose is bought from David Austin, then it's grafted-on-Dr.Huey, and this aggressive root-stock will take over if the bud-union (where the green branches come out) IS NOT BURIED at least 4 inch. below ground. When Dr.Huey takes over, you'll get Dr.Huey blooms (dark-red single-petals) rather than CPM's blooms (yellow/orange). If your roses are bought from Palatine or Hortico, then it's grafted on multiflora, another aggressive root-stock that takes over but produces tiny single-petal white flowers. Dr.Huey's typical trait is tons of blooms in 1st years, but very stingy in 3rd year and latter. My CPM is own-root so the 1st year is whitish-thin-cluster root and was very stingy the 1st year (only 1 bloom & other folks had the same complaint), but as it matures it blooms tons. If you scroll up to the top, the 2nd pic. of my CPM was taken this July 2020. I'm concerned since your bud-union is higher than the soil-level, it should be buried at least 4 inch. below ground to ensure that the root-stock won't take over when the upper branches die through the winter. I had seen roots of my 130 varieties as own-root, plus I root roses from cuttings and own-roots never look chunky & fat & woody like that. I have a few roses grafted-on-Dr.Huey and multiflora, and the grafted-on-Dr.Huey has a longer & fatter stick than multiflora. See pic. below, the bud-union should be buried 4" below soil in cold-zone so the root-stock won't take over when the upper canes die through winter. My experience with Dr.Huey-rootstock in a pot: it doesn't handle acidic rain well when that accumulates in the pot, and will break out in black spots in heavy rain....See More
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