La Reine rose care?
Aaron Drummond
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La Reine vs. Reine Victoria
Comments (30)Bourbons. Such divas! They love our gardens and fulfill our wildest Victorian dreams or they tease us with slow progress and stingy blooms until the very last of our patience is burned out and then finally build up enough presence to erupt into the grandest show in the garden or they sulk while offering just enough meager crumbs of sumptuous and deeply fragrant beauty to keep us hooked and stay our shovels or they simply succumb to blackspot or harsh winters and turn up their prissy little toes after a few years. When they love us and our gardens, they get bigger and better every year and toss around cascades of blooms like those Krista receives for her tender care. Time will tell what each of yours does, Magpie. :-) Carol Zephirine...See MoreMrs. John Laing, La Reine Victoria, Louise Odier
Comments (5)I have Louise next to mine. It has a big (OK huge) footprint although It did have major dieback this year with our late frost. Mrs J.L. punches out some beautiful blooms and it is hard to pass on, although it is subject to BS. The waaaabits have a major love affair with La Reine despite cages within cages. I do not know, they are all good choices, perhaps different in your zone as has been mentioned. Have fun! F.L....See MoreLa Reine Victoria, Mme Pierre Oger and La Reine
Comments (6)I am quite a few zones different from the OP, but I have a virgorous, very vigorous MPO. I picked it up at a local nursery about 5 years ago. It's huge now. The fragrance is fantastic, like baby powder almost. It gives a good first flush with not great rebloom. One year I had a decent second flush and we'll see about this year. I had it all pegged, until my husband the whack job whacked part of it back. Now it has a mohawk in the center and long canes all around. Lovely....See MoreSOS: managing Baronne Prevost, La Reine, Paul Neyron
Comments (8)Back when Hybrid Perpetuals were new on the scene, most gardeners were happy with just a modest Autumn repeat with scattered flushes (or scattered solitary blooms) after the first flush. Meanwhile, many Teas would barely stop blooming at all during the growing season -- the caveat was that they were not very cold-hardy. Hybrid Teas evolved as a sort of compromise between the two groups. They were generally more cold-hardy than the Teas but not as much as the Hybrid Perpetuals. And they generally bloomed more often than the Hybrid Perpetuals but not as much as the Teas. There is a great deal of variation within Hybrid Perpetuals, being as the group became a catch-all for anything which had even minor rebloom and that was not one of the other repeat-blooming classes (Bourbons, Portlands, Chinas, Teas). Of the three you mentioned by name, I have only 'Reine des Violettes'. Mine is three years old now, and didn't really start to "get going" until last year in terms of growth. It has a first-flush along with all the others starting in late May (for me, last year), then a second-flush in July, then a third flush in late August into September. The second flush is the smallest, the first the largest, and the third somewhere in between. Mine grows as a climber against the railing of a raised deck. I think it wants to be kinda sprawly to be grown as a free-standing shrub, but that's just my preference. By growing it with support and training its canes more toward horizontal, I get more flowers per flush, so that's why I do it. Also, keep something in mind about the oldies versus the Hybrid Teas. I've often heard some gardening friends say "oh, it blooms all summer long" when talking about a particular Hybrid Tea. If you investigate further, that "blooming now" will include times when only one flower is on the bush. Hybrid Teas tend to produce larger, but fewer, blooms than some other types. The Hybrid Perpetuals my have fewer periods of bloom, but more blooms per period. It's not a case of one being better than the other -- just different. That's why I have a bunch of types of roses in the garden, including once-blooming oldies. :-) ~Christopher...See MoreAaron Drummond
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