Comparison of Different Drift Roses
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Difference between Peach Drift and Apricot Drift?
Comments (14)Kisa, Neither one looks quite like my Apricot Drift, of which I have 8 bushes. Your second photo comes closest, and photo #1's color and single petaled blooms are not typical for the Apricot Drift. The flower color of Apricot Drift is very much like Austin's, 'Ambridge Rose,' but more pink with pale yellow suffused with the pink tones as well. The very full petaled flowers (50+ petals), of Apricot Drift are large, bigger than the typical 1.5" sized Drift Series bloom. They are mostly 2.25", 3/4 inch larger. A.D. also grows less sprawling, more compactly, almost dome shaped, at about 16" X 24" for me, but I give them a good shaping each spring which keeps them limited to the stated size by season's end. CJrosaphile, I would recommend Apicot Drift, my favorite Drift, for the even, very tailored growth habit that it exhibits for me. Also, its larger blooms, for a Drift, are heavily petaled for a Drift, too. It's flower production for me is not profuse for a typical Drift, but still plenty adequate. My second favorite Drift rose is Popcorn Drift for its cupped blooms. Third is Sweet Drift, the bush gets 3' wide for me, a bit sprawling, but its blooms are heavily petaled, which I like in a small bloom (concealing aging, browning stamens very effectively), although the bloom's petals quill annoyingly as they age. Moses...See MoreAnyone have Drift roses?
Comments (12)OMG, 50 of them? I'd love to see your pictures! I'm so glad to hear that pink is you're favorite. I don't normally like singles, but when I saw that one online, I was really drawn to it. I'm just waiting to find it in the nursery. Do you have red also? I saw some newly planted roses bushes at a shopping center the other day that had tiny flowers the color of Knockout. I was wondering if it was red. I only have two (Peach, Sweet) that I just planted last year and I absolutely love them so far. They're healthy and bloom all the time. I planted two carpet roses at my last house and then moved before they reached maturity. I went back recently and they are so ugly. I feel like Drift roses are probably better than the Carpet roses, but I'll know for sure in a couple of years. Emily - You can open a free account at Photobucket and upload your photos there. After you've upload your picture, hold you mouse over it and 4 links will pop up under the picture. Copy the html code (3rd one) and paste it here....See MoreExperience with Drift roses?
Comments (18)I just saw ICY DRIFT for the first time, just now. YOWZA! Not a bloom in sight, yet, but who cares! The foliage is GORGEOUS!!!!! A bright, happy yellow-green, and so packed with tiny leaves you couldn't see the canes. Icy Drift was in the same section with all the other groundcover roses at Madison (Mississippi) Garden Center, and there was no comparison. If the foliage stays anywhere near that nice, Icy Drift is up there with Mermaid and New Dawn as one of the greatest of the greats. I'd love to know how it looks after a year or two. I HAVE grown Peach Drift, when we lived in Madison before, and it seemed happier in the pots than once I (finally, after years of procrastination) got it into the ground. Still, they persist after seven years, being given sporadic care by the busy young surgeons who bought the house. We stopped by last week, before closing on our new Mississippi home, and the Peach Drifts I planted were looking happy - already leafed-out, with bronzy/maroon new growth: still small, though. Their new owners like them pretty well. Peach Drift continually sends up short blooming canes with showy clusters, in a delectable color range: basically, all the colors you'd see on ripening peaches. Once they start blooming, they continue up to the first frost. The ones I planted never attained the 'three-high/four-wide mound' size/shape I'd hoped for. But that may be my lack of soil amendment, or shortcomings in subsequent care. In Mississippi at least, Peach Drift tolerates a good bit of shade, and keeps right on blooming. Does not defoliate in the dead of Summer, and is semi-evergreen in Winter. I'm hoping Icy Drift will do the same. Has anyone down South grown Icy Drift for a few years? I'm tempted to send the truck by, to pick up every one the Garden Center has. But I'd like to know how the plant evolves over time. I'm thinking of planting a drift of Icy Drift beneath the sunny side of a clump of 'Shoal Creek' Vitex Agnus Castus (thank heavens the estate's last owners compiled a comprehensive set of books on the plantings... and the soil amendments... and the locations of the French drains: so I know exactly which cultivars I have of EVERYTHING, down to the Green Mountain Boxwoods). Anyway, I find blue to be cold and disturbing as a flower color, and white blossoms would be too cold, without the yellow-green foliage I saw today on Icy Drift. Can anyone tell me if the foliage continues to lean toward 'Lime', rather than maturing to a straight-up standard green?...See MoreWhat is the difference between a carpet rose and a drift rose??
Comments (10)I love the hot pink carpet one. Boy I would have them going along the entire length of our fence at the back :D But not sure if the ones whom own the senior building would allow it. Also too I have yet to see any of them in our garden centers here. But maybe I could keep an eye out for one next year as well as an Aurora borealis. Would have better luck getting the last one I bet. My bus trips are limited during the week due to the corona virus crisis Also too anybody that had a vehicle to get any had an advantage over my having to take the bus. Finding it hard too to find the hanging planters of flowers. Seemed they all went as fast as what the toilet paper did:) Usually can get one from Walmart but not this year. Only other way is to buy an empty hanging basket and buy like some sun type begonias or impatiens or wave petunias and some dirt and do one myself....See Moresmithdale1z8pnw
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