Which is your fastest growing non-climber?

7 years ago

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Mine is the single red bought as Bengal Beauty (probably the same as Bengal Fire, Sanguinea etc). This rose is growing so fast since very early in the season that it seems to me I can tell the difference from one day to the next. I planted it in the ground from the pot I kept it for a year only back in October and it has grown to 4ft by now, despite our chillier than usual winter, all the while putting out huge single blooms in various shades of deep red depending on the weather, at the same time carrying large round hips.

It is also completely, absolutely and terribly healthy with spotlessly clean leaves. I believe it is going to grow very large. It is growing faster than my Mutabilis' bought and planted at the same time are. I love this rose which I consider to be a single flowered Tea rather than a China.

If you live in a warm climate and want a large, red flowered, no fuss, ever blooming landscape/speciment shrub you could do worse than consider this rose. I can very well imagine it right in the middle of one of those prized lawns of yours out in California. Its only minus maybe that it may shutdown during very hot spells, judging from what it did for me last year but then, only a few roses don't.

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pat_bamaz7

7 years ago

I’m not familiar with Bengal Beauty, so looked it up on HMF. There is a hedge picture posted there that is
spectacular. I will have to keep that
one in mind for down the road. Is it
fragrant?

I’d say my fastest growing has been the noisette, Champney’s Pink Cluster. I bought it as a one gallon own root in the fall of
2014 and put it in the ground spring of 2015.
It grew to around 4 ft tall by at least 6 ft wide by end of that season and is
now about to start its third season at around 6 ft tall by about 10 ft wide after pruning for shape. Below is a picture of it starting its second
year in April of 2016 fully clothed in foliage and starting to bloom…with Marie
Van Houtte and Francesca barely beginning to leaf out behind it. (and yes, I strategically & shamelessly plant
roses that will become wide at the edge of beds so that my DH will grow
frustrated trying to mow around them and enlarge the bed size…with Champney’s the bed has already been extended multiple
times to allow for its growing girth).

And by early May of 2016, it was doing this…the quantity of blooms during
its flushes is a sight to behold:

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7 years ago
I remember seeing a video on youtube of the Sacramento cemetery gardens and I'm sure they have a huge specimen of it there, right in the middle of the grounds... I remember the narrator mentioning it..

It grows quite well here too, mine got to 6 foot last summer before the inevitable move to another location... last year it was my first non-greenhouse rose to produce a bloom on 13th May... although I've known it to be in bloom during the winter. I think I read somewhere that it's now considered mostly a Tea rose, although I still see it as a China... it does get a bit bare at the base...

My first roses out of the starting gate this season were ''Irene Watts''... and 'Mme. Antoine Mari'... both planted in the worst possible conditions I could give a rose here, so that's something... however most of my other roses have since caught up..
Melissa Northern Italy zone 8
7 years ago
I don't know about fastest-growing, in my unwatered, unfertilized garden (roses do eventually get large enough, sometimes huge), but I can confirm that 'Sanguinea' is a great rose.
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nikthegreek
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7 years ago
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Marlorena, the way I judge this roses's habit, and I may well be wrong since I'm just speculating, is that it may become bare legged but, if left to its own devices and assuming no winter damage, eventually top growth will drape over creating a full round mound.
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7 years ago
Yes Nik, I agree with that, in fact that's how mine was developing, in a kind of draping fashion...

I've grown this rose in the past and I remember neighbours and passers by asking me what it was called... but aware of the many different names I couldn't be bothered explaining so I always said ''some wild China rose''... and left it at that... I did the same with 'Mutabilis'... no one thinks they're roses...
nikthegreek
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7 years ago
no one thinks they're roses...

That's the fun with these roses..
nikthegreek
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7 years ago
Wow, Pat your Champney's looks unbelieveable!

Bengal whatever / Sanguinea is not scented to my nose. Similar to Mutabilis in that respect. This photo looks great also.
pat_bamaz7
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
Nik, That's a gorgeous picture of the rose! Funny that HMF describes it as compact...instead, it looks like a rose I need to plant on the edge of a bed that I want to be made bigger, but DH doesn't :)

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