Anna Olivier
jacqueline9CA
7 years ago
Here is a picture I took of one of mine a few days ago. It is planted 9 inches away from our driveway, which is why the lower part of it is pruned flat against the wall. It does not care - blooms all of the time. Color variable, of course - this pic shows the sun shining through the blooms.
Jackie
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jerijen
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fig_insanity Z7b E TN
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Comments (4)Presuming the "emeryville" location is that of Emeryville, CA, I am in the same climate you are in the Bay Area. I have 3 bushes of Anna Olivier, one of which is over 80 years old (it is the cultivar Vintage Gardens got their Anna Olivier from). It is my very favorite rose of the 100+ I have. It grows in the shade, in sun, and is very healthy. Usually a beautiful peach/cream with brick color on the back of the outside petals, it can also sometimes have flowers that are very pale yellow or very pale pink. It blooms continuously in the sun, and repeats in moderate shade. My very old bush is huge (say, 15 feet wide by 10-12 feet high), but I have one I rooted that I keep pruned to a flat shape about 2 feet deep by 5 feet wide (it is planted on our house right next to the driveway) by about 8 feet tall, and it seems happy, and blooms prolifically. I would highly recommend this rose!...See MoreConfused - Anna Olivier vs Bermuda Anna Olivier
Comments (8)Last time I looked Vintage Gardens was selling the correct buff version, but only as a rose that they will specialty root for you if you order it - so it takes a while. They got theirs from cuttings from an old plant in my garden (at the time Gregg told me that the correct version was not in commerce in No America). The Historic Sacramento Cemetery has a plant which is still marked with its study name of "Schmidt's Buff Giant" - they have plant sales a few times a year, maybe you could convince them to root it for sale. If you ever get to No Cal I would be glad to give you cuttings - I have 3 plants of it now in my garden - the 90 plus year old original, and two that I rooted from it. jackie...See MoreAnna Olivier and Lady Roberts
Comments (4)Congratulations Jackie! Your Lady Roberts bloom is lovely - on my monitor it closely resembles the colour of my Safrano blooms at the moment. My Lady Roberts (purchased in May 2014) was extremely variable in colour last year - everything from verging on white to deepest pink! Rather a shock, however, here's the colour that it produced at the beginning of May 2015 - My Anna Olivier hasn't flowered yet this spring but she does have lots of buds - if she is half as beautiful as your AO bloom above, I'll be very happy. Tricia...See MoreAnna Olivier and Le Vesuve
Comments (10)Etoile de Lyon blooms are always yellow, and look just like AO blooms when it is in its yellow mood. That's how, IMO, they got mixed up in commerce. "Bermuda AO" is really EdL. According to Vintage Gardens, they also had the wrong rose as AO. My ancient AO in my garden was IDd because I took some blooms to a Celebration of Old Roses and put them on the mystery table, and by chance the Australian tea rose ladies were visiting, and were able to ID those blooms, as the correct AO was still in commerce in Australia. Then Vintage Gardens re-introduced the correct AO back into commerce in North America, from cuttings of my rose. They sent it all over to old rose nurseries - they told me they did not want it to get lost. So fun! The pics above are from a bush which I grew from a cutting of my old ancient one, which we think was at least 100 yrs old when it finally died a few years ago. Jackie...See More
Curdle 10a (Australia)
7 years ago
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
7 years agojacqueline9CA
7 years agoOOPS! I just realized I grabbed the wrong pic - the one directly above is actually Belle Portugaise - here is the one I meant to post, which is indeed Anna Olivier (which does sometimes put out pink blooms).
Jackie
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