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daisyincrete Z10? 905feet/275 metres
7 years ago
Devoniensis was the only rose that I have planted in this garden that did not thrive. After a few years, I gave up on it and planted Lady Hillingdon a couple of feet away from it, under an apricot tree. Lady Hillingdon didn't like it either, so I gave up and planted a bougainvillea there as well.
The bougainvillea thrived from the start, but then Lady Hillingdon with her beautiful, plum purple canes started to grow. "Great" I thought, "At least there will be one rose in the tree". Then Devoniensis, which had dwindled down to one cane years before, started to grow as well!
Now both Devoniensis and Lady Hillingdon are flowering, but I cannot tell them apart. Devoniensis, may start out whiter than Lady Hillingdon, but it doesn't stay that way.
The only way I can tell which is which, is to trace the cane back to ground level.
Daisy
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Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
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6 years agoSorry about the delay in responding to you all. I have had an unexpected stay in the local hospital. Still, all okay now.
The perfume can vary on both from day to day.
Some of the photos of Devoniensis on the internet, look just like mine and some look very different.
Here are a few more photos of Devoniensis and Lady Hillingdon to enjoy.
Daisy
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6 years ago
portlandmysteryrose
6 years agoVicissitudezz
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agodaisyincrete Z10? 905feet/275 metres thanked VicissitudezzSheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoHere, LH is so yellow and Devoniensis is cream flushed with pink. They look nothing alike. Only second Spring here.
I have never seen it, but Duchesse d' Auerstadt looks more like your rose in the HMF photos, Daisy. Obviously, I'm a beginner on this.
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6 years agoVicissitudezz
6 years agoFrom Paxton's Magazine, vol.8, 1841, pp.169-70:
"ROSA DEVONIENSIS. (Devonshire Rose.)
...Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., nurserymen, of Exeter, who hold the entire stock of this splendid rose, had the accompanying plate prepared for us in their nursery last June, and inform us that it possesses a very vigorous habit, with thick, glossy, dark green foliage, and produces a profusion of flowers throughout the spring, summer, and autumn months. "The flowers," say these gentlemen, "are very large, cupped, with fine bold outer or guard petals, of a firm Camellia-like texture, very double, finely-formed, and deliciously fragrant. The colour, which when the buds first open is a creamy buff, changes as the flowers expand to a primrose yellow, with a pinkish-buff centre."
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