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Anyone grow Carefree Celebration?
Comments (46)Uhoh, Braverichard is watching! Guess I'd better respond (smile). My Carefree Celebration is about as far from self cleaning as it's possible in my experience to be. Even halfway through the normal lifespan of the bloom, the bright coral fades to a deeply paper bag dead look and it looks just awful if not pretty consistently deadheaded in my opinion. Here's a photo that shows this effect pretty clearly. The taller clear fluffy apricot is Sweet Fragrance, who isn't self cleaning but doesn't look ratty when the petals fall off (and they do fall off by themselves, but the center still needs popping off by hand). The bundle of dark coral and parchment blooms to the left of it is Carefree Celebration, and in a good year this is what it looks like at least half the time. The good news is that deadheading or not doesn't really seem to deter it, but I frankly couldn't abide this look in the kind of public spot you're considering for a planting. In contrast, as long as I mention Sweet Fragrance here's what the blooms look like once the petals fall off (not completely fallen off yet at left). It's the kind of situation where you could leave this alone indefinitely, since I've never seen her set hips, but you'd eventually want to trim these back once a month or so. As I mentioned in another thread, I really like Sweet Fragrance so I admit to being biased here. I do have to say though that Carefree Celebration doesn't sound like what you're looking for as self cleaning. Cynthia...See MoreReputations Ruined - RMV
Comments (45)Aggierose, RMV stands for "Rose Mosaic Virus," one of 2 rose viral diseases I'm aware of; the other is Rose Rosette Disease. RMV is not natural to roses. It somehow got introduced through rootstock grafting or budding, and came, I think, from apple trees or some such thing. Anyway, its been a widespread problem in the U.S. for the past few decades, the latter part of the 20th century, as mass production through infected rootstock sources led to mass infection. I don't think there was much public awareness, though, until just the past several years or decade or so. Basically, RMV weakens the infected plants so that they don't perform as well as they otherwise would, are more susceptible to fungal diseases and more easily succumb to winter freezes, among other things. It's sneaky, though, becuase there is no easy way to identify all infected plants without laboratory testing. and different rose plants respond in quite varied ways to being infected. Some never manage to grow well and quickly die; others are seemingly healthy and productive for a few years, then gradually decline; and there are grades in between. One "clear" sign of the disease is mottled or varigated patterns on the leaves. But it is not always or even often present. There is no cure. VID or virus indexing is a method discovered to create clean rose plant stems from infected plants by growing the plants in strictly temperature-regulated rooms, hot enough that the virus can't reproduce but not so hot the rose dies. Whatever stems and leaves grow in those temperatures are, in theory, free of the virus, though the virus remains in the rest of the plant. UC Davis started a VID program several years back to help rescue more popular varieties that had been virtually or entirely taken over by RMV infections. Check out this address for more info, or you can just as easily do a web search on rose mosaic virus. http://www.marinrose.org/virus.html...See MoreThese are all FFO today
Comments (18)Rita, I'm with you when it comes to pinks. True pinks are just so beautiful. Moms Curtain Ruffles is such a generous form too. I am that way about purples, if is is not a blue purple, it's not a purple. It's a plum, violet or orchid.Love true purples and lavenders too. Elizabeth...See MoreIn praise of Scentimental
Comments (6)Hi Fran I too love this rose...has been a great delight out in the garden...I dont know if it is just me but I do find the blooms blow to quick inside.....but still heaps of joy outside in the garden.....(If only I didnt put Hocus Pocus bedind it)(that was a bad move). Hope you get it Fran you will not be disapointed....even our rabbit likes that one... mummyrose...See Morewritersblock (9b/10a)
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