I had no idea Carding Mill was so beautiful!
Lisa Adams
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Comments (20)Is anyone's Carding Mill doing this? I cropped the first photo, but the one directly above is straight out of the camera with no adjustments. I've never seen Carding Mill so orange, and the actual color is even more orange than pictured. Carding Mill has been blooming well this season, and the flush right before this new color shift gave us some of the most heartstoppingly beautiful blooms I've seen ever, on any rose. But colorwise -- whacky! We have lots of pictures of roses on Humpty Dumpty House Facebook, including buds, blooms, spent blooms, leaves, and whole shrub. We also have detailed evaluations in our "Rose Report Card" posts that you can find by scrolling back. If you visit please give us a page "like". This simple act can help us get our gardens back open to the public after my long hospitalization due to an injury -- thanks! Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/HumptyDumptyHouse jannike...See MoreCarding Mill or Pat Austin?
Comments (9)There's one that holds in orange color and bloom doesn't shrink in size like Austins in the heat. It's 2007 Romantica Sweet Promise HT, bloom size is at least 4" in the heat. The scent is heaven: like apple blossoms - and is strong regardless of the weather. Sweet Promise has 19 buds/bloom in our 90 to 100 degrees heat. It's a 4-months old own-root. The bloom lasts 4 to 5 days in the vase, smell great to the end. Sweet Promise is completely thornless in the upper 3/4 of the bush. Leaves are red and shiny when young. The bush is pretty like Firefighter. Below is Sweet Promise, big orange bloom in the center. Honey Bouquet is lower left, huge bloom with great color. Golden Cel. is upper left - and the rest are Austins blooms that got smaller in summer heat. Krista from New York also confirmed my observation. She wrote: "Austins tend to have smaller blooms with a lower petal count in summer, they seem to share this characteristic with some of the antique roses to which they are akin."...See MoreAnyone in inland SoCal grow Crown Princess Margareta and Carding Mill
Comments (16)I have Carding Mill own-root now and after two years it's a foot high and might have had one bud that I took off. I had it before on root stock, I think from Austin, and it exploded and bloomed all the time and did not frizzle as I remember Monsieur Tillier and Clementina Carbonieri did that I planted nearby. It's hotter and drier now but I think this is still a good rose for a hot inland climate, especially if you can give it late afternoon shade. I hope that my dwarf will grow and give me a bloom or two before I die but I'm not counting on it. My only hope is that this rainy winter might have given it more of an incentive to thrive, although it had plenty of water before then. I don't grow the other rose, and in fact don't have any of the newer Austins. If I were you I would give Carding Mill a try, only not own-root, unless I just ended up with a dud. Edited: I cross-posted with you pat, but your rose is gorgeous. Sorry about the blackspot. My former one never had any disease and neither does my present dwarflet....See MoreCarding Mill... droopy, pale leaves
Comments (4)If your later fertilization was all slow release nitrogen (like a Tone), I would wonder about nitrogen def, though not sure if droopy explained by that. Please solicit other opinions....See Moreingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
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