Healthy No-Spray roses: what are yours?
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One more time: your best no spray roses (no singles or OGRs)
Comments (15)My top 5 (plus a runner up): Quietness Marie Pavie Aunt Honey Julia Child Belinda's Dream Heirloom Marie Daly, although an 'Earthkind' Rose does get BS enough to defoliate about the bottom 1/3+ by the end of August, Why it is 'Earthkind' and Marie Pavie is not, needs some explaining to me. Marie Pavie is the better rose of the two, IMHO. More restrained growth, more flowers and slower to rush through a blooming cycle, and some very little BS on only the bottom 1/5 and then only at September's end. I do not believe there is an entirely BS proof rose. Even the Knockouts can show some BS, but usually only under extremely stressed growing conditions. Even if a rose who was well researched, was found to have glowing disease issue reports, and it proved to be BS free in your garden for 10 continuous years, it can have a bad 11th. year for BS and throw the owner into a tailspin. Generally such incidents are glitches with things returning back to normal in subsequent years. What usually causes such an episode are extremely favorable conditions converging at that time so favorable for BS that no rose could show full resistance. Such events are encountered very rarely, fortunately....See MoreHealthy true red for no spray garden
Comments (17)If you can fit a climber or large bush, I second Florentina. Healthy, deep red colour, gorgeous blooms and slight fragrance. Thorny and apparently slow to get going, but she's a bloomer. I also second RIR. I'm not sure on DTutu as I've seen it defoliate at one of our regional parks. I'm adding a few new ones this year, but I won't be able to juge them for a bit. : ( One of them is called Valentine if you want to look it up....See MoreWhat are your best no spray roses?
Comments (34)lavender- Olivia Rose Austin is supposed to be really healthy. I planted 3 grafted bare root from DA in late May and they are loaded with buds and healthy foliage even though it's still been very cool here. No scent but the sweetest clean pink color, no hint of peach. DA Desdemona is also covered in buds, bare root and planted the same time as Olivia. No blooms yet but she is seems to have excellent disease resistance and is supposed to have a wonderful scent. DA Teasing Georgia is another good performer for me. DA Windermere never disappoints, the fist to bloom in my garden. Queen of Sweden is another disease resistant good performer. Kordes Summer Romance has gorgeous flowers and smells incredible. They are slow to get going as own root but my two nursery purchases were loaded with buds and no disease. sharon...See MoreTell us about your healthy roses
Comments (24)Sara Ann , great topic !! It’s very helpful for those of us who don’t want to spray or obsess over spotty leaves . I was very happy with the three new intros from David Austin last year , Bathsheba, Roald Dahl and desdemona . Olivia did great too , posiden , and I knkw there were a few more but those stood out . I must have gotten lucky last year as I don’t remember black spot being too bad on many . I did want to encourage anyone , that my lavender lassie took a few years to outgrow bouts with black spot and also heavily repeat bloom . It’s so pretty . I love the color so much !...See MoreRelated Professionals
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