Favorite fragrant bi-colors - early and later bloom forms
6 years ago
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Mid-September weather in the Bay Area is a great time when the fog recedes and there's a warm glow everywhere. The roses like it too!
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Something later or longer blooming than gallicas?
Comments (19)Ooo, thank you everyone. Lots to chew on here! I'm off to research! I don't think I have a horrible BS problem here. I've tested a Zephrini, DA's The Dark Lady, and the HP Baron Girod de l'Ain and they all did fine with some BS but nothing that's knocked them back. Especially last year when I started watering more. Amazing what water will do (rolling eyes at myself). Japanese beetles are a HUGE problem though so I have to bear that in mind. We're chopping our JP magnet plum tree down this year so maybe that'll make a difference. I used to have a list of longer blooming types but it was on my other computer that died. In case anyone is thinking this question sounds familiar, lol. Anyway, again, thanks!...See MoreFirst season blooming Bi-Color Irises
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Comments (18)I'm with Seil and Ben - nothing makes my heart go pitter patter or my wallet go "poof" faster than a picotee, mutable or striped rose, the more high contrast the better. After that I'm drawn to the "oddball" colors of russet, parchment or lavender (or best all three together, like Distant Drums or Koko Loko). Dark dark burgundy flowers also zing something in my soul. As for wafting, even without my poor nose nothing really wafts very far in my dry climate. We don't get wafting of hyacinths and lilacs in the spring even though I have 100's of the former and 3 well established bushes of the latter. Peonies you have to get up close to smell, and the same for lilies. I'll get a vague "pleasant smell" from an area with over 10 Stargazer lilies blooming, but even my son with the hypersensitive nose doesn't gag at the smell. It just dissipates too fast. I never knew Darlow's Enigma or Marie Pavie were supposed to have any scent at all, and even my daughter with a good nose shrugs when presented with a bouquet of those. I like fragrance when I can get it, but I look far more often than I smell, as far as roses go. Cynthia...See MoreFragrant climbing roses with blooms that last
Comments (45)NAHEMA's blooms don't last. You get maybe an extra 12-hours more than its parent HERITAGE but that isn't saying much. It also did not bloom a lot and when it did, blossoms appeared at the cane tips which is not a good trait for a climber. The one I had got shovel pruned. ANNIE LAURIE MCDOWELL is problematic because it wants to be a shrub, not a climber. You are going to have to pinch off every single bud for 3-4 YEARS in order to force it to put on any appreciable height. The blooms also ball terribly. I know what you want based on your comments. You want a repeat blooming climber with large, highly fragrant, quartered or globular blossoms (ala the David Austin roses) that last a long time on the cane and not necessarily the vase. A climber that is cane hardy in your region (next time state your USDA Zone please) and that blooms all along the canes. You want foliage that is reasonably resistant to whatever disease plagues your area (again, where do you garden?) and with flexible canes that can be easily trained on a variety of structures. EDEN (aka. Pierre de Ronsard) and its kin (Red Eden, etc.) are not highly fragrant. At the best of times you will smell a light fragrance. MADAME ALFRED CARRIERE and REVE D'OR produce flowers that are looser than the symmetrically perfect, petal packed, flower form typical of the English Roses. Both are also Tea-Noisettes and are only going to be hardy to zones 7 & 8 respectively. The only rose I can think of that meets your criteria is SOMBREUIL (aka Colonial White), a large flowered climber from the 50s with ivory white blossoms. To my nose, it had a very strong fruity fragrance. I shovel pruned it because I could not deal with the thorns. Hope you have a good pair of leather gardening gloves because OUCH!...See MoreRelated Professionals
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoAnn9BNCalif thanked Kristine LeGault 8a pnw- 6 years ago
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoAnn9BNCalif thanked Karen R. (9B SF Bay Area)- 6 years ago
Thank you Lilyfinch and Tiffandrew for your kind words! I appreciate your posts and photos and too!
Karen - I love my minis! The most hearty one is Lavender Crystal which is more of a miniflora I got from Burlington Nursery. Burling Leong was a protege of the late Ralph Moore, the premier hybridizer of mini roses including Pink Poodle which is pretty rare at this point.
You can contact Burling at burlingtonroses@aol.com. She'll send you a list of minis and regular roses that she has available. Burling's nursery is in Visalia which might be even hotter than where you are. She could recommend good minis for your climate.
Ann - 6 years ago
- 6 years ago
Here are a couple more roses I shared on other threads.
Black Baccara
Pretty Jessica
Ann - 6 years agolast modified: 6 years ago
- 6 years ago
Here's BB after it rained last week. Notice the leaves in the bottom left corner aren't doing very well!
The disease was happening before the rain but it seems to be isolated to about 20% of the plant so far. Most of the blooms are very dark red but some are blackish red. I have a ton of small blooms right now. I think I may need to discourage the blooming so the ones that do bloom are larger.
Ann
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