Baronne Prevost just keeps giving me “one last bloom”
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Lisa Adams
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoA big fat bloom
I tried to rearrange the roses, after taking the first photos. The Baronne is so prickly that everything else came out of the vase, along with the rose stem. This is one where my stem strippers should have been used:)
This is a little better.
I took this photo, just to show all the side buds. I’m pretty sure they will open indoors, promising long time enjoyment.
A darker picture.
I really do love Baronne Prevost. In my dry climate, his foliage stays quiet clean (never been sprayed). I cut each cane back very deeply when I deadhead or cut blooms for the vase, and at his largest,(which is this time of year) my Baronne Prevost is about 3-4F wide by about 6F tall. I’m sure he’d be much larger, if I let him. The Damask-like fragrance is one of my favorites. This Hybrid Perpetual is one of those roses, that many remark upon when they see it. As my sister said, “ I didn’t know that roses like that really existed anymore. I’ve only seen this kind of rose in old paintings!” Lisa
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are these Baronne Prevost and Marchesa Boccella?
Comments (21)Sherry, that rose is SO BEAUTIFUL. Thanks everyone! I heard back from the curator, he said that my photo of Baronne Prevost was right, but that while the rose I saw was labeled as Marchesa Boccella, you guys were right that Marchesa was mislabled. He said there used to be a Marchesa there, but that it must have died. He said they check the labels every couple years and just hadn't noticed that one. So the rose I took a photo of that I thought was Marchesa, is actually Marchioness of Lorne. He also said that Baronne, Bourbon Mme. Lauriol de Barny and Marchioness of Lorne both do reasonably well at their garden (and this climate) ... and probably would do ok for me. By the way, he also recommended Reine des Violettes and Souvenir de la Malmaison as being pretty tough (I already have those, so yay!) He also recommended York and Lancaster (damask) and Porland from Glendora (Porland) , if you're curious! :)...See Morela reine, boule de neige, baronne prevost, felicia, nur mahal
Comments (20)Geo, even hybrid musks are not created equal. I grow Felicia in full blazing sun and she has been blooming since early April. My Buff Beauty is in a shadier spot but has cleaner foliage than Felicia that does get spotty. Another fantastic Hybrid musk is Prosperity, it is clean and keeps blooming even in this terrible drought in a semi-shady position - in summer it gets more sun than in spring and fall. I wish I could say the same of its neighbor, Baron Giraud de l'Ain; I think that the baron would do better even in less sun in my hot and humid climate. There was a HP expert on this forum, Pete of Belgium; he suggested afternoon shade for HPs and very rich diet. Does anyone know why he stopped posting? I miss him when I dream about HPs doing better here....See More(photos) Baronne Prevost, La Reine, Carding Mill
Comments (17)So sorry about that mishap, Masha. I hope your rose grows back quickly. Aimee, I have Bermuda's Kathleen and I can attest to the fact that it does well in the heat, since it's planted in full sun in front of a heat-radiating large boulder. Then it was half-buried by squirrels who were excavating under the said boulder and dumped all the dirt under the rose. In spite of that it's still blooming and putting out new shoots. It's not at its most attractive now and under these conditions but it was lovely last year and seems to be in constant bloom. I haven't grown the other two and can't make a comparison. Actually, I just remembered that I grew Archduke Charles years ago and for me it was mostly a very dark pink without the lighter coloration. It must have been the heat. Ingrid...See MoreThere's hope for Baronne Prevost
Comments (3)After I stopped spraying, I encouraged Baronne for about 2 or 3 years. Considering the stress the 2 plants gave me when I cut them out of my garden, I don't miss them. In my garden Baronne grew tall with huge canes, but also put out horizontal canes with thin canes off of them. It was difficult for me to maintain a decent shape, and I was always stuck by the canes. The blooms were very pretty, but I had them beside Maggie and Fredrick Mistral who also had pretty blooms. In Tulsa the leaves were not often clean. At this point I would say you are very patient. I don't know much about Florida weather, but in the spring in Tulsa, we do need to cut back dead or dying canes, and we like to go as far down as possible. I found it very difficult to get around BP without coming out with injuries. Sammy...See MoreLisa Adams
5 years agoLisa Adams
5 years agoA couple of bonus pictures. I’ve been under the weather, so I haven’t been out much. I did snap a few while I cut the above roses, and a FEW weren’t blurry.
An Evelyn bloom way up high.
I hastily cut a couple stems that were within easy reach.
One ........oh no! My foggy brain can’t dredge up the name:(. A David Austin that does well in the heat. Got it! Carding Mill.
And a single stem of Golden Buddha, picked just before our rainstorm.
Lots of beautiful blooms for a single stem!
That’s all for now. Somehow just posting has exhausted my brain today. Hope you enjoyed:). Lisa
Lisa Adams
5 years agoLisa Adams
5 years agoShe is beautiful, and of all my roses, none say”antique”, or “romantic” quite like she does. Did I mention her scent is fabulous?
Genevre, mine started out with smaller blooms, but now they’re at least as large as my palm. They’re huge( the blooms, not so much my palms.) lol I’m sure yours is just settling in again.
Jin, yours looks great! Isn’t her scent wonderful? She actually looks very clean, especially for your climate. Mine has about 10 “dirty” looking leaves near the bottom, that I’ll pick off when I feel better.
Kristine and Pipa, I’m sure you’d both love her. I certainly do! I’m always happy to return the enabling:)
Ingrid, I managed to restrain myself. Evelyn is still outside. I think we even got some hail this afternoon. I spent my afternoon sleeping, and just got up because Millie and Dexter woke me up to remind me it was dinner time. Sabby had the right idea for today.
They’ve been fed, so I’m going back to bed for the night. I feel like I need it, but hope I can sleep all night, after my giant nap. If I’m posting at 2 AM, you’ll know why:). Lisa
Here’s a bush shot I took this afternoon that I didn’t show earlier, but since a couple of you are considering her......
Lisa Adams
5 years agoThanks, Diane. I did sleep until 8 AM this morning, so I must have needed it. I think I might feel a bit better today, but we’ll see how the day goes. I slept, but had bizarre dreams, for what seemed like all night long. That may have been due to the muscle relaxant I had to take for the MS spasms. Anyway, the reason I mention my crazy dreams, is that one was that I was walking along a street in Amsterdam (no, not THAT streetalthough I have walked it with my cousin, just to say I’ve seen it.). Anyway, I dreamt that people were asking me, “Hoe groot is jou palm?” In English, this means, “How big is your palm?” This morning I realized it was because of my remark about the size of the Baronne Prevost blooms. Strange how the brain works.
That was a long explanation for why I took this picture this morning:) Lisa
Plumeria Girl (Florida ,9b)
5 years agoLisa, I love your dreams. Best dreams are of roses and second best travelling. Can't beat that !!
I am glad you wrote about the size of the blooms. I wanted to ask you anyways :)
My BO is barely reaching 2 inches. one is like over an inch and the other is slightly bigger but nothing like yours .
It does smell wonderful. I also can smell Cecil Brunner wafting thr same night I took pics of Baronne. I was about 1 or 2 ft when I smell it. Hurray !! I can smell roses .
Here, it is in day time.jin
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