sharifa asma and lady emma H, heat tolerance
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5 years agoI had Sharifa. Loved her but she doesn't like the full sun we have in our zone. I would give her afternoon shade and morning sun only. She reverted back to rootstock for me so I had to let her go. I didn't replace her as she was not a great bloomer for me, probably due to her placement in full sun. She would shut down during the summer and was pretty much a once bloomer for me. Mary Magdalene is similar in size and coloring--just more apricot rather than Sharifa's pink. Mary does very well in our sun and heat and has beautiful flowers. Nice scent too. I would recommend her if you can find her.
LEH didn't even make it past the first month I had her. She croaked in the sun and heat. Haven't tried her since. So sorry that all I have is negative news for you regarding the Austins you have chosen.
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Comments (33)In my zone 6b Pennsylvania garden, I grown Gemini, Tamora, Lavaglut and olog. I have a friend in the same zone (near me) who has Cherry Parfait and a DIL who has Frederick Mistral. I'm thinking you might have slightly more humidity than I. My gardens are all day south exposed full sun. Gemini is a wonderful rose and does quite well, even with disease resistance, but like Diane NJ say, it shuts down over the very hottest, most humid part of the summer. Winters, it seems quite strong. Besides being very small, Tamora doesn't do so well in the heat and humidity either and is more prone to black spot. I'm not as thrilled with this rose as I could be and it suffers from winter die back. Frederick Mistral also suffers from winter kill, but not to the extent as Tamora. It is also a larger bush, more heat tolerant but still prone to black spot. Cherry Parfait, olog and Lavaglut are all outstanding in the gardens around here. Cherry Parfait is more prone to black spot, but is winter strong. Olog and lavaglut will get blackspot in my garden toward the end of the season and I do spray, but not as regularily as some of the others. Remember to keep Tamora, olog and Lavaglut toward the front of the bed since all these roses have a tendency to be squatty. Tamora looks more like a miniature except for the leaf and bloom size. The plant is so extremely tiny. This is just my take. All roses act differently in different areas....See MoreWhat's in a name?: searching for heat tolerant roses in SA
Comments (26)Straw, I am not handicapped; I am recovering from surgery & have post Lyme. That's the main reason I am not in Africa now. I have experience in Africa, knowledge of sub-Saharan African cultures and work here as much as I can with refugees from Congo. The orphanages in Botswana & SA house children not only from their own countries, but children who have fled from Congo & other countries where war, strife, food insecurity, political corruption and many other dangers are an everyday occurances. Africa is where my heart and my call are. I am a trained psychotherapist and have experience in medical social work. By the time I am medically able to return to Africa, I will have completed my MDiv and will be ordained by PCUSA. This combination enables me to serve in both secular and faith-based institutions. Every day, children suffer in many countries, including our own. Your heart has called you to help children in Vietnam. My roommate will be going back to Congo. My home church just returned from building an orphanage in Haiti. There is room for all to serve, many many many areas of need....See MoreBurning Heat & Monsoon...... Zone 9b Islamabad.
Comments (215)Thank you, Khalid, for a wonderful show of roses blooming in hot temp. I like your dark-color roses: McCartney rose, Ebb tide, H.Z, Doris.T., and Oklahoma. Alec's Red is known as partial shade rose. Old Garden Roses are usually sold as own-roots here in America. In my experience, floribundas are better as own-root. Floribundas such as Ebb Tide, Bolero, French Lace are very good in acid-phosphatase (producing acid to break down minerals for blooming) .. thus they can root easily & be able to go deep into my hard-clay for winter-survival. I have to give high pH dolomitic lime to my FLORIBUNDA roses: Bolero, Old Port with dark green leaves. The exception is my Kordes Floribunda Deep Purple (ultra-wimpy as own-root) .. some Kordes roses are bred to secrete LESS acid, to prevent blackspots, and folks in alkaline clay California complained that some Kordes roses don't bloom well. My hunch is: if a rose blooms easily, it means roots can secrete acid to utilize minerals in soil, which means it will root easily, and does well as own-root. Per Khalid question: Do you think it will be safe to remove soil from the roots (in the evening), dunk the roots in a bucket of water for some time and plant it at a new place in temps ranging between 90-100*F during day but 80 to 90*F at the time when the rose is being shifted (evening time)? Answer: Yes, it's safe to remove soil from a GRAFTED-rose (Dr.Huey rootstock or Centifolia), dunk that in a bucket of water to get rid of termites, but NOT safe to plant at that high temp., unless you are in wet-season with frequent rain. I dug up roses at 90 F, bare-rooted in a bucket of water, and had to water it 3 times a day, otherwise the leaves droop. I bare-rooted Bluegirl (Dr.Huey-rootstock), then planted in another location. I had to water it daily for 2 months .. before it sprouted new leaves. Thank God it didn't lose leaves being dug up at 80 to 90 F, but it's a pain to water it daily for 2 months. I had seen Dr.Huey rootstock being wrapped in wet-sawdust, with a plastic outer-cover, sitting inside the store for 4 months, yet sprouted green leaves. If you don't have wet sawdust, anything damp & soft like cloth can sub. and the roots can be stored inside for weeks, then plant later when you have time or the temp. goes down....See MoreLight pink Austin that blooms more than Sharifa Asma???
Comments (23)Sultry is your LoS on its own roots, or on Dr.H or Fortuniana? I ordered one on its own roots this year from DA and they sent me a grafted one by accident (they are sending me a replacement one this week). I'm not sure if I'll like it enough to order it on Fortuniana yet, knowing it will take up a lot of room. I grew it once before and it didn't bloom much and the blooms were very small for me. But I only had it for about six months. I moved it into the ground then it started getting really large (still no blooms) and I realized it wasn't a good spot for such a large rose so I moved it again and it didn't survive the second move (poor thing, was all my fault!). Anyways, something tells me she'll do better in partial shade and maybe on her own roots so she doest get so large. I dunno. We'll see. If she does well for me I may get her on Fortuniana. I have two Pat Austins though, on Fort and they do really well and they are a similar color....See Moreladybug A 9a Houston area
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5 years agoOh, one more thing--again if you want that DA look of a full rose (many petals), these are not DA roses but are great in full sun (again, I don't know about humidity). One is an old rose, Vick's Caprice. He has very subtle stripes on him.
The other is Peppermint Parfait. This is a great rose that was bred for health, can take heat and gets to be about 3 feet tall or a little bigger. Mine is in a pot, so he stays rather small because of it.
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5 years agoSharifa is one of my best repeating and most fragrant Austins. Mine is in morning sun. My grafted plant of it is a lot bigger than my own root plant.
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5 years agoHi Rekha,
I'm zone 7b/8aish, but hot and humid in summer here, too. No 116 temps, but lots of upper 90s and a few lower 100s here and there with high humidity and a good amount of rain. I've never grown Sharifa, but do have LEH. She does blackspot, so I have her with some other Austin spotters on the side of our metal shed. That area gets early morning shade, but then full sun from around 11:00am to sunset (and reflected heat from the metal building. I don't recall how well she blooms during the heat of summer, but I do have pictures of her in hot months, so she must bloom some. She definitely doesn't die from heat here.
These aren't great pictures, but thought you might find full bush shots useful:
Here is a bloom shot from hot July
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