Wow! I look forward to bloom pics!

What a pretty rose. This is going to be awesome.

Looking forward to to seeing the blooms! All those buds look amazing

Wow Mike, plant looks awesome. Very tempting. Do you find she grows very tall before budding? I don’t recall seeing her for sale locally though

Love your pictures dianela! Very nice arrangement.

Dianela, I am so afraid to pick any of mine.lol They are so pretty I just leave them there and thank GOD I don't get thrips. I don't have any pest issues with mine. They are about to burst open like frieworks.

I have never had a rose bush so robust and hard and well shaped and flower as many as it does at the same time. The fragarnce is too die for. They are warm soft and smell like fresh honey.

Maggy, it is only about 3 feet tall, that's it. After it flowers I just cut it back. It re flowers and then in the fall after a hard frost, I cut back again to about 2 feet tall.It seems to thrive when cut back like that. It grows so full tight robust and tons of roses.

Thanks everyone. I would love too see what yours looks like. I will post again once they start opening) Can't wait now that we have more than one day of sun in a row.

Thanks Mike. You are a first class enabler indeed. (Adding her to my wish list lol)

Magie, you are a riot. Of all the rose shrubs I have, I can't believe how this one smells and performs. It is quite special!

Mike:

I read your pruning regimen, above.

Did your MA grow (only) 1 foot this year?

Yes, that's it. It like to bud very quickly. Grows about a foot than buds right out. If I didn't cut it back after flowering, it would probably grow a few feet high. I had one stem that grew 6 feet high. BUt I now keep it trimmed back which it loves.

I got mine this winter so its still little but here’s a few pics... its pinker in the winter

Amanda, aren't you just in love with this rose? I will never go without this one. I never get any problems with it. Very nice pics and thank you.

I’m so glad I saw the huge thread about it and ordered it to see what the fuss was about :)

Rifis, now that I have time to visit again I see your question. I cut it back to about two feet in the late fall, when the ground is frozen and there is no chance of growth. Then in early spring, if there is any dead growth, on this one usually not, I will cut that off. It grows about a foot then flowers. After the flowers fall off, I cut it back again to keep it short and sometimes it will flower agan. I don't cut it again after that. It will grow a little until the late fall. When it gets frozen, then I cut back to two feet again. A regular cycle)

Ok, I am finally getting some flowers to open with such little heat and sunshine this year they are coming!!

An added very fragrant one. I love the color

Mike

Who is the peach one? They are both just lovely!

Dingo, thank you! I wish I knew. I will check to see if I buried the tag with it. IT never gets a dieseas, bugs or affected by a lack of sun. It smell heavenly!

Well update.

My rose bush was opening perfect, until it decied to raina cold rain and mist fior days on end. Now half of the roses are affected by the rain but thank God the others are starting to open perfect with this at lass sunny weather! They seem to be thriving on the cooler nights and rdry sunny days. There is such a lack of humidity when it does clear up, that it makes up for it. Drying winds and not so hot days, cools nights, a perfect recipe for others to open perfectly fine. There are so many buds, that I could afford to looses a few. I mean, loaded! The fragrance can be smelled inside my home from a distance. The smell of honey comb fills the surrounding area.

They both look great. I also would like to know about the peachy one. Especially when you mentioned all it's positives!

Mike, you must stop this disturbing practice of losing plant tags. This is vital info man!

Haha just pulling your leg. Myself I have a OCD habit of marking every plant:

Maggie, I don't loose them! Well a few, but tha darn squirrels steal them and the wind blows my plants over then I don't know what tatg belongs to what.lol The ones I did bury are still there and I hope this one still has it. Love that tag. I might as well buy som since my yard is like a show and tell without names.lol

Hallo, I can look back on my past orders and see what I ordered once i get a chance. Let me see if I can find out once I ma on vacation in a couple of days if I don't see the tag) Thank you

The sun has finally come out and boy has it helped my buds to open!! They smell soooo good. Thanks

Beautiful!

Love how short yours is. I grow mine like a climber pillared on an obelisk to overcome the shade of short tree in front of it.

Mike:

Please let us know if Moses put you up to this and is playing a joke on all of us.

Amanda: since we’re in similar zones, I was wondering how your Madame Anisette is doing? And everyone else who grows her... please feel free to post any updates you’d like to share. When ever I come across pictures of her... I can’t help but want her. I just adore roses that have a touch of green on their outer petals. Combine that with the fact that it blooms in large sprays... and can respond well to being kept a modest and tidy size with pruning and I’ve got myself a must have rose. But I’m just wondering how she’d respond to our hot & dry conditions in coastal California.. zone 10b.

Well, the flowers are beautiful but it did start making some serious 8 ft octopus canes. I actually just wrapped it on an obelisk this winter to see if that inspires it to be more well behaved. It hasn’t started putting out laterals yet, I’ll post pics if it does anything good. It doesn’t really have any green on the blooms here that I noticed.

I’ve been having the same issues with all my Kordes roses here, huge spiky long awkward canes with beautiful flowers on the very tip. My Quicksilver and Madame Anisette look very similar. I am thinking maybe since they are bred in Germany they don’t get the chill hours they need here, since the heat seems to be fine for them. Or maybe they are just too happy here :p

I honestly wouldn’t let this stop you from getting it though, it may behave better in your soil, and the blooms are stunning :). I probably wasn’t as aggressive at pinching as i could have been.

The roses i’ve been happiest with are the noisettes, old teas, and hybrid teas bred in the US or France. Belinda’s Dream is amazing, maybe try Belinda’s blush for a similar color more well behaved rose? I’m trying an eden here too but it’s still small.

Mike, I gotta say that I'm on the Mme. Anisette bandwagon too. The plants were very slow to establish (two years own root) and then took off. Beautiful healthy glossy foliage, super hardy (only the rabbits take it down), and quick to bounce back. Steady bloomer! It is the kind of rose (like Quietness, Awakening, Evelyn) that make me feel like I can grow roses.

Mme Anisette is an exceptionally robust and healthy rose for me. I’ve been having severe rabbit problems this year, Mme A has been unaffected. I think in a Mme A vs Rabbit tussle, Mme A would somehow destroy the rabbit, as she has done to everything else in her way. She took a while to establish, but on the 3rd year spring bloom was profuse. Hoping repeat bloom might improve, this will be year 4 in my garden.

She is an amazingly healthy rose with gorgeous blooms. Her spring flush is spectacular, but like BenT I am hoping for better repeat bloom.

My Madame Anisette is on its 4th year, first bloom 2021.

It's much pinker in our cool spring than the normal white. We are supposed to hit 90 tomorrow (20° above normal) so the rest of them won't be pink!
Even with Octopus arms, the fragrance is so delicious I will put up with it! One whiff and I want a biscotti!!
Carla in Sac

@sautesmom Sacramento: how does she rebloom for you?

Ann I also forgot to say that she is over 12 feet tall here in zone 7 after only 3 years, so if you are looking for a non-monster rose this is not it. I can’t even imagine what it could do in zone 10.

Hi Ann
She's not much of a rebloomer and does not like the heat.
So I savor every bloom!!
Carla in Sac

Hi Ben,

I am so happy to hear that Mme A is performing well for you. I've been reluctant to order her because of mixed reviews I've read before. I thought it is another rose like Summer Romance! My SR is so healthy and vigorous but doesn't bloom as much as I would want her to. I dug her up and planted her in a very hot area where she gets morning to afternoon intense sun. Ben, you have the most beautiful rose garden I've ever seen! I would like to see a picture of your Mme A. :) I can't find a place to order Mme A this year!:(

Try writing Pat Henry at Roses Unlimited -- she had MA listed earlier.

I do understand your concerns @ this rose. I too tried Summer Romance. Both SR and MA display what I call "Over-ploidy" problems. That's my made-up word for plants that have been bred to be triploids or tetraploids, and sometimes the genes just seem to "lump" together.

The slow-to-establish growth pattern seems to be a part of this too.

However, your conditions in Texas will be much different than mine -- someone here on Houzz is growing MA in California with outstanding results -- other than having a lot of height (I wish!).

rosesmi, thanks a lot for Roses Unlimited suggestion ! Yes, I've seen how well Mme A performs in oither states. Kenneth in Tennessee owns a beautiful one.

I killed mine and pulled it from the ground.

It was growing way to big for the area and was nice for a while.

I would grow like a weed, over 12 feet high if I let it.

But battling the buds that were about to open that would turn brown and never fully open was such a pain, I gave it. Lack of rain, too much rain, bugs and humidity were all factors and it was just to much work to get the perfect fully open bush.

I happened a couple years here and there if the weather was just right, perfect I would say and that barely happens anymore.

Mine grew to well over 10 feet but not many flowers Im on the san francisco peninsula . im giving it one more year and keep it more strictly pruned

I've tying the tall canes horizontally to get more blooms. IIIIII ii I haven't tried hard pruning throughout the year.