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Comments (18)Yes, Fortuniana IS sold as "Snowflake," and it IS sold as "White Lady Banks." Our Fortuniana came from an old cemetery. The place has 3 of them. All, I am sure, were rootstock plants. There's no tree near our Fortuniana, but the main mass of it is about 15 ft. across now, and still growing. It's recently thrown out some longer canes which tried to eat a young desert willow. DH moved those over to the fence, and they reach an additional 12 or more feet on up the hill. I believe it's going to attack Smith's Parish, and may the best Monster win. Based on what I see of it, I suspect it might try to climb a tree, if it had one. One thing I notice about it is very fine structures, like soft prickles, up and down the peduncle. R. banksiae banksiae does not have those. Both are pretty much thornless for us, otherwise. And banksiae banksiae demonstrably climbs trees here. Jeri...See Moreneed quotes on wild roses, Cass, Jeri ?
Comments (7)Lux, you've put a lot of work and information into this essay. Your talk will be wonderful, I'm sure. I do nearly everything that Cass tells me to do, but I'm not going to run out and plant a California wild rose into my garden. My friend Bill planted one in his garden and found it popping up all over the place. Took him years to eradicate it. I'm content to admire California wild roses in the wild or in somebody else's collection. I do, however, grow several species at home, including R. glauca, R. eglanteria (rubiginosa), and one of the double moschatas. So far, none have colonized very much. In the cemetery, R. roxburghii plena is one of the most beautiful and long-blooming roses in our garden. Worthy of mention, for its spiny sepals, beautiful flowers and interesting foliage. A rose that may be a cinnamomea has an incredibly colorful fall foliage and hip display. The species truly can be beautiful and garden-worthy, although usually one must have the space for them. Love your description of the alba leaves as shorn teal velveteen. The preferred terminology is "Scots" rose, not "Scotch," according to Peter Boyd when he came to speak a couple of years back. His wife Evelyn described the "tsunami of scent" from their collection. We've planted a couple of spins in the cemetery, including a single cream variety from Vintage, and have been pleased by how pretty its bloom was this year and how many visitors commented on it. I know that you targeted this to Jeri and Cass, but it was fun to read it - thanks. Anita...See MoreRRD on Banksia normalis?
Comments (54)How contagious? We don't know. Some roses like New Dawn (except in Texas) seem to get it throughout their vascular system fast. Same with some multiflora-kin roses. I have saved roses in fall with the cut off the cane procedure more often than it's worked in spring. Mites are the proven vector. Root to root graft is possible for other viruses and I have two examples of situations when RRv has probably moved from root to roots. I had one rose where a blatantly sick cane rubbed against a healthy cane. Two weeks later, after I'd taken the sick cane off, the heathly cane was looking RRv-ish and we took the whole rose out. The mites don't overwinter in the 'form' that they are in the warmer months. Jim Amrine this past winter found one form of the fructiphilus mites on (IIRC) one in four bushes infected with RRD that he examined. In previous winters he hadn't found any (that's decades of looking). Jim uses a 20x hand lens to look for them in the field, that's the lens with the very small lens. I have put sick canes on our scanner and scanned at max magnification and then used the computer to zoom in further. The mites are the size of the lowest segment of an aphids leg. 200 microns long, slightly smaller than a thrips. The mites you are looking for are on the stem, not out on the leaves (the ones that are found on leaves are a different species and apparently aren't vectors.) Buford, it's always good to hear this kind of good news. It's not an instantaneous death sentence, but this only works for we who actually look at our roses beyond their blooms....See MoreRosa banksiae
Comments (2)Isn't he the one who climbed the Himalayan mountains to get white 'Easter' lilies and suffered a broken leg from a boulder that rolled down on him? Quite an adventurer! Wonder if he left a diary or if there is a book about his plant collecting trips? He did! "published several books: Three Years Wanderings in the Northern Provinces in China (1847), A Journey to the Tea Districts of China (1852), A Residence among the Chinese: Inland, On the Coast and at Sea (1857)" Also he brought back Rosa Fortuniana which is used as a root stock for southern roses as well as being a beautiful rose itself. I didn't know he introduced Rosa banksiae to the west. What a guy! Thanks for the post! Here is a link that might be useful: Link to Wikipedia on Robert Fortune ......See MoreVaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
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