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MOONLIGHT IN PARIS- How did yours perform in 2022 season?

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I planted Moonlight in Paris rose in spring 2021. It had a nice beginner year and finally by fall it showed some pink, peach, cream colors. However, in 2022 season it grew much bigger. It started out meek after my freezing winter where I pruned it back to about 1 foot in the spring.

It bloomed and grew all season 2022, but this fall 2022 it finally put on a spectacular display! I wonder if it could bloom this much all season in it’s 3rd year (2023) if it’s healthy after winter?

How did your MIP do this year? How old is your MIP? And when does it bloom the most abundantly and colorfully?

I wonder if there’s another rose that blooms as much as MIP, which is a floribunda…. and as magnificently? …..it has had constant blooms now for so long…. I don’t remember it not blooming.

Today it had 25 blooms and up to 40 buds on Oct 5, 2022 and it started showing the most vibrant yellow centers, pink, peaches and cream blooms ever!!!

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SuSu CT 7a

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I have 2 planted 5 months ago (grafted) and they have been blooming since they were babies

They really grew and have sooo many buds now. It was raining a lot and was very windy so they look a bit floppy.

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KittyNYz6
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Last week it was more peach colored and had 18 blooms.
rosecanadian
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Kitty - absolutely beautiful...especially your 2nd picture. :)
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KJ (9B, San Jose CA)
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So beautiful 😍😍😍. Mine is still a little baby. Cannot wait to see how it performs next year.
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rosesmi5a
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Last year, the first year of planting = one brief bloom cycle

This year, one brief bloom cycle.

Maybe next year will be better...
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Ana C 6b Ontario
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She did so well in my garden for a first year plant. Although it struggled with powdery mildew (I think the PM came with it since I didn't have it in my garden before) it grew strongly and kept blooming. The little cutting I planted also rooted and grew super fast. I love how luminous the blooms are, she's beautiful. I hope she'll manage our winter (actually the springs are tougher)...
KittyNYz6
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@rosesmi5a

@KJ (9B, San Jose CA)

Thank you. My Moonlight has finished secind year. she now blooms all the time. It took all second seasin fir her to bloom constant. Ay first sge had flushes and no blooms inbetween. Now I think it’s non-stop bloomin’. Mine was just a cream at first and then some peach. In the fall her colors seemed to come out each year.

Best wishes as yours start to mature…. they will be beautiful.

@flowersaremusic z5 Eastern WA I saw your Moonlight in Paris rose on a thread recently. How are you? Can you share any photos of it this year? How are your roses? You had the mist dekicious colirs on MIP that I have ever seen!

Carol, Moonlight in P. is an extraordinary rose. I started searching yeaterday for other roses like her to purchase for next year…. big bloomers w/ gorgeous English prolific blooms. I may order another Moonlight in P. I decided Emily Bronte is similar and dusease resistant. Jubilee Celebration has huge fragrant blooms w/ vibrant color! I may order some more DA as I would like more roses in front yard with delicious ”ever blooms!” Maybe I need to look at more floribundas like ”MIP!”
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Those colors are so vibrant

Mine still has white/cream blooms. Hoping for better color next year. It is loaded with buds right now so maybe I will see more color on these
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Ana C 6b Ontario
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SuSu, they're beautiful, so healthy. What is the pink rose behind you Moonlight? (I think it's in the third photo.)
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KittyNYz6
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@SuSu CT 7a

Your Moonlight in Paris are gorgeous colored!!! And look very healthy first year!!!! Must be in sunny but cool location having soooo much color!!!

Kristine, When it cools down to lower 70F you’ll have color!!!! Mine were just cream & slight oeach all summer until fall cool days brought out color!
Mischievous Magpie (CO 5b)
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Mine did okay this year. The spring flush had a lot of flowers, I cut a large vase of them and had plenty left on the bush, but they were a cream color, nothing special. Later in summer I had some repeat with better color but way less flowers, and I'm currently waiting for the final buds to open (but they'd better hurry because the nighttime temps are getting dodgy). Petal count has gone up and down all season. Fragrance nothing special.

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SuSu CT 7a
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Thank you, yes they get sun all day and in CT it only gets really hot a few weeks a year.

@Ana C 6b Ontario, this is my mystery rose, bought it as a mislabeled rose and tried to unsuccessfully identify it :(

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6277455/help-id-please
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KittyNYz6
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Magpie, Moonlight in Paris is tricky w/ her coloring….. I think spring or fall is her best seasons in my climate zone 6, but your summers seem to make it look beautiful! That 2nd photo is grorgeous! I remember you had a big flush in spring, too!!!! I think I’ll wrap mine w/ burlap so it has less winter kill, including MIP, so it will bloom more for me in spring. Some of my roses took all spring & summer to recover from winter…… I have warm and very cool spots on my property….. I think I’m going to extra pamper those roses in the exposed spots this winter…. so they are more healthy come spring!!!

@SuSu CT 7a

I think your MIP is so young it’s stems are kinda weak flopping. It will harden and thicken up in a year and be a big full upright bush of even 5ft by 4 ft.

I am realizing I better make room for my 5 ft by 4 ft roses!!!!!! They are all almost getting tall , many 5-6ft, second year!!!
KittyNYz6
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@BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)

How is your MIP blooming still? Colorful? photos? How old now?
flowersaremusic z5 Eastern WA
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Kitty, your photos and the others here are hard to beat! I agree MIP is at her best in spring and fall, but, she is truly a non-stop bloomer. She fades to cream during the heat, but still lovely. I also agree with Magpie that the scent is nothing special. I've always blamed that on my dry climate, but I really don't think she has much of a perfume.

I didn't get in the garden after early spring and took very few pics this year. Some health scares had me down for awhile. I missed this season, so I'm really looking forward to spring '23!

Here are a couple older pix during her yellow stages.
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KittyNYz6
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@flowersaremusic z5 Eastern WA Sp excited to hear from you!!! Yay!!!! Thank you! Your gardens are the most beautiful and your MIP in it’s yellows is dreamy!!!! I am dorry to hear about your health, but glad to see you now!!! Are you feeling better? Sometimes we need to take a break. We all missed you! Much love!!!
KittyNYz6
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Today MIP was really in the pink!

I think the sun brings out more yellow. It was cooling and cloudy today…. so I see her turning instantly from (sunny yellow yesterday) to pink today! Wow, she changes colors fast!
Tututara Zone 7
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Got mine last year in 2 gallon pot from Home Depot and moved it to 5 gallon one. It got few blooms last fall and then this spring it was again a small flush. But this fall it is covered in blooms starting from late august, non-stop. It is still in the pot and waiting for a spot in the garden. It likes partial sun and responds well to liquid fertilizer for non-stop blooms. In the photos below, the canes in the background are of Mr. Lincoln as Standard.
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flowersaremusic z5 Eastern WA
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Thank you, Kitty! You are always so thoughtful. I am feeling great and hope to get outside before I miss this season entirely.

I am especially drawn to your third pic down, just above. Soft, barely there colors are so beautiful. MIP looks like she should be strongly perfumed, but she works hard to make up for her one little flaw.
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Mischievous Magpie (CO 5b)
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From today, being luminous. It's very pretty when it gets its color.
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Ana C 6b Ontario
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SuSu, I am wondering if your mystery rose could be the new Reminiscent Coral rose, although they say it will be introduced next year. It looks more pink but the images I see online have some variation between the pink edges and coral centres. Just a thought, I'm obviously still intrigued :) (the photos below are from the online search)
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SuSu CT 7a
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@Ana C 6b Ontario, I think it’s a new rose too, and that looks very similar. Hopefully next year it would’ve gotten more mature and I can tell for sure.

Thank you!
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Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
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Today for the first time I noticed the .Moonlight in Paris glow

I dont have the darker colors like some do but it definitely has a glow
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sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
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My MIP is always washed out looking..beigey blah. It had a few nice colored blooms early in the spring but had been ugly all year otherwise. Our weather is finally dropping into low 60'sF at night and 80's in the daytime so maybe soon they will look better.
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KittyNYz6
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Kristine, I’d love to see your MIP aglow? How big is it and how many blooms now? Mine grew biggest when it cooled and more budds/blooms.

@sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)

MIP has it’s personality. It loves cool weather 60-mid-70F for colorful blooms. Although, I see all my roses turning more pinks in my now cool fall. Your cool weather will come and she will look delicious then. I wonder when it cools to 60-70F for you?

How is your new farm, your roses, passifloras, and animals and frogs? Love it if you’d pop on our Seasonal thread and show photos of your new gardens and animals? I miss you and your beautiful farm and garden photos!!! Have a lovely fall! My passifloras bloomed, including Purple Possum-which was spectacular to me, anyway! I put photos recently of my Passifloras on it. Carol has passifloras now, too!
Lala Idaho Zone 7a
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My first year with MIP and I really like it!

bloomed all season very well. The colors are just beauriful. Mine is in a pot and small now. I have had first year roses stay small and then following seasons shoot up large. I hope it stays small and blooms as frequent next year.
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KittyNYz6
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@Lala Idaho Zone 7a

Love your Moonlight in Paris photos! Very beautiful your first year! So pink, peachy, yellow , creams-colorful and many blooms! They do really well in pots! Yours has all the colors! It’s that time of year for her to show off! Your leaves are so healthy, too!!! Thank you for sharing! Your gardens are always so lovely! Missed hearing from you. Join us in Seasonal thread and show us your gardens?

Most of my roses are small first year, but some actually grow 5 ft, too. Moonlight was small in the ground first year up to 3 1/2 ft. 2nd year MIP is now 4 1/2 ft and 3 ft wide. HMF says it can grow 5ft. I have it in a morning sun spot and I know if it had more sun it would be taller & wider! However, it does well and really is nice by front porch!

I think I will expand some “really sunny spot garden bed areas,” on my propety next spring adding roses to them that will do well with more sun. I’ll expand my back yard T-bed and

circular veggie bed to have more roses! I think I’d like a second MIP and put it in the sunniest location to see how grand it could get.

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