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Comments (16)Lovely babies Aimee! How is your Sombreuil doing, I believe yours and mine are of the same age. :D I like your La France, it is so lovely when the petal sides differ in color! Mme. Berard looks lovely too, I am slowly getting convinced to get her after all. :D About Penelope's fragrance, some of my musks are sneaky and produce fragrance during the night/morning - today I went out early in the morning and my Paul's Himalayan Musk was secretly scenting all parking lot! And now in the end of the day he had almost no fragrance at all....See MoreLa Reine Victoria, Mme Pierre Oger and La Reine
Comments (6)I am quite a few zones different from the OP, but I have a virgorous, very vigorous MPO. I picked it up at a local nursery about 5 years ago. It's huge now. The fragrance is fantastic, like baby powder almost. It gives a good first flush with not great rebloom. One year I had a decent second flush and we'll see about this year. I had it all pegged, until my husband the whack job whacked part of it back. Now it has a mohawk in the center and long canes all around. Lovely....See MoreTel me about La Riene ('Rose de la Reine') - OGR
Comments (10)Ahhh . . . 'La Reine' is a Hybrid Perpetual rose -- most we see are rather low-growing. In a coastal setting, it is often badly troubled by rust. 'La Reine' is ONE rose. It is pink. There is no such thing as a purple 'La Reine,' though there are other roses which are purple-ish, to one degree or another. ============== The best known of those is probably 'Reine des Violettes,' which is purple-ish in cool weather, though it can become quite shockingly pink in hot weather. It is thornless, and should be reasonably disease-free for you -- but you will have to ammend the soil to provide it with the acidic soil and water conditions it needs. In an alkaline environment, I have seen the leaves turn a creamy WHITE. You can find many photos of both 'La Reine,' and 'Reine des Violettes' at HelpMeFind roses. Jeri...See MoreSOS: managing Baronne Prevost, La Reine, Paul Neyron
Comments (8)Back when Hybrid Perpetuals were new on the scene, most gardeners were happy with just a modest Autumn repeat with scattered flushes (or scattered solitary blooms) after the first flush. Meanwhile, many Teas would barely stop blooming at all during the growing season -- the caveat was that they were not very cold-hardy. Hybrid Teas evolved as a sort of compromise between the two groups. They were generally more cold-hardy than the Teas but not as much as the Hybrid Perpetuals. And they generally bloomed more often than the Hybrid Perpetuals but not as much as the Teas. There is a great deal of variation within Hybrid Perpetuals, being as the group became a catch-all for anything which had even minor rebloom and that was not one of the other repeat-blooming classes (Bourbons, Portlands, Chinas, Teas). Of the three you mentioned by name, I have only 'Reine des Violettes'. Mine is three years old now, and didn't really start to "get going" until last year in terms of growth. It has a first-flush along with all the others starting in late May (for me, last year), then a second-flush in July, then a third flush in late August into September. The second flush is the smallest, the first the largest, and the third somewhere in between. Mine grows as a climber against the railing of a raised deck. I think it wants to be kinda sprawly to be grown as a free-standing shrub, but that's just my preference. By growing it with support and training its canes more toward horizontal, I get more flowers per flush, so that's why I do it. Also, keep something in mind about the oldies versus the Hybrid Teas. I've often heard some gardening friends say "oh, it blooms all summer long" when talking about a particular Hybrid Tea. If you investigate further, that "blooming now" will include times when only one flower is on the bush. Hybrid Teas tend to produce larger, but fewer, blooms than some other types. The Hybrid Perpetuals my have fewer periods of bloom, but more blooms per period. It's not a case of one being better than the other -- just different. That's why I have a bunch of types of roses in the garden, including once-blooming oldies. :-) ~Christopher...See Moremad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)
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