Anyone grow Tradescant?
bart bart
2 years ago
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Comments (18)Thanks for your kind response, sandandsun. That is very helpful information. It really is fascinating to see how each variety of rose develops, isn't it? The various colors of the new growth, which ones are the first to leaf out, the ones who will bloom in the heat, etc. As for your comment about being a true gardener, I don't know! lol I'm just a guy who recently moved to San Antonio and is starting a garden from scratch again, more or less, and trying to think things through in order to get things right! This is like the third thread I've begun about this one spot in the garden. lol But I do appreciate the comment, and hope to be a true gardener some day. After all the input, I'm thinking of digging up Jude, which is also a new own root and which I just put in the ground about two weeks ago, and planting Tradescant in his place and putting Jude in the back. Decisions, decisions! Thanks for your well wishes, and here's wishing you the same!...See MoreMunstead Wood, Tradescant, Wm S. 2000?
Comments (4)If you are looking for something "sprawling", then WS2000 definitely fits the bill. It grows in an awkward manner and it's difficult to get his growth in a "mannerly" habit. WS2000 tends to want to throw out a lot of lateral canes that are long as it's vigor increased then shoots up vertical canes from those horizontals...think of training a climber on the ground. Now it doesn't do this all the time. You will gets some upright ones that might even climb a bit in your area. I had an upright one that got up to 4.5ft tall once. I had WS2000 in a less than desirable area but he still did well. It will grow wider than tall at around 3-4'x4-5'. I'm actually ordering Munstead Wood this year, but from what I can tell, Munstead Wood has a darker bloom more along the color lines of The Prince and has a more compact growth habit with more manners. Tradescant seems like it has similar coloring to WS2000 except maybe slightly darker and grows in a larger manner and sometimes as a climber....See MoreSource for DA Tradescant
Comments (15)I can't imagine Tradescant thriving as an own root plant. Garden Valley Ranch has a row of them planted for the cut flower trade, yet in the past five years I haven't seen the grafted plants reach past my kneecaps. I vaguely recall seeing some online pics of it grown as a short climber, so it does have vigor... somewhere. FYI, DA-USA has hired new employees in the ordering center that know absolutely nothing about roses. It was challenging getting them to go off script. I asked how many tree roses of Lady Emma Hamilton were in stock, she told me 1,200+ plants. I reiterated that tree roses were not the same as bareroot bush roses. I was placed on hold as she asked someone else for help. I was subsequently told that the bush roses were the same as climbers and tree roses, and just need to be pruned and "shaped" to your requirements. I told her tree roses are very different, they're grafted to look like lollipops versus bush roses and must have a different inventory number. She didn't believe me, got exasperated, and our tense conversation ended shortly thereafter. This is quickly devolving into a J&P Roses experience. The only thing worse would be routed to India or some other foreign country's call center for customer service....See MoreThe last Tradescant
Comments (51)@mjmello52, Palatine, is the name of the place. I wrote them and they will have it in the fall. However. I was reading on their site and they require a minimum purchase of three roses. That isnt so bad, but the shipping (to Texas) for those three roses, according to their site, is @ $150.00 +. I love Tradescant so much that if I have to, I will find a way to pay it... but I sure cant to afford to, lol. @ shopshop. I dont know if you read the thread I posted on the antique side, but that was how I lost all of my roses... in a home sale. I had no idea that I wouldnt be able to dig them up and put regular bushes back in. When I found out after I had a contract, I practically begged the young man who bought it to please let me take them, but he wouldnt. He didnt want them, but he wanted to choose his own bushes, at a time when he was ready to do it. I cant blame him for that. 100% my fault. Now I know. But.. 120 old garden roses, with quite a few Austins thrown in here and there. All mature, all big and beautiful. That was 10 years ago. I never grew another rose until I bought this house recently. And, they are in containers for now, lol. I still cant believe Tradescant is gone. It's such a great rose that I cannot understand why they got rid of it. Especially as there is nothing even like it now....See Morebart bart
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