Do you have a favorite Moss rose?
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Comments (80)Listed by preference, 1. "Auguste Renoir" very nice rich shade of medium pink, very fragrant, of old rose. 2. for bloom form and fragrance, "Liv Tyler" (actress who played Arwen,in Lord of the Rings) syn. "Comtesse de Province", I treasure every single bloom. An uncommon shade of peach-pink bright but not oversaturated. Nice fragrance, of sun ripened peaches. Stingy bloomer but each rose is very pretty. 3. . Yves Piaget. It is too hot in Oakland California to grow peonies, so I console myself with the blooms of Y.P. 4. "Rouge Royale" I much prefer this rose over our "Mr. Lincoln" for a fragrant red, as it is much more productive of bloom. with reservations, even in Calfornia, doesn't open well, 3. "Betty White" Meilland, released by Star roses, I feel this should be on Romantica list. LIke a shrub rose on steroids. 6 months after being planted she is a tall giantess,with towerlike columns of 2 canes with 14-16 blooms on each,and a good number of blooms elsewhere for something that has such big blooms, huge glossy leaves, gigantic blooms, nearly baseball sized, of creamy white and pale pink. very fragrant of old rose and rose cologne. Here it only opens well when we have 4-5 days of 80 degrees plus weather, otherwise the buds rot in the morning sea mist. Haven't done a petal count yet. 5. Toulouse Latrec, fully 1/3rd of the blooms of our plant have vegetal centers, which makes me wonder why Meilland put it on the market, I've seen this trait appear in several T-L"s for sale. "Polka" is nice in arrangements but requires immediate deadheading to bloom well. Thank you Meilland for a modern alternative to H.T.s. Luxrosa...See MoreWhat do you think of these Moss roses?
Comments (14)Thank you for mentioning Waldtraut, Pamela! Back in the 90s, a very lovely lady approached me at a Huntington Old Rose Symposium, asking if I would bud her a Waldtraut Neilson. I was propagating roses heavily for them as a volunteer at the time. The next day, I went to the Study Plot to see what I was up against and found an ENORMOUS, thorny tangle of very thick, extremely armed canes. I went to Clair Martin and told him of the request, also that Waldtraut had layered itself so there was an own root plant of it to be potted. I asked permission to pot it for her so she could buy it at the plant sale associated with the symposium. He, of course, said yes. The next time I saw her, I asked what I'd done to offend her! She gasped, "Nothing! Why?" I continued that I'd looked at Waldtraut and figured trying to FIND buds among that proliferation of prickles, then trying to REMOVE one without serious injury must have been meant as penance for some accidental insult or injury! She laughed, saying she had a beautiful teenage daughter at home and thought Waldtraut the perfect "security plant" to place under her bedroom window. She was thrilled with the layered plant, purchasing it at the sale and, I presume, it enjoyed its security duty back home in the Bay Area! That was my "introduction" to Waldtraut Neilson. I grew it in Newhall for some time where it resisted every attempt I made to make use of its vigor and beauty in breeding. Gabrielle Noyelle grew nearly as large and provided a regular offering of her almost apricot, pink, double flowers. She faded very early in that extreme heat and light, but remained acceptably healthy, other than the expected mildew when it was around. Golden Moss was a bit shy blooming there and grown primarily for its historic value. Goldmoss, the yellow floribunda moss from Ralph Moore flowered much more reliably and was much more yellow. That and Rougemoss, remained traditional floribunda size and productive. I'd plant Fakir's Delight again if there were room. Bracteata-Moss with such dense, hooked prickles, you can easily grab a thick cane and move it anywhere you wish without injury, like a Fakir's bed of nails. Flowering regularly with peach scented, pale yellow tints in the many folds of the OGR shape, fading white. It would probably make a tremendous security plant, particularly trained along a fence for support. His Lady Moss is as elegant and refined as any moss you can imagine. Taller than most floribundas, but it blooms as regularly and reliably as you'd expect. Don't forget about Mme. de la Roche-Lambert. Remarkably fragrant with a strong spring flush here and a lighter fall flush in a rich crimson-purple. I've always felt we should provide room for the more modern mosses to prevent their loss. Parkzauber, Blue Boy, Black Boy, Cee Dee Moss, any and all of the moss minis...they're probably far more endangered than any of the Nineteenth Century and earlier cultivars we can mention. Each is as suitable and healthy in the proper climate as the other and each has its own panache. Kim...See MoreHow many hybrid teas or other favorite class of roses do you have?
Comments (9)When I first started to grow roses, I only have my eyes on hybrid teas which I consider the perfect" rose. I think about a fourth of my 35 plus roses are hybrid teas. However, in recent years, I have been moving towards floribundas, shrubs and climbers. I guess time and taste changes, in part due to our fellow rosarians on this forum, and the desire to have more natural looking bush forms. I only buy hybrid teas if there is something I find unique about it or a chance to have it because I couldn't find it in the past. I did buy Voodoo, Chicago Peace, Strike it Rich, Double Delight and About Face this year because I finally found them after a few years searching for them. But normally I would lean towards Austins and shrubs roses....See MoreWhat is your favorite color rose? Do you grow only fragrant ones?
Comments (18)I'm with Seil and Ben - nothing makes my heart go pitter patter or my wallet go "poof" faster than a picotee, mutable or striped rose, the more high contrast the better. After that I'm drawn to the "oddball" colors of russet, parchment or lavender (or best all three together, like Distant Drums or Koko Loko). Dark dark burgundy flowers also zing something in my soul. As for wafting, even without my poor nose nothing really wafts very far in my dry climate. We don't get wafting of hyacinths and lilacs in the spring even though I have 100's of the former and 3 well established bushes of the latter. Peonies you have to get up close to smell, and the same for lilies. I'll get a vague "pleasant smell" from an area with over 10 Stargazer lilies blooming, but even my son with the hypersensitive nose doesn't gag at the smell. It just dissipates too fast. I never knew Darlow's Enigma or Marie Pavie were supposed to have any scent at all, and even my daughter with a good nose shrugs when presented with a bouquet of those. I like fragrance when I can get it, but I look far more often than I smell, as far as roses go. Cynthia...See MoreUser
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