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'Outrageous ™' rose Reviews & Comments
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So far it's great for me too in Eugene, OR. Can you believe it, no blackspot and we've been getting a lot of rain! This rose has excellent form and colour and a fabulous strong sweet scent. This is my first year with this rose, I hope it continues to do well.
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Do you spray your roses with anything? Mine is about to go in the ground, but it's been in a pot since fall and has started looking very sickly - blackspotted leaves falling off, skimpy new stems. It hasn't bloomed yet, but if it doesn't put on a lot of new growth and get healthier after planting it, it may be a goner for me. The pot is at least three gallons, and I'm sure it has enough room for the size of the plant.
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19 APR 10 by
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Sometimes I spray and sometimes I don't. I guess it really just depends on how bad the black spot problem is. I would rather not spray so that I don't kill any of the beneficial bugs, but I might do it this year to at least some of my bushes since black spot and even some rust (yuck!) has hit some of my roses hard. As for Outrageous, mine is still doing pretty well, and I think it will do a lot better this year because it will have it's sun back (some overgrown trees did not do any favours to a few of my roses, Outrageous included). If I were you, I would probably spray it (Outrageous) to give it a good chance as well as use some good rose planting mix. I really like EB Stone's Rosing Planting Mix. This rose really is worth the effort. Best of luck!
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Outrageous Has come through the wet spring with lots of healthy new growth and is about to bloom again. There is hope for this one!
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21 MAY 06 by
KB
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What a lovely plant! The first of the bareroots I planted this season to leap into bloom, vigorous, prolific, wonderful fragrance and gorgeous color. I can't say enough about this rose, at least in Southern California it's an absolute winner.
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Maybe your experience is more the norm than mine and I just got a dud bush--see my post above. I may try getting another to see how it grows for me. I would sure like to hear others experiences with this floribunda.
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24 FEB 09 by
KB
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Your experience is very interesting; I am not sure if the difference is our different regions, different soils or perhaps just as you said, a dud plant? I have noticed my plant can get iron deficient very quickly (more than any other rose I have) and start losing its color; when that happens the blooms get tiny and very faded. Don't give up yet on Outrageous, if moving it around doesn't work you might try replacing it. If moving it or repurchasing works out, it will be worth it, you can get a whole vase of brilliant orange from one day's trimming. It's the one rose my neighbors all remark about, even those who don't know a rose from a geranium! Good luck.
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My blooms do look small and faded so I will try the extra iron treatment to this Outrageous Rose to see if that makes a difference. When I fertilize, I use the fertilizer injector I got from Rosemania and mix up several different items--Response, Superthrive, Acid Loving Plant Supplement, Fish Emulsion, and usually Iron and maybe some other supplement type things, and run all this in the injector and through the drip irrigation system I have hooked up in each rose bed. Every rose has it's own little watering "shrubbler" as DripWorks calls them. The shrubbler can be adjusted individually to control the flow amount and speed at which it is "watered". I really like it. I will however give Outrageous it's own weekly iron treatment for a month or so at least to see if that makes a difference before doing any moving of any kind. Thanks for the tip. This is the kind of valuable info it is good to share on this site!!
GOOD JOB!!
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I grow this floribunda in zone 6a northwest Missouri. I have grown it for two full years and so far I am just not sure what to think about this rose. The bush has not been vigorous growing at all and has not gotten over 18" tall at it's highest. Since it doesn't really grow well, it likewise doesn't bloom very much. The blooms have been rather disappointing as well. The color is kind of a washed out orange. The blooms aren't very large and don't have many petals either. The one saving grace for this rose is the amazing scent it has. I have never had a rose with such a wonderful scent. I can't even describe it. So, normally I would have probably SP'd this rose last year when it didn't improve from year one, but because of the fragrance I decided to hold off and give it until this year, 2009, to see if maturity helped the rose come to life and start to grow. If it doesn't improve this spring I will try potting it up to see how it grows in a container even though it is currently planted in a very desirable spot right now where other floribundas are growing well. I will let it grow in the container all year and re-evaluate in Spring 2010 and maybe even move it to another part of the garden if it isn't growing in the container well. I have done that in the past with other roses--Cherry Parfait for example--and by trial and error finally found the right place for it and lo and behold after about four years I hit on the right combination and the rose finally took off and grew well. I don't give up on a rose easily!!! Especially when it has a trait like Outrageous' fragrance that I really want to keep!! And, Outrageous does set seed and has fertile pollen so I would like to try and use it in hybridyzing to try and capture that wonderful fragrance.
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