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'Lovely Fairy' rose Reviews & Comments
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The blooms of my Lovely Fairy fade to a charming, antique color, almost a dusty rose. I actually prefer the faded blooms over the bright new ones. Even when the blooms are completely dried on the bush, they maintain this lovely color.
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25 FEB 04 by
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I bought this rose today, a nice shrubby well formed small bushy rose produced by Monrovia (with all details on a nice label), It has beautifully colored small blooms, and very healthy looking leaves considering that most roses in Western North Carolina have taken a beating because of high humidity and too much rainfall. I haven't bought a rose in 15 years because I can't spray and I was looking for The Fairy, actually, but this was too pretty to pass up. I have it out in a rather mixed up border, still in its pot, along with bright red daylilies, a new white phlox, gorgeous purple leaved Persian Shield plant, Pennisetum rubifolium grass, a huge plant of my beloved Rudbeckia Herbstonne, a few snapdragons, and a barely blooming pink hydrangea, lots of beautiful leaves of hardy geranium, and it all looks GORGEOUS. I haven't detected a fragrance yet in the one blossom I brought inside and hope that it really does have a fragrance.
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Hello!
I wish that too.
And the best part... this plant is easy to care and easy to propagate by ground layering.
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Propagation: Ground layering. Select a branch close to the ground, prefereably one with spent flowers, remove the leaves in the section to be buried, if desire, scrape lightly the bark off the under-side of the branch. Make sure the leaf nodes will be under the ground. Do not cut the branch off the mother plant. Dig a little trench about 2" deep and lower the branch into it and cover with soil. Add weight with a stone on the buried area so that it will stay under the soil and this will help to hold moisture around the branch. Water ocasionally. When roots form, cut the branch from the mother plant. Then pot or transplant as mature cutting.
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