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Very unusual and picturesque, Rose Pteracantha is grown for its huge red prickles.
Unfortunately, this picture does not show at all the actual beauty of the Rose - as its flowers are not the attraction, but the bare branches with prickles really are !!
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Pteracantha
Very unusual and picturesque, Rose Pteracantha is grown for its huge red prickles.
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I used to grow Peace in Los Angeles (doesn't get any hotter!). Find this colour change hard to believe :(
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#1 of 3 posted
17 FEB 09 by
Natalia
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Even I started having doubts... This Rose is quite "Peace" from October to June - pale yellow with a crimson. But, when the air temperature rises to 35 degrees and over in Maltese summer, the Rose becomes orange! I have pictures of the same blossoming bush in different seasons - as if it is a different Rose - and hardly believe my own eyes.
Next season I would buy "Peace" from a different supplier and see how it behaves.
Thank you for your comment.
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Natalia, let's watch it growing together :) I just don't think it is Peace, although it is beautiful. All Peace's I've ever grown had very thick, upright standing strong canes and true yellow flowers with pink edges, which usually became whiter as they "ripened". I had Peace's in Los Angeles, and now planted one in Russia, where I live now, and they look the same, just a bit shorter in colder climate.
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#3 of 3 posted
18 FEB 09 by
Natalia
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I thought there was something so Russian in "Ligovka-Shalasha" name! I am an ex- Moscowite myself, with last 15 years living in Malta. Well, no thoughts to move back for now. Good luck to you with Roses in Russian climate... As - after I read once the book of Russian breeder of 30-years Teorina about seasonal jobs in her Rose garden, my own involvment with my 10 bushes here in Malta seemed to me to be considered a childish game - you see, no winter at all here.
Do you have other Roses? How do you care about them? Tell me please if you feel like telling. I would be interested to share the experience, as Malta is a very small country and there is no Rose society here. Thank you for your responce, Natalia@maltanet.net
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