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31 JUL 10
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I greatly appreciate the help of the respected gardeners who have left their comments. I believe there is a great chance that it is indeed Christopher Columbus rose by Meilland. The bare root plant was purchased at a reputable store and marked with the original Meilland labels and license tags. The more this beauty blooms, the more I think it is Columbus.
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Don't be too bummed out if it is the wrong one. Sometimes the rose youe end up with is better than the one you wanted in the first place. The trick is to identify which rose that you got by mistake.
John
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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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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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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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I'm impressed by the photos posted recently from Moscow (zone 4a) and St Petersburg (zone 5b)!
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Thank you so much! Your site has been helping us so much as the local suppliers often use strange names for the bare root roses and we often turn for help here.
It takes some extra work for winter-spring protection and the main danger comes not from the frosts, which have been seldom lately, but from the greenhouse effect caused by snow rapidly melting and freezing causing roses to sit in pieces of solid ice in the bright spring sun. They usually just "get fried" and destroyed by cane cancer and other fungus in the spring.
I build waterproof winter sheds for each rose bed - strong wooden frame with plastic film covering leaving the narrow sides open to let the air flow. By covering them with plastic as early as in mid-October, I keep the flower beds dry through the fall rains and my roses go into the winter dry. I cut tea hybrids and pin down the shrubs and climbers, cut off all leaves, spray with fungicide and cover the plants with fur tree branches for frost protection. When it gets really cold (December), I enforce my plastic covers with more staples and pieces of roof felt and similar materials, still leaving the sides open. In the spring I remove plastic, but keep some fur tree branches for protection from the spring sun or replace with a light landscape fabric.
I used to live in Los Angeles and amazingly I find it EASIER to care for the roses here in Russia as there are less brutal day-night temperature differences, easier to fight off the pests (don't even need to spray, just pick aphids with gloved hands) and disease (just 2 fungicide spraying per season) due to healthier and more balanced ecology of my garden where I keep chemicals to a minimum. For example I make my own sprays using weeds such as nettles and common horsetail and fertilize with horse manure hand picked (literally ! :) at a local stable.
The roses don' t get as much sun here and don't grow as fast, but still are so much fun to care for!
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