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goncmg 
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27 FEB 12 by
goncmg
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A shame this rose is barely available if at all......the blooms are a little small, the plant tends to grow wider than tall, and the form is not for exhibition but the color is lovely! Always reminded me of "fruit on the bottom" yogurt in boysenberry or some sort of berry! The scent is insane, strong and hard and makes your mouth water. Grew this one for 10 years in the 80's until we moved and by then it was not easily found. Scent seems to be "in" now, again/finally and the namesake has always been well-esteemed. Maybe someday this one will re-appear. It is a nice, good rose.
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The name is hard to remember, perhaps that's the downfall.
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Maybe it could be rebranded as "Calvin Klein," or is that name also past recognition these days? It's so hard to keep up. :-)
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9 AUG 13 by
goncmg
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I GIVE UP. Period and case closed. Blind shoots and now, yes, thick fluffy whipped cream MILDEW on the 2 Tropicanas and pretty much on nothing else.............I bought body bags, they were coddled and they GREW...........oh basal after basal, blind leading the blind.....I will forever salivate over the huge plants of this one, growing in total abandon by tenants renting the house, by the fast food purveyor, the shopping mall.................but although I guess I can GROW it, I simply cannot make Tropicana PERFORM for me............I have a blackspot free Soleil d'Or here in swampy summer Columbus, a Futura band that is 3 years old and is now 5 tall x 4 wide---literally a beast of a plant, Smoky and Vesper and Joseph's Coat are disease free, my 6 year old potted and coddled Double Delight is giving me fat basals out of the crusty old union, Mint Julep is a weed, Mojave gave me close to an exhibition bloom, 1839 Tea SAFRANO has NO disease at all and is shooting huge plum colored juicy stems packed with buds, Orange Parfait BLOOMS!!!! LOL LOL.............nothing else I can try, do or say! I do not speak African Violet, I do not speak Tulip and I think it is now proven once and for all I DO NOT SPEAK TROPICANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Its plausible that you have a mutation. Its not uncommon for graftings to be taken from mutated plants.
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This is the most HILARIOUS lovely rant of a post, LOL I DO NOT SPEAK TROPICANA!! Thank you for a wonderful mid-afternoon chuckle...
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Fun rose! Looks like Dad when it opens, like Mom as petals fall!
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Remembered this from the Edmunds catalogs of the 80s so when I was offered a maiden this year I had to say yes. My experience echoes these older comments. The color is deep pink, the plant inherited crazy thorns from its parent Anne Letts, and there is absolutely zero fragrance. None. No fragrance at all. It’s absolutely an exhibition type, my maiden broke dormancy in December (I’m in 9b/10a) and gave a big, beautiful bloom on a nice sized stem by mid-February. I have had one other blossom since then. It’s late August. As I have very limited space it’s unlikely I will retain this variety. The sparse foliage I can deal with. The sparse blooms I cannot. And I’m really let down by there being no fragrance.
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