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Just bought from Home Depot
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Spring bloom on Sexy Rexy is something to behold!
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I do not think I'm going to buy this rose. Not much excited after seeing real blooms in Regan Nursery, CA. It's just like mini-flora but shallow, color is not deep as picture on advertisement.
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Maybe its color gets hues in the autumn?
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Overall, Weeks seems to have an honest catalog, but this rose looks nothing like their promotion photo. I had to check the rose code to make sure it was the same rose.
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The ones I eventually saw in person, looked like bluebuster's photos.
It was essentially 'Coretta Scott King' in bicolor tones. It was pretty. Maybe a good alternative to 'Love'.
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It is pretty. It's just different from the photo pictured in the 2016 Weeks Catalog, which is a fiery red. Their written description is accurate though, "Dark orange overlaid with purple smoke with white reverse".
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Odd things happen to rose colors in the hot CA sun. I once saw a row of 'Lady Emma Hamilton' in a CA nursery which had faded to a most unappealing beige.
The name 'Moonstone' appears in the description of this cultivar. What does 'Moonstone' have to do with this rose?
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Moonstone is one of the parents. As per the Week's 2016 catalog, the lineage is Moonstone X Paul Gauguin.
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I'm glad I didnt buy it, then. Both parents defoliate here... (without spray)
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It blooms totally no influerence with moonstone but foliage. Blooms are only look alike in catalogue under special care or nice weather. In garden setting more like floribunda blooms with single stem. Lower petals, most nursery in California available to purchase this rose but i skipped it, I rather bought miss congeniality which is more attractive grandiflora
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Miss C looked great at the nurseries this season. Very full, fat, colorful thing. Smokin Hot had hanging blooms. Weak necks, like its probable grandparent, Maestro.
This rose can be seen from a long distance, but the flowers are not really that large. I would recommend this rose to people that love bright color and don't mind the negatives.
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10 APR 22 by
 jmile
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I guess from the comments here, that this rose performs different under different conditions. I have a no spray garden in zone 9B with low humidity. This rose only gets watered when we clean the pool. It does great. It has huge blooms and great upright stems with vibrant green leaves.
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My opinion it has none scent, wondering 4 parents of this rose have strong fragrance. But beautiful color and perfectly form, disease resistant too.
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Mine also has almost no scent and the same for this rose in a neighbor's yard. I even use organic fertilizer which usually helps them smell good. Perhaps it is one of those that need cold Winters; we have moderate Winters.
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Interesting, thank you. Always great to learn how plant behave in different parts of the world.
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Love Song has no fragrance for cold-zoners either. So I don't buy it.
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I don't either for the same reason. But I've seen incredibly pictures of this one though!
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Crossing fragrant parents often results in a nothingburger fragrance. It's just the way it is. This rose has such nice color, plant size, plant architecture, and foliage. Yet, the no fragrance for this color, and the non-descript form, really bar me from getting this rose.
I am hoping a descendent that resolves these issues crops up in the future.
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Violet's Pride is a winner with lavender color.
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Unfortunately, VP goes naked by August in my area. I considered trying out Sweet Madame Blue, its sister, but was waiting for further comments by other rosarians. J/P had a few nice mauves (like Perfume Perfection) before it became what it is today, but the color was often that dull tone some mauves have that I hate.
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Jackson and Perkins says this rose is offspring of "Moonstone "
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The codename seems to imply "Moonstone seedling" so that makes sense, but gives little to work with as to what that seedling was.
Disappointing because the color seems to be like Double KO. If that was the case, I would have actually considered buying it. But I wouldn't buy a gamble of a red with a funky commercial photo based on nothing but "Moonstone seedling".
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