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I am looking for the (business)relation between Blaby Rose Gardens and Verschuren rosenurseries in The Netherlands in the 1950-1960s. How come several Verschuren roses were Blaby named: Blaby Monarch, Blaby Courier, Blaby Jubilee?
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#1 of 2 posted
yesterday by
jedmar
Blaby Rose Gardens was managed by a Dutchman, Bernard Hanraads, which explains the business relations with de Ruiter and Verschuren. We added some notes under this listing. A Bernard Hanraads is still on linkedin.com, possibly a descendant. You might try to contact him.
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I have a policereport on Mr. and Mrs. Biesheuvel (owners of Blaby Rose Gardens) getting killed in a carcrash in The Netherlands on 16 april 1960. Former employees speak of 'The Manager of Blaby Rose Gardens when I worked there was a man called Jim Chamney' and 'the manager was Mr Walter J Clark'. So....quite some names to check, although the first obviously is not to be consulted
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Bonjour, The Rosenlexikon est très souvent mentionné dans les Références. Pourriez-vous ajouter à la présentation de ce livre ce que veulent dire par exemple 3/10 pour le parfum et surtout pour la taille du rosier ? Merci. Cordialement Daniel
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24 MAR by
jedmar
Dans le Rosenlexikon, le parfum et la croissance des roses sont notés de 1 à 10. Nous montrons cela entre 1/10 et 10/10.
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OK, mais je ne comprends toujours pas ce que veut dire x/10 pour la croissance d'une rosier. Le Rosenlexikon se trouve être en vente en ligne actuellement, mais c'est autour de 150 Euros ! Cordialement, Daniel
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#3 of 3 posted
yesterday by
jedmar
La croissance 8-10/10 denoté très vigoureux: e.g. Veilchenblau: 8/10; Dorothy Perkins: 9/10
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Thanks for sharing these lovely photos Margit.
This one looks promising. Hopefully we can acquire it here in the states soon.
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Thanks Robert. It is an impressive bloomer and so far it has been very hardy.
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Hi Cliff! Just found your garden. The high desert one was so impressive! This low desert one ain't too bad either! What happened with all the roses you had at your old nursery? I am just hoping they are somewhere in a garden or a collection or something. The amount of roses that you had is amazing!
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yesterday by
Cliff
When the decision was made to close the nursery and dig up most of the thousands of roses in the garden, we then spent well over a year sending out to our mailing list constantly updated inventories of roses available to be dug up, bare rooted, packed and shipped. Many of these were large plants and my overriding objective was to ensure that as many of these roses as possible found good homes in gardens across the country. This required employing a crew full time for what proved to be very time and labor intensive work. We charged actual shipping costs and an amount of each rose that allowed us to approach break even and pay the crew over this extended period of time. I can assure you that there was no profit built in whatsoever, but gave me the satisfaction that the great majority of this collection of mostly rare roses, which were originally imported from Europe, would continue to be grown in a wide variety of gardens.
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#2 of 2 posted
yesterday by
Bug_girl
Thank you for the quick reply Cliff. It makes my heart happy that they are somewhere out there! Extinct rose varieties are a huge bummer. And I hope that no one would begrudge you making a profit. You earned it.
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