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Please help me identify this rose that I fell in lust with this week. It's from a friend's garden, but she doesn't know what it is. The bush is 5 ft. tall, there are four or five blooms at the end of a long stem. The blossom is 6 1/2 inches across (be still my heart!) and it reminds me of the most blousy, romantic evening gown you have ever seen.
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Please add a picture. There are thousands of roses that match your verbal description.
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#2 of 9 posted
29 MAY 18 by
Maralynn
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Thanks for the prompt!
Mara
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Looks like Queen Elizabeth to me.
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#4 of 9 posted
29 MAY 18 by
Maralynn
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I think that with blossoms of 6 1/2 inches in diameter, it's perhaps too big to be Queen Elizabeth?
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In cool weather QE can get very big. I used to grow it in a marine fog zone in San Juan Capistrano. And looking at the unbloomed sprays on the whole plant pic, those are very characteristic of the manner in which QE usually blooms, i.e., long, wide spaced sprays.
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#6 of 9 posted
29 MAY 18 by
Maralynn
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Oh! That is so helpful to know. I was told that it has under 50 petals. Does that fit the description of QE?
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yes. official description of QE is 38 to 40 petals. Look up Queen Elizabeth on this website and scoot around the photos tab to see more,
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#8 of 9 posted
29 MAY 18 by
Maralynn
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Do the edges of the petals look different to you from my edges?
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#9 of 9 posted
2 DEC 20 by
Duchesse
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This looks exactly like my Queen Elizabeth (climber)
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