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'Claire Jacquier' rose Reviews & Comments
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Does 'Claire Jacquier' set hips? The rose that came to me under this name certainly does, but the 1981 New Zealand reference says it does not.
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Hi Patricia, I've tried numerous times and numerous ways to get Jacques to either set seed or provide pollen. He has resisted all efforts and proven himself to be one, stubborn mule!
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Oh Kim, this is so funny. Why do ladies refer to roses as "she" and yet here you are referring to 'Mlle Clair Jacquier' as a "he". Heh, heh, heh. That's beside the point though..... . My plant sets so many hips that the ground later is just covered with them and I know the Rosella parrots feast on them. Walking out to the plant just now shows the remains on the ground of all these hips. I've put some photos on, including one of the seeds but have no idea whether they are fertile or not. I think my rose might be misnamed - there has always been a niggle about it in the back of my mind.
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Very simple, Patricia, I misread the name as Jacques Cartier and not Claire Jacquier. Call it brain fade due to very unseasonal higher heat and awful humidity. Sorry about that! LOL!
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It is quite OK Kim. I know the feeling. I get finger-fade in winter (from too much typing), feet-fade in summer (from too much hand watering) and brain-fade at just about every other season. Hopefully someone else will respond on my 'Mlle. Claire Jacquier' hip question.
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The plant in our garden sets many hips Patricia.
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Thanks Billy. Being in the same state, it is more than likely that our plants are from the same clone.
Which makes me wonder what Kenn Nobbs had in New Zealand as 'Claire Jacquier'. No clues are obtained from the little red book that Fiona Hyland amalgamated on 'The Collected Writings of Ken Nobbs'.
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On a slight tangent - I have seen 'Claire Jacquier' labelled 'Fortune's Double Yellow' in a nursery display garden....
Perhaps how the name 'Fortune's Double Yellow' - one of the most vicious security fence roses - came to appear on a list of 'thornless or almost thornless roses'.
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Mine in italy does set hips
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When Hearst Castle was getting rid of a lot of their older roses in preparation for a restoration of Mr. Hearst's and Julia Morgan's original selections, they gave many of the rejects to a local nonprofit historical house in the area who sold them on to raise money. That's where we got our 'Claire Jacquier.' It's a truly lovely climbing rose, with soft, thornless, easy to train canes and heartbreakingly beautiful buds and blooms. Its only "fault" is that it's a once bloomer, but we treasure it for its yearly spring display and want to share cuttings with others willing to give her a home. This "fault" is my guess for why this probably-original clone was given away - Hearst's Castle wanted something of the era that would also repeat.
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