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'Eden' rose Reviews & Comments
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One flower of Pierre de Ronsard/Eden weighs a hefty 28 grams!!!
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Zoo poo from the elephant's enclosure? or just a naturally big girl.
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Reply #2 of 2 posted today by  Jay-Jay
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No elephant or lion poop,
I just plucked one and we were just going to use the scales for making stawberry-icecream
(it's way over 30°C right now over here)... so I weighed the average sized flower and this was the outcome.
It was superdry weather and the sun had almost fried it, so there was no loose water weighed.
Not a big girl though, but one with hefty 'bones' and a good perfume.
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I planted my roses Pierre de Ronsard in January 2011. They have flourished so far two seasons. Live in Madrid (Spain) where the climate is harsh (hot in summer and very cold in winter) The sun is scorching. Maybe that's why my Pierre de Ronsard only bloom in spring. But the bloom is so spectacular! Roses are large with many petals, virtually unscented, with beautiful shades cream / pink. This is a healthy rose, vigorous, beautiful and fast growing vegetation. They hold quite well the strong sun of Madrid (Spain) but rose slightly fade with the sun. They are also resistant roses in the rain. They bloom in May and flowering lasts about a month. Too bad then not bloom again until the following year. However I am very satisfied with the outcome of this rose.
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Initial post 30 AUG by Bini
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I planted 2 Eden roses from the same nursery. one was the most beautyful white one with one a hint of pale pink in the middle, like you see it in the catalogs.
the other one was right from the start true pink , lighter outside than in the middle.
the pale one was always a sickly and thin beauty, the pink one decided to get crazy and turned into a wide an tall bush, challenging every winter and coming out the winner.
my little true colored one walked into the light in her second winter and was never much mourned. I have talked to a couple of gardeners about the white/palepink edens, and they all rolled ther eyes and had storys about syphilitic beautys.
Bini
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Reply #1 of 3 posted 30 AUG by Jay-Jay
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Do You have photo's from both types to upload with this shared experience?
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Reply #2 of 3 posted 1 SEP by Bini
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Dear Jay-Jay
Here some pics of my Eden. The true colored white/palepink one ist dead and gone for may years now. She died in her second winter.I have no pictures of her, if I had, it would be paper-prints :)).Shown is the suviving shrub, 165cm high,slimmer than usually, for I took one third out to rejuvenile it. This late in saison the colors are less intense, blooms are smaller and a most of my very filled roses have a lot less petals.Probably due to the fact that I only mulch my roses with horsemanure compost in november, work that in a little in april. Probably they lack nutritions now in september, but I rather have them not preform 100% by fall that loose tender groth or worse in winter.I do hope the pink shows good enough, if not it´s a good reason to finally get a better camera :)
Best regards,
Bini
Germany,Sept.2012
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Reply #3 of 3 posted 1 SEP by Jay-Jay
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Thank You Bini,
The photo's are showing clearly what You mean! And indeed from no other photographed Eden the petals are that pink! Maybe it's a sport ('Pink Eden'), like there is a White Eden too. It would be nice to propagate it.
And yes it's good not to overfeed them with nutrients in late summer/fall, to enable the plant to stop growing and produce "antifreeze".
Danke schön Bini,
Die Bilder zeigen haargenau, was Sie meinen! Und indertat gibt es keine anderen Foto's, auf dem Eden so Rosa Blütenblätter hat! Vielleicht ist es eine Mutation ('Rosa Eden'). vielleicht wäre es angebracht sie zu vermehren mittels Veredlung.
Und ja, im Algemeinen ist es gut die Rosen nicht zu stark zu düngen spät im Sommer oder Herbst, damit die Pflanze aufhört zu wachsen und sich gegen den Frost schützt.
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Available from - Peter Beales Roses
www.classicroses.co.uk
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