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'Crescendo' rose Reviews & Comments
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Umm, I felt very guilty but had to rate Crescendo as a tree rose. It is DISASTROUS! It tolerates heat very poorly and rebloom is only fair, it is also a thrips magnet in midsummer. It's ironic that as little as it reblooms, it immediately gets attacked, but thrips do love certain pale colored roses and seem to leave the striking, deeper colored roses alone. When I had its parent Gemini tree rose, it was always a fantastic rebloomer and the thrips were never such a problem. Gemini also tolerated heat very well! And note, the Crescendo tree rose is shielded with enough afternoon shade as well. Other tree roses I've had did fine with the hot summer sun exposure! They just do not tolerate 4+ weeks of non-stop rains. This time Crescendo was shielded from the rains so I cannot comment about its rain tolerance. Color was good for one Crescendo tree rose, the other Crescendo was not a very appealing cream-white and it held very little pink. However, I really liked the fragrance.
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Too bad. In my experience 'New Zealand' and most of it's offspring fare poorly in hot weather.
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Thank you so much Robert for adding the importance of the parent lineage and its effects on the poor heat resistance factor. This will definitely help other people take note of why Crescendo can be a problem, especially with the exposed grafts as a standard / tree rose.
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12 JUN 13 by
 jmile
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I have a completely different experience with Crescendo----We just had 107 degree heat in Brentwood California---This rose didn't even flinch. I have 4 bushes and they are all in constant bloom. I do not spray and do not use commercial fertilizers and they do great. I just use alfalfa --- they are planted in an old horse pasture and get no shade at all.
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Available from - Jackson & Perkins had them yesterday. I was surprised.
http://www.jacksonandperkins.com
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4 JUL 11 by
Kit
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I have the first bloom on the Crescendo Rose I put in bareroot early May 2011. No odor was detectable until it opened, then a pleasant and strong aroma emerged. The pigment is photocatalyzed like that of 'Double Delight', so blooms in the shade as well as parts of petals obscured by other petals remain pale while the rest of the bloom deepens its pink in the sunlight; I'll upload a few pics to demo the photo effect. So far it looks like a keeper.
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Parents are Gemini and New Zealand, but I don't know which for seed parent and which for pollen parent. Here's an article about it:
http://kaleidoscope-media.com/articles/press-release/jackson-perkins-honor-nashville-symphony-crescendo-rose-231
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I think that Gemini has sterile pollen so that would make New Zealand the pollen parent and Gemini the seed parent. Either it is completely sterile or so bad it rarely takes from what I have been told. But, it makes such a super mommy bush who cares???!!!???
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