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'Sundowner' rose Reviews & Comments
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23 MAR 23 by
 goncmg
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I’m laughing and smiling over the mildew comments. They are funny because they are truth. My mind is pretty good at remembering traits of all varieties I have grown: habit, foliage, scent, thorns, cane color, hardiness and so on. When it comes to Sundowner and I try to recall the foliage my mind gives me an image of darker green crinkled and curled leaves dusted white. Might be the actual mildew, might be the spray residue it took to stop the mildew in its tracks. Glowing ruby new growth just hits a maturity level and voila, overnight is twisted with mildew. But I love a tall, columnar shaped habit which this one has and it is capable of some stunning blooms as the photos here show. I have grown it off and on since it’s release in my junior high school days and I have never seen a cluster just singles and occasional basal break candelabra. The scent to me is like canned fruit cocktail. It can be a problem child with disease but this one sure does have tons of personality.
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'Bond Street', one of its' parents has a very nice color in photos.
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Has anyone tried breeding with Sundowner??
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No, because I wouldnt want to also breed the insane amount of mildew it is prone to :P
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Michael's right, beautiful rose, horrible mildew.
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Available as bare root in northern california Lowe's.
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Initial post
6 SEP 12 by
goncmg
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Being a fan of orange, the 60's-70's and Grandifloras, naturally I have this one now and have had it in the past, always 6a Columbus, OH. Next to Folklore, if there is a non-climber that actually does climb or pillar minimally, Sundowner is it----always finishes the year at 7 feet or more, much like Fragrant Plum and again, Folklore. The color is very lovely at first open: bright orange leaning salmon, some salmon shading on the outside petals. The blooms then fade more salmon then pinkish and tend to water spot. They have interesting scalloped edges. In my experience, autumn is the season for this one----for me it is always slow to start in the spring even after a mild winter, going in to winter healthy, etc. It tends to sulk and get blackspot in the heat of middle summer but come September the huge pillar-esque stems appear and the newly recovered foliage is lovely and there are bunches of blooms.....I have never tried crossing with it....mine is budded, from Hotico in Canada......
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