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'William Baffin' rose Reviews & Comments
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Available from - Cashman's Nursery
Bismarck, North Dakota
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Can you tell us more about this nursery. Do they have a website.
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#2 of 2 posted
28 JUL 11 by
 Darrell
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Yes. www.cashmannurserynd.com. It's been around for 113 years. They carry mostly Canadian roses. (I bought 'William Baffin' there as a gift while visiting my North Dakota cousin. ) A wonderful, friendly nursery.
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I grew several specimens of William Baffin for about ten years. I raved about them for the first few years, and then they disappointed me. They started to decline, with less and less bloom, and even got diseased. It may not have been blackspot, but it was a leaf fungus of some sort. I tried rejuvenation pruning, which is quite a task with his rose - the canes are like tree trunks. Nothing worked, so I cut them back to the ground and replaced them with other varieties. Suckers like crazy, even years after I chopped them down.
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my william baffin rose is growing like mad, a little too crazy, that's why I'm online looking for info on it. and frankly there is not much out there. So it's not a real climbing rose? just a rambler, I hear. I just cut off about 1/3 of the growth since it's been sending stalks skyward into the air about 3 feet above the arbor. Itr also suckers, and I'm also getting some disease after feeding a system also. zone 6, lehigh valley, pa
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4 JUN 11 by
Chris
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no, it's more of a huge (car sized) shrub, but it will bloom incessantly when it gets going. just once the first year. always neat looking, very canadian!
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28 OCT 04 by
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This is the first fall with my two rose bushes on a arbor. Is it true I don't have to cut it back for the winter, just simply cover the base with leaves and that's it?
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William Baffin was bred to survive in VERY cold conditions and the beauty of him is that you don't have to do anything. If this is his first year it may be a wisdom to mound some compost, dirt, wood chips up to about a foot all around the base, just in case he hasn't put down very deep roots.
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As there hasn't been a post here in a while I will put in my two bits. I am currently growing 300 William Baffin into three gallon pots in zone 5. We prune in spring and mid summer by reduciing the number of canes to the soil and by reducing the remaining canes by 1/3. We fertilize with a systemic fertilizer twice a year (right after pruning), which takes care of insect problem at the same time. William Baffin grows great as an arching shrub rose to 6 or 8 feet but can certainly be trained to an arbor by those who wish it. In winter we place all the pots in close proximity (pot touching pot) and provide protection from the winter sun.
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21 MAY 08 by
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How good is the rebloom on this rose? I need a tall, pink, climbing rose that reblooms all summer. Any ideas?
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3 JUN 10 by
Irish22
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An excellent candidate. My William Baffin is about 8 feet tall and 4 feet wide.. the first to bloom each spring, and blooms continously until fall. No winter protection required in Zone 5a.
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21 MAY 08 by
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How good is the rebloom on this rose? I need a tall, pink, climbing rose that reblooms all summer. Any ideas?
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not very good, it is rather sporadic after the first amazing flush.
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13 MAY 09 by
Chris
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it is very happy to do lots of blooming after it settles in. my first year it was once, last year, remontant! the foliage is as good as a holly when it is not in bloom. nice all around, no die back in my 5b shady growing in sand driveway. close to perfect. flower very neat and cheerful.
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