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'Isabella Skinner' rose Reviews & Comments
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Victorian Memory grows very well in the Rocky Mountain gardens of Denver. My roses are 5 years old, are about 7 feet high, and bloom abundantly with lovely scented in less than 4 hours of sunlight. This is a very vigorous rose as it is competing with an adjacent blue spruce as well.
I would recommend this rose for virtually any location.
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Thanks for sharing your experience.
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19 NOV 09 by
Unregistered Guest
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Is this a lax climber that could be trained along a low fence (3' high), or is it too upright to be used that way?
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27 MAY 10 by
Cavallo
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This will be mine's first full summer. So far my experience is that the canes are certainly lithe enough, but it'll constantly be trying to shoot past 3 feet. It's lush and dense, and you'll likely be doing a lot of chopping to keep it down. I'll know more definitively by the end of the summer.
Update, June 2011: Mine has grown to monstrous proportions. It's easily ten feet tall, and has engulfed a large portion of a tall, wooden fence. Trying to keep this thing short would be impossible.
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"I believe however that my greatest contribution to the cause of getting better hardy roses was the directing of attention to the value of the true Rosa laxa as a parent, some of my hybrids of it are of fairly good quality and continue to flower from the end of June untill frost. One of these which I have called Isabella Skinner is in bloom now and last year I photographed flowers on it in October, it is fully double, comes in clusters of four or five and has good foliage and the colour is a good clear pink."
Personal correspondence from Frank L. Skinner to Percy Wright July 2, 1964
Province of Manitoba Archives
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