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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
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
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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