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'Tampico' rose Reviews & Comments
Discussion id : 73-347
most recent 2 AUG 13 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 2 AUG 13 by goncmg
I have to go public with this yet be very quiet lest Cherry-Vanilla "hear" me or any of the other 100................TAMPICO IS MY FAVORITE ROSE. I am soooooo in love with this rose I feel 17 again. I knew when I got it this spring from Vintage and somehow it was a rooted 18 inch tall BEAST I was in for something good and it sure has come through. Brilliant coral, not at ALL the o-r class it was assigned, it looks EXACTLY like its parents---has the same narrow foliage as Hawaii and the star shape to the blossom, has everything HUGE from cane to bud to bloom to thorns---from South Seas. It is easy, alas, to see HOW it got "lost"---it does read very dated and very dated even upon release 40 years ago----but for me? I could not be more in love. My "band" is now a full-sized budded bush, has upon it 6 star-shaped gorgeous coral crisp substanced blooms..........I do not know what "scent" it is, I call it "WAXY" I call it MY CHILDHOOD............this one has it BEYOND as does Gay Princess..............in a few years I will retire to St Croix, I need to pare down, I need to focus, if I need to have 2 or 5 budded as maidens and sent to the island to be grown as annuals, well, TAMPICO is going along with CV...............as for next year here in Ohio? I am sending out bud eyes x 20 and I intend to line the driveway with 15 pots of CV and 15 of Tampico............I am so in love with this rose! The J&P catalog did not give it JUSTICE way back then! They gave it a dreaded "side shot" and made it look sad and medium pink. Then somehow it got assigned o-r as a color class and had the misfortune of being introduced into the exhibition crazed 70's and yes the bloom is a little small but yes the form is actually GREAT! I am so in love with this rose. And I have found, as many people on here know, most roses from my childhood----1960-1990 is my specialty---and sooooooooooo many have been flops, that odd emtotional connection that is only emotional----I would cull so many.............but not Tampico. Amazing rose. Worth waiting 40 years to meet. I am in love!
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Discussion id : 68-979
most recent 23 DEC 12 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 23 DEC 12 by goncmg
Remember this one so well from the Jackson & Perkins catalog, mid-70's.......Vintage Gardens as of 12/12 has this one available again if anyone else also remembers............

Back in the 70's when this one was in the (then called) Proof of Pudding reviews with ARS, there was some discussion/debate over color with some districts getting a pinker bloom, others an more orange bloom. Here in 6a Columbus, mine looks JUST like the photo posted by San Jose: somewhat star shaped, glowing coral. And I LOVE it!

The plant is BIG in every sense of the word, tall, huge thorns, huge leaves, thick stems: Warriner used South Seas as a parent a lot and it seems to have passed on some super-size genes (Medallion, Antigua, Tampico)....super-size was a big deal in the 70's as the decade started off with the release of huge-blossomed First Prize..............
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