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'Gräfin Diana ®' rose Reviews & Comments
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Dark Desire is 2 years old in my garden and huge, with stiff canes. It is 6’2”x5’, this is after I cut it back by a third in July and it grew some more. Beautiful, thick petaled blooms on the end of each cane. I have noticed no balling with rain, only when it dropped into the low 40's at night did one of the blooms fail to open all the way and started to brown. The fragrance is not super strong as of yet. It always has blooms on it. I posted a picture of what the blooms looks like in my z5a WI garden. It would take over the world if I let it.
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25 FEB 21 by
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How are you finding it, generally?
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Grows 6 foot tall and almost as wide on a very disease resistant bush.
Flowers are too small for the size of the plant and not produced in enough abundance. They had little fragrance for me in my hot and humid North Carolina garden.
But it is fertile as both a seed and pollen parent.
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2 MAY 20 by
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It may just be fragrance you can't smell, scent is very subjective to the individual. It smells here in Sydney Australia (so also hot and often humid)...it just make's me think of old lady soap (like grandma's would have back in the 80's) rather than the description Kordes give of it.
I can't smell tea or myrrh....unless they smell completely unlike what they are described as, then maybe and I just haven't figured out the distinct qualities yet.
The clove of Ebb Tide, I don't detect it, it's just citris-y to me, etc. Meanwhile I grow Gladiolus liliaceus and that really stinks of cloves like you'd use in cooking and I'm really not a fan of that scent so I'd assume id detect it in Ebb Tide if it were there in any significant quantity.
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29 DEC 20 by
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My Dark Desire still produces too few flowers and not enough of them. I fertilize this rose in the same way as my others, and my other roses do not display such small flowers.
However, this rose does exhibit exceptional disease resistance for me in my eastern North Carolina garden.
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31 DEC 20 by
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FInally gave up on this. Very impressed when I saw it at Kordes in Germany - but in the PNW / SW Canada marine mild climate, 25" rain per year, the blooms only opened 50% of the time - balled up constantly. We don't get much rain, and humidity is modest to low - but one of my worst roses for balling up. I really wanted this one to succeed but got rid of it. Very strong fragrance. Moderate size blooms - not very large. Health otherwise. Average vigour. Had same problem with Earth Angel.
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