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'Cherry Blossom' rose Reviews & Comments
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Some of mine had mauve tones in the light pink this week. Look kind of cool/eerie.
Definitely hates heat, like New Zealand does. Turned to crispy critters yesterday. It's on Year 2.5, so we'll see if it hates heat at full maturity when the roots are even more mature.
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28 JUL 18 by
jmile
My Parade Day rose was doing great----until the weather turned hot. It's leaves crisped and turned brown and fell off the flowers crisped----It definatly does not like heat coupled with direct sun. I may try it in filtered sun. It may be that I can't grow it here where we get many days above 100 degrees.
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Mine got better by the summer flush. I think the root system needs to be very mature to compensate. I'm going to give it one more year, because it is improving every season.
It's otherwise a very nice rose, and the light pink take on silvery mauve tones in the spring flush.
Edit: Went to smell Parade Day yesterday, now that the blooms are not crispy -- no scent! So it went from amazing scent to none. I am guessing that once it adjust and grows out its roots, it can produce blooms that do no fry if the buds are developed in high heat (it was 94-100F for 2 weeks) by not producing fragrance oils. Maybe those oils require an abundance of air humidity to develop intense fragrance? Not sure.
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5 MAY 18 by
HC
This rose was available at a local nursery. It had an amazing citrus-y scent, it reminded me of that wonderful smell when you open a box of fruity cereal.
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12 MAR 18 by
Witchy
Available from - High Country Roses https://www.highcountryroses.com/
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This rose overwintered well through out 2 freeze storms (whereas others in this class perished, like Secret). It is about to open again, and I am noticing a pattern. It seems to dislike heat and become wilty. I am not sure if it is just super thirsty, if the roots need to grow more, or what. Otherwise, its super nice.
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Michael: My experience with large & glossy foliage: Initially I thought they need more water, but they actually prefer alkaline ... if it's too much acidic rain, hard minerals get leached out, and leaves wilt easily. My Meilland "Sweet Promise 2007" has the most glossy foliage, and I constantly have to lime that to neutralize acidic rain. David Austin rose Evelyn also has large & glossy foliage, I put the outflow of my rain-barrel, dumping tons of rain on that one. Then it got up to 70 F, and it WILTED in partial shade !! So I topped that with ALKALINE pea gravel (pH 9) for minerals .. leaves became thicker, and no more wilting.
Same with Austin rose Wise Portia (prefer alkaline). I put the rain-barrel overflow on that one, it received tons of rain, then it also wilted in partial shade. So I gave it Azomite (alkaline-mineral-powder, pH 9) and it stopped wilting. Rain leaches out calcium (makes leaves thicker), and magnesium (makes leaves shiny). Roses with glossy foliage have a higher need for alkaline minerals. I tested dunking cut blooms in different combo with ACIDIC rain-water (pH 4.5 in Chicagoland): with dolomitic lime, with red-lava, with Azomite .. and the cut blooms in Azomite solution last longest in the vase. Azomite is a fine-powder & easily absorbed by the stems. Sold cheap on Amazon, $10 for a large bag. After testing Azomite on many roses, I prefer that over lime, since Azomite has many trace elements, besides calcium & magnesium.
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I live at the edge of the temperate rain forests, so its always acidic. I think that one this one gets a better root structure in place, it should be fine and able to reach more minerals. I will lime the area next winter. That soil is clay and mushroom compost amendment.
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