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'Elegance ® Française' rose Reviews & Comments
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Available from - High Country Roses
highcountryroses.com
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What a pleasure to have this one. It has beautiful disease-free glossy foliage, holds well to the plant and never defoliates in hot weather. Not at all bothered by rain or bad weather. Buds stay full for an extended period of time. They don’t shatter for 5 days, so the bush can end up filled with half open and fully open blooms at the same time. It has a nice form and naturally spreads out yet with stiff, fat canes, so as to not overcrowd or cross branches. Stays relatively stout, never achieving over 4’ tall here, and they tend to grow extra large in Hawaii.
Wonderfully abundant in flowers, it surprises every year as it will spit out random flowers every blooming month for me, which is just about every month except January. Fragrance is a combination of damask, raspberry, and a hint of cinnamon, which is apropos for this particular color, imho.
I would highly recommend this for the novice gardener and the pro alike, especially if you’re like me and do not spray. Just keep it fed, and it will supply abundant fragrant richly red, well formed and well-fragranced blossoms throughout the growing seasons. There is absolutely nothing bad I could say about this 5 Star Winner! ...except that it’s a must-have if you love red and love easy!
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Thank you for your review on the Sweet Spirit. I am in 9b and just had a very humid and blazing hot Summer. Most of my roses didn't perform as well as they did. I am in search for some really heat tolerant roses whose color and fragrance don't fade in hot temperature and are relatively healthy and easy to care for. Based on your review, Sweet Spirit sounds like a good candidate, and I will get one this coming Fall.
Since you are located in 11b, do you have some recommendations of nice heat tolerant roses similar to Sweet Spirit? Thank you in advance for your opinion.
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7 FEB 22 by
kgs
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I have to say all the reports about Sweet Spirit being disease-free surprise me, because last year (my first with this plant) it had really bad rust--in a garden of close to 30 bushes where other roses either had no rust or in one or two cases had a tiny amount I was able to eradicate by removing leaves. (I had never seen rust in my garden before, and I wonder if Sweet Spirit became a vector.) I am giving it a second chance because I was not good about any preventative treatment the previous winter and spring (cleaning up leaves, dormant spray, copper spray, etc.). But this year I'm back to good habits, and I'm giving this bush extra attention. If Sweet Spirit turns into a rust bucket again, out it goes. It stayed small and my guess is the extent of disease played a role in that. I'm not disbelieving the folks who have had good luck with this rose--no two plants are ever identical, and who knows what mutations might be at work. It definitely is Sweet Spirit and the handful of blooms it produced once the rust went away were lovely.
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Try increasing the water to the plant. It is often VERY easy to induce roses to mildew and rust by water stressing them.
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Crazy strong myrrh scent, huge Peace type blooms, shiny leaves on a one gallon plant that hasn't even been fed
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From pics, looks like a Double Knock Out hybrid with HT type. No confirmation yet.
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#1 of 4 posted
15 DEC 18 by
 goncmg
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This one caught my eye in the J&P catalogue. The photo there makes the bloom appear bigger, full, modestly formal in shape, light red with somewhat creamy red tones. Appears there like something I would love. Photos here look totally different, rounded bloom, generic "Knock Out" magenta-ish color, blooms rounded and ruffled and smallish. Looks like something I would not love. Does look like it might readily set hips. But here looks totally generic with a strident color. Have you seen it or grown it, Michael? Any updates?
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In cooler weather, it is magenta with gorgeous red tones on the edges of the petals. In the heat, it is a bright magenta. Much prettier than KNOCKOUT. Plus, it has a nice, lush petal texture. Mine is own root and 2 years old.
The scent is divine...
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No updates. I never grew it.
I was almost right. It was KO and not DKO but close enough.
I have Claret, which I ADORE, so most of these dark HTs would have to really wow me to try something new in that category.
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#4 of 4 posted
26 APR 21 by
Shane G
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I have only grown it one year, but it seems like a winner.
The positives: Great fragrance, rounded bush form, heavy flowering, and very winter hardy (very little dieback in my zone 5 exposed garden...rare for a hybrid tea).
The negatives: Gets mildew if the conditions are right for it. Color is magenta red, not true red. Smallish blooms for a hybrid tea.
I can't speak for blackspot resistance since I don't get much in my area.
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