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So sorry to hear of your loss to the Camp Fire. :-(
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Ah, Peace, a real love it or hate it rose...for me both love and despise it. The good: Very bloomiferous. Fast repeating for such huge luxurious blooms. Love the colouration. I've seen comments about lack of fragrance but i disagree, it may not have powerful perfume but what it has is a delicious tea scent. Reasonably hardy by H.T. standards. Blooms through care and neglect..found a bagged rose once sitting around nelected for who knows how long with 2 spindly new canes growing with buds forming. This rose wants to bloom! Now the bad: BLACKSPOT...as bad as the rose wants to bloom it wants to blackspot...aargh! Go ahead throw all you got at it. Still finds a way to suffer blackspot. And badly. If you can keep the B.S. away, then youve got a winner. Hope you have better luck than I've had.
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5 JUN 07 by
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I noticed that some roses smell best when they are new. My Peace roses, of which I own three, don't have much of a scent in the beginning but they begin to have a stronger fragrance as the bloom ages. Has anyone else noticed this? The other observation is that my three Peace bushes sometimes look identical to Garden Party. I know they are relatives, but are they supposed to be that hard to tell apart? My Garden Party has more yellow coloration than my Peace blooms do!
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You have to stop and think about "why" roses have scent. It's not to please us gardeners, but to attract pollenators so that the plant can continue the species. With some roses, the scent is strongest early in the day. With other roses, the scent is stronger as the blooms age enough to open further to attract insects to pollenate the rose. Others, the scent is stronger when the temps are higher. In other words, it varies by individual cultivar. I have some rose in my garden the I think don't have any scent at all, but tell that to the bees.
Smiles,
Lyn
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6 JUN 07 by
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Yes, and speaking of bees it is VERY alarming that colony collapse disorder is now hitting bee colonies worldwide. I hope they get to the bottom of this mystery bee killer. Up to 80-90 percent of beekeepers' colonies are gone in my area, and since CA is a leading agriculture state that’s a real problem. It’s to the point where pollinating the tree nut crops, among other agricultural uses, may be threatened. Price hikes on produce, among other things, will result if this keeps up. Our entire food supply, including livestock feed, depends on pollination, chiefly from European bees. Strangely, the mainstream media has not picked on this story to the extent it deserves. I myself have personally observed 100s of bees dead and dying along a one mile path I like to walk, not once but three times in the past four months. I've lived in the area for over 30 years, and I have never seen anything like it. I've also noticed fewer bees in my garden, which exceeds 50 roses. In some countries systemic pesticides are banned due to the harsh effects on pollinators and other beneficial insects, and last I heard bee experts are zeroing in on nicotine-based pesticides as a potential culprit.
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30 APR 13 by
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The culprit is most likely Monsanto from Missouri.
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Perfect Moment caught my eye in a neighbor's yard some years back. I immediately took to the fire-like intensity to the red, orange and yellow hues. In fact, I think a more apt name for this rose would be "Radiant Ember" or "Fireside". What I was not prepared for, as an owner of this rose going on three years now, is that the specimen I purchased feels and looks rather rubbery. The canes have a greater-than-average number of thorns — in fact, I can't entirely rule out whether this is a characteristic or a disease — and the blooms, up close, are not all that delicate and demure looking.
As it turns out, this week I found something unexpectedly redeeming about Perfect Moment that I hadn't noticed before. The area where I live has been hit by a series of violent, windy rainstorms — monsoon-like deluges, over 4 inches of rain thus far — and while every other rose in my garden bent over and what few winter blooms were present began to droop, a half dozen or so buds on Perfect Moment unfurled in the midst of all this chaotic weather despite the 40-50-degree weather. (The roses should be dormant this time of year but I hadn't completed all my pruning before the winter storms hit this week.)
You would never know Perfect Moment spent the past week getting slammed by four back-to-back storms, complete with gale-force winds. They look stunning in a vase, and at a time of year when most of my roses are sluggish and bedraggled, Perfect Moment is blooming as if it were Spring or Summer. The buds opened without dropping, entirely impervious to the rain. Before all this started I loved the intense color at a distance but I disliked Perfect Moment up close because of its odd texture. However, now I know what those waxy, rubbery blooms have going for them: A built-in rain coat!
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25 FEB 04 by
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This is perhaps the most disease-resistant rose I've ever had. It blooms beautifully all summer long, with hardly any blackspot. I'm not sure why folks aren't using this rose more than they do. It is a winner.
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17 JUL 09 by
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Debut produces a CONSTANT flush of blooms, one right after another whether you are particularly good about dead-heading or not. The edging of the petals on my specimen were redder than pink, somewhat of a blood-red ruby, cherry or hot pink tone that somewhat reminded me of a better known miniature, Betty Boop. As the description says, Debut is highly disease resistant. It gave me less trouble than most of my roses and was on a drip watering system so it didn't demand much attention to look absolutely stunning. I never saw any evidence of mildew, rust or even insect infestation. Wish I could say that for the 40+ other roses in my garden! Unfortunately, without any signs of disease or overt evidence of distress, it suddenly died on me this past spring. It didn't rebound after being pruned. The pruning was a tad heavier than the first years, which is to say not much more than the amount of pruning necessary to dead-head old flowers. This time, it was cut back a bit more but no more than 1/3. After that, all growth stopped and there were no blooms. It died. Perhaps it had something to do with being in a tree form and the fact that during that time no new canes grew at the base so it was just the natural attrition of very old canes that failed to replace themselves? I'm not sure given that I'm not experienced with the tree rose forms, Debut having been my one and only. In general, however, miniature don't seem to have longevity going for them and seem considerably more fragile than a conventional floribunda or grandiflora. Still, I like Debut well enough to attempt to replace it, which I am finding out is not very easy to do because it is not, apparently, commonly grown/sold. I bought my now-deceased Debut at Costco in the spring or early summer of 2006, but otherwise never stumbled across it even once.
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