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Margaret Furness
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Initial post 10 days ago by timdufelmeier
I've ordered from Burling at least ten times. Excellent selection, service and prices. She's come up with at least 6 or 7 roses that I've been looking for for years and nobody else had
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Reply #1 of 5 posted 9 days ago by Robert Neil Rippetoe
We love Burling!
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Reply #2 of 5 posted 4 days ago by HMF Admin
Yes we do !
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Reply #3 of 5 posted 4 days ago by Robert Neil Rippetoe
I've known her for at least 40 years. Scary......!!
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Reply #4 of 5 posted 3 days ago by Margaret Furness
From kindergarten presumably.
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Reply #5 of 5 posted 3 days ago by Robert Neil Rippetoe
If only that were true, but considering the current state of things, perhaps it's just as well it's not.
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Initial post 1 JUN by GoldBeardThePirate
will this ever be imported to the US? It's incredibly beautiful.
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Reply #1 of 8 posted 14 days ago by Nastarana
Possibly, if you are open to making a deal with your local, ahem, alternative businessperson.
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Reply #2 of 8 posted 14 days ago by GoldBeardThePirate
?
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Reply #3 of 8 posted 13 days ago by Margaret Furness
Don't. The risk isn't worth it. If you could see how chilli thrips have nearly destroyed rose-growing in Western Australia in the last four years, you would know that it's in all our interests to keep pests out of places they haven't reached yet.
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Reply #4 of 8 posted 13 days ago by GoldBeardThePirate
Oh I know there are big reasons for the phyto certs I was joking. We are already dealing with lantern flies and a hoard of other invasive species. No flower is worth the jail and environmental issues.
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Reply #5 of 8 posted 13 days ago by Margaret Furness
yep.
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Reply #6 of 8 posted 13 days ago by Margaret Furness
Sorry, I shouldn't have assumed you were serious.
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Reply #7 of 8 posted 13 days ago by GoldBeardThePirate
Honestly, I am glad you did. :) There are plenty of people who may not know why we have import and export laws and regulations. Better a nice an informative comment than a bigger mess. This is why I LOVE this forum and recite so much. I also learned about the thrip situation in Australia from you.
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Reply #8 of 8 posted 12 days ago by Margaret Furness
Only Western Australia so far. We hope the mainly-desert along the southern part of the border will keep them from spreading, but presumably they could hitch a ride on vehicles.
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Initial post 26 JUL 15 by mmanners
I wonder if it may be time to split the 'Bloomfield Abundance' listing into two parts, perhaps with a Wiki-type "disambiguation," in that 'Spray Cecile Brunner' is the rose traditionally called by that name, yet Fred Boutin has found apparently the "real" thing, and it's quite a different rose. I see no current way, for example, to list which one grows (we have both in the FSC gardens).
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Reply #1 of 5 posted 27 JUL 15 by Patricia Routley
We do have two separate files for
Bloomfield Abundance Thomas 1920 and
Spray Cecile Brunner Howard, 1941.

There are many photos of 'Spray Cecile Brunner' in the 'Bloomfield Abundance' file but I am not volunteering to move them. Hopefully, members will take up the baton and move them themselves.
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Reply #2 of 5 posted 14 days ago by Lance Mellon
I would say that the many photos of (as you say) Spray Cecile Brunner) in the Bloomfield Abundance file are actually not Spray Cecil Brunner but the actual original Bloomfield Abundance. See some of the black and white photos in the file with the extral long sepels not existent on the Cecil Brunner. Here is my rebuttal to this misnamed rose next to my photo in the file:
Rose photo courtesy of Lance Mellon
Peter Beales and many others conclude that Cecile Brunner and Bloomfield Abuindance are NOT the same rose. We have both and my Bloomfield Abundance has been growing here for over 70 years old. Bloomfield has the long sepels. These are missing from Cecil Brunner. Bloomfield Abundance blooms about a month later than Cecil Brunner. There are many other differences and most experts agree the two roses are different AND that the large pink rose mentioned by some is not Bloomfield Abundance. We hope this will be changed in your database.
Uploaded 21 AUG
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Reply #3 of 5 posted 13 days ago by Margaret Furness
Spray Cecile Brunner was shown by Malcolm Manners' group to be almost identical with Mlle Cecile Brunner by DNA comparison, and therefore must be a sport of it. The original Bloomfield Abundance has very different parentage (wichurana x HT), and could not possibly be very similar to Mlle Cecile Brunner on DNA comparison.
So: four roses.
Mlle Cecile Brunner
Cl Cecile Brunner
Spray Cecile Brunner (originally called a climber, which it isn't, in Australia), and sold for decades in many countries as Bloomfield Abundance (which it isn't). As someone said, it grows like a triffid (makes a huge bush), has long sepals, and starts flowering later than the above two.
The above three are very similar in DNA comparisons.
Bloomfield Abundance, HT, lost for many years, unrelated to the above three, possibly rediscovered.
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Reply #4 of 5 posted 13 days ago by jedmar
Thank you, Lance and Margaret, for your comments. We have now 4 listings:
- Bloomfield Abundance
- Cécile Brunner
- Cécile Brunner Clg by Hosp
- Spray Cécile Brunner = Cécile Brunner Clg by Ardagh

The photos on these pages are hopelessly mixed-up for an admin who doesn't have all of these varieties. Are there any (which) show the real BA? I am assuming that the bloom pictures of the next three are all identical.
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Reply #5 of 5 posted 13 days ago by Patricia Routley
To make things a little clearer, I think we should rename ‘Bloomfield Abundance’ as ‘Bloomfield Abundance (hybrid tea, Thomas, 1920).

It is impossible to tell which Mar's photo is of. Perhaps moved to her garden file page?
The same with the photo from Rosesbyping.

I also think Lance Mellon's photo should be moved to 'Spray Cecile Brunner'.
JeanClaudeH seems to be 'Spray Cecile Brunner'
As does the photo from Oli_Nwk
and Kamila Rakowska-Szlazkiewicz Rosaplant. - two photos

That would leave all photos in this file belonging to the rediscovered ‘Bloomfield Abundance’ (hybrid tea, Thomas, 1920).
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Initial post 13 days ago by Margaret Furness
Nice!
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