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I am wondering if others have had a similar experience with this rose. I bought it 3 years ago from MerryGro on fortunia stock. It bloomed that winter (It was very warm in New Orleans that year) a couple of times and was the red shown in photos. It grew tall but started producing deep pink flowers which don't fade. This month the buds were almost as dark as "knock-out" but they develop into the decidely pink rose. It still has all the other characteristic (deep perfume, tall and spindly) but the color is not red.
Is this an unstable cultivar? Is it the root stock? or is it my let the plant-prove-it- wants-to-live gardening style.
I highly recommend the cultivar but would like to know if there is an additive I should be putting in the soil other than the "rose gro" or "miracle gro" I periodically use.
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If it is really on Fortuniana root stock, any root stock flowers would be pure white, small and without the slightest hint of pink. So, it's not that. But my Mr. Lincoln has stayed true to color for the 20 or so years it's been planted in my garden. It does "blue" a little, i.e. fade to a maroon sort of color. But I've never seen it get "pink."
On the other hand, lack of iron can sometimes lighten a bloom or two, but you're likely to notice lack of iron in the leaves long before it affects the bloom colors. The leaves get a lighter color of green, with the veins staying dark, if there's an iron deficiency.
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3 OCT 11 by
Kit
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A little late perhaps, to comment on this, but 'Mirandy' and its descendants 'Chrysler Imperial', 'Mister Lincoln' and 'Oklahoma' all get a distinctly dark purplish pink rather than red in hot weather (90°+ days in the bud, when that happens they emerge pink even if temps have cooled down) in my Valley Village garden
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