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I'm very pleased with how Precious is getting going in its first year. Beautiful color and form. Not much scent. However, compared to the rest of my rose garden, this beautiful flower also wins the prize for mildew--despite my spraying!
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Pope John Paul II has turned out to be one of the stars in my garden this year. I had been concerned with lots of brown edges on the petals of an otherwise vigorous plant, but it took the assistance of a neighbor who's a master rosarian to point out that I had thrip. After two weekly sprays of Conserve, the blooms were completely gorgeous. I harvested two dozen blooms yesterday! While the plant has very few thorns, the stems aren't the most robust. The scent is lovely, too.
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Does anyone know where I can purchase a hybrid tea Shirley/Eve Ruggieri? It's a beautiful bloom, and my mother's name is Shirley. Does anyone know how to reach the breeder for his input? Thank you.
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Two years ago I planted John F. Kennedy and Honor to be the whites in my new hybrid tea cutting garden (zone 10a - coastal southern California). I took out one Honor a year ago and replaced it with Pope John Paul II. This year, I've taken out the remaining Honor and the JFK, and in their place I've added another Pope John Paul II.
Anyone have any comments on Secret's Out?
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You might try looking up which members have this in their gardens and contacting them directly on their member pages.
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I have Secret's Out. It blooms a lot and the blossoms last pretty well cut. it's very disease resistant, even more fragrant than Secret, and the blossoms are classic, quite like Honor. I've had a struggle to get Pope John Paul to grow well in our area but this one thrives.
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Thanks, Anita. I planted a Secret's Out this spring, and it's off to a slow start. I have a Secret in my garden, and it's a great performer, so I'm hopeful that Secret's Out will catch up next year. My Poploe John Paul II grows and grows and grows. But it puts out flowers very frequently in clusters, so it requires a lot of thumb pruning.
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Like Secret, Secret's Out requires a good, steady supply of water, much more so than many of my other HTs, most of which, like Secret's Out, are also on Huey stocks. Slacking off on the water even a bit causes it to stop growing and just sit there. Flood it as if you are trying to drown it and watch it explode. That is, unless your drainage is so slow you might rot it out. Here, that is definitely NOT an issue.
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