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The pictures here suggest Felicia is "Thornless (or nearly so)". Is that indeed the case?
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There are prickles.
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20 APR 19 by
 johnm99
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It has very few thorns, but is not thornless. Not difficult to handle.
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According to their website High Country Roses no longer carries Marbree.
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18 DEC 18 by
AquaEyes
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And now it's back!
:-)
http://www.highcountryroses.com/old-garden-roses/damask-roses/marbree
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I have long thought it seemed a bit odd to classify this rose as a Hybrid Musk. I grew it for a few years over 20 years ago (getting it from the 1980's version of Roses of Yesterday and Today) and I always thought it seemed much more to me like a very big floribunda than a Hybrid Musk. The canes were a lot stiffer than I envision the "typical" Hybrid Musk's canes as being. It was more of an upright shrub than a "Hybrid Musk".
(None of which is to say it wasn't lovely! :) )
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Yorkrose, I read your post about Lavender Lassie and after discovering where you grow it, understand why it seems like a large floribunda to you. Here, north of Los Angeles, I've had two. The first was an old Roses of Yesterday and Today plant. The second from a different source and twenty years later. Neither one repeated its bloom here. There was one large spring flush, which usually didn't open because they all balled, then nothing other than mildew. It seems to perform the way you expect it to, it requires a more northern, probably shorter, growing season. Thank you.
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Ah. I see I neglected to mention (for those who read these comments in the future) that I grew this rose in Bucks County, PA, probably 20 miles or less north of Philadelphia (in Newtown), and 5 miles west of the Delaware River. I haven't lived there since 1994.
(Oh yes - one other thing. When I say that it seemed like "a very large floribunda", I'm referring to the size of the plant, not the size of the flowers. When it bloomed the flowers were each only 2"-3" wide, in clusters of maybe 4 - 7, or something like that. I haven't seen it in bloom since the late 1980's. :)
My impression of the "typical" Hybrid Musk (insofar as there is such a thing) is that the canes are at least a little bit lax, willowy, and arching. Where I grew it Lavender Lassie's canes weren't going to even begin getting that way until they were at least 6' high.)
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I grow it in Western Oregon, Zone 8 -- wet winters and dry summers, in a partly shaded location. It does great. It's different from the "true" HMs in that it has thicker, stiffer canes (as York Rose noted). I grow mine as a climber on a trellis, and now also growing into a dead star magnolia tree on the other side -- it's very vigorous. The new canes are quite trainable -- it puts out new, long ones very rapidly.
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Does anyone else have problems with this rose not reblooming? I live in the San Francisco Bay area where Summers can get into the high eighties easily.
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My (southern hemisphere) photos of this rose were taken in spring - Nov and Dec. I cannot recall any later blooming. Looking through the HelpMefind (northern hemisphere) photos, where mentioned, the dates ranged from April to Sept. The GST 1994 ref indicates that in England it is always in flower.
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That honestly makes sense, Patricia. Though to the British, it feels as through they actually have a spring, summer and fall, compared to where Lavender Lassie fails to flower spring through fall, they don't. Their traditional climate is more like coastal California as far as temperatures go, plus they get the winter cold our coast doesn't. Perhaps the rose requires some chill, then doesn't "repeat" but continues its spring flowering until "summer" temperatures arrive? Along our coast, Banksiaes flower from spring through mid to late summer, depending upon how long it takes for the late summer "heat" to arrive. Inland, that heat arrives very early compared to the coast, so our Banksiaes flower just a few weeks, while the coastal ones can go months in a "good year". Maybe Lavender Lassie is one of those? I know it doesn't "repeat" its flowering in the inland valleys. I've encountered and grown too many of them and none has had flowers after the spring flush.
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If grown on its own roots does Golden Wings sucker?
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I've had this one in the ground nearly 15 years. It's never suckered for me.
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Robert, is yours own-root? If so did you strike it and can you give an account of how easy/difficult it was to strike? I'm curious to know given spin. features in it so prominently and they can be such a pain to strike.
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Simon, my specimen is own-root. I've never tried to strike it from cuttings. However, I've never heard that it's difficult to propagate.
I can add that I've raised several seedlings from it when used as pollen parent. None were commercial enough for introduction. Most are prone to Powdery Mildew.
I'm watching a second generation descendant now that looks promising.
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Have you tried striking its progeny?
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