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Linda Perry 
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I'm sitting beside a vase with a single bloom from a 2nd year plant of Marchioness of Lorne and practically swooning from the fragrance. I received it as a small band last April and the first blooms in the fall were equally strongly fragrant. I live near the ocean, in northern California where the humidity runs between 70% and 100%, and the temperatures seldom rise above the 60's (F), so can't comment on what effect dryer, warmer air would have. Also, this rose seems quite happy with Zone 9b. Can't imagine why it wouldn't go higher than that, but I believe the Description zone rating could very safely go up to 9b.
Thank you, all HMF'rs!
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14 MAY 17 by
jedmar
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The climate zone info was definitely an error - we have corrected it. Thank you for the thumbs up!
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Very useful photo, thank you for posting! So helpful to see the two bushes with the description of their different circumstances.
And thank you for sharing all the photos of your beautiful garden!
Linda, from Fort Bragg, California
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I'm glad it was helpful!
And thank you for the kind compliments!
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Available from - Hortico
hortico.com
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In the U.S., Duchesse d'Angouleme (ex Vintage Gardens per Janet Inada) is presently available at Rogue Valley Roses. I had a plant from Roses of Yesterday and Today, circa 1991, (previous garden) and though I haven't yet seen blooms on the plants from RVR, the leaves are the same. So pleased to find them!
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11 FEB 17 by
Greenman
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Yes, I have ordered one from them after asking which one it was. I had one from Vintage before I moved, this rose was lovely and soft and sooo fragrant. I'm rather surprised it is not more popular among people who love gallicas.
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It's just as pleasing and melting as you describe and I wanted to be sure, as you did, which rose was available there. When I began looking through HMF for a replacement for the rose I left behind, it appeared there were several different plants in different places given the ID, and certainly room for confusion. In fact, my appreciation for the great scholarship and efforts at HMF to create a really solid database was really cemented with this one! (Along with help trying to grasp the whole Agatha group!)
I notice you garden in Kansas so chill hours shouldn't ever be much of a problem for you! My experience with this plant in the Berkeley hills in the San Francisco area (with fairly low chill hours, ~500, at most) was that it always performed well, flowered early and abundantly and kept adding mass (as did 'Belle Sans Flatterie'.) The concern from folks in mild-winter areas about Gallicas "growing backwards" didn't come up.
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