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An extremely underrated rose that does deserve more attention as was described on the description page. In the unmaintained garden in Columbus, it grows quite large and puts on a show of blooms that is hard to fathom by having more blooms than leaves. Very hardy, vigorous, and in Z6 Columbus, and if left by itself, can easily get to 6' tall and 10' wide and make a superb hedge rose. Definitely one to consider and I will have to catch some pictures of it in it's more mature state later and post them.
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29 JUN 09 by
Lora
I fell in love with the fragrance of this rose. Hard to describe...but very fresh scent. NOt as fruity as some of the other Austins, and I have many by now. It was so powerful to my nose, I bought it immediately. Now to find a spot for it! LOL Does any one know if it tolerates partial shade?
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13 AUG 09 by
jeffcat
I just purchased CM recently, so I can't give a long term review of it, but I purchased it as a Jackson and Perkins 2 year old gallon rose at the local nursery. It is about 2ft tall right now. CM is different from many of the other english roses. It is very much like a miniature rose with small foilage and small blooms that at their largest are 3". It counters the small blooms with a flurry of blooms and is quite floriferous. The growth is somewhat similar to CM's parent Golden Celebration. Golden Celebration tends to throw out long arching canes when pruned short, and has twiggy dropping growth when pruned lightly. CM has a similar growth, although more twiggy. You could feasibly use CM as a ground cover rose if you wanted to. If you prune it back hard, it will throw out slightly thicker more upright canes like most roses, but it's a more dense and compact little shrub unless you let it roam free in which case it may become hairy in growth. I don't find the fragrance to be particularly overpowering. I would say it is strong at best, but usually moderate and similar to golden celebration, but not as powerful. The scent does carry however due to the sheer number of blooms that the rose puts out to have a nice fragrance as an entire bush. So far CM is disease free and pretty disease resistant in Ohio.
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Great detail in your post - very, very helpful. Thank you for your participation.
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C. Marlowe tolerates partial shade - it blooms when my tall house shades it in late fall. The scent gets stronger in its 3rd year, wonderful! Vase life is 2 days. It's gorgeous as a landscape bush, with amazing color. The foliage is shiny and healthy in my alkaline clay. It gets bushy and wide, needs space.
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