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Received a Paradise from Edmunds' in April - problem is it was supposed to be Rio Samba. Thank you Edmunds' for a job not well done. Have to agree with Slugger's comment below that the foliage on Paradise burns very badly in the heat and sun. Will get the shovel come fall and hopefully I can get a real Rio Samba next spring. I ordered 3 Rio Samba (to plant together to maximize color impact) from 3 different nurseries - Edmunds', Rogue Valley and Regan. Only received one Rio Samba - thank you Regan. I hope to have better luck next year.
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Paradise seems to be showing up a lot this year. I bought two body bags, allegedly Spartan and Fragrant Cloud, which turned out to be Paradise. I think I am giving up on grocery store BBs.
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I also had a Paradise that I had to give up on because of the fried foliage, it just could not take it here in New Mexico. I might attempt it again if I were to plant one that received morning sun ONLY, nothing after 1 pm. The bloom production might be affected, but I think it would go a long way to saving the foliage.
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I've owned this rose for a few years.
It is virtually disease free and fertile as both a pollen and seed parent.
It has rather small and sparse blooms for the large size of the plant. And I detect no fragrance.
It grows in a rather awkward angular form, about 7 feet tall and 5 feet wide.
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I agree with you, I have the same experience. She is a thorny monster, very irregular and ungainly, grows in all directions. I can’t detect much of a scent (she’s supposed to be of the Parfuma series). But she keeps blooming in our 100F weather (North Texas) like no other. The blooms are not huge but she keeps going. I may need to replant her somewhere else because she is just getting too big even though I prune her severely.
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I will add to this by pointing out that in my Zone 5b (Chicagoland) garden the bloom petals burn so easily. I am having trouble seeing the redeeming qualities of this rose. It's growing well and yes, awkwardly, and blooming well. Only a mild fragrance for me thus far. But Dark Desire's blooms may be the most unattractive of all my 200 bushes. I should shovel prune it as it's occupying valuable garden real estate in a prime location but I'll give it until next summer to see if it improves.
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20 AUG 22 by
Plazbo
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It's curious the lack of smell. I've smelt it as a few nurseries (I've never bought it) and it's always smelt strongly of potpourri with kind of dusty/soapy tones.
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13 SEP by
Jay-Jay
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Where it grows in Winschoten (Rosarium) it produces lots of flowers flowers, that are rather large and have a strong pleasant scent... But some of the flowers were almost scentless!!!
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wow, Stunning! brand new rose gardener here! I just got a mellow yellow I love the color iron I’m hoping that it will start producing it it is sprouting new leaves all over the place, I had to cut it back a lot because it was growing straight up in one spot it was probably 6 feet tall and everyone else was like 2 feet tall. I thought I killed it but I didn’t it’s coming back with gusto and I’m just waiting to see what happens with all this new growth!
Cece in New Mexico
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Best wishes on your Mellow Yellow. I think it’s one of the best yellows for garden performance
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I will second that notion regarding Mellow Yellow - has done quite well for me, now in its 3rd year
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My mellow yellow was on a western wall and I discovered that my backyard was 12° hotter than the air so we had a string of 107° and so my backyard was 119° poor mellow yellow was too hot where it was and so I moved it onto a south wall where we get some morning sun and some afternoon sun but nothing as direct as what it was getting now it’s so happy and it’s blossoming beautifully with lots of new buds and it keeps blossoming and is very prolific.
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I have three, third-year, own root Canyon Road bushes all planted close together to maximize the color impact. What a show these bushes put on! But I have to confess to a problem.
Canyon Road is ARS registered as a floribunda. I am here to tell you not to believe that - it is a modern shrub and an excellent one at that. If you want to call it a floribunda, then it is a floribunda on steroids. Spectacular growth up, around, and all about. Little did I know when I planned my garden that 3 Canyon Road bushes planted together would be extreme overkill as I (wrongly) assumed this was just another floribunda. I find myself having to chop them down some here in late July as it is overwhelming its neighbors - Peace, Love & Peace and Marlon's Day - and blocking the sun from getting to those three. My Canyon Road bushes reach 4 feet tall and wide - there's no need to cluster them as I have done. One bush will do the trick. It's winter-hardy in zone 5b (with protection). No blackspot but did develop some powdery mildew in September that first year when conditions were right (and I sprayed only the lower half of the bushes since I was much more concerned about blackspot). It probably has more blooms per plant than anything else I grow (runners up would include Sexy Rexy and Mandarin Ice).
Canyon Road is rated 8.7 in ARS Handbook - and I concur. But don't tell me it's a floribunda!
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