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Initial post 7 days ago by HeelinRoses
I'm looking to identify a 5 foot plant similar to 'Rosenresli' with also had deep pink orange-tinged blooms but held atop small groups of only 1 to 3 slender light green peduncles - so not really a floribunda. Also unlike Rosenresli, the 3.75 inch blooms never flattened out into discs of wavy or ruffled petals but kept a tidy lantern-shaped, spiralled form. It was growing in the S.E. of England in 2014 (but could have been bought in the UK decades before). In the vase even the young, oval coral pink buds fully opened up and lasted 5-8 days, all the time giving off a 'buoyant' fragrance of strawberries and apple, two flowers could be smelt two rooms away. Any suggestions?
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most recent 20 APR HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 20 APR by HeelinRoses
Do most of 'Norma Major's blooms look as 'perfect' as this?
Can it produce 5-7 inch peduncles in 2s and 3s as well as singularly?
Does it ever have an orange tone to it?
What about its scent when in a vase?
I'm trying to identify a similar rose that has these 4 qualities
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most recent 18 APR HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 18 APR by HeelinRoses
Hello everyone
I'm trying to identify an HT rose but in a slightly deeper orange-pink - similar to Kordes' 'Rosenresli' but not a floribunda.
At 5 feet tall, the mature, leggy plant was growing against a South-facing shed in Norfolk, UK in the year 2014. The lightweight, colourfast, almost lantern-shaped blooms were borne on 5-7 inch, very slim, green peduncles in 1s, 2s and 3s, lined up along a thick, moderately prickly stem.
Only 3.75 inches wide by a little taller, the blooms kept their spiralling folded and reflexed form - not flattening out into discs of wavy or ruffled petals (unlike the blooms of 'PB' and Kordes 'Rosenresli' for example) and lasted 5-8 days from the cut.
When placed in a vase overnight, the scent production was off the charts, of strawberries, apple and zero spice. When I descended our stairs halfway down, the aroma greeted me - from behind a closed door and two rooms away where the pair of blooms stood upon a table in the morning sun.
I invite readers to suggest what rose it might have been....?
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most recent 12 APR HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 12 APR by HeelinRoses
Fellow rose growers,
I'm trying to determine if a plant which I encountered in a friend's garden in South Norfolk, England back in 2014 was actually a 'Norma Major'. If there were any visible differences to NM I would say the blooms might've been of lighter weight (since they didn't lean outwards as the photos on these pages seem to show) and maybe of a slightly deeper orange-pink than NM (It's hard to tell from the photos here if there is a little orange hue in the NM flowers and the Description section only says 'medium pink').
Every lantern-shaped colourfast bloom of 3.75 inches diameter kept the perfect scrolled form and many were beautifully folded into points like the NM in Beth's photo Id. 128065) and unlike the highly scented 'Rosenresli' by Kordes they did not flatten out into discs of wavy or ruffled petals. The peduncles were light green (like NM) very slender but only 5-7 inches long, sometimes in twos (or threes max.) at intervals along a diagonal branch which had stout prickles.
At least 5 feet tall (like NM), the plant was rather sparsely foliated and braced against a south-facing wooden shed by a single horizontal wire.
The immediate smell of the flower when sniffed, was only of mild rosiness but curiously, when I put 2 in a vase of water, the next sunny morning the entire downstairs atmosphere had been flooded with an exotic 'buoyant' aroma of strawberry mousse and apple. The fragrance greeted me halfway down our stairs from behind a closed door and 2 rooms away. This phenomenal scent production is the reason I am posting here for help - I've never experienced it from any other rose (in the vase) before or since. Similar to (but more pleasing than) the 'Special Anniversary' rose of 2003 by Edward Smith UK but I stress: NOT from large, cabbage-like blooms like SA or Fragrant Cloud etc.
The blooms lasted 5-8 days in the vase producing the scent for the whole duration - then the petals dropped cleanly.
I noticed that although in the Description page it says just 'mild' and 'sweet', the Norma Major rose has 2 member ratings of 'Excellent' for its fragrance, which begs my final question here:
Any other suggestions for the Identity or is NM the one I'm looking for?
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