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Newly available from Heirloom Roses as of Jan 31, 2022.
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Does anyone have any idea why so many of the photos are tagged as being incorrect? My Tequila has presented colors and form that match them all, depending on the time of year and the temperature. It's not my favorite rose (it was given to me, and I'm not a fan of orange in any flowering plant), but it is moderately healthy and a blooming fool.
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Because there is a newer Meilland rose by the identical name. Meilland is to blame since no one can expect a customer to know such a thing. So some photos get labeled incorrect for being on the wrong page of a rose with an identical name. It's frustrating, but it is what it is.
Businesses putting the onus on their customers is borderline evil in my not so humble opinion.
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Thanks, Micheal. I had no idea Meilland had done this, but as often as it happens with Meilland/Kordes et al, it should have crossed my mind. If I had done a Tequila search here, it would have been obvious, I guess, since there appear to be THREE other roses, all from Meilland, all with the identical name, for a total of FOUR Tequilas (you could get really drunk on that much Tequila). There's the one I have, from 1978; one florist rose with no intro date; another intro'd in 1985, and yet another from 2003!
And you are so right about it being evil. You can not convince me that unique names can't be found for every rose, considering the number of nouns and adjectives in English, not to mention in French, German...it's just lazy to re-use identical names, at least while the earlier rose is still available.
By the way, my Tequila is growing on me. I've surrounded it with pastel yellow, salmon, and peach-toned roses, and now instead of screaming at me, it just provides a nice contrast to all the shyer ones, lol.
John
EDIT: I also note that someone has removed the mistaken incorrect photo designations, lol. Thanks, to whomever.
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I honestly think someone was trolling us with that first (lousy) rating of this rose. It has been an excellent performer here in black spot heaven... hot, humid East Tennessee. Our summers are torrid (days, nay, weeks of 90F and higher, 80% humidity); our winters are cold (down to 5F...no snow); our Springs are fickle (50 degree swings in 36 hours, 70's to 20's!). Tupelo Honey has shrugged it ALL off like a trooper. So, I rated this rose fairly, which barely brought the average up to "good-". Don't let that deter you. It's a much better rose than its apparent rating here.
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I totally agree with you on 'Tupelo Honey'! Great rose for hot and humid climate.
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Marina, a commendation from you should be all anyone needs to grow this rose, lol. Your roses are fabulous.
How do you like gardening in FL? I'm sure it's quite a change from your (wonderful) garden in VA.
John
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Hi John, that is funny! But, seriously, it is a very nice rose. Unlike many Kordes roses, it has good growth habit, healthy; the blooms are large and full. And fragrance!!! (I discovered it just today). My sniffer is pretty good and I detect awesome honeysuckle aroma.
I do miss my Virginia garden, but I don't miss Japanese beetles and Rose Rosette disease! There are different problems here though - nematode and chili thrips :) Gardening in Florida is challenging, I am still learning, trying, experimenting. I really love the fact that I can garden year round! Still evaluating different roses, some grow better here, some ...are already gone :) (dug out 'Quicksilver' the other day. Awful here!)
Thank you for you kind comments, John!
Have a blessed day!
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Kashmir is absolutely the most disease resistant (modern) rose in my garden (I'm looking at you, KO). I love Ping Lim's roses in general, but this one is a real prize. Mine is own-root, bought potted from a big-box store. This is its second year here in my east Tennessee Z7a garden, and it has proven that last year's health was not a fluke: it's spotless. The bloom is a pure, true red with a velvety finish to the petals, and the bloom form is MUCH more full and graceful than the ubiquitous Red Knock Out, not to mention the color being less strident. I haven't tried them as cut flowers, since they do have short stems. The flowers self-clean, though are sometimes a bit slower to drop petals than I'd like. But a slight shake of the bush, or even a spray with the water hose (!!!!) will clean the whole plant. It's that healthy, that I don't worry at all about water on the leaves. It's almost continuously blooming, with at least one or two blooms at all times, in between major flushes that come every five to six weeks. I'll have to pay attention to keeping this one well fed.
It does send out the occasional octopus cane, but doesn't mind a summer pruning at all. It just reacts by sending out multiple laterals below the cut. This year the bush is about 3'x3', full and rounded, clothed to the ground in shiny green leaves. I suspect from the long canes it has thrown that it will eventually be a much larger rose, possibly 5'x5'.
I grow about 70+ modern roses and 120 teas and OGRs. I bought Kashmir as a landscape "filler", but it's already become one of my favorites. You can't beat "easy and beautiful".
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