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Kim Rupert
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Initial post 13 FEB 20 by B R SAYERS
Hi Cliff hope you can help me, I live in Gloucester, England and I see you had a rose in 2011 called City of Gloucester, do you still have it. Here in England I can no longer get this rose. Please can you contact me.
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Reply #1 of 6 posted 13 FEB 20 by Kim Rupert
Hi, this isn't Cliff. You messaged through an archive of what Cliff had when he operated his Euro Desert Roses Nursery, which he closed several years ago. The roses listed on this archive is what he HAD years ago and no longer exist. Due to health issues, he isn't engaged in the "rose business" any longer. I'm sorry.
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Reply #2 of 6 posted 14 FEB 20 by B R SAYERS
Hi and thank you very much for taking the trouble to make contact. Very sorry to here of Cliffs bad health. Now I am stumped a bit have no contact leads in America oh well must keep trying to find this rose.
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Reply #3 of 6 posted 14 FEB 20 by Kim Rupert
Hi, no trouble. I understand the "want" without being able to "have". Unfortunately, unless you can find the rose in a US nursery which exports, there wouldn't be a way for you to obtain it from the US. Several years ago, Week's Roses committed an unthinkably stupid error. They received "research material" for their Rose Rosette Disease research program and intensely stupidly propagated it IN their commercial production fields. Rose Rosette Disease had NOT been an issue in the Wasco, California rose production fields UNTIL Week's brought it in and then infected heaven knows how much material over three or four YEARS before discovering it. Depending upon whom you believe, they either "took Herculean efforts and contained it all", or they did what they thought they had to do and who knows how much of the disease they spread around the world?". From personal experience, German nurseries were already highly neurotic about receiving RRD infected material. Once the potential spread of the Week's infection became known, it became even more difficult to export material from this country. And, I do NOT blame the receiving nurseries one bit.

Reportedly, City of Gloucester grows in Sangerhausen in Germany and Fineschi Garden in Italy. Perhaps if you contacted the Beales Nursery there in Britain or Bierkreek in The Netherlands, one of them may be able to obtain propagation material from one of those gardens and bud you some plants of the rose?
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Reply #4 of 6 posted 2 days ago by Bug_girl
So what happened to all of Cliff's roses?
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Reply #5 of 6 posted 2 days ago by Kim Rupert
Many were sold and/or given away to good, loving homes. Some were taken to his new home and planted. The last I knew he still had a garden. With heat, water and time, I don't know what may still be there.
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Reply #6 of 6 posted 2 days ago by Bug_girl
If you check out Cliff's low desert garden, he discussed what happened with all the roses! They are somewhere out there in private and public gardens!
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Initial post 6 days ago by Kim Rupert
I've long read Banksiae seed can require two years to germinate. I've raised four seedlings from open pollinated Lutescens. Two have been fully double and one semi double with tulip shaped buds. The fourth succumbed to terminal mildew in infancy. This double yellow Banksiae is from OP Lutescens seed.
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Reply #1 of 5 posted 5 days ago by Margaret Furness
Nice. But for clarification: did they take two years to germinate?
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Reply #2 of 5 posted 5 days ago by Kim Rupert
Hi Margaret, sorry about that. No ma'am. All four of the self seedlings for Lutescens I've raised required only four months from planting. I've not kept any planted longer than one season so I have no idea what may germinate later. I haven't room nor patience for that long keeping tables of dirt. What you see was out of the ground in literally 120 days from planting.
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Reply #3 of 5 posted 5 days ago by Margaret Furness
Thank you. So, a fair chance they'll repeat? (We say in Aus that a seed planted in August (winter) should flower by Christmas if it's going to repeat.)
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Reply #4 of 5 posted 5 days ago by Kim Rupert
I live in a cool coastal climate. Here, Banksiaes "repeat" two to four times a year, literally. They will begin flowering, we'll have a short heat spell and they stop, then it cools and they start flowering again. But, then, I have apples which flowered all summer long last year. The seeds germinated quickly, but they took several years to flower.
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Reply #5 of 5 posted 5 days ago by Margaret Furness
Thank you. Sounds like they're confused...
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Initial post 6 days ago by Kim Rupert
I've long read Banksiae seed can require two years to germinate. I've raised four seedlings from open pollinated Lutescens. Two have been fully double and one semi double with tulip shaped buds. The fourth succumbed to terminal mildew in infancy. This double yellow Banksiae is from OP Lutescens seed.
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Initial post 15 FEB by HMF Admin
HelpMeFind is proud to announce the naming of magnificent rose from breeder Paul Barden after HMF's co-founder Clara Thomson. We are eternally grateful to Paul for this honor. Clara would be over the moon!
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Reply #1 of 2 posted 15 FEB by Kim Rupert
Marvelous! What a wonderful tribute to her!
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Reply #2 of 2 posted 8 days ago by Paul Barden
I'm happy that I was able to make this well deserved tribute possible.
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