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21 JUL 03 by
Anonymous-797
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A friend and I each have a "Hot Cocoa" Rose. My bush is in bloom with miniture pink roses and hers has small orange roses. They were in bloom with the Cocoa blooms when we purchased them. What went wrong? What can we do to maintain the "Cocoa" blooms?
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#1 of 3 posted
11 NOV 03 by
Eric
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I'm not positive, but I have a feeling it has something to do with nutrition. You might look into good organic fertilizers, theres some offered specifically for roses .
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#2 of 3 posted
3 FEB 05 by
Anonymous-97349
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Have your soil tested for pH and amend as necessary to bring pH to between 6.7 and 6.9.
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There are so many variables that can impact the color of the bloom of a rose in your garden vs another rose garden. Things like temperature, how many hours of sunlight the plant receives, reflected heat and so on. An excellent example is 'Brown Velvet'. In some gardens, this rose truly has the brown tones, while in others it can appear very orange.
Here is a link to Paul Barden's site to an excellent article written by Kim Rupert on "coffee colored roses"
http://www.rdrop.com/~paul/main11.10.00.html
Smiles,
Lyn
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