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Recent Member Comments, Questions and Answers
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We've been propagating this rose for the last 10 years here in S.W. France and havn't sold one. Today I dumped our entire stock in exasperation!
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This sort of thing must be so disappointing for you and other nurseries who make the old roses available John. You are the best sorts of patrons but no-one's pockets are that deep.
Do you still have a Clg La France in your own collection?
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No Billy
The garden is principally for our collections + some species and other things we like a lot, we don't have the resources to look after the HT's and if we can't sell La France in France it's time to stop trying. A bit ironic now that the French have voted in the FN, LePen's nationalist party.
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#3 of 5 posted
25 MAR 17 by
 pminor
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So sorry to hear this even so long after the fact. I am looking to acquire from sacramento historical cemetery rose garden. I see roses in france germany italy england but cant order them. Because of agricultural restrictions.
I just love the old roses and i am new to roses.
Hope you are doing better now. So many sources www ent out of business after 2008, around 2010 and 2012 there seems to have been a huge reduction in businesses selling roses.
Pat
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The number of heritage roses available from nurseries in our area is also a small percentage of what was freely available 20 years ago but we are fortunate to still have nurseries that will custom bud these increasingly rare varieties - providing you can source budwood.
This is another way HMF is so invaluable.
Those members of the HMF community who list the roses growing in their own gardens help to create a picture of how scarce or abundant certain varieties are and a register of potential propagating material.
Could I ask all to consider using this feature to list the roses they grow?
If privacy is a concern, identifying information is not needed - many people use a nickname on HMF and restrict their location to a region, city or country.
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#5 of 5 posted
yesterday by
Johno
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Climbing La France is available from Knight's Roses, Gawler, South Australia.
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Can anyone comment on the black spot resistance of this rose in a rainy climate? Also the shrub shape?
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Blackspot resistance is very poor in rainy, humid New England. If I diligently spray fungicide, it can be a nice enough bush, without spray it completely defoliates. The shrub remains short and width is in balance with the height. Canes are twiggy, relatively thin, but usually capable of holding the weight of the blooms, which are full but not terribly heavy.
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* Posted by unregistered site guest: Pending HMF administrative review. *
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It is most trying that one cannot track down the colored plate of 'Miss Ethel Brownlow' featured in the July 1893 issue of the Gardeners Magazine, nor indeed a copy of that issue with or without the plate. Does anyone have access to the holdings of the Royal Horticultural Society, which evidently does have the (full?) run of the Gardeners Magazine (which was edited by Shirley Hibberd, should that be of interest)? Or, short of that, does anyone have an "in" with the RHS such that they could wheedle a Society librarian into scanning the plate for the good of humanity?
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