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'Albertine' rose Reviews & Comments
Discussion id : 121-250
most recent 2 MAY 20 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 1 MAY 20 by HeathRose
Would anyone have an opinion on Albertine's habit and suitability for growing up a large dead tree? Would it be similar to American Pillar?
Many thanks, Jessica
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Reply #1 of 9 posted 2 MAY 20 by Patricia Routley
Very similar in habit to American Pillar. If it can hook a cane over a lower dead branch, I am sure it will be just fine from then on.
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Reply #2 of 9 posted 2 MAY 20 by Margaret Furness
Just make sure you keep it up off the ground. Most of the ramblers will root down (layer themselves), and this is a prickly one.
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Reply #3 of 9 posted 2 MAY 20 by HeathRose
Thank you Patricia and Margaret. I just ordered him and hope to report on how he grows. I really appreciate all your advice and comments on this site- I was about to order "May Queen" instead but I saw that you mentioned that she has more of a procumbent habit Margaret and that steered me off.
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Reply #4 of 9 posted 2 MAY 20 by Margaret Furness
May Queen is very lovely. I'd give it a go - just keep it up off the ground too.
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Reply #5 of 9 posted 2 MAY 20 by Patricia Routley
Agree. ‘May Queen’ is just delightful. I grow it on a Golden Delicious apple tree and the apple and rose bloom just about at the same time. The parrots eat all the apples from this tree so it really serves only as a beautiful prop for ‘May Queen’.
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Reply #7 of 9 posted 2 MAY 20 by HeathRose
Ahh well I do have this very tall old plum tree that also produced just for the bower birds so perhaps I can get May Queen after all. Thank you both for encouraging my addiction!
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Reply #6 of 9 posted 2 MAY 20 by Jay-Jay
Keep in mind, that a dead tree might rot and fall over with the fully grown rose. It happened to me with an old oak tree... with a lot of damage. But for the time being, it was a wonderful sight.
Another possibility Dentelle de Malines: https://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=21.187967
I grow Albertine on a rose-bench/structure. Very rewarding, but a prickly business to prune and train.
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Reply #8 of 9 posted 2 MAY 20 by HeathRose
Yes that is a consideration for sure - I did have an arborist look at it and he thought it was OK. Unfortunately the tree is in falling distance to my neighbor's house so hopefully the rose wont act as a sail?! Now I'm worried!
Meanwhile, Wow those photos of Dentelle de Malines are amazing - especially since its description lists a height of only 3m. Alas I'm not sure if it is available in Australia. Many thanks for you advice.
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Reply #9 of 9 posted 2 MAY 20 by Jay-Jay
You're welcome.
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Discussion id : 98-332
most recent 2 APR 17 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 2 APR 17 by Andrew from Dolton
Margery Fish, A Flower For Every Day. Published by The Garden Book Club, 121 Charring Cross Road, London W.C.2.

Mrs Fish's garden East Lambrook Manor is in Somerset in the south-west of England.

p82-3
I was asked recently which climbing rose I would choose if I could only have one. I said Albertine, which may surprise some people. I know the flowers are not the most shapely roses we can have, nor do they last for more than a day or two. Another drawback is that it has only one flowering, but what a job it makes of it! Whatever other roses are grown, I think there should be at least one Albertine in every garden for its luxuriant growth and rich stunning foliage which never has a trace of black spot. Its cuttings strike with all the ease in the world and those delightful deep salmon pink roses, so sweetly scented, are produced in such profusion that one can cut and cut during the weeks they are in bloom. At no other time am I so prodigal with flowers in the house. Bowls of Albertine appear in every room and I have no conscience in sacrificing buds as I have with other roses. As a matter of fact it it impossible to cut Albertine without a few buds, but they open in water so it is not really wasetful.
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Reply #1 of 1 posted 2 APR 17 by Jay-Jay
Thank you for this appraisal of Albertine. It surprised me as well!
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Discussion id : 97-830
most recent 5 MAR 17 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 4 MAR 17 by Andrew from Dolton
I'm quite surprised to see in this rose's description: "Climbing, thornless (or almost)", I always found it a rather prickly rose.
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Reply #1 of 1 posted 5 MAR 17 by Patricia Routley
It certainly is prickly. Thanks Andrew.
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Discussion id : 93-979
most recent 13 JUL 16 HIDE POSTS
 
Initial post 13 JUL 16 by Linda T.
Albertine is described as once-blooming, but I get a few additional blooms later on. Mine bloomed big in May and early June, but she has a blossom and a bud now, in July. Does anyone else experience this?
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Reply #1 of 1 posted 13 JUL 16 by Jay-Jay
Mine started blooming half June and still has some flowers.
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