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'Chilterns' rose Reviews & Comments
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Next to "The Fairy" this is a top favourite ground cover rose. I have had two of them in my garden for some years now, and I have come to appreciate them very much. Besides the flowers of this one has the right blood red colour of my preference. It grows well and flowers continuously way into the autumn. With the right support or planted against a wall it might even grow into a short climber. Some will have it that its susceptibility to blackspot is a serious defect to tarnish an otherwise impeccable reputation. Well yes, it may be affected by some blackspot in late summer and autumn, but in my garden this has never come to anything real serious. Even with the humid summer we have had here this year, the attacks of blackspot have been quite minimal. Yes I am very happy with this one.
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There is a typo in the HMF description of this plant. I grow it as Red Ribbons, a J & P offering. The blooms are not 0.25 inch in diameter but rather 2 and a half inches in diameter on average. Please move that decimal point over a notch. Thanks.
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Good catch ! Thank you. I made the correction.
Lyn
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I like the name "Red Ribbons". I might use that instead.
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"Red Ribbons" actually really fits this plant. It does stay low to the ground, but here at least, it throws out a couple of 5 foot canes each year that lie almost completely flat on the ground and then bloom along the whole length. It's on an inaccessable slope, so the "ribbons" just hang down the slope from the plant until the flowers fade to hips, and then it has lots of red hips.
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One of mine has its eyes set on an arche wanting to be a climber. The other one is resting these long canes you mention on lavenders and other border perennials in front of my house. I do favour this rose very much. Red ribbons it is.
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Help!! I need to find a dozen red ribbons groundcover roses to purchase. Prefer in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Does anyone know of a nursery that carries them? Thanks! Karen
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Chiltrens is a really nice garden shrub. It has pure red flowers and there are always many on the bush. It could be called a continuous bloomer.
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8 MAR 06 by
Anonymous-797
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Once established, if kept in full sun and on a fertilizer not too high in nitrogen, this rose will bloom almost continuously. The photos don't quite do justice to the shade of red; it's a vivid, incandescent color!
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4 JAN 05 by
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I am designing a small rose garden approximately 12-20 for a woman who is just getting started with Roses. She lives in South Jersey . (Zone 6-7) The bed is triangular and butts up against a white stucco carriage house .Its a mature European looking estate. What roses would you recommend for getting started . I love the idea of bordering the rose bed with the 3 different colored Knock Out rose bushes . And a wrought iron trellis against the carriage house with " All Ablaze" climbing up. Would it be ok to complement with lavender and boxwood?
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