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'Electron ®' rose Reviews & Comments
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Stanley Robert Mullard 1883-1979 Ingénieur Anglais
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Electron is a wonderful rose. It is disease free, even in foggy San Francisco, and the most floriferous rose in my five year old garden. When the buds first open, they are a wonderful electric pink. The blooms fade with time, but remain bright. If the weather remains overcast with a few days of sunshine sprinkled in, the blooms will last as long as six weeks for me! The only rose I have that compares, for longevity of blooms, is Tournament of Roses; also pink, but a much softer, pastel shade.
The specimen that I have is a tree rose variety and this year's second flush gave me almost four dozen blooms! The buds from the second flush started opening in mid-June and about three dozen still remain on the tree. There would be more if I had not cut a half dozen to make a mixed bouquet. As a cut flower, they are also long lasting, but nothing as amazing as when left on the plant. This is a great rose and I plan to get another, to try in a pot.
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Hi, how did it work out, in a pot?
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Great rose, if you like rust. Only rose to actually rust for me.
Habit and repeat are good. Kind of thorny. Smell is more moderate to me.
Color is not as bright as more modern deep pink roses.
Kind of plain foliage. Not particularly prone to bs/mildew, for its class.
Roses almost never rust here. I was a bit shocked when this happened 3 years in a row. It soon became compost.
Personally, for this color range, I would opt for Timeless, Fame!, etc. Or something else if you want the fragrance. So many deep pinks to choose from. I would have forgiven the rust issue if I was more enthused with the rest of the rose.
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Is zone 4b for this rose not a bit of an exaggeration?
In my zone 6 it hardly survived the winter and froze back under groundlevel.
It's a beautifull HT though! And the fragrance has an interesting hint of bitter almonds.
The flowers are as bright pink as those from Parole (Buxom Beauty), but they are not as big as and have not as many petals, not such a long vase life and less fragrance. And Mullard Jubilee is not such a prolific bloomer compared to Parole.
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Agreed, zone 4b is an exaggeration. I have it in zone 5 and it freezes to the ground every year, but does come back nicely with health and vigor. A beautiful, healthy rose though, with a nice fragrance.
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21 MAY 14 by
 Jay-Jay
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But as I read in Your member-profile: It will be own root... or isn't it. Mine is grafted. Over here most of the own root roses especially HT's behave less vigorous. Exceptions: Hybrid Musks Helenae Hybrids and Multiflora (Ramblers).
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Yes, most of my roses are own-root, as is Electron. In many instances I think a lot of my roses would succumb to the long, hard winters we typically have in Northern Utah if they were grafted roses. I'm able to get many roses rated only down to zones 6 & 7 to survive without winter protection in our zone 5 climate because of being on their own roots . They sometimes will freeze to the ground, but they generally pop back to a full-sized bush as soon as the warm weather kicks in.
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