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'Reine du Midi' rose Reviews & Comments
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14 MAY 05 by
Anonymous-797
I have had this rose for 5 years and have always enjoyed it.I live in the Northwest so disease can sometimes be a problem but it has done very well for me.The fragrance is absolutly wonderful.Its actually been living in a container all this time.The blooms can ball up in the rain,but I have a covered porch so I bring it up there to enjoy it longer.Its one of my favorite oldies.
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Hello, I just read your entry about La Reine, the hy p. You write that you have kept it in a container for 5 years. Could you tell me how large the container is, and how often you need to either repot it, and trim the roots. Many thanks. Gloria Barnett
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Found in the plantings at San Juan Bautista State Historical Park. Closely suckering erect growing Hybrid Perpetual-like or damask-like shrub with very straight stems with small light brown nearly perpedicular prickles. Tip-flowers in a closely spaced cluster. Sets numerous hips which are tan brown 1/2 inch in diameter with a tapered base and a prominent ring at the top. Buds on slender pedicels, hypanthium small, oval, topped by a distinct neck before the sepals which are barley longer than the bud. Three of the sepals with pointy narrow foliations. Possibly 'Rose Edouard' or 'Rose Edward' the original Bourbon.
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The use of the incorrect synonym, La Reine Victoria, for the bourbon creates impossible confusion between: 'Reine Victoria', Schwartz, 1872 - the floppy bourbon and 'La Reine', Laffay, 1844, the upright hybrid perpetual.
To say 'La Reine Victoria' is to talk of two different roses in the one breath.
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