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'Ballerina' rose Reviews & Comments
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I've had a Ballerina for a couple of years. I live outside of New York City — we have hot, humid, fairly rainy summers. I definitely have blackspot problems with this rose. My garden has always basically been green (no synthetic chemicals). I have seen beautiful specimens of this rose, but I'm going to replaced mine with something with better disease resistance for my area.
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It works best as a landscape shrub mixed in with perennials and other woody plants. When it blooms it looks beautiful, when out of bloom it just blends in with the other plants and any naked stems don't show.
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16 FEB 11 by
evan500
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That's a nice suggestion. I'm not sure I have a good spot like that where I could move it to, but I'll keep it in mind.
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6 APR 12 by
 Chris
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must be the city.
it's as happy as can be up here in northeast ct.
no spray.
open green, fully bushy.
always blooming.
what more?
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In California, Ballerina grows very robustly on its own roots. I can't imagine how it would grow grafted on a vigorous rootstock -- too big, I suspect. I agree with Cass about blackspot -- here it only gets a bit very late in the season when the rains set in. I have had problems with mites on the foliage, though. It's the only rose I've grown that had an attack of mites. A little ivory soap and it shrugged them off and kept on blooming.
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24 APR 09 by
Chris
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I was concerned about winter hardiness. No more. It did the best of all my roses except the Canadian Explorers and rugosas.
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24 APR 09 by
Cass
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16 JAN 09 by
DavidM
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How thorny is Ballerina. I have a plant here that I am trying to ID and, because it is young and been in the ground only 1 year, I can't decide whether it's Ballerina or a deep pink and white centered version of multiflora. Mine is thornless and cutting grown. It's not throwing lots of suckers (yet) and has fringed stipules. I'm keen to try and ID it though as I would like to use it to breed from.
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