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"Secret Garden Musk Climber" rose Reviews & Comments
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Under the name « Secret Garden ®️ »
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Available from - Bierkreek
https://bierkreek.nl/webwinkel-bestel-roos-online-en-bezorging/secret-garden/
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This rose starts to bloom from the end of May in England.. about 6 weeks earlier than R. moschata..
Liable to attract swarms of pollen beetles..
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I'm glad somebody's looking out for those pollen beetles... :>)
Does SGMC keep blooming until frost for you, or does it bloom in flushes? I seem to recall you've had it for quite a while, so it must be a good performer for you.
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Hi Virginia,. yes it was continuously flowering until late autumn, always clusters of flowers, totally ruined by pollen beetles from June to August, after which they disappear. A vigorous climbing rose with lovely foliage.
I no longer have it. Here it would be best grown away from areas with Oilseed Rape fields, which attract the beetles..
Difficult to find this rose in Europe now, unfortunately.
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So what I hear you saying is that anyone planting fields of rapeseed should also plant this rose as a trap crop? Or maybe anyone wanting to grow SGMC needs to plant sacrificial brassica plants nearby. At any rate, it sounds like a rose with a lot of pollen on offer.
It's a shame your lovely roses were ruined by the critters...are the beetles no longer visiting your garden since SGMC left it?
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Oh they're here every summer but not so many these days, some of the fields with those crops have disappeared.. I think it was due to the scent given off, as other single flowered roses were not affected so much.. I used to have a photo of the ruined flowers but seem to have lost that too..
This is an agricultural area so I have to take what comes.. I would try again with it, if I could get one. Never mind.
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#5 of 6 posted
17 JUL 23 by
 jedmar
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To my experience, the pollen beetles usually go for white, yellow and light pink coloured blooms
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I think that's true for June Bugs and Japanese Beetles also. Yellow flowers seem to be their favorites.
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Hello,
Secret Garden Musk Climber is sold under the name « Secret Garden ® » at Bierkreek.nl
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