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'Rosafrica' rose Reviews & Comments
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Available from - High Country Roses
highcountryroses.com
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A similar rose is Special Occasion from Heirloom Roses.com.
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I am hazarding a guess that the unknown portion is Lion's Fairy Tale.
I got this rose last august and it immediately developed diseases (plural). I felt that fall was a bad time to evaluate a rose, so I let it grow out this spring. Same diseases (mildew, downy and cercospora). It's a hot mess. I'll let it grow out for the summer since the spot isn't being used for now, and I'll evaluate it some more, but it's definitely getting the shovel treatment.
Bloom color is interesting. It's a haunting tone f apricot in the autumn. The form is too inconvenient for rain though. Holds water and won't let it out.
Might be an okay rose in a dry climate away from the coast line? The size is nice.
Edit: July 2019: Dug it up, made it compost. Riddled with... everything. Absolutely defoliated and decrepit. Looked like downy, powdery, and some bs or anthracnose.. hard to tell at that stage.
Similar roses in this color range I had recently bought: Crazy Love, Mango Veranda, and Sunsay did not have these issues and look fine. Look like normal garden roses right now.
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Mine is not healthy either, lots of BS. Giving her until next year and see if she gets better when more established. I am surprised because Kordes roses are always healthy for me.
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Kordes has some real duds. They are improving bit by bit, but only a few of them are even highly rated in Kordes system itself. For example, Sunny Sky is rated by their own tested as among the best, and its a real nice HT with good health, but the color is so-so.
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I don’t have Sunny Sky but have many others - Florentina, Pink Enchantment, Summer Romance, Honeymoon, Fire Opal etc. and they are all in excellent health and have beautiful blooms.
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I can add Garden Delight, Summer Sun, and Milano Kolorscape to the "good ones list," as well.
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I love the roses from Kordes. I can recommend 'Lavender Lassie' a 6' shrub that grows upright and flowers on and off during the summer. 'Scharlachglut' is one of my favorite roses makes a bold statement in the landscape with its vase shaped canes and its bright red flowers. 'Amadeus' is another large rose for the landscape not as upright as 'Lavender Lassie' and 'Scharlachglut' but its red flowers come in reliable flushes during the summer. 'Raubritter' has very distinctive pink cupped flowers of great beauty. It makes a low growing mounding plant for the front of the border. Once blooming 'Fritz Nobis' is a rose I have enjoyed in my garden for 30 years.
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Certified Roses website (see 2020 reference) are quoting a parentage for Soul Sister KORconvent as (Gingersnap x Double Delight).
HelpMeFind are quoting the parentage taken from the Patent (KORunrok x unnamed seedling).
Gingersnap AROsnap was a Delbard 1977 rose.
KORunrok was a Kordes 1995 rose which was never released or named.
Can anybody shed further light?
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Reply
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29 SEP 20 by
 jedmar
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Once a rep of a rose breeder told me "we can state anything we want in patents"!
I would ask Rostom for clarification, but I am afraid they still believe in muddying the waters, although I do not see the point: the chance of getting the same result by repeating a cross is more like nil.
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I’ve sent an email to both Kordes, and to Certified Roses asking for clarification.
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Kordes have replied the parentage is correct as HelpMeFind has it. I have underlined the incorrect parentage in the 2020 reference.
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