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'Lavander Vaza ®' rose Reviews & Comments
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Initial post 1 JUN 22 by jac123
Nice rounded, branching shrub, still quite compact at the end of its first year. As a first year bare root, it produced a nice flush of rosette-shaped blooms, enriched by a not overly strong, yet pleasant, old rose fragrance. The color is quite variable and each flower is different. Sometimes they're cerise pink, sometimes they have a greyish hue, but they never look "lavender", to be honest.

To comment about its performance as a cut flower, I have to clarify what I mean as "a good variety for cut flowers". If the question is "Does it produce huge, single blooms on long stems that last forever in a vase?", the answer is no. On the other hand, if the question is "Does it look good when picked and does it have a decent vase life?", the answer is yes. It blooms in small clusters, and blooms are medium in size, not overly big. They last about 4 days after being picked and they remain fragrant in the vase. It doesn't produce long stems like an hybrid tea; the maximum length I got in the first year is about 25 cm (and you may want to leave at least a portion of that on the plant, to maintain a balanced shrub form and an adequate bloom production). One of the main pros of this variety as a cut flowers plant is that it incorporates very well in a garden environment, whereas very often florist roses look just horrible. Good blackspot resistance.


Edit: after 4 weeks from the peak of the first flush, Lavander Vaza is starting its second flush here. Its blooms look completely different now. They're semidouble, with large petals, whereas they had many, narrower petals in the first flush, often with a button eye. They all seem to be cerise pink now; they look good, but you have to take it into consideration when placing this variety, it is not lavender and blooms may be noticeably different in shape after the first flush.


Recently PhenoGeno has rebranded this variety as Zora Frayla, moving it to the fragrat shrubs selection.
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