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'Cécile Brunner' rose Reviews & Comments
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Nice little rose. However, it is an absolute aphid magnet and is extremely vulnerable to them.
The bush itself will endure, but the very fine pedicels can easily be sucked dry by a bunch of thirsty aphids. The result, of course, is that the buds will die before opening.
If you want this one to look good you'll need to be constantly on the lookout for aphids, and have an effective means of wiping the little mongrels out.
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Two fingertips are good. As are the clean birdbaths.
(You had better check out 'Souvenir de St. Anne's too.)
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Two fingertips works, but rapidly gets very tedious.
SdSA is doing fine at the moment.
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1915 W. E. Lippiatt
p27. Cecile Brunner. Dwarf (Ducher 1881) Bright rose. Yellowish in centre, very sweet.
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This one has just started doing something odd. It's generally free of thorns, but on new canes has recently started putting out a pair of quite large thorns, roughly at 90 degrees to each other, at each stem junction. These are the only thorns on the plant.
I tried to get a decent picture of this, but my $&#^@! camera insisted it wanted to take lovely shots of the mulch in the background. Will have another go tomorrow and see if camera is feeling more cooperative.
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#1 of 12 posted
8 AUG 16 by
 Jay-Jay
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Just take a look at this photo GMC.
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Photo appears to be missing. ;)
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#3 of 12 posted
8 AUG 16 by
Jay-Jay
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Forgot the URL: Just take a look at this photo GMC. http://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=21.165378
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Similar shape, but as I said they are paired, at around 90 degrees, and only at stem junctions. Will go and try another shot now. It's about time I went and did the morning aphid squash (which is really just an excuse to enjoy the roses).
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Ok, I outsmarted my camera. Check out #286271 and #286272.
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I think they may be fairly normal for' Mlle. Cecile Brunner' - my bush has them too. They are called infrastipular prickles. From my Collins Dictionary - Infra: prefix: below, beneath, after.
stipular: (below the) stipules.
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I see. So "thornless, or almost" means "has two thumping great fangs wherever a new branchy bit starts".
Handy to know, for people who are planning on putting it beside a path. :D
Edit: I think these ones would be infranodal rather than infrastipular. Aint got no stipules near 'em. ;)
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I could be wrong. My botany teacher, Mr. Collins, doesn't tell me about infranodals. But my plant is right by the path and the fangs are no problem at all. The blooms lean out a bit so if you are going to bump into something, you'll bump into a bloom, not a fang.
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Ok cool. That sounds alright then. Mine is next to a path, of course.
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#10 of 12 posted
9 AUG 16 by
Jay-Jay
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Are those hooked prickles/thorns (or prickles in general) meant/originated just for climbing, or for catching "prey", or some flesh or coat/fur/hair too? To get the necessary decomposition products of those animal or human source particles, to fertilize itself???
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Not sure, but it certainly works for the latter. :D
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I looked again and you're right. Infrastipular they are.
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So my young Cecile (7 weeks in the ground, from bare root) has just popped out its first flower. The description here (and elsewhere, for that matter) says "moderate apple fragrance". My one smells not all all apple-ish and distinctly musky. At least, it does to me. The closest description, for other Aussies who will know what it means, is sort of like musk lifesavers. It's very pleasant, but not a trace of apple.
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