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Re: Easy rose trend

This is the second year we've carried Knock Out at our nursery.  However, very few of our retail customers even noticed it, or asked for it, until this year immediately following all of the publicity.
Knock Out is a nice rose; but, there are a lot of nice roses out there equally good.
I believe the difference in selling is due to us, garden writers/communicators.  Our customers show up with torn out magazine pages looking for the latest: very few show up with a rose book (one once showed up with a quaint little thing written by a chap named Doug Green.)
 
Re hybrid teas being "classed" as annuals.
Mark Bucknell of Rambling Rose Nursery (US Zone 4) tells me they have very little problems overwintering their hybrid teas. Proper cultural practices, which many homeowners (yardeners perhaps?) don't do, should see them through.
Dan Clost
Greenscapes
GWA Region VII
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