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Re: quitting Ts

> I had very good success with them in the South.  Since I've moved to Western
> New York, they've not been worth the effort.  I started trying other
> varieties (English, OGR, species) and have never been happier.  Not only has
> my idea of what constitues 'beauty' in a Rose bloom changed radically, I'm
> positively goofy about the landscaping potential of the different varieties.

Sorry, I live in "the South" and the HT's are more beautiful than the
other roses.  Their *health* isn't good, but for me it's binary :  they
are healthy, or they are dead.

> >The blooms may not be quite as spectacular, nor the scents as
> >abundant,
> 
> I have to politely disagree;  I've never had more breathtaking blooms than I
> have now, nor more incredible fragrance.

I have to disagree again here:  the colours found in the HT, while not
to everyone's taste, are to my taste; and the form is wonderful.  I grow
HTs, Floribundas, climbers, English roses, OGRs, you name it.  While the
OGRs tend to hang in there health-wise, they are NOT the star
performers, because their bloom season in our hot spring weather is
like, two days or so, really.  Then it's plant, plant, plant.
Veilchenblau is taking over the world and needs to be controlled, but
it's a once bloomer.  Buff Beauty is another THUG.  None of the HTs are
thugs.  Fragrant Cloud is one of my best roses, bar none.  Rebloom and
rebloom and rebloom.

-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, USDA zone 8b, Sunset zone 30
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