RE: [Rose-list] Finally---Blooming like mad!

**"* S* <S*@schwabe.com>**

Phillip mentioned the hybrid musk 'Penelope.'

I just wanted to put in a plug for all the hybrid musks I have tried.  They
are remarkably disease resistant, right under rugosas for me, and tolerate
slopes, dry shade, etc.  I personally don't get a lot of fragrance from
them, but they are real troopers and excel in the fall, which you can't say
for a lot of roses.

Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: prgramly@intrepid.cdg-hargray.com
> [p*@intrepid.cdg-hargray.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 10:16 AM
> To: rose-list@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: [Rose-list] Finally---Blooming like mad!
> 
> 
> Good morning!
> 
> >How are your roses looking this fine day?
> 
> most of mine peaked about two weeks ago.
> 
> Rambling rector, which i had to prune back to two feet high, was a
> solid ball of white dainty flowers for about two weeks.  That was it.
> One surprise though - after a heavy rain it looked pretty pathetic.
> By the next evening a bunch of new buds opened and looked
> better than ever.
> 
> I had a good set of blooms on my two Dortmund roses.  Intense red
> with white centers.  It continues, but only in clusters on the end of
> canes.
> Is there some way to prune, pin, etc. to get them to bloom 
> all along the
> canes?
> 
> This is the first year that Climbing Blaze has lived up to its name.
> Deep red, full roses in big clusters all over him.
> Me thinks the fish emulsion is working!
> 
> My souvenier de la Malmaison is stingy as usual - she's a little snot.
> I had ONE perfect bloom in may.  Now i have TWO more starting to
> bud out.  whooooopie.  Even so, they are marvelous - can i 
> enduce her to
> give a little more?
> 
> I am really pleased with the Hybrid Musk Penelope.  She was the one
> rose that i really wanted last year.  I didn't get her in 
> until mid-June
> because of a mixup from the mail order place.   In may, she was
> in fine form - except a put her at the base of a pillar which 
> i intend to
> tie
> her to.  The birds think the pillar is a latrine - soooo  the 
> foilage is
> white
> as well as the flowers. (blarg!)  I hope she gets big enough 
> that it won't
> be so much of a problem.  On the bright side - they are fertilizing
> Penelope
> for me, ha!  Now most of the blooms are washed out.
> At her best, you get pointed peachy buds, mixed with pale 
> peach, frilly
> flowers, mixed with fully open white flowers.  Perfect!
> 
> Ah, well - that one really satisfied me - it being precisely what i
> pictured
> it being in the center of my garden.
> 
> There are more, but i will give others on the list a chance...
> 
> Phillip
> Sadorus, IL
> Zone 5
> 
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