New Iceberg!

Hi all...

Lili Singer of the award-winning Southern California Gardener newsletter
fame and now publisher of The Gardener's Companion with Descanso
Gardens. part of the LA County botanical garden system, presented a rose
program about 2 weeks ago...  I wish I had had the awareness to write to
the list about it at that time because I would have had a lot more to
say.  As it is, I am at my desk on campus and someone recently posted
about breaking down and putting in an Iceberg rose stirred these
sleeping brain cells into recalling that we saw slides of new roses
either being released this year or in coming years.  One of this year's
introductions:  Brilliant Pink Iceberg.  A sport of Iceberg, it really
is something like an Iceberg crossed with the color form of
Regensberg.   Which brings me to thinking, why not just plant
Regensberg?  And now I wonder, why plant Iceberg at all?  For my money,
Gruss an Aachen is a better rose with the same flower - better scent.

However.  I wish to God I had stock in the company with Brilliant Pink
Iceberg - it's going to be a huge, HUGE success.  The slides we saw of
it were magnificent - great color.  And it has all the other
characteristices of Iceberg, floriferous and disease free - even in
shady conditions:  the next rage in the common rose.

Each attendee at the seminar (cost was $25) got two bare root roses:
one was Out of the Blue and the other was a Romantica with a French
name.  I murder French all the time.  It seems to be a language that
eludes me in every manner and every nuance.  So.  I was reduced to
calling "House of the Veal Cutlet" - (remember, my notes are at home)
it's something like Souvinier des Viels Maison - very thorny, but the
picture has been causing me drooling fits.

Perhaps I'll actually get some stuff written about it and put it up on
the web page, although with all the sticks I've got in the fire at this
moment, don't hold your breath - you won't look good in THAT shade of
blue!

Anyway...  let's just say it was way cool and all of us would have loved
to have been there...  watch for that new Iceberg - you will see lots of
'em.

David King
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