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Banksia roses

At 10:44 AM 3/8/98 -0500, Eric Rowe/Fr wrote:
>  Hello Liz,
>I find, here in south France, that many of the old china roses are easy to
>grow - Rosa banksia(all three), R. chinensis sanguinea R. c. 'Mutabilis'
>etc.  Also locally obtained roses, Senator Lafayette, General
>Shablikine(sp?).  All of these grow as well (if not better) on their own
>roots.
> Eric

Eric - 

I assume that two of the three Rosa banksiae subspecies to which you refer are
R. b. banksiae (R. b. 'Alba Plena') - the double white, and R. b. 'Lutea',
the double yellow.  Do you also grow the single white (R. b. normalis)?  I
have not seen this plant locally, but recently, R. b. 'Lutescens' has become
available (the single yellow).  This plant is supposedly more fragant that
the others (?) and I like the idea of the soft, copper-yellow flowers.  Has
anyone grown this form of this handsome and useful species?  I am curious as
to why there isn't more breeding taking place with this species - it is a
great plant for our climate, tolerant of drought and heat once established,
producing an abundance of spring flowers and a small amount of 'bonus'
bloom in fall, thornless (or mostly so), clean & healthy evergreen foliage,
a great climber!  I'd love to hear people impressions of this plant as I'd
like to create a Web page for it on the new Medit-Plants Web site due out
soon.

 Sean A. O'Hara                     sean.ohara@ucop.edu
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