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RE: Banksia roses



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> De: Sean A. O'Hara <sean.ohara@ucop.edu>
> A: Medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Asunto: Banksia roses
> Fecha: lunes 16 de marzo de 1998 21:02
> 
Sean,
I have had the single yellow growing here for some six or seven years. Its
quite pretty but hasn't grown more than two or three m. high and it has
always looked a bit thin. It came from Mdm Dental's nursery at Nice. The
double white is very rampant.  The double yellow the most beatiful to me.
About smell I cannot say as I lost my smelling powers decades ago!  Both
doubles look great clambering up through a big C. sempervirens and
cascading down from the top of it.
As for hybrids we have plants of x fortuniana, a supposed hybrid with
laevigata which flowers abundantly at the same time as banksia and my own
cross which is x fortuniana x some wild rose. It certainly had x fortuniana
as a seed-parent as I was surprised to see half a dozen hips on this F1
plant, the nearest roses being wild plants. Its brother looked just like a
wild rose too so it might be more hardy than banksia.It is rampant,
semi-deciduous and covers itself in x fortuniana-like flowers at bansia
time (but they are slightly smaller). It is thornier than its mother.
latymer@ctv.es
Hugo Latymer   Spain   Zone 9      		Regards    Hugo
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