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Does anyone Grow Paul Neyron?
Comments (19)Baronne Prevost: "Meant to be a California girl," or "West Coast girl," oh please. But it's good to know that she repeats and behaves well somewhere. What are the British books that dissed BP? I see that David Austin writes in The Rose: "Baronne Prevost has magnificent, perfectly formed blooms and strong upright growth." (p. 69 with a whole page photograph). Botanica's Roses, 2nd ed 1999, which is largely a British (Peter Harkness, Peter Beales, David Austin, John Mattock et al) plus Commonwealth production, notes on Baronne Prevost: "Extremely popular for many years, this early Hybrid Perpetual retains the shape of the Old Rose form. Large, globular buds open to full, fat, quartered, pink blooms that fade with age and make most attractive cut flowers. The stiff, stout canes are covered with attractive foliage and short red prickles. This tough, compact shrub blooms in summer with an occasional autumn repeat and is best placed at the back of the border. It likes sun and rich soil. ..." (p. 105) Now, of perhaps more interest to the OP, David Austin on Paul Neyron (from The Rose, p. 72): "In the past this rose was regarded as having the largest flowers of all roses, and I suspect that this may not be far from true today. It is in every way a very large shrub, with large leaves and strong upright growth. Unfortunately with size comes clumsiness, as is so often the case, but of the flowers are cut and mixed with an arrangement of other flowers they can be very effective. Their color is a deep rose-pink flushed with lilac; they're cupped in shape and have a light fragrance. ..." Botanica's entry does not add anything (other than a bit of PN's history) to this. My *North Carolinian* experience with HPs in general, notwithstanding a few very notable exceptions, is that they are not good rebloomers and throw out very long canes after their first (which is often pretty much the last) flush. I now grow more HPs here in England mostly because they rebloom and behave a bit better here. However, mind you that, despite their family name, Hybrid Perpetuals are generally known not to be all that perpetual. And regarding location, location, location, Virginia is in most respects probably closer to North Carolina than to England or California, and its, uhm, girls. Andrea...See MoreDoes anyone grow Cressida?
Comments (16)Hello Susan, Because of winter die back here, my Cressida is cut to a few inches tall each winter and has to start from scratch. She usually puts out 3 or 4 strong canes that grow to about 3 feet and branch moderately. She then blooms in flushes every couple of weeks over the course of the summer and into October. Mine is quite healthy, less blackspot than many of my other roses. Another plus for Cressida is that her blooms stand up to the worst of summer heat and humidity and she is potently fragrant regardless of how hot it gets. When I grew her on the west coast (zone 8), she was a short climber as others have described her here and she did not seem to rebloom as well as she does now that she is growing as a short bush. So she may be similar to Charles Austin and bloom and perform better if she is pruned hard and kept shorter to encourage rebloom. Might be worth a try. Cheers, Rideau Rose Lad...See MoreDoes Anyone Grow Easy Does It?
Comments (7)I had it growing in my garden several years ago and it was one of my favorites. Between my being in zone 6B, and the deer ravaging my garden, I lost it. Now that I have a protective fence, I might try it again. As far as the cold - I could try giving it extra winter protection. It would be worth the try to me. When it bloomed in spring it was abundantly luscious. I think it was this rose that someone here had mass planting of in the front of his house, and he posted pictures. It literally stopped traffic. Maybe his pictures are still here? This would be 9 or 10 years ago.....? I'm not a photo searcher, so I can't advise on that....See MoreDoes anyone grow Euphoria rose?
Comments (8)I had it a few yrs ago when it was known as JALITAH. (I hate when they change names.) Unfortunately, it didn't survive the Camp Fire. I got a new one last yr, but at my new location, it barely showed the pink edges just at the end of the season. Was mostly just pale yellow. I have horrifically hot summers here, and I think it needs cool weather to get the pink to show up....See Morerouge21_gw (CDN Z5b/6a)
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