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Rose Warm Welcome.

GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
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I have often admired this rose in a local garden. Does anyone else grow it please and if so can you recommend it. I would really like to know if it is prone to black spot?
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I had one. It died, although not of black spot. Just turned up it's toes and expired. Very pretty and lovely scent. @Marlorena may be able to advise more helpfully
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    No, not me, but I understand it has good disease resistance in the UK, which is typical of roses bred by Chris Warner..

    @Nollie has it, or used to, but he is in Spain where conditions are different. 
    East Anglia, England
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Yes I have it still. My black spot pressures are really high and my climate can be punishing but it’s a trooper here. I would describe it as a pillar rose, the canes are too stiff to wind or bend much. I have it growing straight up through an obelisk, but even without any training it flowers it’s socks off from top to bottom all summer long.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @pansyface and @Nollie Thank you both for your help this is just the information I needed. It is such a beautiful colour and as you say long flowering. I have an old brick wall that also faces South. I also have an old rusty obelisk so this looks like an excellent idea. 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    To attest to it’s toughness, mine has been treated very badly, chopped down twice, once because I was told I should have wound it around the obelisk (didn’t work, new growth equally stiff) and then because I needed to replace the original hazel obelisk with a metal one. Had a bit of a hiccup the second time, but recovered. Couldn’t post this yesterday, internet problems, but here’s a close-up of the healthy foliage:

    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Nollie Thankyou what you say is very helpful. It does look very healthy!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    I grow it on a rusted obelisk too - it was still flowering in December!  A really bright orange, lots of flowers and no problems.  It will be perfect for that location @GardenerSuze.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Hope it does well for you GardenerSuze. I always have a momentary panic after I have recommended any plant, so good to hear others think highly of it. 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I've been searching for a Vendée nursery that sells this rose but to no avail.   However, I have found a nursery in the Deux-Sèvres department (province) that sells other roses i've been looking for as well as UK apples such as Bramley Seedling; Cox's Orange Pippin and a James Grieve so happy days.

    Thanks @Nollie.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I imagine the blooms are pretty open for bees, too.
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