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'Duc de Cambridge' rose Reviews & Comments
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This rose was historically sold in Argentina by Vivero Vidal (Vidal Nursery, owned by Cristel Steppuhn de Vidal) as “Souvenir de Babuña”.
The rose was brought around 1904-1905 by Cristel Steppuhn 's grandmother from Ukraine, where it was found growing in the wild. Cristel Vidals 's grandparents emigrated to the valley of Río Negro and settled down in a small farm in Choele-choel, near the town of Pomona (Río Negro province, in Argentinian Patagonia).
Mrs. Vidal found this rose growing in her grandparents 's farm and managed to collect some material and multiplied it. She named it "Souvenir de Babuña", since this rose brought her many happy returns from her "babuña" (grandmother). "Babuña" means "old woman." It is a diminutive or an expression of affection, which comes from the word "baba" (grandmother, in ukrainian).
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My apologies. I uploaded two photos today for 'Duc de Cambridge' but placed them incorrectly with Margottin's rose rather than with Laffay's. Please remove them. Again, I am sorry for the error.
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No problem Darrell. You can actually move the photo yourself.
Open the photo.
Select REASSIGN at the top left.
Select PLANT
Type in Duc de Cambridge
....and follow the prompts.
Let us know if you have problems, but it is very easy to do.
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15 JAN 17 by
Unregistered Guest
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Available from - christianson's
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No description of this rose should fail to mention its tendency to develop vegetative centers. They are horrible and absolutely ruin the bloom. I don't know what conditions favor their development. Possibly 'Duc de Cambridge' is less susceptible to them in different growing conditions than mine, but on my plants the vegetative centers appear so reliably that they ruin the flowering. I'd rather not have 'Duc de Cambridge' in the garden at all--I'm stuck with it given its vigor and suckering tendencies--and I'm a tolerant gardener who doesn't say that about many old roses.
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#1 of 4 posted
13 APR 12 by
Tessie
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Thanks for the warning! I must admit I bought this rose on a whim from Pickering as I wanted to try some different roses. The name "Cambridge" has some significance for me, including that I stayed at Cambridge University during a conference in England years ago. I loved it! So when I saw the name, I decided to take a chance on one of the (at least to me) lesser-known Damasks. Maybe it is lesser known for a reason.;) If he gets veggie centers for me, he's toast! But mine just arrived bareroot last month and is barely leafed out. I do have a rose that gets veggie centers, although not all the time. It's the polyantha Polly Sunshine. When her blooms are normal they are very beautiful, but when veggied, they are awful. I think with her it may have something to do with feeding. I'm going to pay attention to the veggie-tendency this year. And I'm going to watch the Duc very closely.
Melissa
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Well, I hope the Duc does better for you than he has for me. It's true that when the blooms are good they're very good, but I don't see them that often.
I know that sometimes roses will produce vegetative centers at odd times brought on by a particular set of circumstances. My beautiful 'Duchesse d'Auerstaedt' produced a lot of badly malformed blooms one spring, yet I still love DdA, as it was just that one time.
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19 JUL 12 by
JessicaB
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What kind of weather do you have?
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There is a whole bed of this rose at the Ohlsdorf cemetery public rose garden and I've never noticed this phenomenon there although I am there quite often.
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