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'Camp David' rose Reviews & Comments
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Both references state it as at least fragrant enough to note it in their public comments. How fragrant that might be is beyond me, but it seems important to note for a red HT.
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#1 of 3 posted
27 SEP by
 HubertG
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I'd rate fragrance for this rose about a 6 out of 10. It isn't really classical old rose/damask scent either.
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#2 of 3 posted
29 SEP by
Johno
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Even with my declining olfactory system, the fragrance is quite strong.
Michael, with its name did Camp David ever reach US shores? It is a good garden rose and is still regularly seen for sale in the big chain stores.
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I am not quite sure, Johno. I just know it looked good in the photos (close spacing between leaves; no noticeable mildew issue; petals not quilling for its color + era; satisfactory color), and that the references did not match HMF notes to date.
There are a lot of red HTs out there, but few are retained by gardeners, so I always take note of any that stand out for their era of time.
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This is the first year that I've grown 'Camp David' and I have to say that I'm surprised at its winter performance in my mild climate in Sydney, Australia. Being a German-bred rose I expected it to go quite dormant in winter but it has retained a good deal of foliage. There is one flower on my small potted standard at the moment that is about two and a half weeks old which still looks quite acceptable. I wish that I'd fertilised it more coming into winter - I'll know for next time. The fragrance is constant too even on this old flower. I'm impressed overall.
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Surprised there aren't more comments about Camp David on here. It's a very popular and well known rose here in Australia and with a name like this and the plants impressive characteristics, I expected it would have been very popular in the US, especially, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
Don't have this rose myself, but have seen it in all its glory in display gardens and rose gardens and the house across the road from us has what used to be a VERY impressive standard (tree) version of this rose (I'm pretty certain it's this variety). Unfortunately they don't seem to be familiar with pruning, so it doesn't do anywhere near as well as it could, even with just a summer dead-head.
This is a really good rose, especially if you want a strong, vigorous, bushy bush, that has heaps of big, blood-red blooms on it. In my experience this is not really a rose that you would buy for its form alone, as there are slightly better formed reds, or for it's fragrance alone, as the fragrance is only medium-strong and not as good as Mister Lincoln, Papa M and Oklahoma, for instance, but for its general garden display, which is really impressive.
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Camp David is a great rose , so healthy in drought conditions without water. It is a very stout rose that has produced a single hip this season and have heard from David Meares this is not uncommon after about 8 years growth. I did mention almost no fragrance but others mention mild to medium fragrance. I look forward to germinating the seeds from this single hip. It does so well in very warm conditions I would like to try it in very cold areas because it's so vigorous.
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I recall coming across 'Camp David' in full bloom in an abandoned nursery in 2003. It was labelled and surrounded by an edging of the variegated pelagonium 'Mme. Salleron', Lemoine 1840. I took cuttings of both but only the pelagonium survived in my garden. (Nowadays I have to grow the pelagonium in a fenced garden as the rabbits, ducks and guinea fowl just love a salad of 'Mme. Saleron'.) But the memory of that rose is strong enough to make me buy it, if ever I came across it in a nursery.
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#3 of 3 posted
22 NOV 20 by
HubertG
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I had to use up a nursery gift voucher and today I bought a standard 'Camp David' largely because of the recommendations here. It had one flower on it in the nursery and I can't agree it has no fragrance. To my nose it has a moderate fragrance but a very nice one. That was the clincher. It does have blackish shading but that really appealed to me.
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10 APR 06 by
DAVID
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Hi, I am going to give Camp David a rap, I am in the process of ordering 240 of them as a rose avenue to the entrance to a cellar door(winery). I used to work in the rose industry, and thought that Papa Meilland would be better choice, On intenive research I found it had better characteristics than any other red for my purpose. It is om Rosa multiflora stock which is more universal. They are to grown in Mudgee NSW. David.
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I have to agree with SteveinAus and David Mears. It's a very good garden rose, very healthy without spraying. I grow it here in Sydney Australia where Blackspot is a major problem. Unfortunatly it has virtually no fragrance which is possibly the reason why it's not as popular as other reds.
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They should do well in Mudgee, David.
I recall visiting a more-or-less abandoned nursery with their old catalogue in 2003 and finding 'Camp David', unwatered for years, but still looking great. The small round bed of red roses was surrounded by a variegated Pelagonium, apparently ‘Mme. Salleron’, Lemoine, 1840 and the combination looked good. I took cuttings of both rose and the pelagonium, but unfortunately only the pelagonium grew for me. Eventually I edged a bed or two with it, until the rabbits and/or the ducks developed a craving for 'Mme. Salleron'. I have strong memories of the 'Camp David' I have never grown.
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