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'Touch of Venus' rose Reviews & Comments
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10 APR 24 by
ksinGA
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The pictures just don't do this one justice. The blooms are so charming, and fragrance is so sweet. Plant along a pathway so you can enjoy the beautiful fragrance!
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today by
 goncmg
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Mine has been a train wreck until this spring! In December I actually held the 4 year old own root “worthless” plant over the trash can and was soooooo close to just dumping it! It had given me a few “nice” blooms but just wouldn’t do anything. Wouldn’t grow. Just wouldn’t respond to my care and effort. Thennnnnnnn thisssss spring happened! I’ve never seen blooms like this! I’ve never seen so many blooms! and it’s finally throwing fat basal breaks! I don’t know what has gone on down here, it looks like you are in Georgia and I’m on Amelia Island, but whatever transpired here has made it so happy!
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What am I not seeing about this parentage:
Garden Party (hybrid tea, Swim, 1959) × Sweet Afton (hybrid tea, Armstrong & Swim, 1964). - Reference
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['Fandango' x ('World's Fair' x 'Floradora')] x 'Chrysler Imperial'. - Patent
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24 MAR 23 by
goncmg
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It HAS to be Garden Party and Sweet Afton it looks just like both of them. If the other parentage is from an early 1970’s ARS annual well, lots of errors in those. …….Touch of Venus smells like cheap Pond’s Cold Cream and that is not a bad thing. What IS a bad thing is that it is weaker than either parent, very weedy. Armstrong had a real knack for the wiry and weedy it’s a signature in their later mid-century releases (Lemon Spice, Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, so many more). It has a higher centered bloom than either parent. It has weirdly small foliage.
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