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Did Crépuscule survive Your winters? Or is it a young plant?
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Hi Jay-Jay, this is a two-year old plant. I got it from the nursery as something else entirely, so I had to relocate it last year to a sunny place. It survived the hard winter of 2012/13 well; 2013/14 was very mild. No frost damage at all on this one. I realize the Noisettes are considered not very frost-hardy, but with this one it seemed no problem. Of course Hamburg is not entirely arctic.
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#2 of 8 posted
29 MAY 14 by
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Mine (already big) died that harsh late starting winter with bare frosts and lots of bright sunlight.
See: http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.196529 (and next comment, for it is impossible to upload more than one link in one comment)
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#3 of 8 posted
29 MAY 14 by
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The rose was even bigger than this: http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.172341 in january 2012
Margaret Furness posted some photo's of a beautiful giant bush.
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That's tragic ... such a beautiful rose!
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#5 of 8 posted
30 MAY 14 by
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I grafted some new ones.
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Crepuscule does very well in a warm climate, and is, I think, among the best-known old roses among non-heritage-rose people here. Possibly because a long hedge of it at Flemington racecourse is spectacular at the time of Australia's most watched horse race, the Melbourne Cup.
Mine is own-root, as are all my Teas, Noisettes, Chinas and Polyanthas. They're more resilient to drought, fire and whipper-snippers that way.
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#7 of 8 posted
30 MAY 14 by
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That slang word, I had to look up. It's some garden grassmowing-machine.
When the grafts survive, I'll root some cuttings of it to try out.
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Sorry! It's a hand-held machine, usually petrol-powered and noisy, which uses (I think) fishing wire to trim grass. What it cuts depends on the carefulness of the user.
I don't grow on their own roots any roses which have the ability to sucker.
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