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Your Ahola has nice deep pink color. How do you like Ahola compared to Abraham Darby? I saw Abraham Darby as beige at the rose park (alkaline clay) .. so I hope Ahola's color is deeper pink. Abraham Darby scent is too sharp for my liking. How is Ahola's scent? Thank you.
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31 MAY 16 by
 Jay-Jay
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Abraham Darby has many faces as for color. Not only the pH of the soil is decisive, but the amount of sunlight, temperature, season etc too.
It can be a beige blend, but also be a lush pink blend with orange and yellow and other. See the variation in the photo's.
The scent varies too and often contains citrus notes.
As for Aloha, it can vary in color from brick-red, via salmon to hard pink. You can see that variation too in the photo's. It also shows some yellow in the center at the base of the petals.
The scent varies too. And I have a hunch that might be to due to humidity, temperatures and season.
It varies from (in my modest opinion "stinky chemical") apple-scent, like New Dawn... to lush old-rose with a citrus note.
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Jay-jay: Thank you for the info. Your Ahola is very nice ... you fertilize that well. I'm checking with Burlington nursery if Ahola is available this month. Agree with you on the sharp chemical apple-scent. My Francis Blaise had that myrrh & green apple scent, and I don't miss it when it died over my winter.
I lost so many roses in my zone 5a winter, that I only plant Austin roses, or vigorous climbers (hardy to zone 5), or old garden roses (hardy to zone 5). There are a few zone 6b roses that can be planted right next to the house like Stephen Big Purple, which survived many winters. The dark green and glossy leaves like my dolomitic clay (high in magnesium & calcium, with pH near 8). My tap water pH is near 9, so I have many rain-barrels to collect rain water at pH 5.6.
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