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Based on the code, pollen parent is Oh My!, which I think is best red Florrie out there now.
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And plausibly Grand Dame, considering the codename, form, and slightly larger bloom size.
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I think Milano Kolorscape is the best red flori out there, but it never picked up steam. After a few years, it will produce sprays like Lavaglut, but without the blackspot and insane prickles. Roughly the same size plant and similar trusses of blooms. Its dark red but not black-red. It takes about 3 years until it produces those consistently.
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Except the know nothings at Kordes registered Milano as a shrub, not a florrie. So that means it competes with a whole separate set. Does it bloom enough? I tend to see only two good bloom cycles per year on my Kordes group, versus four or more with Weeks and Star good varieties. I suspect Kordes prioritizes disease resistance over bloomiferousness. I would rather have the blooms.
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Yikes. Listed flori online, but I no longer own those ars combined manuals. That's so sad. It has the exact same architecture as Princess of Wales.
Yikes, found it... www.modernroses.org/details.php?cultivar=2039
Depressing.
Milano is an everbloomer. It's not one of their giants. It is healthy, but should not be in the Kolorscape group. It's just a little flori guy.
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At what point did the Koster line develop ball-shaped blooms? There are no photos of some between D. Koster and the original rose of this lineage. The ball-shape is definitely unique.
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I have also seen a similar change in an (alleged) sport. Some years ago, I bought a body bag of 'Royal America', sport of 'America'. I was at the time also growing the sport parent. RA showed growth and habit identical to 'America', but the cream colored flowers opened in a kind of globular, cup shape, not at all like the flatter 'America'.
RA is no longer in commerce, which is a pity, because I found it an excellent pillar type rose. I think the sport may have been found by a wholesale company, which propagated and sold it for as long as the patent lasted.
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I grew Margo Koster and Mother's Day when roses were new to me as a teenager. If they didn't powdery mildew so bad, I'd consider one again. They ARE cute, and the little ball blooms are funny to look at in a good way. I think my MK was virused because then no one cared about cleaning up root stock, although maybe virus free are out there now.
I saw a pure gold sport of Chris Evert at Washington Park for years, but could not ask for cuttings as it was still in commerce. Its gone now though :(
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As a joke, I once dipped the cut end of a spray of Sneprincesse (the white sport in this line) in blue dye to dye the white blooms light blue and showed it at our County Fair in the “unregistered/unknown” class under the name Blue Balls. The local retail nursery then had a stream of people come in and ask to buy it.
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That's absolutely amazing.
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She’s a real mildew magnet in San Diego.
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Available from Hirts Gardens
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It's plausibly a rename of an older mini. Greenhart did this to many miniatures did this, but now they only list Sunblaze. They went through and gave classic minis gem names for some bizarre reason. Like maybe its a renamed Saville yellow mini?
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