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This rose is absolutely beautiful! Very fragrant also. I have been told by others that it reminds them of Pristine, not lasting long. I love everything about it at this point, I will really be able to tell when it has it's second season in the garden.
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Thanks for sharing - do you have a photo ?
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28 SEP 07 by
wordycat
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I don't have a photo yet but will send one as soon as I can. My statement of it being said it doesn't last long, I hope will be untrue as it's parents Marilyn Monroe and Moonstoone are both very longlasting flowers in the garden and in the vase.
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29 JAN 11 by
smilam
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I am removing Falling in Love from my garden this year, I have had it in the rose garden for 4 full years. The bud, and first opening of the bud are beautiful, however it's bloom is not lasting unless immediately cut and brought inside. It also has very large and very prolific thorns, which I find very unattractive, which becomes a problem if you wish to use it as a cut flower. I also do not find it at all disease resistant. I live in zone 9.
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That is exactly why I never bought it. Its parent, Marilyn Monroe, has some nasty thorns, but theyre not quite as dangerous, and the color/form is exquisite and rare. Falling in Love is a more typical color, with a dangerous plant. I'll stick to Sheer Elegance, Renaissance, and Touch of Class for pink HTs, until something better for my climate comes along.
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1 FEB 11 by
smilam
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I would like to find the ratings of thorns on specific roses. Is there such a thing? I just removed "Falling In Love" because the thorns are really vicious and have gauged too many in my family.
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3 FEB 11 by
CarolynB
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I would like to see something like that, too.
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Yes, you can do an ADVANCED SEARCH on HMF to find out if a rose is armed with thorns/ prickles. Please remember that this information usually comes to us from site user COMMENTS. Rose literature may say a particular class is armed with prickles, but there are always exceptions. Nursery catalogs and websites don't really mention this habit because the catalogs and websites are their marketing tools, so your experience is very important to HMF.
Keeping this in mind, here is how you can do an ADVANCED SEARCH for this plant characteristic:
1. Click ADVANCED SEARCH on the navigation bar to the left
2. Click HABIT
3. Click ARMED WITH THORNS / PRICKLES
4. Click CONTINUE
5. Click SEARCH
I found 72 "pages" in my SEARCH.
You can narrow your search if you are a HMF premium-member, in that you can select more category information. For example, you may only be interested in hybrid teas and floribundas. In that case after clicking CONTINUE above, you would click CLASS and check the boxes for hybrid teas and floribundas, click CONTINUE and then click SEARCH.
Smiles,
Lyn
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14 FEB 07 by
smilam
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Your link to the Nova Scotia Agricultural College disease resistance is not working. I searched nsac and they must have taken the study off of their site.
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14 FEB 07 by
 Cass
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You're right. I couldn't find it either. The link has been removed, probably out of date.
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14 FEB 07 by
smilam
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Is there a name or description for the petals of a rose with the habit of curling back away from the center when they are opened? I am not fond of this trait, but it is hard to weed out in searches, since I have never seen it mentioned in the descriptions of roses.
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