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'Madame Hardy' rose Reviews & Comments
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13 DEC 23 by
 Margaret Furness
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I assume this rose would sucker if grown on its own roots?
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13 DEC 23 by
Lee H.
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Mine does a bit, but not nearly as much as many OGR’s. After three years, mine still has a very compact footprint, and I never have to dig any long suckers out. Whereas if I were to allow say, Tuscany Superb or Konigin von Danemark their head, they wouldn’t be happy until they had evicted every other rose from the garden.
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13 DEC 23 by
Margaret Furness
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Thank you - sounds like it's worth risking.
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#3 of 3 posted
13 DEC 23 by
Nastarana
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Not at all for me when I had it.
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27 NOV 22 by
pabloo120
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Seeing the green button in the flower, I understand that it can't set seeds... But does it have fertile pollen?
This would seem such an interesting rose to breed from! But i have heard of it's sterility.
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28 NOV 22 by
Lee H.
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Alas, the button eye comprises all the reproductive parts. There are no anthers or pollen.
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28 NOV 22 by
pabloo120
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Such a shame that a glorious rose like this one can't give its genes to a new rose. At least we can enjoy the rose itself!
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4 OCT 22 by
Lee H.
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Just an observation from this summer: my 2nd year plant was over 9 ft tall, and I pruned it rather hard after flowering back to approx. 3 ft. It did not like that at all. It dropped almost all its remaining leaves, and perhaps half the canes died. I began watering it profusely and it did slowly respond, but now at the end of the growing season, it has very little new growth, and I’m doubting survival over the winter.
Update August 2023: Madame did survive the 2022 - 23 winter, but emerged late in the spring, and showed no interest in blooming. However, by late June she was growing vigorously, and throwing up new basal canes. So my new “pruning” regimen is pegging the longest canes, and making weekly snips wherever needed to keep her in bounds. Oh, the things we do for love of a rose!
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6 OCT 22 by
HMF Admin
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Thank you for sharing your experience - that's what HMF is all about.
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7 NOV 20 by
Viviane SCHUSSELE
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Peut-être Félicité, épouse de Julien-Alexandre Hardy 1787 -1876 obtenteur et chef jardinier du jardin du Luxembourg
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