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'Perfecta' rose Reviews & Comments
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14 MAR 13 by
 goncmg
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For close to 40 years I have had an endless love/hate dance with this rose in both Chico, CA (9b) and Columbus, OH (6a). When Kordes Perfecta is spot-on, and it does occur randomly, it can be the most beautiful rose you have ever seen---perfect spiraled high center blooms that must be 6 inches across and nearly as high. The foliage is dark green, very glossy and handsome. But when KP gets it "wrong" it can be downright UGLY: bloom buds that appear mis-shapen (some of these even open to a great bloom, but most do not), endless vegative centers, blackspot in humid climates, tender when measured against most Kordes bred roses, like its parent "Spek's Yellow/Golden Scepter" the stems can be willowy and often cannot hold the bloom or the pannicle upright (KP will throw those 20 bloom basals a few times a year).Sparse foliage. And the thorns are prohibitve. But again, when it gets it right it gets it so right you will never look at Gemini or Signature or Rose Gaujard or Headliner and so on ever again the same way......but KP can be so frustratingly random it would probably be my recommendation it be taken into a garden with a "hope for the best, expect a lot less" attitude and one that I would tell someone with limited space, or a new grower, to pass on......
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16 MAR 13 by
Kebun
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Absolutely spot-on, your experiences mirror that of mine. Twenty-plus years ago when I was a late teen living with my parents and just starting out growing roses, I had a Kordes Perfecta and Princess De Monaco purchased for their beautiful white & pink shades. PDM was a no-brainer to maintain and repeat-bloomed wonderfully year after year, KP bloomed haphazardly for maybe 2 years then died but it was a most interesting rose to grow despite misshapen buds and being a BS/PM magnet. After reading your review, I can feel another KP soon to find its way into my garden in the very near-future
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16 MAR 13 by
goncmg
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Kebun, I have that same feeling coming on! My most recent experience was 2007-10. First two years it almost changed my mind about its erratic behavior it was that well-behaved and that lovely. Then it stopped putting out significant new growth so it looked boney, thorny, ugly, and of course the blooming was limited and here came those square, squashed vegative buds....sigh......by the 4th year it was so far behind its peers I trashed it.....think I am ready for another go at it, though!
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28 OCT 08 by
Sarah
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Kordes Perfecta hates, hates, HATES the shade, or at least mine does! I had it in partial shade/dappled sunlight, like all of my roses, and it was giving me sparse, blunt-nosed, dull, unattractive blooms. I just recently moved it to a spot where it gets full sun for most of the day, and it now has three opening buds (at once! Unheard-of before I moved it!) that have great shape and color. Nothing else about the care it was receiving changed.
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This is my alltime favorite hybrid tea. Before you buy "Gemini" or "Secret" or other modern roses of this color pattern, try a Kordes Perfecta. Its big, lush, superbly formed blooms just cannot be bettered; for one thing, it has more petals than either of the other two, and is larger and rounder in bloom. It will get a little blackspot in humid summers, , but not enough to do great harm; it's always been an attractive bush for me.
Do make sure you get a good husky plant, as there are some fairly wimpy ones out there. And then
_don't give it chemical fertilizer_. People who say
this rose has dwindled with time are forgetting that they're mostly not using the fertilizer of the era in which it was bred: good ol' composted black cow.
Get an old book on roses, something from the '30s or '40s, perhaps; it'll tell ya how to keep older roses looking great.
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This rose is a black spot magnet. I dont even know what it looks like with leaves as they fall off the minute you look at it. Ive sprayed and its sneered at me. I am giving it this year to clean up its act or its getting SP'd. It infects every other rose in the bed as well. Im not happy with this rose!!! :?(
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20 FEB 07 by
digger
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It is a shame KP is like that for you. It points out the importance of people from different regions commenting on roses. Someone from your area would shoot me if they got KP based on my comments.
Dave
South central Montana - zone 4/5
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You right on the money Dave. HMF needs people from different regions and climates to share their experience.
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