Has anyone tried to grow Maigold from cuttings, on own roots? My old bush started declining and i'd like to save the cultivar itself for that rather short but lovely display and the magnificent scent. Just would like to know if it grows well on own roots in zone 6-7 (well i guess i'm gonna make cuttings anyway just would be good to know of some experiences :) )
My seven or eight year old 'Maigold' is on its own roots. I'm in zone 6. It has not become a climber and stays around 4'. It is healthy and is one of the first to flower.
Oh thank you for the info - i'll defintely try to make some cuttings and maybe plant in another location where it doesn't need to be that tall - mine is about 12 feel tall altough the zone is more around 7 - might grow taller anyway
Does best in part shade. Actually tolerates a lot of shadow and pressure by neighbouring high bushes like hazel. Keeps the golden colour of her flowers best in part shade and has a good second flush in autumn.
To take off, when planted on a shady spot, this rose needs some time. But when maturing, I must admit, that the colour is staying perfect for days in the (partial) shade.
My Maigold bush is on a rather northern fence wall (2 metres/6-7feet tall) receives sun above that, around half a day. True that it holds colour and flower in general better because of this but the plant itself doesn't really like it, gives its best above the fence - thank god it's around 4 metres/12-13feet tall. Looks pretty amazing in Spring - one of the first ones to flower, and probably the strongest scent among all my bigger bushes, much stronger than Mme Isaac Pereire that i can only smell when smelling the flower itself. Sadly Maigold repeats only occasionally.
Hi Nate, I pruned my Maigold yesterday and I found just one brown hip Ø 1cm on it. It contained 3 round seeds. Without further (cold) treatment I sowed them in a sowing medium with extra vermiculite.
Thanks Jay-Jay, good luck with the seeds germinating! Mostly I was interested in the ornamental display of the hips for my designs. I like to use 'four seasons' roses that are drought resistant (I think Maigold is drought resistant). I'm THINKING about breeding roses but probably won't get to it for a while.
I don't see the plant down here in Los Angeles tho I have a great liking for it, it grew in a garden I worked at in Mendocino, on the northern California coast, much cooler and wetter than down here.
Did You think of the Chestnut rose or the double variety? Or Splendens (Gallica), Scharlachglut, (Moyesii) Geranium? Heinrich Conrad Söth gives sprays of small hips. And all these roses are standing at dry spots at my place. Maybe some of the Spinosissima-Hybrids.
That Splendens is amazing, exactly the sort of plant I'm after. Often the northern roses don't do well in L. A. though, leading me to search for the ones which are heat-resistant. As you know, usually these show resistance to heat scorch and/or maintain flower size in heat. Examples (from my online research, not personal experience) include 'Darlow's Enigma', Leander, Louise Odier'. (If I'm wrong I want to know too!!)
Louise Odier stands at a very dry spot at my place in summer under the big oaks, does well and produces some, but not many hips. Maybe You would like Little Gem: Produces a lot of very prickly hips and does well at that same very dry spot. The other roses You mentioned, I'm not acquainted to.
I haven't grown Splendens, but some of the Gallicas need winter chill to flower well. It would be worth asking rose-growers in your area (especially a heritage roses group) for recommendations.
I didn't realize that Margaret and Nate, but past winters were very warm over here and last winter (2014/2015) no frost during the day.... But it flowered last season like mad and produced a lot of hips that stayed the whole winter (2015/2016) until I pruned the plant yesterday. Some of them turned black, some stayed red.
What I do is keep a database and flag those cvs that are desiccation tolerant e. g. R. gallica 'Splendens', but I wouldn't use the plant unless I found data that it was heat resistant as well...
I've been working on it part-time for the past 5 years--starting with the Teas, which, from Robert Mattock's roses study on the island of Ibiza, it turns out aren't as drought resistant as some other types of roses. Now I'm looking at Bourbons. N
But never seen any hips on it in my garden, but almost never without a flower and a very good old-rose scent. Flowers are suited for drying and keep color and scent for over a year.
You wrote "...anything else." Is this maybe something? Not available in the USA until now and not much known about heat tolerance, but Moonlight is a great OP-"hip-factory"! Hips are big, round, decorative, most of the time they come in big sprays See: http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.40999.1&tab=1 ...and my photo's for this rose on 2015-11-12. Not only suited as a climber, but also as a free standing tall arching shrub.
