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'Blossomtime' rose Reviews & Comments
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This plant has over the space of 5 years (with 3 years in establishment phase) grown to a 2 m x 2m tree like shrub, able to support itself. Produces abundant hips, and is drought proof after establishment. In country QLD, zone 9b. At 5 years old it puts on a magnificent display regularly with deadheading, and produces a gorgeous sweet rose scent and carpet of petals beneath. Thick, rigid canes.
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This is quickly becoming one of my favourite roses. A bare root plant potted in a 20 litre container in the winter gave me 28 blooms the following spring, of such perfect quartered formation (with reflexing petals), as to give any Souvenir de la Malmaison a run for its money. The colour is a classy shade of pink, and the scent very sweet, strong, and addictive, like face cream with a hint of tea. Does it always perform this well in this country, or is it a fluke due to this year's perfect weather? And if it is such an outstanding performer (we'll see about remontancy, I guess) why is this rose so obscure on this side of the Atlantic?
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#1 of 2 posted
12 JAN 21 by
 Magnus95
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May I ask how well this rose climbs for you? i'm thinking of training it against a fence
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13 JAN 21 by
Hamanasu
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Hello. I have it in a 20 litre pot, so my conditions control the growth more than an open ground location would. With that proviso, it has grown fairly tall in one season (I have had it for almost exactly one year). I have trained/wound it around three tall bamboo canes tied at the top to form an obelisk about 190cm high. The rose now covers about 2/3 of it. So I'd say it climbs, but quite gently, it is not a rampant grower and it hasn't thrown up any massive canes (at least in its first year, and in a pot). Incidentally, it would still have some unopened blooms on it if I hadn't pruned them off in December.
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The plant grew slowly for me. The flowers were small, well formed, and had little scent. It was not particularly disease resistant; the plant seemed to sprawl. I've since parted with it.
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Blossomtime is one of my 3 "desert island" roses if I could only have three. Presently growing it in Richmond, VA. When it was introduced shortly after WW2, it was listed as a Climber but quickly fell out of favor because it didn't climb. It is better grown as a free standing shrub. I find it to be very healthy, after the first flush always gives you blooms and when they open up have that full look and remain that way a descent time.and in fact I have one bud (frozen) on the bush now and it is mid December. Reminds me of Radiance in its two-toned pink blossom but has a higher center. This was one of the early New Dawn crosses after WW2 and one of the best in my opinion.
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