[NAFEX] off topic: roses

Ginda Fisher list at ginda.us
Thu Jun 14 20:21:52 EDT 2007


On Jun 14, 2007, at 12:31 AM, drosehngs1 at juno.com wrote:

>
> I have some questions on japanese beetle eradication/usage, if I may.
> As I'm considering growing old garden roses

Well, as long as the topic of roses has come up. . .  I have a rose  
bush my uncle gave me.  He got it at a local nursery, where it was  
labeled as coming from Jacksons and Perkins.  It was a "scentsation",  
which has red & white striped blossoms with a pleasant scent.  The  
first year I planted it we had an unusually cold winter, and I  
thought it died.  It has slowly come back, and I can't tell whether  
it has grown back from above or below the graft.  This year it has  
bloomed - a red blossom, with about the same form as "scentsation".   
I don't notice much scent, but was disappointed with the scent of the  
plant before it died back, too.

The blossom certainly looks like it could have been intentionally  
selected - it's not a wild rose by any means.  But it doesn't look  
like it's supposed to.  Could I have a bud mutation (losing the  
stripes) from the cold?  Does J&P use a red-blossomed rose for its  
rootstock?

Nothing in particular rides on the answer, but I'm curious.

thanks,
Ginda



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