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'Pink Parfait' rose Reviews & Comments
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In my garden this is actually proving to be well-scented, at least in these moderately warm and windless late summer days. The scent type is close (not identical) to that of another (rather obscure) rose I grow, which smells like honeydew honey. The fragrance is similar, but more earthy on Pink Parfait, with a touch of cannabis!
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PINK PARFAIT is simply one of the BEST ROSES OF ALL TIME. This rose truly is a delight to grow. It is so easy and effortless. It always gives back to you. The blooms are smaller in size [floribunda] but the form is up there with the best of the classic hybrid teas. Tidy plant, glossy green foliage, cold hardy, rapid repeat bloomer, constant exhibition winner, wonderful scent, and just a pleasure. It is PINK. Basically, Tiffany is the Pink Hybrid Tea, and Pink Parfait is the PINK Grandiflora. This rose is for everyone from beginners to experts.
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Hardiness to 4b? I very much doubt it, even if a municipal garden in Quebec claims to be growing it.
'Pinocchio' did not survive my zone 5a winter and I doubt that 'First Love', HT from 1950, would have added hardiness genes.
I imagine it must be very nice indeed in a warm climate. Does it resist BS, or do you have to spray?
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No BS issues at all. I only spray for thrips in the spring.
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25 MAR 12 by
 goncmg
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After 50+ years this one is still a winner, more amazing because it is PINK and pink roses are a dime a dozen. Per the past threads over its CLASS, yes, I agree, this one is tough to pigeon-hole. It reminds me of LITTLE DARLING inasmuchas the blooms themselves are small, absolutely the bloom size is in the FL class. But the FORM is very formal in the early stage although with Parfait quickly they open like smashed stars----flat and quilled. The plant is HUGE, here in Columbus 6a both in my garden and at The Park of Roses the plants get to 6 or 7 feet in a summer. Like a FL the blooms are rarely single, almost always in small clusters and often in huge pannicles. Seems that ALL classifications are being thrown to the wind and maybe they should be because there are some amazing roses out there that defy any defined class. A shrub? A pillar? GR? FL? Pink Parfait could be any of these arguably. The plant is HAPPY and BLOOMS LIKE MAD. The color really is an ice cream pink blend, the name is perfect. If this one has caught your eye and you have some space even in the northern climates, oh absolutely give it a try. This one is SOLID.
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17 JUN 10 by
kev
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they can also be ht's as well.The best way to think of it is that it is a rose where one parent side is hybrid tea and the other is a floribunda.I like David ruston veiw them as being either floribunda or ht depending on whether they are mainly blooming like a ht or floribunda. it is simpler and i believe more correct as their origins are the same.a great example of this is Buccaneer.One would never find a rose that is as much a floribunda as this one is.But swim and others say it is a grandiflora because of parentage.never mind that both parents have clusters.but in mmy mind and davids having grown it for well over forty yrs it is a flori,a climber and or a shrub as it is such a vigorous grower and has very large bloooms up to 5" across and in clusters of up six blooms.pink parfait is another example it is a low grower and my 6 bushes have clusters of bloomse 3"dia but with up to 90 blooms on in a cluster.this always accurrs in autumn when i have manured them.the heads actually can be so heavy as to bend down to the ground.
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