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'Sunburst' rose Reviews & Comments
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I've been informed that Fabian Ducher sells this rose
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How can such an important rose, having eight thousand decendants, disappear from gardens and commerce? I wonder.
Has anyone of the senior HMF members seen this rose or knows someone who has?
And has anyone an explanation as to why this rose has perished, unnoticed?
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I have a vague memory that hmf lists 60,000 rose cultivars.
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Yes, I do realize there is a huge number of roses, but most of them don't even have any progeny. I click on the "descendants by generation" button on HMF a lot and I've learned that 8000 descendants means this rose must have been one of the good ones.
I'm curious as to why it perished; not enough frost hardiness, better roses amongst its own progeny, over-propagated and sickly plant, now that's just me phantasizing, but still, it's a serious question: why? I thought maybe someone had seen Sunburst "in person" and could shed some light on it.
From the old pictures, it looks a gorgeous rose.
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#3 of 4 posted
13 OCT 14 by
Jane Z
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Have you read all the reference pages? the comments from H R Darlington in 1921 are informative
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With 8000 descendants there is a good chance that quite a few of them are better than the original, such is the nature of breeding...
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