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'Prospero ®' rose Reviews & Comments
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Available from - Heirloom Roses, Inc. 24062 NE Riverside Drive St. Paul, Oregon 97137 info@heirloomroses.com
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Available from - Heirloom Roses, Inc. 24062 NE Riverside Drive St. Paul, Oregon 97137 infoatheirloomroses.com
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25 FEB 04 by
Anonymous-797
Prospero has been described as a well manored, short growing shrub, perfect for the small garden. Not so. The specimen a grew towered over my head with ironlike, stiff upright canes! The color was pleasing, but deadheading was definitely necessary or the spent blossoms just just remained perched in place. It also lacked the fragrance (or was faint) often described. It is not a rose for the small garden. I eventually pegged the canes to the ground, which forced additional side shoots, but even these grew at least five feet in the air.
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10 JAN 06 by
Anonymous-797
Dear Anonymous (25 Feb 2004) Your rose was most likely not Prospero. Perhaps your rootstock (perhaps Dr. Huey) overtook your plant. It may be that you got an entirely different rose!
Prospero is a short and fragrant grower, even in my warm climate (California).
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I must agree that the plant is probably mislabeled. I have bought a few Austins over the years that turned out to be the wrong plant. I'm not sure how this happens, but it does. For example, I purchased a plant of Tamora for my mother and it turned out to be The Squire. How I was foolish enough not to notice all the prickles on the plant named Tamora, I cannot remember, but the bareroot bush was labeled Tamora.
Anyway, Prospero is a very restrained grower. The plant described at the beginning of this thread is NOT Prospero.
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This rose has been doing quite well in my garden on the southern tip of Vancouver Island without much pampering. It is said to lack in vigour but I can't complain. It keeps repeating for me all Summer long. The colour is quite stunning. More purplish pink than true red. It is a compact shrub, maybe 3 feet tall, the blooms have a nice fragrance.
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Prospero is a short but constantly producing fragrant purple antique rose factory in LA.
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