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'Gingersnap' rose Reviews & Comments
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12 APR 15 by
Kit
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RIP - shovel pruned due to irremediable rusting. Uniquely though often funkily colored, it wasn't worth the space or trouble as a landscape plant. Final pix are posted.
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Its quadruple linebred from Fashion, which has been an epicenter for passing on rust in roses from 1960 to 2000.
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5 APR 13 by
BamaPC
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I have two Gingersnaps in my Zone 7 garden. They are always the first to bloom and the last to bloom…and that’s about it for Gingersnap. I barely get any blooms during the hot, humid summer months. They try to completely defoliate every summer no matter how much I spray. They have no fragrance whatsoever to me. The bushes stay about 2 feet tall with few canes. Every summer I swear I’m going to replace them with something better…and then comes their fall flush to remind me of why I keep these troublesome roses. There really is no other rose I’ve found with the beautiful orange coloring of this one…
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14 OCT 12 by
 goncmg
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About as orange as it gets, 40 years into its commercial life and still around and in my opinion it is all because of that amazing color. The plant needs to be pampered in my opinion---rather tender (I grew it in 6a/Columbus)....tended to grow lop-sided.....absolutely one of the worst for blackspot so anyone in a climate with any sort of moisture in the air, beware/heads-up....there just aren't a lot of roses with this deep, mid-orange, deeply saturated color, it is truly unique and I believe it stands alone....but a challenge to grow in my experience............
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It was required I put this in my first garden. My mother's nickname was "Ginger" and she adored that color...for the twenty minutes it lasted in each flower in the heat and blazing sun, before it faded to dirty dishwater. It took several of them before we both gave up. Stunted, runt plants; rather "arthritic" looking with an absolute addiction to rust and black spot. A terrible enough plant in that climate that it taught me to avoid most roses bred from it. Glorious color? Yes, for the very little while it lasted.
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15 OCT 12 by
goncmg
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Kim, I love your comments. Oh gosh around 1990 I had 3 seedlings Olympiad x Gingersnap.........they pretty much, color wise, turned out exactly how I wanted and they all took after Olympiad with plant size/shape....one was electric cherry red with yellow-orange reverse, had one that was even cherry red but glowed-neon-unique....the 3rd was hot pink lit up with orange tones and again, glowed and their form was pretty nice and the substance was pretty solid but yes, especially the hot pink one did fade cruddy and muddy....oh I was so happy....for about 2 months..........besides the fade each and every onealso inherited STRENGTH and DISEASE resistance from Daddy Gingersnap....I think, lol, one somehow got blackspot in the house while still in the seed bed---only 1/2 joking here.....incredibly sick....and incredibly tender...they winter killed with mulch during a not notable Ohio winter and that was that..................
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I was looking for a "pure" orange rose (same color with the peel of an orange) throughout the previous season and based on some photos I think I finally found it on this one.
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I know this was an old post, but if you are still interested in orange floribundas I would highly recommend Vavoom. It is as pure orange as they get.
John
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