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'Quietness' rose Reviews & Comments
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Heirloom Roses lists Quietness as zones 4-10.
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Quietness would seem to have potential for the EarthKind designation, does anyone know if it is in any trials?
The only issue we've seen here is variability in the vigor of the individual plants when grown own-root. Our original shrub is 5X5 and if we get behind on pruning it shoots up to 7 or 8 feet! However two later orders in two different beds produced plants which never built any size and did not bloom much.
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I found on Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden site a listing for 115 top roses in 2010. Quietness score a 8.55 which placed it 20th out of the 115, first was won by (Easter Basket scoring 9.25) with Double Knockout 9.1
http://www.nybg.org/gardens/rose-garden/performers-2010.php
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I got mine--a big healthy specimen-- three years ago form an excellent own root nursery then in business in Michigan. The first two years, to my disappointment, it go black spot big time, although, yes, when it bloomed, it had a pleasant scent and many petaled flowers. In its third year, it seemed to come more into its own; it had very little black spot and seemed to perform relatively well, throwing off three or four nice blooms each long awaited cycle--although nowhere near to all the hype. Planted near to it all three years was a better rose, in my opinion, Pretty Lady, a lovely blooming machine, which each year put it to shame.
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Pretty Lady here in southern Ohio opened much too quickly and faded badly. Too much heat here.
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6 MAY 15 by
MichaelG
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Regarding blackspot resistance, this is one of the roses that can be spotty or not depending on which races of blackspot you have in the garden. My Quietness was disease-free without fungicide for some years but then caught a strain of BS that is able to infect it. So, I started spraying mine. It is still worth trying in no-spray gardens because of its many excellent virtues.
-outstanding plant habit as a 5' shrub--dense with no flopping or rogue canes.
-outstanding repeat bloom compared to some other large roses.
-outstanding flower with good vase life, decent fragrance to my nose, and resistance to botrytis blight & thrips
(NC mountains).
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Here in the mountains of Arizona Z7b I have planted it where it gets four hours of direct, bright sunlight per day. It has grown steadily in its two seasons here. It puts out two good flushes of bloom per year - making it more reliable than most of the hybrid tea roses that are a year older and growing in full sunlight. It has proven resistant to disease, not succumbing to a brief but fairly widespread wave of powdery mildew that swept the garden after an exceptionally wet monsoon season. This is not a rose I would be inclined to rave about; but it is also not the kind of rose against which I could level any serious complaints.
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