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'Golden Threshold ™' rose Reviews & Comments
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I just posted two pics of this rose, one of it's wicked thorns, and another of it's huge hips. It has the larges hips I've seen on a rose other than the chestnut rose. The new canes this year were thick, stiff and untrainable, but I am going to bend them down as much as I can without breaking them off so they bloom along their length next year. This rose should be planted where it can grow unchecked and unpruned into a huge natural shaped bush. I have just such a place in the backyard where it can fill in around the base of a tree I have Kiftsgate slowly climbing up.
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Great pics Bob. How is disease resistance for you there? Thanks, Robert
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It has been very disease resistant, surprisingly, given that is a Golden Showers kid, and that one turned black from blackspot and finally died when I grew it in Pennsylvania. Golden Threshold has been very resistant and it has two blackspot prone roses growing intertwined among its canes, Eden and The Alchymist, both of which got a good amount of blackspot this year but seem to have been unable to pass on a heavy infection to Golden Threshold, though it showed a few speckles here and there, but nothing of real note. If something is prone to blackspot, it wil be apparent very soon in my garden, as I do no spraying and just let disease pick the best roses out of all the ones I try. About one in four or five turn out to be superior roses for organic growing, even with all the hours of research I do before plunking money down on a new rose to try.
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Sounds great. Judging from those hips it might make a good seed parent too. Healthy yellows are always welcome. Thanks Bob. Robert
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#4 of 9 posted
12 SEP 08 by
Gene Jax
Does it repeat for you in Virginia?
I have two of Golden Threshold, but neither has yet bloomed for me.
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No repeat seen here, but I did not deadhead it. It is adjacent to Crepuscule, Meidiland Alba, Eden, Secret Garden Musk, Lavender Lassie, The Generous Gardener and Souvenir de Madame Leonie Viennot, and I'm kind of hoping the bees crossed some of them with her for me, as it is covered now in huge ripening hips and I'm more excited to plant those seeds than anticipating rebloom. I have enough rebloomers around that others that do not for one reason or another are OK with me. I've gotten some very cool things from open pollinated hips before.
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#7 of 9 posted
16 SEP 08 by
Gene Jax
I have emailed Girija and Viru Viraraghavan. Because of its incredible vigor and size, they think it is a rose for connoisseurs who have space. They say regarding rebloom on Golden Threshold:
"Golden Threshold flowers on one-year old wood so there will be no flowers the first year. From the second year onwards there will be flowering provided pruning is done correctly, i.e., retaining all healthy old wood. It is also important to train the plant properly, bending over the long shoots to as horizontal a position as possible. In Kodaikanal mature plants flower periodically throughout the year."
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Mine hasn't bloomed yet either Gene but then my climate isn't the best for gigantea and it's hybrids. I've got my fingers crossed for next Spring. My specimen is already two years old.
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Thank you for sharing the good quality pictures! However, those prickles are far from wicked. The picture you shared looks fairly average and expected. Great to hear the disease resistance is excellent too.
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'Golden Celebration' also has huge hips, which look like small green crabapples.
I am glad to hear you are growing 'Alba Meidiland', IMHO, one of the best roses introduced in the late 20thC. It seems to grow anywhere from zone 5 to 10 or 11.
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18 SEP 07 by
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This rose is on its second year for me here in Richmond Virginia. It has finally started putting out amazingly long canes that I've tied along a wooden post fence. It seems to be hitting its stride. It has been a shy bloomer so far, but I think as it establishes and sizes up over the years that it may bloom more heavily. So far I've had horrible luck finding yellow roses that are disease resistant here in the steamy southeast US, but this one has remained spotless and healthy.
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Thanks for sharing your experience with HelpMeFind.
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#2 of 4 posted
26 SEP 07 by
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Thanks for your comments on Golden Threshold, a rose we bred. Yes it does take sometime to get going. We find that if we tie down the canes horizontally to the fence and allow new stems to grow upright on the main canes, , you get many more blooms. It is a continuous blooming variety.
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I've tried adding a new picture of this rose, but I've uploaded it twice with seeming success, but it has yet to appear here . This rose bloomed very well this spring 2008. The blooms open a deep sunshine yellow and mellow over a couple weeks to a butter cream color, and the red stamens are very showy. The petals are surprisingly thick and waxy feeling to the touch and smell softly of lemon, like a southern magnolia does. It is putting up some crazy new cames that are thick and stiff and look like they will be difficult to bend and train. It also looks like I've got a monster on my hands, as I think this rose is going to turn out to be utterly huge!
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