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'Orange Ruffels' rose Reviews & Comments
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I received this rose as an incorrectly labeled plant from Home Depot via the National Plant Network. One of the most distinctive features is the foliage. The leaves are super stiff, toothed, and spined along the edge of the leaf. Perhaps this characteristic should be mentioned? I did ask someone with this rose who confirmed the features of the leaves that I noticed.
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That's a lucky mistake. Despite its odd growth habit, its one of the Brownell greats. This one, like 'Lafter', grow a lot like Austin shrubs than they do HTs. I dont find this a fault, rather its just easier to ignore the ARS classification lol.
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I think I am really starting to love this rose. It was supposed to be Curly Pink, but I can get that elsewhere. Thanks for your comment!
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#3 of 4 posted
6 days ago by
 a_carl76
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I am extremely jealous of your good fortune - I have been trying to find another copy of this rose for a few years. My very first copy came to me the exact same way it came to you - supposed to be Curly Pink but was in actuality Orange Ruffels. I got that version through Interstate Nurseries which was part of the Directgardening.com family - always cheap plants - both in price and quality and also, one was never very sure if what they ordered is what they would get. Back then, I was so young and green that I really thought it was Curly Pink - until I got the real Curly Pink from Vintage Gardens. I also got an amazing own root version of Orange Ruffels from Vintage gardens which did just as well as the grafted version. Sadly I lost the original copy and the Vintage copy when I moved. I did get another version from Rose Petal Nursery but it was a very small copy and it struggled for a few years until succumbing to my infestation of Canadian Thistles in 2023. I have not been able to find it again and will always be on the hunt for this one until I get it again.
I hope you cherish and take care of this one (not that it needs it). And hopefully you can share cuttings of it for those of us desperately looking for it again.
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#4 of 4 posted
5 days ago by
Bug_girl
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I think I ended up with 2 as it was a 2 for 1 deal. Once spring comes maybe we can trade!
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18 JAN 12 by
goncmg
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Low rated and never talked about, this is a rose that in my opinion suffered from poor marketing and inappropriate classification. It is NOT a Hybrid Tea per se...........grew in 9a Chico and 6a Columbus and it did equally well, did the same: it is a lower growing SHRUB with larger blooms............it tends to get bushy and fat and then sprawl.............the blooms are BIG and they tend to be too big for the stems thereby flopping to the ground if it rains and even if it doesn't..........it is decently hardy (again, the Brownell roses got and get so much hype as being extra hardy and that is all marketing rhetoric)..............the color is rather unusual, orange or buff with almost a red center...............this is a GOOD ROSE...............it has suffered via marketing and classification.............
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Do you know of a source for non virused Brownell roses? Apparently some of the usual outlets in the USA cannot be trusted in that regard. By usual sources, I am thinking of some of the mail order seed and nursery stock catalogues which tend to offer, for example, a half dozen Brownell "sub-zero" rose bushes for a discounted price.
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Well, someone of us are working with Brownell roses, and producing new seedlings from them. I have some promise. Others have promise too. So maybe in the future we will see that potential realized, and without virus! :]
Here is one of many Brownell seedlings.
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#3 of 5 posted
16 APR 15 by
goncmg
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GREAT to know that, Michael! .....and if you or anyone you know has Orange Ruffels, please let me know. And please share budwood!
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I had pollen from it, a few years ago, but not vegetative material. Its out there, though. Just rare. I mostly use Lafter, and you can see by this rose, Orange Ruffels, that its a good parent :]
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Rose Petals lists it now, so you could call and ask when they sell it again.
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5 NOV 06 by
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I very much like this rose but it seems that it never built any form in it's 4 years. It tends to spread just slightly and although the flowers are especailly beautifully colored, they are not many of them. I keep it, but I wish it could do better. |
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2 JUL 04 by
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My garden is in zone 7 in N. C., USA. Orange Ruffels is one of the toughest roses I have grown. It will live 10 years or more without spraying or other maintenance rather than weeding. It has a nice strong fragrance. It has a tough holly-like texture. It seems harder and harder to find in catalogs as it is an older introduction.
Good Gardening!
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