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'Silver Moon' rose Reviews & Comments
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The description says "good fall colour". Is that the experience of those who grow it? Is it climate-dependent? Would someone please post a photo to show it.
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I have been growing two plants of this rose in pots for more than twenty years - each in a 50cm 'half round' pot about 60cms tall. I never knew the name of the rose but, last week I posted some photos on the former Gardenweb Antique Roses forum - this is the link to my post -
http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3472320/any-ideas-of-an-id-for-this-once-blooming-climber?n=21
I wanted to post some photos of what I now believe to be my 'Silver Moon' on Help Me Find but I'm following the advice of one of the forum members to check with HMF admin first as it is still an id based on a photo.
I would be grateful for your guidance.
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I was skeptical when I read the words 'growing in pot' but the excellent photos certainly look like 'Silver Moon'.
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I took a whole rose weekend to South Carolina, and saw Pat Henry's garden and also all the plantings at Roses Unlimited and this is the one rose that blew me away. It was covering an arbor over a big round concrete table with seating benches, and it was the most utterly magnificent rose I've had the pleasure of seeing with my own eyes. Of course the rose was it's best salesman and they had sold out of it, but I did get one at Ashdown Roses when I picked my order up there. Wow, anyone who grows roses and does not have this beauty has just never seen one in person. I know it's a once bloomer, but it's more magnificent that any dogwood I've ever seen, and I don't know anybody who would shun a dogwood for only blooming once. The rose was also sweetly fragrant. I can't wait to get mine planted!
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hi there - i have had trouble getting mine to bloom! currently in a garden on Cape Cod - rampant growth but now blooms. have tried not pruning it, pruning it early, pruning it late...thoughts/tips welcome
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Anonymous...
What do you mean by "pruning it late" ? If you read the care information on the rose page for 'Silver Moon', you will see that this rose blooms on "old wood". What that means to you as a rose gardener is that you do not prune the rose until after it flowers. Then the rose will spend the rest of the season growing "new wood". By the next season of bloom, the plant considers (please forgive me for personalizing a plant) the wood generated the previous season as "old wood" and will bloom on the "old wood".
If your plant was a young plant when you didn't prune it at all, it may have been putting all of its energy into growing a large root system to support the larger top growth expected from this rose and did not produce blooms, which is common for large flowered climbers.
Since it is a hybrid wichurna, it should be cold hardy enough for your zone.
I hope this helps. Good luck with your rose. Silver Moon can be stunning rose.
Smiles,
Lyn
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American Rose Annual 1916
POSSIBILITIES IN AMERICAN ROSES page 27
Possibilities in the Production of American Garden Roses
By W. VAN FLEET
Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
(Dr W Van Fleet speaks of his breeding program)
POSSIBILITIES IN AMERICAN ROSES page 31
Silver Moon is the offspring of Cherokee rose pollen on the
stigmas of a cross between Wichuraiana and Devoniensis, the
latter a strong-growing Tea rose, possibly having traces of the
Indian Rosa gigantea in its composition. This hybrid differed
from R. Wichuraiana only in its fewer large blooms produced
late in the season, and the very sparing way in which it fruited.
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