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'Sweet Surrender' rose Reviews & Comments
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Nice tall healthy bush here in Zone 9B; does well in heat, but best fragrance in cooler times of year. Then the fragrance is to die for! Totally agree this has better and stronger fragrance than parent 'Tiffany'. A must-have for fragrance lovers.
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I have had this Sweet Surrender rose for 2 years and it is mostly disappointing. The bush stays rather small and spindly with sparse foliage. The foliage is very prone to blackspot and it stays a very unhealthy light chartreuse green that is not attractive. The flowers are a pretty color and have a wonderful fragrance but aren't big enough and the form is only so-so and definitely not exhibition in any way. I will see how it does Spring 2010 and try to be very aggressive with the spray to keep the foliage clean and see if that helps it along. I wish someone would tell me why the foliage stays such and unhealthy shade of green and is so sparse. I grow over 300 flowers and I fertilize them all the same. This is the only one I grow that has this shade of green to it's foliage. Now I also grow it's parent Tiffany which it does resemble and generally has a lighter shade of green to it's foliage,but definitely not as light and sickly looking as this Sweet Surrender rose.
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#1 of 2 posted
10 OCT 10 by
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You mentioned in a previous post that you are using drip irrigation. Your rose may not be getting as much water and/or fertilizer as the other roses. Perhaps you could try to add a couple of extra drip lines for this bush and give it a some extra nitrogen. Any signs of virus?
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#2 of 2 posted
13 OCT 12 by
mtspace
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I Googled <a href="http://www.roses4az-mevrs.org/downloads/Articles/problemSolving/Chlorosis.pdf">chlorosis in roses </a>hoping to find something that would touch on all the areas to check into. It mentions effects of shade, inadequacies or imbalances in N,P,K, Mg, Fe, S, Mn... , pH problems, and so on. I hope it is of some help.
When I saw Sweet Surrender well grown in NJ I noticed that it bloomed with a kind of reckless abandon one rarely sees in HT roses. That would require higher levels of nutrition, it seems to me. My first inclination would be to give it half again as much Mills Magic as I would another rose of the same size, then to test the soil. Then maybe re-evaluate the spraying regimen. Not long after that I'd let the plant die and replace it with another fragrant rose.
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One of the most fragrant roses I have had the pleasure of smelling for years. The fragrance is truly outstanding! Strong sweet, sweet old rose fragrance. Worth growing for the fragrance alone. To die for! Only wish that it was available here in Europe ??
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Thanks for sharing your experience.
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I try to collect mainly fragrant roses and this one is outstanding even among other highly frangrant varieties. I love this light pink color and its wierd pancake flat opened form as well.
I have seen one very healthy and productive bush a few blocks from me; mine has been in a neglected bed that I am really working on reviving. We'll see if SS can become more vigorous for me as well.
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#3 of 3 posted
22 MAY 10 by
CarolynB
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That was my thought as well, the first time I smelled Sweet Surrender -- that I'd like to have it for the fragrance alone, even aside from its pretty color.
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