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You're making me want to go to Japan, with all these new uploads! :D
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30 JAN 17 by
 jedmar
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:) Maybe a US nursery will be interested in Japanese roses? In Europe, André Eve is already commercializing 2 of Mr. Kimura's roses.
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They did in the 1980s (Prima Donna, Mikado, Gypsy Carnival), but then that fizzled out. Unfortunately, the AARS/ARS was more of a marketing tool than for the public. And so I am sure it was just a blip in their timeline. I think an own-root nursery could pick up a Japanese line quite easily. But possibly not one that is known for hardy roses, as I don't know how well that would go over and how hardy Japanese roses are. I known Nozomi broke the mold for groundcovers, but that that was some time ago.
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We really need to get ourselves organized. As things now stand, cocaine and heroin cross the borders of the USA more readily than do roses
Dolphin back?
Tramp steamers--do those even exist anymore?
Diplomatic pouch?
Might there be any deep sea fishermen who would like to augment their income?.
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Wiki has Chiba Prefecture as having a humid subtropical climate, so I wouldn't expect roses from Kesei Nursery to be cold hardy. However, it might be interesting to learn how Japanese rose breeders are dealing with BS; perhaps they have come up with some resistant varieties.
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I had to lol. Yes, North Americans do need to be increasing their uptake of illicit roses :D :D I have some dark humor jokes for this, but I don't want to get banned, lol :]
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Well, soon you'll have a lovely big wall to grow all the roses on...
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We should advise the White House to cancel the wall and instead plant a hedge of 'Mermaid' and 'Maria Leonida/Alba Odorata' along the border; about one bush per mile should do it.
Cheaper and far more effective! Especially when you consider that thorny bushes make excellent reptile habitat.
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Perhaps you could use Rosa multiflora.
Graham Stuart Thomas, Climbing Roses Old and New. Phoenix House, London, published 1965.
p 39.
...So dense is it, indeed, that when planted closely as a hedge it is rabbit-proof, and so thickly do its stems grow that it is coming increasingly popular in the United States and also in Britain as a roadside plant, for its resilient thicket can hold a car which runs off the road. What a use for a rose! On the other hand, how lucky we are to be able to provide so pretty and sweet a shrub for such a use. It is claimed in America that it is "Horse high, bull strong and goat tight", and Mr Shepard records that over five hundred miles have been planted in Ohio alone...
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