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"Bernice Mitchell's Rose" Reviews & Comments
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I wonder could "Bernice Mitchell's Rose" be 'Sweet Chariot'?
I now have both but it will take me a year to grow 'Sweet Chariot' on to get a comparison.
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I understand that "Bernice Mitchell's Rose" was found in a Riverland garden - can't remember whether NSW or Victoria.
I have it growing about 2.5m away from Sweet Chariot. It started flowering earlier than SC this spring. It pales faster than SC so that it appears to be a paler mauve, but in fact it is the same colour when first open. To me Sweet Chariot's leaves have a slight gloss. I don't pick up more than mild scent from either. I have another plant of "Bernice Mitchell's" in a different part of the garden; it is 4 - 5 years old, own-root and is 2m across and 1.4m high, but I see that others have found Sweet Chariot getting big in a warm climate.
In other words, I can't decide whether it's the same or different.
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Thanks Margaret.
I've planted 'Sweet Chariot' 2-3 metres away from my "Bernice Mitchell's Rose" which is as close as I could get it, so now just have to wait and watch. Understand perfectly about the same or different indecision. We just need another couple of years and then the roses will tell us themselves.
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Comparing them in midwinter, I'm confident that Sweet Chariot and "Bernice Mitchell's" are not the same rose. Sweet Chariot is very densely-stemmed, in the way of minis, and its stems are green. Bernice Mitchell's stems are burgundy, and vastly more prickly.
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6 JAN 18 by
Meryl
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I have only just come across this quite old discussion about whether Bernice Mitchell's Rose and Sweet Chariot are one and the same. I used to grow Sweet Chariot and found it a martyr to Black Spot. However the Bernice Mitchell's Rose I have now is delightfully healthy.
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'Bernice Mitchell's Rose' has a look of 'De La Grifferaie' about it. http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=21.269839
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Might be somewhere in the ancestry. The flowers are much smaller, and it repeats very well. But one to admire from the outside - not putting your hands into it.
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