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'Harry Wheatcroft' rose Reviews & Comments
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23 AUG 14 by
 goncmg
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WOW I do not like striped roses. Inherited this one from a friend to whom it had been sold as its "parent," Piccadilly. Own root. Small. Oddly, it is very healthy! Endless rain this summer in Columbus has beaten my spray regimen and many have really fought blackspot. Not this one???? Very happily surprised.
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I produced a seedling last summer, with nearly the exact color as this rose, but its a shrub with disease resistant parents and it doesnt bleach. I keep staring at it. Do I like it? Am I neutral? How do I feel? So I stare at it more. Its like the mind cannot conclude anything from it. Maybe its like Tropicana, where its just aesthetically challenged but the color is attention seeking. I dont know... Im sure I'll stare at it like a fool next summer, too.
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Well, if it's disease resistant it certainly has a leg up on 'Harry Wheatcroft'. Certain rosarians collect stripes. I think it's very attractive and I'm not even crazy about stripes. It reminds me of a striped version of, 'Joseph's Coat'. I say see if anyone wants to offer it. Is it a Shrub?
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Half shrub, half floribunda. The petals widened to form circular blooms by September, which is what worried me. I hate quilled roses, but I do love star-shaped roses, like Hoagy Carmichael!
HW and Piccadilly grow quite well here, and the defoliate quite well here. Whatever race of blackspot plagues them, is common here. However, Playboy is immensely popular here, and it does not seem to be prone to this strain, even though it is 1/4 Piccadilly.
Which is something I found peculiar. This line is prone to mutating striped sports, including mauve stripes found in 'Blueberry Hill', but I do not recall a striped 'Playboy' ever -- only hybrids of it that are striped and hybrids of it that have striped mutations in them.
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