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I saw this Blue Bayou rose planted in the Rose Garden of Adelaide Botanic Garden in South Australia, and I was immediately attracted by its unique violet-blue colour and its beautiful flower form.
It is the bluest 'true blue' rose I have come across, and there were about a dozen of the rose bush in the flower bed. I also noted that that the older blooms hold the blue colour very well (they did not fade like most of the other "blue" roses, nor turned pink like some other "blue" roses).
As it was a very windy day, I could not smell much fragrance from the flower.
However, if there is anyone out there who had/has grown this rose, please let me have your comments regarding the fragrance / perfume of the Blue Bayou.
Thanking you.
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Little fragrance but one of my favourite roses. A joy and a pleasure to grow.
Strong and vigorous. The colour is at its best in Spring and Autumn. Becomes paler at the height of summer so perhaps wise to plant it so that it has morning sun rather than the hotter afternoon heat.
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22 NOV 08 by
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Thanks for your response, Georgieroses.
It is much appreciated.
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My Friesia (aka Sunsprite) rose is almost as good as my Love Potion rose ........
good growth, easy to care, and repeat flowering ......
the flowers are very fragrant (although not as sweet, but definitely very pleasant),good repeat-flowering, good forms,and blooms in 'bunches'.
The flowers hold out rather well in the wind and rain of the recent Australian winter.
Being a 'green coloured' plant, aphids are more attracted to its new growth than those with reddish new growth.
This rose is another one of my favourites
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Now that another winter has begin in Australia, it is time to assess the rose bushes that I got for the last 12 month ......
Love Potion performed a lot better than I expected ..... the grafted plant (on to Fortunania rootstock) that I got is a very good performer ..... and, despite that it is placed in a semi-shaded spot, it went on flowering and repeat flowering from early spring until late autumn.
With the recent onset of the cold winter rain and the sometimes ghastly wind, the flowers have slowly begin to fall.
The fragrance of the flowers can be detected most of the time, and the ruby-mauve colour almost glow in the rising morning sun and the setting evening twilight.
The resistance to black spot is very good compared to other rose bushes in the garden ....... the only downside is that aphids are attracted to its new growth at this time of the year.
Love Potion is certainly a star among the roses that I have collected thus far.
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27 AUG 07 by
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I bought my first Love Potion rose 6 years ago simply because I got intoxicted by its fragrance.
That plant was given to a friend when I had to relocate to NSW, where the quarantine law there prohibits plant materials to be brought in from WA.
I moved back to WA earlier this year, and I immediately went to the local rose nursery and bought myself two pots of Love Potion -- one plant was in the ungrafted form like the one I had 6 years ago, and the other was grafted onto a Fortuniana rootstock.
Both pots of plants were the same size when I bought them, but I noted that the grafted planted was bearing more blooms and grew mome quickly than the ungrafted plant, although both pots of plants are placed side by side on the patio (receiving the same amount of sunlight & rainfall).
There was hardly any Black Spot problem on the grafted plant at all, but the ungrafted plant showed some presence of very mild Black Spots.
And now that the Australian winter is coming to an end, and the pruned roses are putting out new shoots, I noted again that the grafted plant is doing much better than the ungrafted plant.
I would recommend Love Potion to those who like sweetly scented perfumed roses, and I rated its fragrance on a par with Double Delight (my other favourite fragrant rose) -- and if you get a grafted plant (it is worth the extra expense), you will have no problem growing Love Potion in pots.
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I thought my Love Potion would die when I went away for 2 weeks without leaving the recticulation watering system on.
When I got back, it was almost dry twigs with all its leaves fallen to the ground .....
So, I began watering it in a frantic, and feeding it with seaweed tonic....
And surprise, surprise .... it bounced back in approx 10-20 days and now it is sending out new leave shoots and flower buds !!!
:)
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