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We have several in our garden. We grew our first one from a flower Lionel gave us at a HRIA day at our place. It grows quite large in SE Queensland (3m x 3m).
Lovely rose which is constantly in flower. Not a strong perfume but appears to be pretty well immune to most problems.
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Nice flower. Perfume very much like Gertrude Jekyll.
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We purchased one this year and it grows and flowers well. It copped a bit of mildew in September- October but It might be better next year.
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To throw more names into the ring the Comtesse is sold around here (the Sunshine Coast of Queensland Australia) as "The Montville Rose" (Montville is a town in the region) . I have had some interesting discussion with a couple of people who swear the rose was bred in Montville by a local rosarian.
So far as propagation goes, we have about 100 of them growing at our place and we probably purchased 2. Around here cutting usually strike at nearly 100% strike rate.
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Just wondering what method you use to get that good a strike rate on cuttings. Most of mine (for other cultivars) seem to snuff it, so I must be doing something wrong.
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I may have exaggerated the 100%. It would be closer to 80%. We use a very technical and time intensive method. We cut a piece of the rose and jamb into into the soil. That's it.
Our soil is reasonably sandy so it is well drained but we need to keep watering it every day or two or six.
Not sure but may it is just maybe our climate (we are on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland) about 20k from the beach but not all that far above sea level. It gets quite humid. Timing may help though we usually do them when wee prune the roses which in our climate can basically be anytime of the year. Other varieties of rose seem to strike better if we do them in April-May. For us The Comtesse seems to strike a lot easier than other roses though others in or area do have trouble getting the to strike.
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