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Got this rose on clearance and the 1 bloom I saw intrigued me. I usually study up on arose before getting it but took the chance. I love in z8a and she has been a charmer. The rose starts out white and then morphs into deep pink tones as if it has been water colored. She’s been quite healthy and this is her 2 nd yr and she has over 30 big buds.
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Everblooming Roses for the Out-door Garden of the Amateur p. 57 (1912)
Georgia Torrey Drennan
The years that have passed since these "Fairy" roses came to us from across the seas have wrought many changes. Hybridised with the Teas, the roses are of larger sizes, more luxuriant growth and more brilliant colours. Not that we love the Polyantha simplex less, but the Polyantha Teas more. These were obtained by crossing the Tea rose Madam Damaizin with Migonette, the most profuse of the dwarf roses. The result was Clotilde Soupert, known over the world as the hardiest everblooming rose of Tea kindred, except Gloire de Dijon. The rosy ivory-white, pinkish salmon tints of these roses, of such different classes, are much the same, rivalling the most exquisite picture Nature ever painted by a ray of light in a drop of water—the rainbow in the heavens. Clotilde Soupert is distinctly many petaled, true to its Polyantha parentage. The petals are lovely little shells, closely compacted together, forming an indescribably beautiful rose.
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#1 of 4 posted
7 APR 19 by
CCCOLLO
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Lovely description. I just got her last year and am anxiously awaiting how she does this season. Right now she is producing buds!
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The sales pitch forgot to say that the flowers look like little Bourbons; and like a Bourbon, it balls.
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But when the weather is right, the blooms are breathtakingly beautiful. It sings....”I am old and precious”.
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8 APR 19 by
CybeRose
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I have only seen Margo Koster in photos and they vary from orange to salmon orange. Does she have pink undernotes?
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Yes, definitely pink but with that rosy salmon feel to it. Lovely, actually!
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10 DEC 17 by
CCCOLLO
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Thank you, she's a beauty and just the color I want.
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I recently asked help in deciding between Margo Koster and Boscobel roses. I'm so thankful to find this forum and I will tell you why. Before posing this ? on help me find, I had contacted a rosarian that was listed online. Her response was "simply choose a rose you like, it's trial and error and we learn from our mistakes". I needed some direction and I'm so thankful for the replies I got from this forum. You gave me details and bonefided experience. Your the real rosarians!
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To help a little further, Charles and Brigid Quest-Ritson's book The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Roses, page 119 has a very good entry on some of the Koster roses including 'Anneke Koster', 'Dick Koster', 'Margo Koster', 'Morsdag', 'Vatertag', 'Orange Morsdag'. They are mostly fairly similar, only a variation in colour.
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6 DEC 17 by
CCCOLLO
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I certainly will look it up, I've gotten so interested in Koster and I've googled all I can find. Thank you!
Update; This must be the motherlode encyclopedia on roses. I see it for sale (yikes) but don't think I can be privy to peek inside lol. Maybe somehow I can get access through a library. Worth a try, cause I know it's intriguing.
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They bred some very good Rhododendrons too.
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