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I see that is says almost thornless, but RVR pictures show an average amount of thorns, if you grow it, please comment. After checking with a couple other growers, it seems that it has about average thorns for a hybrid musk, small and many, but not very stiff. It has about the same as Ballerina for thorns.
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14 AUG by
myd
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I would say it has less than the average amount of thorns. I intentionally grown low-thorn roses as I am on a blood thinner and have had serious bleeding from a thorny rose. I gave away all my thorny roses. This has been in a small pot for 2 years and had very few thorns. This year I moved it to a large whiskey barrel planter and it is growing larger. The new growth has more thorns but they are small thorns. The plant is also small enough so it's easy to see what I'm doing and avoid the thorns. Basically, this rose is thornless enough for me to keep it. Besides, it is maybe the most healthy rose I have. The blooms repeat quickly, they are beautiful, they smell nice. Overall, it is a very rewarding rose to grow.
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10 JUL by
myd
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This rose makes a statement in my garden. You can see it from far away. The flowers are long lasting. It repeats well. Thornless. It was my first bloomer in spring. I cut some blooms to share and found that those spring blooms did have a fragrance like a florists rose. So, not very strong but it was definitely a nice scent and the person I shared those flowers with remarked on the nice scent.
I got it from antique rose emporium.
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This rose didn't even last long enough to bloom in my garden. I've replaced it with "Sweet Pea", which is very new, but seems more vigorous already.
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My Aunt Margy's came as a small plant which I'm growing up in a pot, using organic fertilizers. It is about 1 ft x 1 ft and always has about 5 buds and / or open very fragrant blossoms. It even bloomed during our chilly rainy Winter with no disease. I live in the San Francisco area. It seems easier to grow up than some other polyanthas.
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Thanks for the info. I keep that in mind for my next Burlington roses order.
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Does anyone know if Aunt Margy's Rose is heat tolerant?
Rodger
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17 JAN 19 by
 jmile
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It certainly is heat tolerant. We live in zone 9B and have many days over 100 degrees in the Summer. It always has flowers on it in the Spring thru Fall seasons.
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10 JUL by
myd
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Yes it is. 100+ heatwave with intense humidity and it is disease free and has many buds and blooms
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26 AUG 18 by
jmile
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This rose is doing great in my garden. Always has flowers even in our hot summers in zone 9B.
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10 JUL by
myd
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Gorgeous rose! The blooms are so romantic. I find the blooms to be very sturdy and to last a few days. I cut them with short stems for bud vases. The fragrance is awesome. The bush is healthy and vigorous for me and repeats very quickly. It is next to david austins Heritage. Right now (heat wave, july, hot very humid maryland 7b) Heritage is halfway defoliated with a lot of disease and has not bloomed for 3 weeks. Star of the republic however is covered in healthy leaves and has had repeat blooms throughout. It had a very large flush in the spring, followed by lesser amounts of blooms in quick repeats.
Thornless
I have fed it rosetone and am now trying great big roses and microlife ocean harvest.
Leafgro compost and finepines mulch
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