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'Peach Delight ™' rose Reviews & Comments
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Mine bloomed this week. Kind of an unusual color. Not like most apricot roses. The petal face is sherbert apricot-orange. The reverse is a lemony sherbet apricot. So its a 2-toned rose, that looks pure apricot from a distance.
Too young to comment on health yet.
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Now it's a bit older, Michael, how does Peach Delight impress you?
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I give it a meh out of 10. Its highly prone to either BS or downy and I didn't care enough at that point to figure out which (downy can mimic bs in our climate during certain months or just looks purple in other months). The blooms are amazing though.
Actually, most of the minis I trialed in the past 3 years were meh out of 10. Only a few er exceptional. Sunrosa Red probably the most exceptional in health and habit.
edit: Power Point was the other mini (miniflora) that I trialed that was better than the rest. It did have a few dots of BS, but nothing to cry about. Although, in all honesty, it looks like a floribunda lol.
The only other miniatures that showed exceptional health were my seedlings descending from Yellow Submarine, Maytime, and/or Rosa canina ...which I didn't make on purpose lol. Miniatures seem to be exceptionally prone to a lot of crud.
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Thank you. I'm always on the look out for the next decent mini breeder.
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Thanks, check your email.
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This is a fragrant rose with VERY good disease resistance. I have 2 plants & they are beautiful. Other than a brief problem with spider mites last spring I have had no problems with it.
Peach Delight is one of a very few roses that smell just as nice when they are fully open as when they were buds.
The foliage is glossy & dark green. New growth is burgundy tinged, turning to green.
One note; I planted these in the spring of '07 & that first year - they just sat there & didn't do anything. There was only 1 bloom that entire summer & I was away.
In 2008 they went gangbusters. At 1 point I had 19 buds &/or open blooms. Despite not having fertilized but once during the summer (and then only lightly) Peach Delight kept on going.
I highly recommend this rose! Fragrance & toughness are A-1.
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Great, thank you for sharing your experience.
You were very specific about certain attributes - if you have not already done so, it would be very useful if you could spare a bit more time to use the plant rating tab to rate this plant based on your experience. For instance, fragrance is one of the rating categories for plants.
Thanks again.
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The above post (3 Mar. 09) was made by myself, as an unregistered guest. I live in Central Indiana, z. 5.
Last summer's weather was pretty awful for roses - very cool and damp. It was the first time that I saw blackspot on Peach Delight. Other than that, again, I had very few problems with my PD bushes.
Another note - I did not use any sort of commercial fertilizer last year, only several handfuls of rotted horse manure scratched into the soil around the plants. Peach Delight still went gangbusters with blooms and growth.
After this last winter (09-10) - a very odd one weatherwise - I can report that it is indeed very cold hardy. Even after numerous days with temperatures below 0 degrees F, very little snow or mulch protection for the plants and wind among other factors; there was very little dieback.
I'm looking to get more bushes of this rose this year.
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