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'Rosa minutifolia Engelmann' rose Reviews & Comments
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Available from - Tree of Life Nursery
https://californianativeplants.com/
I bought one there several years ago, to be planted at a house in Venice CA. Looking at their catalog just now (02/25/20), it is still listed there.
It's an endangered species, so anyone who lives in the right climate would be doing a service by planting one....
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Suncrest Nurseries, a wholesale nursery selling to nurseries across California, also lists it. I would imagine if you wanted one and did business with a nursery selling Suncrest plants, they could order it for you. https://www.suncrestnurseries.com/plantdisplaypage.php?id=rosamin
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Reference:
"The Thorny Rose Affair: Discovery and Naming of Rosa minutifolia" by Lee W. Lenz.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1529&context=aliso
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Thank you Jonathon. I have added this 1982 reference. I would love to be able to have the time to read it.
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25 JAN 17 by
Tessie
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R. minutifolia is definitely not a once bloomer. It blooms throughout the year--after rain. It goes dormant and dead looking in summer or drought, but if there is rain it will wake up, sprout green leaves all over it, and bloom. I have seen this over a period of years at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, CA which has multiple plants growing in various areas of their garden. This is a repeat flowering rose, but unlike any other in its bloom habit, at least of any rose I've ever seen. The only plant I've ever had in my garden of it that set hips is the one that was allowed to go dormant, while all those at RSABG routinely set large crops of hips. Most of the ones in my garden get some water year round and they don't set hips (except for 1 of them in a very dry spot--a plant from Suncrest Nurseries via RSABG--SN from Tree of Life Nursery which collected it in San Diego, CA).
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30 OCT 15 by
Unregistered Guest
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Available from - Native Here Nursery in Santa Cruz, CA
http://www.nativeherenursery.org/
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I contacted Native Here Nursery. They do NOT offer Rosa minutifolia. They referred me to Las Pilitas Nursery (http://www.laspilitas.com).
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I'm not sure if Minutifolia will like North Carolina, Jonathan. It can withstand summer water as long as the drainage is very good. I don't know how it will handle black spot issues as the black spot pressure where it is indigenous are practically non existant. I've grown it in the mid California desert; near coastal California savannah climate with high inland valley heat and here ten miles from the ocean in the Central Coast and it has demonstrated it really doesn't like "wet". The tiny foliage evolved to trap fog and it can take winter rains, but warm and "wet" may be a bit too odd for its liking. Are you hoping to obtain it to try there at Clemson?
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