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'Lady Hillingdon' rose Reviews & Comments
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If I had to live with only one tea rose, Lady Hillingdon would probably be it. The beautiful unique colour, free blooming habit, elegant buds, lovely fragrance and absence of disease all make it a wonderful rose. In a frost free climate it can be made to winter flower by fertilising it coming into cooler weather. I usually lightly prune mine after the winter flush.
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This one is a bit gaunt at the moment. It's healthy, and the form is decent, but foliage is still on the scant side.
Flowers are good when they're good, but will ball and mummify sometimes.
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30 AUG 08 by
mk1548
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I have no idea why people wouldn't comment on this wonderful flower.
This is one of the healthiest bush in my garden (zone8b Texas), within a year it got so big and always has some flowers with unique scent. They said it has a pure tea fragrance-, I am not sure about that, but for sure it's lovely addition to the fragrance collection.
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I agree with your comment about the lack of comment on Lady H. I don't have this shrub in my garden, but it is planted in several local gardens and I always covet it. The new foliage and stems are a lovely burgundy and contrast wonderfully with the egg-yolk yellow flowers. Here in San Francisco, where leaf diseases seem happier than the roses is many cases, Lady H. seems almost immune to disease, except for a bit of blackspot in winter. The plants seem to always have flowers on them and the first spring flush is a sight to behold. I just wish I had room for Lady H. in my garden!
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#2 of 9 posted
1 MAR 09 by
mk1548
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Hello there! Yes, I love this plant, and I agree, it has beautiful stems and very healthy soft color leaves. Here in Texas, It's March 1st, but she has big buds now already. In Japan, where I grew up, Lady H. seems to have been popular for the unusual scent, and also since a famous rosarian Suzuki Seizou used to adore it and mentioned it in his books!
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#3 of 9 posted
30 JAN 11 by
Ian VG
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I'm curious as to how accurate the hardiness estimate (of 5b +) is actually. There is definitely a wide range of opinion about the hardiness of this rose! And, I am assuming that when a hardiness estimate is mentioned, we are referring to the rose being in the ground and not merely in a pot! Thanks,
Ian
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What we need is more site guests to share their experience with individual plants they grow.
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I wanted this rose in the worst way and finally got it. It looked like it was doing fine in late winter but by April, it looked very sad. It did not last till summer and never bloomed for me in zone 7b. I would like to try it again but every nursery I've tried has been out of them.
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#6 of 9 posted
25 JUN 11 by
 Jay-Jay
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Try the "buy from" tab on the rose-page of This rose, and click on the "show all nurseries selling this rose" tab. For I don't know in which country You live in.
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#7 of 9 posted
25 JUN 11 by
Jay-Jay
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Try the "buy from" tab on the rose-page of This rose, and click on the "show all nurseries selling this rose" button. For I don't know in which country You live in.
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#8 of 9 posted
3 OCT 12 by
mtspace
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I also live in zone 7b. I also have planted Lady Hillingdon. I also have watched the rose put out purple foliage in March, promising to muddle through winter and early spring but then collapsing and disappearing 'round about the last frost. I live in a place where there can be very warm, frost-free stretches in March, then an occasional 15F night in late April. I think that's when I lose a lot of roses - even some cold hardy to zone 5. I've resolved to buy Lady Hillingdon again and pile something like half a foot of mulch atop the rose in fall hoping that should a spring frost kill the top growth, the rose might regrow from the roots. Stay tuned.
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I have grown Lady Hillingdon (the same plant) for over 12 years in Zone 8a. Gets over 6 ft tall in the summer, albeit a bit leggy -- but then she does have some competition for sun from a birch tree. She has been cold-hardier than many other teas--and than a lot of modern HTs and floribundas-- and has been very healthy for me. Very little disease, and no mildew--which seems to often afflict teas in my climate in late summer-early fall. This December we had a week of really cold temperatures, with 3 nights getting below zero degrees F. She seems to have weathered it better than some, although it won't be until spring that I will really know how much damage was done to all my roses.
I love the color, the elegant, slightly droopy, Tea form, and the fragrance -- which sometimes smells like a pure "tea" fragrance, and other times has a wonderful, sweet fruitiness to it also -- reminds me of apricots.
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