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'Pierre de Ronsard ®' rose Reviews & Comments
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9 MAY 17 by
Dirk77
I've purchased an Eden rose last year and it stands against a southern facing wall. It grew a bit and produced 1 flower wich lasted for 2 weeks, there was no visual sign of sickness and it kept it's leaves in Winter. Now, may 2017 it still has it's glossy folliage and it produced 15 very big rosebuds so i think the flowers are gonna be very big. No strong growth until now but maybe it will start after this first flush. I agree with some earlier comments that this rose needs some time to really start off but as i mentioned, it is very disease resistant in Flanders Belgium, wich has rather rainy summers and medium cold winters. When the flowers open (i think within 2 weeks) i'll post a picture.
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4 NOV 16 by
GivaDogaBone
Very healthy leaves, I have not seen any black spots since the start of the Spring here in Australia. Even though there is no strong heavenly scent the blooms show equals it all.
It's also very hardy, last year (I mean the whole last year) was a disaster. Possums ate all of it's top leaves and all it's flower buds and only left me it's canes and lower leaves. This year it came back after I installed a Possums barrier during the winter 2016 which are located on top of the fence
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29 APR 16 by
manzanita
I planted 3 of these roses along a southeast facing wall March of 2015. All three have grown very fast and are blooming well, BUT, this rose is quite suseptible to blackspot. We did have a very wet El Nino winter here in Northern California, and it does not completely go dormant here in zone 9b. As a result, it holds onto some leaves for a long time. In Early Spring, some of it's lower branches began defoliating because of blackspot. I have begun spraying with an essential oil spray from Dr. Earth, and cleared out all it's mulch, so I can easily pick up any blackspot infected leaves that hit the ground. It is just hitting it's first spring flush and the flowers are beautiful, they are full and heavy and often end up facing downward. One thing I did not foresee, is that I am having to train the new vigorous red canes, so they do not obscure the older blooming canes that are secured to the wall. For now, between spraying, picking up fallen leaves and training canes, I am considering these roses to be rather high maintenance.
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30 NOV 15 by
Michael Garhart
"The MEIVIOLIN rose plant was derived by the following breeding programme. DANSE DE SYLPHES as seed parent was crossed with HANDEL as the pollen parent and one of the resulting progeny a then unnamed seedling and identified as MUSIC DANCER was crossed as seed parent with CLIMBING PINK WONDER as pollen parent to make a MEIVIOLIN."
-AUS Patent
http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/pdfSource.do?fileQuery=Zswkem%3Fqxgt%28hkngpcog%3FCW3%3B%3A%3A2368%3A%3BD20rfh%28dtqyp%3Fqxgt
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1 DEC 15 by
Patricia Routley
Thanks Michael. I have presumed the breeder of 'Music Dancer' was Meilland. And as no date was mentioned in the Australian patent for the 1985 'Pierre de Ronsard', I have chosen <1984 as a temporary date for 'Music Dancer'.
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#2 of 2 posted
1 DEC 15 by
Michael Garhart
I found it amusing, lol. I rarely ever see a patent where they give the name out of their breeder seedlings.
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