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'Rhode Island Red' rose Reviews & Comments
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Here's a note on the origin of the name "Fields of the Wood." The rose was found growing at the Fields of the Wood Christian park, near Murphy, North Carolina, perhaps in the 1950s. It was given at that time to Mrs. Mary Hudson of Macon, Georgia. She then gave it to Dr. Charles A. Walker, Jr., in the early to mid-1970s. In the 1980s, Charles gave it to me, and we have propagated and distributed it since, under that name. The park got its name from the King James Bible, Psalm 132:6, "...we found it in the fields of the wood." Many people habitually misspell it (singular "Field" and plural "Woods").
Phillip Robinson also found it in California, and called it "Kocher Red." It was for years listed under that name in the Vintage Roses catalog.
At the Heritage Rose Foundation meeting in El Cerrito, California, in 2005, Dan Russo, from Connecticut, showed a slide of the Brownell rose (1957) 'Rhode Island Red'. I was sitting near Phillip at the time, and I heard him say "That's Kocher Red!" as I was mumbling "That's Fields of the Wood!" It's a very distinctive rose, not easily mistaken for anything else.
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I had a very woody, tired plant and it responded well to a severe regeneration pruning.
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Can anyone tell me how much support this rose requires? Can it be grown as a very tall shrub or is it too procumbent in nature for that?
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If you don't support it, it becomes a very wide, mounding shrub
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This looks like a gorgeous rose, and obviously does well in cold conditions., but I am wondering how it does in heat? We are in an inland valley in California where summer temps are often above 90. Thanks!
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I had Rhode Island Red in Minnesota and took it with me when we moved back to Georgia. It has done fine in the heat and humidity so far (three years). It appreciates afternoon shade, though. The bright, hot sun here tends to fry the edges of many deep red flowers.
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