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'Afrikaans' rose Reviews & Comments
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11 JAN 22 by
 Plazbo
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Most blooms will form a hip, unknown seed avg per hip or germination rate (will add that info in a few months) but so far seems like it may be a decent seed parent.
-edit- There has been some germination, has been on the lower side as far as % but could be something weird my end (just generally weird seasons)
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30 OCT 21 by
Plazbo
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With both this and Fearless flowering near each other, can safely say Fearless ages better. Both are vivid oranges, Afrikaans just fades to a sort of coral, compared to the darker phototropic burnt orange.
Afrikaans (newer plant) flowers more and in clusters.
To early to comment on health too much but seems fairly rain resistant (no botrytis so far) and powdery mildew hasn't shown up on it unlike many other things (bad year for it here).
Hoping it's seed fertile, if so matching it with fearless seem's an obvious choice as the strengths of both would likely be a very good orange.
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#1 of 3 posted
30 OCT 21 by
Johno
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Regarding health, Afrikaans took out The Irwin Award for the most pest and disease tolerant rose of the 2021 Australian national trial along with its gold medal and People’s Choice award.
It strikes me that Afrikaans is a more robust rose than Fearless
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#2 of 3 posted
30 OCT 21 by
Plazbo
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It's not always an award that applies outside of the trial grounds unfortunately, eg Wildcat won it in 2010 and didn't seem to have any real black spot resistance here (Sydney), based on one of the photo's seems Simon Voorwinde had the same experience with it in Tasmania
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#3 of 3 posted
30 OCT 21 by
Johno
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The award is purely an indication that it was the best of the group of roses in the trial. There is no doubt that SA drier conditions and lower humidity help all roses in the trial. Afrikaans was a particularly good performer in the health stakes. Interestingly I would always say Wildcat remains healthy throughout the growing season ever since its release year purchase.
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It's a 6.5' x 6.5' Floribunda??!
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I don't know that rose at all, but my Apricot Nectar, which is classed as floribunda, is that big with minimal pruning.
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My Birthday Girl is 6'T x 4'W, but its an unusual rose, so I'm sort of surprised a modern commercial floribunda would be that large.
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#3 of 8 posted
24 APR 21 by
Johno
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While Ludwig Roses claim two metres, Treloar Roses website state 1.2 metres. While only two years old the plants in the Adelaide Trial Garden are around the one metre in height. They are behaving more like a floribunda than Apricot Nectar does with its tendency to send out strong long stems
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#4 of 8 posted
25 APR 21 by
Plazbo
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Ludwig recently posted this image on facebook
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Granted no context for size but roughly 25 flower diameters tall, after a quick run through photoshop for pixel measurements. So if flower size is roughly 7cm/3in then that's around 175cm tall....but it's all rough estimations
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#5 of 8 posted
25 APR 21 by
Plazbo
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On a separate note, nice to see the fade isn't horrid like is often the case (in my opinion) with orange roses.
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#6 of 8 posted
25 APR 21 by
Johno
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Impressive photograph by Ludwig. I guess 1.2 metres sounds better than 2 metres to the buying public, just as I need to rethink placement of the rose on order. The rose does fade but only after the stale stamens stage as one of the posted images show.
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#7 of 8 posted
25 APR 21 by
Plazbo
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I image so...I've learnt to take height of new releases with a grain of salt, eg Adorable 0.8m....currently blooming at the end of a cane above the 1.8m fence it's next to. Possibly just an abnormally vigorous cane, will see what happens next season and as it matures.
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Funny I mentioned Birthday Girl, because mine grew just like in the photo by Johno. It was such a great rose, but I got tired of pruning it every winter. It got yeeted when I got a nice, short seedling from BG. That photo is at Treloar? I imagine it has more light than the PNW (of USA), and it looks about 15% shorter than Birthday Girl here, so I imagine its about 2/3 the size of Birthday Girl in most climates.
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