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'Strawberry Romance' rose Reviews & Comments
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1 FEB 21 by
ksinGA
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Does anyone know if Strawberry Romance is available anywhere?
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I still continue to grow Strawberry Romance because it has the most beautiful blooms of all the roses I grow--300+--so that is a very high compliment. I still cannot seem to get a vigorous growing bush under these lovely blooms so I don't get as many blooms per bush as I would like. Actually, with these blooms I could get 100 roses per year per bush and I still wouldn't be happy because I can never get enough of them no matter what.
Kind of like John Sheldon's other HT rose O'Rilla-another beauty! Those of you not familiar with his roses should look up his list of roses he has hybridyzed and you will see just how gorgeous the blooms are on all his roses!!
Anyway, back to SR. I didn't get to breed it with Hopie Girl because that freak freeze we got a couple of years ago killed it and about 50 of my other roses and I just haven't replaced the Hopie Girl rose yet, but I will. It is a super yellow HT rose.
I did use pollen from Strawberry Romance and got some very pretty seedlings when crossed with Moonstone. I am watching one of them currently in it's second year. The blooms are the best of both--Moonstone form and SR color and they are fragrant!! The bush is more vigorous than the SR bush but not quite as good as Moonstone. The one real reason I may not release this one is it's proclivity to BS. Unfortunately it will BS readily and it defoliates badly so it HAS to be regularly sprayed to keep it's foliage. But even with that the blooms are so gorgeous I will keep it for myself because I LOVE it. I may try to breed with it, but haven't made up my mind. If the BS problem improves with more maturity--sometimes they will--I will try to breed it. I am going to buy another couple of SR bushes Spring 2010 because I like it so much. I will report later on how my breeding with SR goes next year.
John
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6 OCT 04 by
Unregistered Guest
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I planted this cultivar this year for the first time. It was a bit slow gettting started and the first blooms were not that pretty, but the fall blooms are stunning strawberry pink and very large at 5-6" per bloom. I can't wait til next year to see it after it is really established. It was not bothered by disease in my garden this year.
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Thanks Jon, how about listing your garden on HMF - it's free and the purpose is to share your gardening experiences with us all. Thanks again.
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Thanks for your comment. Strawberry Romance is a rose that has traditionally been slow to get going but once she does has done very well. I'd love to see a picture of it if you have any. Here is a picture of mine this Fall and it was huge!
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Sadly, my bush didn't survive the winter with no protection. I bought two more bushes this year because I like it so much, and will protect it this winter. I hope that this will give it a chance to grow and mature and help the bush become more vigorous as mine is a bit sluggish as well. Maybe a rootstock change is a good idea to try as noted above. this is a gorgeous flowering shrub. |
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Strawberry Romance has a problem with breaking dormancy at the first sign of warm weather. This often results in the new growth being killed by subsequent freezes. The best thing is to protect the budunion with a single sheet of newspaper covered by several shovels of loose soil. Prune it down to good wood in the Spring and she should be fine.
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4 FEB 08 by
wordycat
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Hi John,
I was just wondering where you live. I am in love with the pictures of this rose and want to buy it NOW. After reading your posts, I am not real sure. Are the flowers fragrant? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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This rose has no fragrance that my nose can detect. It still has some of the most gorgeous blooms I have ever seen. I have a bush still in my garden that just didn't do much at all all of last year as it stayed very small with just a very few canes and only bloomed about 3 flowers all year. I will give it this year to catch on and grow or else it will have to be shovel pruned.
John
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I love everything about this rose except that the bush is so small. I think it may be the understock it is budded onto. For myself, I am going to try it own root and budded to multiflora to see if the vigor improves. I am going to cross it to the very vigorous Hopie Girl next year to see how that works.
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I'd be very interested in knowing the results of your cross. I have made the same cross many times with outstanding results! Be sure to make the cross both ways and give the seedlings a chance to develop before discarding. I think you'll be very pleased. I'll be looking forward to hearing your response in 2008.
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