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Category: Roses and Garden | Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:52 pm

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Its been very wet and cool here, spring like weather and temps. Which suffice it to say, has delayed everything except the weeds from blooming. I have a few buds on some stuff and a couple of scapes on some of my daylily seedlings I will be able to share later.. but for now, lets talk about Austins Crocus Rose.

First, its in a coulor range that is hard to find in our zone for a truly hardy rose, and this rose is perfectly happy in our cold zone 5. If you are to get one Austin Rose, make this it in terms of hardiness the only Austins that will beat it are his Rogusa hybrids and Chianti his gallica hybrid.

It doesnt have alot of scent, I find a light tea scent early in the morning, which to me is quite fine, I can get alot of roses to give me a heavy sweet scent in my zone, its the tea scents Im lacking completly in my zone 5 garden.

Its a pale yellow /cream mix with hints of peach and pink on its outer petals that reflex back in cool weather, it usually forms a nice rosette type shape.

In my medium Black Spot pressure area, I would give this rose medium resistance, not so bad for a austin rose, If you live in a high pressure area, you would have to see for yourself. Most of my blackspot comes later in the bloom cycle, Ive had a few problems this year becuase my roses were covered in pots for the winter , however some of them never lost all of thier leaves, which is a problem since some of these leaves were already quite infested...

Im hoping that I can get some ok shots of Queen of Denmark and Great Maidens Blush to share in the next couple of days.











Silverkelt


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Droopy wrote on Sat Jun 27, 2009 6:53 am:

Awww, it's a beauty! Does it take well to rain when it's in bloom?

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silverkelt wrote on Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:07 pm:

Hi Droopy, yes, it doesnt ball or discolor at all, all Ive had is rain! This is the first nice day out of the last 20 or so. All the rain and cool weather has really thrown my roses off, all my once bloomers should be half over and they are just starting in time for jb season! oh well, as the garden saying goes, always next year!
Silverkelt

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