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'Deep Secret' rose Reviews & Comments
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"Award-winning Hybrid Teaintroduced by Tantau in Germany in 1977. The flowers are crimson, fully double, with about 40 petals, and have a strong fragrance. The parentage is not recorded."
Hardy to -20°F (-29°C), Zone 5."
Citation:
Best rose guide: a comprehensive selection / Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix -- 1st ed. pg. 217
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Deep secret is fertile as both a seed parent and a pollen parent. In my garden it grows 6 feet high and 5 feet wide. Thorny, foliage is sparse, fragrance is great, requires spraying.
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This is a lovely dark red rose that is unfortunately armed to the teeth! When I first received it as a band it didn't have many thorns, so when I saw the new, 1" thick cane it was putting out I was very concerned about RRV due to the sheer number of sharp thorns it had. It turns out it wasn't infected, but that this rose naturally has a ton of thorns. You have been warned!
Other than the thorns I would definitely keep this rose. It has a wonderful scent and it blooms well. My bush receives direct sunlight all day every day and the bloom color consistently remained a lovely unbleached deep red. It did get blackspot, though only for about a month and when fall arrived it dropped its remaining leaves and grew new ones which were then not affected. All in all this is a nice dark red rose that will be sure to please many people...just not people like me who can't have a rose bush with so many thorns.
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Thanks for sharing - much appreciated by the entire HMF rose community.
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20 JUN 08 by
angela
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The blooms don't last long on the bush during hot weather but the color holds up better than I thought it would. The sent is good and no blackspot problems so far. I am looking forward to see how the blooms do in the cooler weather.
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