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'Rosa macrantha 'Raubritter'' rose Reviews & Comments
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Discussion id : 123-833
most recent 28 OCT SHOW ALL
 
Initial post 8 NOV 20 by Margaret Furness
Said to have been named for someone whose friends called him the Robber Baron.
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Reply #1 of 2 posted 28 OCT by Rosewild
Margaret, here’s a fanciful personification of ‘Raubritter’ from the pen of Miriam Wilkins published in her Old Rosers Digest, April 1983, p.6:
…”Raubritter [the rose], the Robber Barron who steals your heart away every May. Only fair that he gives it back every June after a long period of bloom for then he dies in the most unseemly manner, a mess. When you see him in top form in your garden or cascading down into a fountain at Mottisfont, England, you forgive him his faults, offer heart, purse, whatever’s necessary to have him in your rose plot.” -Rosewild
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Reply #2 of 2 posted 28 OCT by Margaret Furness
I like it!
I looked now at its descendants - it's so popular as a once-flowerer (blame Mottisfont), you'd think repeat-flowering offspring should do well. But the two listed aren't in commerce as far as hmf knows.
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