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I bought a "Double Delight" rose from Lowe's a couple of months ago and the bush was in bloom. The flowers looked exactly like Double Delight which I used to own but I was a bit perplexed that this one was not fragrant at all. I still bought the bush because it was a bargain and I thought maybe it will send out fragrant blooms when it gets bigger. Two months later, the "bush" is blooming like crazy and twice as big but behaving like a climber/groundcover which long lax branches. It's more vigorous and more prolific than my old Double Delight plant. I was going to return it to the store but I'm actually getting to like it even though it is scentless. I was researching here to figure out its true identity and to my surprise I found this entry for a Cl. Double Delight. To those own this plant - can you tell me if yours has any fragrance?
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Could it be Cherry Parfait?
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15 OCT 10 by
CynthiaH
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Cherry Parfait was actually my first hunch. I just wanted to rule out Cl. DD because that would have been a more understandable mistake for Lowe's to make. But the scent factor (lack thereof) most likely confirms that what I have is Cherry Parfait. Someone commented on Cherry Parfait that her bush is growing "squat" rather than tall. Maybe my plant and hers came from the same mommy! Thank you for your help!
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If you review the REFERENCES on the rose page, some say it is extremely fragrant.
Lyn
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I got 2 bands of Leonie Lamesh from Burling and re-potted them in gallon pots. They've been growing in my pot ghetto for a couple of weeks which gets the morning sun, short mid-day shade, and then about 4 hrs of high afternoon heat. This week, temps reached above 100s. The Leonies didn't like that and the leaves and flowers fried and I had to move them to a shadier spot. I have about a dozen other varieties growing in the same area. Leonie and Baby Austin are the ones I had to rescue from heat. The others remain vigorous although flowers fried on most of them, except Lyda. Now I have better idea where to plant them permanently.
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They don't like the small pots. I put my band sized rose (Leonie Lamesch) in a 7 gal pot last year and the rose almost outgrew the pot in one season. It overwintered in the 7 gal pot and was planted this May. It's already 3' tall. Yes, the blooms fried in triple digit temps, but the leaves never wilted or burned once in either the pot or the ground.
Smiles,
Lyn
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28 AUG 10 by
CynthiaH
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Thank you so much for the tip, Lyn! Who knew! I plan to put them in the ground soon as soon as temps go down that's why I just used gallon pots. So I can plant Leonie Lamesch in all day sun? I originally planned to plant them in a spot that gets sun from morning thru 4 pm.
Thanks again!
Cynthia
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Cynthia...........
Yes, you can plant both 'Leonie Lamech' and 'Baby Austin' in full sun. We have triple digit temps for weeks on end in my climate. As long as the plants are watered and have good drainage, they truly do not need to be protected. Again, the blooms will fry .... all roses have that problem in unrelenting heat and some go dormant .... but the leaves won't be fried and the plant will grow just fine. Also, we get winter temps down to the low teens for a few hours at night with the average winter night temps around 20 degrees F. Both roses had no problems with the low temps with no winter protection.
Gallon pots never work in triple digit temps, in my experience. You just can't give the plant enough moisture to help them survive the heat stress. I'd rather use a pot that is too big than take a chance on a pot that is too small.
Good luck with your roses.
Smiles,
Lyn
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This grew lustily for me in zone 9b/Sunset 19 but mildewed badly and flowered poorly. Lots and lots of very long thornless canes, though, which I never knew what to do with. I feared if I cut them then I'd have even fewer blooms in Spring. It didn't repeat, really. After the Spring flush, there maybe one or two flowers here and there but you can't appreciate them because the mildew was yucky. Wrong for my area.
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This balled for me all the time. In the 9 years I grew it I maybe had 5 real blooms (not brown balls). After observing the rose for some time, my husband asked me what that "interesting" flower was. He thought the brown balls were the true form. I mail ordered it from ARE when I was a newbie in the early 90s and there was no internet yet to research what's good to grow in my zone which 9b/Sunset 19 in SFV in So Cal.
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