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Diane's Lakeview Rose Garden
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Just wondering how tall Stiletto has gotten for those that are growing her. I've had her for 3 years now and she only gets like 20-24" tall. But loaded with blooms, so definitely a keeper, fragrant too.
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My 3rd year Stiletto own-root gets up to about 4-5 foot tall in my garden. It grows upright but with a good width to it. Vigorous grower with perhaps 20-25 blooms per flush for me. I am in zone 5b - Chicago area. Comes through winter well with protection. Very good garden rose for color, but thus far the fragrance has been lacking and bloom size and form are lacking for exhibition.
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My bush tends to produce what I would consider exhibition style blooms in each flush. Not all of them, mind you, but 5 or 6 per flush as a 3 year own root plant. Plus the color is excellent, extremely bright and saturated. It gets a LOT of sun during the season, maybe this helps?
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I have a 3rd year, own root pot grown Stiletto that was transplanted into a 20 inch barrel this spring, after getting a hard prune. The bush settled in, (took about 4-6 weeks), then exploded with growth, leaves, canes, everything, then produced a splendid long lasting flush of gorgeous saturated blooms. One of the canes shot up 3.5 feet, with a huge cluster, I ended up trimming the cane after the flush to even out the bush, but I'm pretty sure this one would easily grow 4' all around if I let it. Maybe the own root ones have better growth? I know that often the grafted ones are quicker to get to a mature size as a general rule, but this is a relatively new plant on the market, so who knows? I'm in Zone 7A, Albuquerque NM, hot and dry, and this plant is in full sun.
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Just wondering from anyone growing this rose, about how tall does she get?
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She was a shorty for me, under 3 ft
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How tall does Whimsy get for the people who actually grow it?
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30 JUL 22 by
 jedmar
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The US plant patent states: The plant has a bushy rounded moderately spreading somewhat tall growing habit (about 92 to about 120 cm. in height and about 108 to about 158 cm. spread at the widest point), with very full branching.
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Interesting, I can relate to most of the negative comments about this rose.. It has a nice first flush of blooms, but then after deadheading,, absolutely nothing! It was like she went into a semi-dormancy. Dianne of Dianne's Southwest Idaho Rose Garden, suggested more water. She flood irrigates, as I have a sprinkler system and additionally water with hose. After watering her 3-4 times more than usual, I saw a definite improvement of new growth and blooms. She is a water hog! She wasn't worth the extra watering time as all the roses around her grew and bloomed just fine. I eventually gave her to a friend, telling her the rose needed to be planted where it would get LOTS of water, which she did, and the rose is doing great.
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