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25 FEB 04 by
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how did you find a rose like tat.
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Roberta Bondar is a climber with double cupped, soft yellow flowers and it has good disease resistance. You can find where to buy it by going to the HelpMeFind lists and look under R for Roberta.
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You can find it at Vintage Gardens as well... vintagegardens.com. Sounds like an intresting rose.
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I have wanted this climber for severa years since I saw in on a couple of websites and in person one time. The bush is large and heavily foliaged and it is supposed to be very disease resistant and otherwise healthy. The bush flowers heavily and they are of good size and a buttery yellow color that doesn't fade as it ages. The fragrance is very nice as well.
John
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'Roberta Bondar' is beautiful and very vigorous. It repeats well too.
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In "The Encyclopedia of Roses" by Robert Markley (ISBN 0-7641-5193-2) gives a little bit more information on this very mysterious rose. This is what it has to say on page 135:
Pillnizter Vitamin Rose 'Pi-Ro 3': Not all roses have the same high level vitamin C content. also, a high quantity of usable fruit flesh does not necessarily correlate with a large vitamin content. Therefore, in places such as Russia and the former East Germany, people have for many years sought strenuously to select forms of vitamin roses that combine the two factors, quantity and quality. They have found the group of Pillnizter vitamin roses, from which the selection 'Pi-Ro 3' comes very close to the desired ideal. In free-growing, decorative hedges, this shrub rose, which is produced from the native variety Rosa pendulina, displays a lush burst of flowers in spring and an abundance of hips in the fall.
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