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Posted by kevarose Kangaroo Valley (My Page) on Thu, May 12, 05 at 4:36
| Had to buy "Your Garden" at the newagent today which is a special issue on rose gardens. In it (page 8) there is a story on r. gigantea and a plea to plant it in suburban gardens wanting privacy from neighbours - they say it is 12 x 5 metres and is nicer and evergreen than using trees to block less than gorgeous views.
Well I have 5 acres but there are places that I want to block views of neighbours and increase the fantasy of being isolated. I am going to plant one.
Lozza - your web site does not list this rose. Do you have it? I am getting an order together of various species etc. Where can I buy this? |
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RE: rosa gigantea
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I wouldn't have thought it was available? I'll have to go and read up.. who wrote the article.
I think if you wanted something HUGE Kiftsgate or Brunii would do what you want.. but wiser heads than mine may have a different answer.... |
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- Posted by lozza Vic. Oz. (My Page) on
Thu, May 12, 05 at 18:12
| Pam, Yes we have it, or a form of it. I haven't got around to putting it up on the website. Whether it is genuine or not I can't say. I obtained it as R.gigantea. It looks and behaves as if it is the real article. I would have to question 12 metres by 5 though. Perhaps in the wilds of South-East Asia. Too many fanciful thoughts written as fact by aspiring general gardening writers posing as experts, with little or no hands-on rose experience I would have thought. They have to make it sound glowing to sell the mags. |
RE: rosa gigantea
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| Thanks Lozza I will be in touch with Jean by the usual method.
Pamela |
RE: rosa gigantea
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- Posted by Maff NSW Aust (My Page) on
Sun, May 22, 05 at 4:02
| Hi Pam...I am a huge fan of the glorious Gigantia, having grown it for at least ten years in our garden. I was initially after something huge to cover a row of disgusting cotoneasters that my in-laws had planted many years prior to us taking over the farm.Ten years down the track,the Gigantia has grown up through the cotoneaster where it was planted, and has covered the top of the row like a canopy.It also hangs down and reaches the ground on either side..a good 12 feet high and 20 feet across the top at least. It has one huge Spring flowering when it is absolutely smothered with big, silky single blooms of creamy white which smell delicious.It is one of those lovely 'sleepy' single roses which close their petals for the night.I was really pleased to see this rose getting some good press in said magazine, even though they neglected to use a correct photograph of the actual R. Gigantia. I don't know who the rose is on the page with the article, but it certainly isn't Gigantia, which has only five petals in true single style. |
RE: rosa gigantea
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| Thanks Maff - I love this encouragement. How thorny is it? I have a container (one of those metal contraptions that are used for shipping overseas and are about 10 x 3 metres) that I am going to have a peaked roof added to (for fun) and a flat side roof over my new duck and chook night house (they free range over acres all day). It would look divine I think to have such a rose cover this container and then some but I do not want some thorny monster that makes it hard to get to the door to collect eggs. My other place was to make a spectacular effect by trying to get it to be happy near a large old gum that can be seen on the hill above the house but planting it a fair way out from the gum (but I know Lozza will say that the gums feeder roots go out far further and he is right) - I guess I hoped that I could spoil it to begin with as there's masses of water run off here and I have lots of manure also and then in time hope that it can compete successfully with the gum. There's also a large old red cedar up there on the hill - maybe that would be a better climbing companion? You live in the country also - where would you plant it Maff? |
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