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Colouration of roses
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Posted by MtNebo_Jackie SE Qld, ranges, (My Page) on Thu, Jul 21, 05 at 2:18
| Hi All
One of the things that puzzles me is how to tell the true colour of a rose species. For instance, when we were at Swanes in Sydney I fell in love with Betty Boop. This is surprising as I usually go for HT medium-sized flowers with high pointed buds and perfume whilst BB is a semi-double FB with little fragrance. When I went to MGR I didn't even recognise her.
Here is Swanes' colouration.
Here is the MGR version.
How do you know which is truer to the species? I prefer the Swanes colouration so purchased mine from there.
I have also noticed that the photos on the tags of roses often do not resemble what I expect the roses to look like. My climbing Ophelia has a tight pink bud on the tag, not the more defining open flower.
People who buy without research must be surprised with what they get. If it comes to that, I wonder how many surprises I'll get with my 23 :)
Jackie |
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RE: Colouration of roses
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Hi Jackie,
I have to agree with you. That does not look like the same rose at all! I know I've had this problem on labels too (and not just on roses). You'd think with technology these days they could get it right! I'm interested to hear what the rose experts here have to say on the matter.
Cheers,
Dee. |
RE: Colouration of roses
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| Hi Jackie I agree I also bought 19 roses from MGR last month and I only buy standards but this Alexander just stood out like a bright light a real traffic stopper so to speak, but they did not have it in a standard only a Bush rose so I bought it anyway as I thought it will look really good at the front of my block where it could be seen as you drove in the gate. This is a Pic of Alexander yet the one I seen growing looked nothing like that it had lots more red in it, this one looks the same as the labels the two Westerland climbers had on them.
I also bought 3 Lavender Dreams they were a soft lilac/lavender colour this Pic does not
look anything like it, its pink not lavender I would not have bought this from the website.
So I think that the ink they are using to produce these Pics are not true to life, and I hope mine look more like the labels this time but I was lucky as every rose I bought I seen it full blown and in bud so I bought what I seen not from labels or a website. Cheers...MM |
RE: Colouration of roses
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I wish I were one of those people who could just pop plants in the ground and not worry about their colour, but I'm not. I've lost count of the apricot and orange roses I've bought over the years which have turned out to be pink.
I think one problem could be that some roses change a great deal throughout the season. I have a yellow rose which was sent to me as Red Ena Harkess, which it obviously isn't. In spring it has deep orange buds opening to large egg yolk yellow blooms. By mid summer the flowers are much smaller and, depending on the weather, can be pale or dark pink. By autumn it is pale yellow with pink edges, by which time it resembles "Peace". If I wanted to take a photo of it to show someone, it would be difficult to know when would be the best time.
It would be good if some labels were just a bit more descriptive, but then if they were, we wouldn't buy so many roses to replace those which were the wrong colour. |
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