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Fair Bianca - opinions please
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Posted by varmi WA Aust (My Page) on Thu, Nov 10, 05 at 23:02
| Hi all,
Any info on the good and the bad and experiences, tips you have. Is it a worthwhile rose to have?
Had one in a pot for years and it's either going to get thrown in the bin or planted. The scent was the only reason why I originally bought it. The flower seems nice enough. It's a sad bush at the moment and needs care.
Thanks again,
varmi |
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RE: Fair Bianca - opinions please
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Mine has never performed-I have moved it twice but it doesn't seem to like it at my place.It just sits there sulking.
I will move it once more and then give up I think.
regards
sandie |
RE: Fair Bianca - opinions please
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| I've always been a bit disappointed with my Fair Bianca, especially when it shares the same bed as Madam Hardy the rose it seems to try and copy. Give MH anyday... |
Here is a link that might be useful: Mme Hardy
RE: Fair Bianca - opinions please
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Varmi, Fair Bianca is a great rose. If she's stuggling in your garden, put her in a pot; large enough of course. Many Austins like pots and I'm sure it will perform better. Prepare pot and potting mix carefully: rocks on the bottom then straw, layers of potting mix with suitable feritiliser and I'm sure Fair Bianca will be all new rose in just two months!
Before you plant, give her a nice haircut -- trim the damaged roots, trim the foilage a little bit and all dead wood. This is how I saved my neighbours' 10 roses -- they're all great now and it seems they want to reach the sky! :-)
I gave the same treatment to one little Scepter'd Isle I found at local nursery .. and now, several months later, it looks like a darn Kraken! :-)
-Tom |
RE: Fair Bianca - opinions please
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Sorry Varmi, I just saw -- you already have it in pot.
Try changing the potting mix every year (July/August) , add new food and make sure pot is large enough (40cm pot is a minimum).
- Tom |
RE: Fair Bianca - opinions please
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Thanks for the tip Tom-I will put her in a pot and see how she goes.
regards
sandie |
RE: Fair Bianca - opinions please
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- Posted by plaur Z9 NSW AUST (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 12, 05 at 5:08
Should be called Unfair Bianca.She showed great promise 3 years ago when planted,40 blooms in her first flush,must have been exhausting,I don't think I've seen 40 leaves since that time and maybe a few lacklustre flowers.I'll put the spade next to her,and pot her or something more permanent!From memory,her flowers were really beautiful.Perhaps she would fare better in a less humid climate.
Pam. |
Try Scepter'd Isle
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Pam, if your Fair Bianca doesn't want to go any more, maybe you can consider Scepter'd Isle. It has a very similar myrrh fragrance, but more powerful and with less other spicy overtones. Mine is about 5.5 ft tall, has many branches, grows in one extra large terracota pot and wants to be a climber. And when a chilly breeze swirls through the evening, that beautiful fragrance spreads all around. It's magical. In my local nursery Scepter'd Isle seems to be not very popular Austin rose (who can understand people? they're only mad about candy but scentless HTs) so I plan to get some more of those jewels!! Yeah!
-Tom |
RE: Fair Bianca - opinions please
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- Posted by plaur Z9 NSW AUST (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 12, 05 at 22:03
Thank you Tom,for that inspired and enthusiastic statement of enablement....I needed it like a hole in the head!!!My garden is a suburban block which is bursting at the seams with roses and a frightening number of large pots.
I suppose Unfair Bianca and Scepter'd Isle would make the pot numbers more rounded and its easier to mumble 30 rather than 28,but no!!!!!!!!!!!.
Pam. |
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