For Paul Barden... Mini Teas

General Discussion
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Incidently… how did FDY fair in your recent freeze Paul

? My little own-root FDY has me a bit puzzled… It’s nice and warm… it’s in the ground, it’s got loads of manures/mulches etc around it… but it just doesn’t want to take off shrugs Wondering whether I will need to provide winter protection until it decides to grow???

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Simon,

‘Fortune’s Double Yellow’ often suffers badly when we get hard freeze events here. It is never killed outright, but can often get killed to the soil line every few years. I moved it two years ago into one of the greenhouses and planted it in the floor, so it may have fared better this year. I can’t say that I’ve actually inspected it yet this year…I will go have a look when the sun comes up.

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Thanks. I’m either going to regret planting this one in the ground one day or it will just fail to take off and die. A lot of these Teas and tea-like roses have been like this here and have taken years before they make their move. ‘Comtesse de Labarthe’ was a tiny 10cm struck cutting for three years (in the ground) before deciding to start growing this year. It has made up for this by growing strongly now and being a very cooperative seed parent :slight_smile: - hips forming on it now include ‘CdL’ x ‘Scabrosa’ and x ‘Abraham Darby’. I think I’ll pile some straw up arount it [FDY] over winter just to be on the safe side.

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Simon,

I inspected my ‘Fortune’s Double Yellow’ yesterday and it appears to be quite dead. So much for FDY in my climate. I knew this day would come. Oh well! Several of its offspring survived, which matters more to me.

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‘Comtesse de Labarthe’ is an easy seed parent. I wish it didn’t mildew.

Some seedlings can be clean but many must be culled. I’ve got a new generation of stuff coming out of it from last season. I probably won’t use it any longer.

Here is a photo of a first generation descendant taken yesterday. It’s a Tea, China, filipes, banksia hybrid.

DUBOLG1 is a remontant climber. Probably tender.

Link: www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.60683

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Robert, that one looks very nice - looks like it smells very good!

Jim Sproul

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Thanks Jim, yes it does smell good.