Thanks a lot Jackie, I’m very happy with it, petal count/flower size seems a slight increase in some the flowers, and the sunlight there washes out a bit of the pink. Newly opened flowers have a great bi-color stain with cream-centers. Some flowers are actually sorta waxy and I’m wondering if they got that from ‘Plaisanterie’ which sometimes seems to have a waxy thickness to its flowers sometimes. I am hoping floriferousness does increase as you say as it’s pretty high percentage of foliage versus flowers right now. Flowers seem to come up in single or a few candelabra trusses. Fragrance is also improving its sweet and nice, nothing to swoon over but if you sniffed you get something.
I knew even as a little seedling when it first sprouted it looked different than all the others that it was something to watch, considering I only work really in batches of dozens (maybe two dozen seedlings at a time more or less) I consider that lucky. I’m a bit sad it’s two sisters didn’t make it due to my negligence/subjecting them to a pot ghetto since their flowers had a very appleblossom or raspberry look and had speckles but they suffered mildew while this one did not so perhaps it was for the best.
I’ve never seen any issues with rust or powdery mildew, they have a nice thickness that I don’t think mildew would bother it. It does tend to blackspot a bit on the ankles and inside of the plant, but I really don’t blame it as it is SOLID foliage. It never looks really bad during the summer though. I’ll send a pm!
I do love multiflora hybrids, I really wish they weren’t so problematic when it came to soil acidity and RRD. I hear many multiflora type stuff get very choleric in other parts of the US. They’re happy as a clam here in out East Coast clay.
Leaf form, texture, color, gloss and sometimes embossed texture; waxy petal texture; soft colored petals; sometimes lighter green leaf colors.
I’ve always been attracted to the “peach tree” foliage of many of the multiflora hybrids. Kathleen looks very primeval and tropical dripping her downward hanging flower panacles from the trees. Renae has that same attraction. Annie Laurie McDowell has it to a more refined extent. When you get into the violet multifloras, they’re much darker green and much more heavily embossed than Enjouee and Little Butterfly. Banksiae has a similar shape to its foliage and it just attracts my eye.
Thanks guys! It’s opened quite a few more flowers and it looks pretty darn cute.
Shocked it’s almost taller than the support trellis I put behind it. It’s developing a vase-shape too and a new cane/branch is making like it wants to get even taller. I hope it doesn’t octopus out.
The foliage is pretty thick, it resembles ‘Sven’ in that regard. Also the hooks along the bottom of the leaf stem.
Kim, I LOVE the peach-leaf look. That’s why I’m so head over heels with ‘Plaisanterie’ and the tea-noisette ‘Crepuscule’. Languid looks are my favorite and the peach-tree leaf just accents the droop/visual pull down. Same reason why I love the shrub leucothoe from the Ericaceae family. The Ericaceae family is perhaps my absolute favorite family of shrubs. So many gorgeous North American natives, bog rosemary is a great little plant!