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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
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 Posted - Jun 11 2010 : 2:05:33 PM
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I'm looking for a special antique rose known by 3 different names "the Oregon Trail Rose", "Harison's Yellow Rose", and "Yellow Rose of Texas". It was a type of rose that the pioneers were said to have carried with them to their new homesteads. A yellow climbing rose, very hardy, but hard to find. Would any of you ladies happen to have this type of rose growing in your area and be willing to share a cutting or start? Thank you.
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
Posted - Jun 11 2010 : 3:13:39 PM
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Thank you TJ. Yes, it is a very pretty climbing rose. I hope to have a rose garden with several rose arbours at a new home soon. We just moved to central FL about 6 weeks ago and are looking for our dream home now, but I have a "holding garden" at my in-laws with lots of irises and roses and day lilies I have collected over the years.I'm partial to the antique varieties though and will be creating an "heirloom rose" garden. Of course there are some newer varieties that are in my rose collection so far but a few older ones as well. I have a lovely "Tuscany Superb" rose(an heirloom) that was given to me by an elderly woman about 5 yrs ago.She handed me this straight "stick" and told me to just stick it in the ground and forget about it"..haha. Well I did and it is now a double branching climber that is about 5-6 foot tall and getting taller every year. It is real hardy. I've found also that lots and lots of folks around here grow the Knockout roses as they bloom year round and are maintenance free,and pretty drought tolerant, but they are a relatively new breed, but wow they don't stop on the bloom either. I'll probably have a few of those even though they are not an heirloom type, but for a constant color in the garden.
~I Dream of a Better World..where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned!~
blogs:http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
and http://thevictorygardener.blogspot.com
magazine: www.stliving.net
etsy shops: http://GardenGooseGifts.etsy.com
and http://myvictorygarden.etsy.com |
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cheneygal
True Blue Farmgirl
503 Posts
Suzie
Cheney
Wa.
USA
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Posted - Jun 11 2010 : 9:13:28 PM
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I love those Knockouts, as far as I'm concerned you can't beat them!! I had them in western Wa. and now in eastern Wa. They just keep on goin' and goin'!! There are a few old homesteads around here and I've seen a yellow climber growing around them, and some growing where there is nothing, but you know at one time there was a home, etc. there. The blossoms from afar look quite small, but very big on color.....hope you find what your looking for!!
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vintage saver
True Blue Farmgirl
323 Posts
oleta
wheelersburg
ohio
USA
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Posted - Jun 12 2010 : 03:06:51 AM
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| I bought a rose started in a pot from a cutting at a yard sale. The man showed me the rose which was just starting to bloom. It is a yellow climber, very tall with MANY fine thorns all along the stems. Mine is a start off that. I don't know the name of it. The older one he said his grandmother planted. It was growing up a corner of the house. I don't know where I'm going to plant mine, but today is the day! |
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special rose cutting or start wanted "Oregon Trail
