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Based on the code, pollen parent is Oh My!, which I think is best red Florrie out there now.
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And plausibly Grand Dame, considering the codename, form, and slightly larger bloom size.
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I think Milano Kolorscape is the best red flori out there, but it never picked up steam. After a few years, it will produce sprays like Lavaglut, but without the blackspot and insane prickles. Roughly the same size plant and similar trusses of blooms. Its dark red but not black-red. It takes about 3 years until it produces those consistently.
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Except the know nothings at Kordes registered Milano as a shrub, not a florrie. So that means it competes with a whole separate set. Does it bloom enough? I tend to see only two good bloom cycles per year on my Kordes group, versus four or more with Weeks and Star good varieties. I suspect Kordes prioritizes disease resistance over bloomiferousness. I would rather have the blooms.
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Yikes. Listed flori online, but I no longer own those ars combined manuals. That's so sad. It has the exact same architecture as Princess of Wales.
Yikes, found it... www.modernroses.org/details.php?cultivar=2039
Depressing.
Milano is an everbloomer. It's not one of their giants. It is healthy, but should not be in the Kolorscape group. It's just a little flori guy.
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I wish I could photograph the red without the saturation issue. My phone just can't make it happen.
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Robert, can you please email support with the original phone photo file. We want to experiment with HMF's photo processing to see what we can do about the saturation issue.
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Excellent! Thank you!
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Happens to me too. A lot of dark reds come out magenta, even when I wait for overcast. A lot of orange comes back poorly.
Cool thing about 'Timeless' is that it can be dark electric pink, light red, or either color with a dark red rim. Very weather dependent. When mature, the form is fairly consistent, although a few bullnoses will show up. It has a tendency to bloom in candelabras August and onwards.
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Life of the Party or Love Song? x Pumpkin Patch? x Silver Lining? Dunno which or in what order, but maybe. Probably Life of the Party x (Pumpkin Patch x Silver Lining)? Not sure.
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Really liking this rose so far. Mine is own root. 100F weather color was nice. It is definitely a deep electric pink, but it does have a faint salmon hue to it. The fade shows a bit more of the salmon hue and seems to hold up to the heat. I am near sea level so even in August the UV is less, but I know the heat bothers it very little.
No real scent, but I don't care personally. The foliage is amazing. It's basically wichurana foliage as a small hybrid tea. More of a short grandiflora really. It has not shown any susceptibilities to diseases yet, and not a single leaf has dropped. 'Daybreaker' is 5' away and defoliated. No HT has beat out 'Claret' for mid-summer fragrance so I'm not expecting a miracle.
Looking forward to its maturity. Almost skipped out on this rose. No scent, "yet another Kordes", and not really my color range. Yet, it works out very nicely. I feel like this is what Brownell imagined when they began to make their wichurana-based HT series. 'Lafter' is honestly a specimen shrub.
Edit: Has remained disease-free. Own root vigor is amazing. Basals galore. However, its too tall. This eventually becomes a back border rose.
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Thank you for the edit on this comment. This is exactly the information I was looking for. I just received my bareroot Fiji yesterday from Sweet Hilltop Farm. It is grafted on multiflora and roses grafted on multiflora are very strong growers here and often exceed published height ranges. I was wondering if that would be the case with Fiji since I hoped to plant it pretty far back in my bed. I have Lafter and it is remarkably clean here despite my blackspot pressure so your comparison is cause great optimism. Cheers!
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