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Margaret Furness 
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6 days ago by
petera
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The hips wither before they fully develop and I couldn't find anything like fertile seeds.
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The plant in my previous garden didn't have persisting hips either
I note that three suggested IDs (Captain Christy, Georg Arends, Baroness Rothschild) each have at least one offspring listed, as seed parent.
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6 days ago by
petera
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I have grown Georg Arends and Baroness Rothschild in the past and, provided my plants were correctly named, Shalice is neither. I have never grown Capitaine Christy so can only compare it to the pictures on HMF. CC has longish pedicels while on S they are very short and consequently the inflorescences are short and crowded like those of many HPs. Many pictures show CC flowers drooping, S flowers are on rigid stems and cannot droop. S has very large, extravagantly foliose sepals while those of CC are almost simple, with sometimes a couple of little outgrowths (I don't know a name) on the margins. Some of the pictures of full-on flowers of CC look incredibly like S (see those from Georges Francis March 09) but if you look at a side view the flowers are totally different.
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Despite the drought it's still looking rather lush.
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Yes, I don't know if it got preferential treatment compared with the plant (yucca? ) behind it. We are now on day 150 without 10mm in the raingauge.
I looked through pages and pages of Iceberg photos on hmf without finding a picture of hips (except Patricia's - of course). It's helpful to identify found roses if details are posted early.
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6 days ago by
HubertG
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I do see hips every now and then on Iceberg around Sydney but the photo you posted looks like every bloom in the cluster took successfully and I did wonder if that was the plant's desperate attempt to reproduce as a survival response to the stress of the drought.
I hope you get some rain soon enough.
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We'll all be rooned, said Hanrahan, if rain don't come this week...
(From 'Said Hanrahan', a bush ballad from 1919.)
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This is a good rose for displays in hot weather (38C yesterday). II you pick it with lots of buds, keep the vase out of the sun, and occasionally top up the vase with icewater, the buds keep coming out. And attracting bees.
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Is there something odd happening with the recent photos? Some are missing, especially rose photos: an unusual preponderance of peonies.
Got it: if you click on Search/Lookup and then scroll down to Peonies, and then move on to New/Recent>Photos, you get peonies. Learn a new thing every day.
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