Do you suppose it could be Blue Chip? That's one of the roses I bought and "misplaced." It's not on any of my garden maps, but it is on my HMF list and I have a 2009 invoice for it from Vintage Gardens.
I also bought three roses at Regan's half-price sale. I had a great day with Sue. We also went to one of her favorite restaurants in San Jose and to the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden. I usually don't leave the house for long, so the cats were completely confused by the time I got home last night, and Frodo never did come home for dinner or for breakfast this morning. Maybe he decided he's an orphan and went off to seek his fortune elsewhere.
I bought Stormy Weather, Sheer Elegance, and a brand-new rose I've never heard of or seen anywhere before. The sign in front of that group of pots said: "The Lowell Rose -- New." The tag simply says "Lowell" (which is the name of my high school, so it spoke to me), so I don't know whether the official name is Lowell or The Lowell Rose. It appears to be a floribunda and it's just my kind of rose -- a bi-color with a hand-painted look.
Wow, Regan's doesn't by any chance do mail order, do they? I've been looking for a SHEER ELEGANCE for a friend for a while now (not very diligently, I must admit) and I just never see it anywhere. And here you got one! That's great! It's absolutely my favorite and I wouldn't mind getting another for me too.
I'm going to place an order myself in the next few minutes. While Sue and I were there, we saw next year's roses and fell down when we looked at Tangerine Streams. It looks a hundred times better than any of the catalog pictures we've seen.
Dawning Moment
Eyeconic Pink Lemonade
Ketchup & Mustard
Tangerine Streams
The Wedgewood Rose
So many of the catalog pictures do these roses no justice whatsoever. Eyeconic Pink Lemonade is not all pink. Some of the blooms on the one we saw were a beautiful lavender and some were blush. Dawning Moment looks like a solid yellow rose on Regan's website, but it actually looks like this....
Guess what -- I just looked on the Regan website and saw EYECONIC LEMONADE and immediately recognized it -- and it (along with EYECONIC PINK LEMONADE!) was hybridized by my friend Jim Sproul right here in Bakersfield! He gave me a plant of EYECONIC LEMONADE back in March but it just had a number at that time and I didn't know it was about to be introduced. And he did show me the red one that he said would be named THRIVE. He's a doctor at Kaiser so the name just popped into his head. Here's a picture I took of EYECONIC LEMONADE when it first bloomed for me. The only thing that bothers me about it is that here in our heat it does fade to white pretty quickly.
The foliage on his hulthemias really amazed me, Betty. It's nothing like the foliage on Euphrates or on Moore's Persian line and his other hybrid hulthemias. It looks more like floribunda foliage.
I know Jim has been working with the hulthemias for many years now, and I guess all his work is really showing up now! I think it's wonderful, and he's such a nice guy!
Name: Suzanne/Sue Sebastopol, CA (Zone 9a) Sunset Zone 15
I could kick myself for not taking my camera out of the truck but I was in shop mode. I go down again on Wed., maybe I can find the time to stop in again and take a few shots this time of some of those new ones. I loved that EYECONIC LEMONADE Betty, and the blooms were quite large, I was used to seeing the smaller Persion series ones from Moore.
Sue, how did the little pink hulthemia mini do for you? Mine just kept dying back and I think it's now dead -- really too bad, because I loved that hot pink little flower! The last thing Jim said to me, though, was that he'd decided he wouldn't register/introduce it because of dieback! Oh well...
UPDATE -- My hot pink mini hulthemia is NOT dead - YEA!!! However, there's not that much left that hasn't died back; not sure if I should prune it back to the two green sticks left or leave the deadwood on there until it cools down a bit here -- suggestions anyone?
Also, you know I just had to get into that Regan Nursery site and check it out, and I'm looking for probably a floribunda tree, 18"-24" or so, and I have two that I'm considering: VAVOOM and KETCHUP & MUSTARD. I looked VAVOOM up in the database and saw some wonderful pic's by Zuzu and Sue -- do either of you have this one and, if so, are you pleased? And how do you think it would work as a patio tree? Also, I remember seeing a picture here somewhere of KETCHUP & MUSTARD that someone posted. Does anyone have that and are you pleased? Or is it a new 2012 introduction? I would appreciate any input on this. THANKS!
Name: Toni Denver Metro (Zone 5a) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Betty - whenever I find one of those type roses, I usually trim off the sunscortched portion & water heavily, feeding heavily too. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
I have Vavoom, Betty, and it's a wonderful rose. The blooms are vibrant, vibrant, vibrant! It would work very well as a patio tree because it has a nice compact habit.
Ketchup & Mustard is brand new, so I doubt that anyone here has any experience with it. I have ordered it because I'm a big fan of bicolor roses. It's a Christian Bedard rose, so it probably will do very well. Here's a page showing all of his roses. I have several of them and have no complaints about them.
