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Bloom size on Lynne Anderson
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Posted by Jont1 Midwest (My Page) on Wed, Sep 29, 04 at 11:40
| I am very disappointed in my bushes of Lynne Anderson I put in this year. The foliage is great--large, green, bs resistant, etc...but the bloom size is quite small and is really not very floriferous to speak of. I had never heard that this was a problem with Lynne Anderson and I am very surprised. Is this common?? Am I doing something wrong?? Should I do something different?--all my others are fine sized. Maybe it just doesn't do well in the Midwest.....JonT1 |
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RE: Bloom size on Lynne Anderson
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| That is a trait of Lynn Anderson, big, very tall, large leaves, not especially floriferous and doesn't repeat very fast. Good points are disease resistance, blooms are very pretty but small, can win Queen at shows if just right. Best color and bloom size in cool weather. The same for it's sport Crowd Pleaser. That is my observation here in So.Ca. |
RE: Bloom size on Lynne Anderson
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ROn you are indeed right on the money; Both Lynn Anderson & Crowd Pleaser do well for in my microclimate; I think the issue is that we are so ingrained with size & proportion that these roses sometimes confound people. Interestingly, the bloom size on crowd pleaser is larger than Lynn Anderson.
We saw Lynn ANderson win queen here in SCA this past spring |
RE: Bloom size on Lynne Anderson
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| The first bloom of Lynn Anderson in the spring is usually very nice and with decent size. After that the plant seems to spend most of its energy growing, with the result that you get few and smaller blooms after the first spring flush. Too bad, because the blooms can be beautiful. |
RE: Bloom size on Lynne Anderson
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Jon T1,
For your information, in the final review on Lynn Anderson in the 1998 “Roses In Review. Of the 343 reports submitted, everyone found the Hybrid Tea bi-color blooms to be very beautiful, but was too small for the long stems and large foliage. While it has good spring blooms, it uses its energy to grow tall rather than larger blooms. It is a good show rose in the spring with long lasting blooms, it is also winter tender. Ratings were; Garden 7.4 and Exhibition (7.7), considered a good rose.
Ron. S. |
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