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Alberic Barbier...What's so special? clip this post email this post what is this?
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Posted by rjlinva 7 (My Page) on Thu, May 24, 07 at 7:38
The rose books rave about this rose...and EVERYTHING they say about it is absolutely true. I've got four of them, and I could never tire of it. Create a spot for him, he's incredible.
Robert
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Posted by williamcartwright Z10 SoCal (My Page) on Thu, May 24, 07 at 13:10
What fortuitous luck!!!
I have an Alberic Barbier band due in the post today (or tomorrow).
At this point my mind is split on how I should use this rose, so your input is more than welcome.
One thought is to highly train and prune the rose on swags of chain ("festoons") as described by Stephen Scanniello in this book "A Year of Roses".
The other thought is let it go as "wild" and rambling as possible. Along one of my property lines I've made a "rose wall", where I've taken redwood 4x4s (17ft above ground) cross braced them with 2X4s and the run wire across. These hold 2 Cecile Brunner Climbers.
I am going to make more "rose wall" structures on our other property line, and I'm wondering if an Alberic Barbier would work in this fashion? In the Public gardens I've seen him in, he's never been left to get "natural sized".
And I'm not sure about the "lax canes" which make it so good for uses like "festooning". The Cecile Brunner builds up a lot of strong wood and is rather self supporting, so having an esentially "open" structure...with 12 ft of wire running in 12 inch increments works very well. Do you think Alberic Barbier would respond to this kind of treatment, or would it require more support?
Lastly, left more or less unclipped, will Alberic Barbier get really full? Ideally this "rose wall" would provise a near total screen from our neighbor's home.
A bombardment of questions for sure. But I know of no one growing one Alberic Barbier, much less four.
Appreciate any feedback,
Bill |
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