What a fabulous picture, the color combination is perfect! And what an exciting mystery!

Gorgeous pic, Jackie. Love the colors and the plant combination.

Sherry

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What a fun story, Jackie! I often find that it is my "whimsy" that gets me into trouble or creates amusing mysteries in the garden (morning glories in the kitchen garden, random rose clippings stuck here and there throughout the garden). The picture is stunning, kind of patriotic! Thanks again for the story, it was a great pick-me-up for one of those endless afternoons at the desk.

Love the picture. Love the story.
What a BEAUTIFUL rose that is!

Jeri

Jackie, what a stunning mix of blooms and a great story. I hope your cutting turns out to be this rose. I really dislike red roses but this one has enough of a purplish tinge to be beautiful in my eyes, not to mention that old-fashioned, many-petaled appearance. Really lovely! I also hope your cutting of Le Vesuve is a success.

Ingrid

Beautiful! My kind of gardening. Letting the plants intertwine.

Hope it's Crimson Glory for Rosefolly's sake.

Diane

Beautiful story and rose!

I am bad about labeling too. I will have to wait and see what blooms in my cuttings.

And in the garden in 3 sections; I have 2 sections of moms favorite cucumber, 1 of lemon Cucumbers, 1 pickling cucumbers. The problem....4 types in 3 rows....hmmm wonder which section I planted 2x

Jackie: So pretty a composition. Do you cut back the clematis each year or let it climb more? -Nancylee

Jackie, I am absolutely thrilled! My fingers are crossed. Thank you so much.

And ---I'm sending you an email.

Rosefolly

Loved your mystery story, Jackie. We really have some wonderful writers on this forum. So much talent here! I'll bet you have a constant line of cars driving past, ogling your roses and other bloomers.

I love the story and I really love the photo. I've been told that if you take your cutting from a lateral that it won't climb. I don't know if you did that. My first Climbing Crimson Glory didn't do well but I've got two more going now and I'm hopeful,especailly after hearing your story.

Hi Jackie: That's absolutely pretty combo: red crimson glory and blue clematis. I have a crimson-glory own-root hybrid tea, it's my favorite. It's 100% clean here, easy rose, fresh scent. It blooms way-better than Austins.

I LOVE stories like this----it makes me happy ----the picture is glorious----Many years ago I had HT---CG ----wonderful fragrance---I do hope your cutting is CG for Paula's sake--I'm sure she will treasure it ----
Please keep us posted---
Florence

Heartbreaking beauty! I love CG! Thank you, Jackie.

Just an update on the above story - Paula came over to my house and picked up the Cl Crimson Glory baby in its small pot. By that time it had bloomed, and also put out a 7 ft long cane, so I was sure it was Cl Crimson Glory. She told me recently that she has planted it next to a chimney - I can't wait for pictures from next Spring.

Of the other two mystery rooted cuttings, one does look exactly like Margo Koster, except that is is white (so far 100% of the time). So, I am assuming that I rooted a white sport of MK (which I have a vague memory of doing), and I planted it in my oval bed along with Margo and another sport of her which is a dark dark pink (that rose sports amazingly!). The third one is still TBD, but definitely looks like a tea rose. I planted it in a large pot on the patio, and if the deer will stop pruning it I may find out who it is.

Aside - I know deer are awful in the garden, but we get them in only ones and twos because we live so close to downtown in our town. A few weeks ago a doe had her fawn in the back yard of our next door neighbors (my upstairs tenants were witnesses!). Since then she and the fawn have been hanging out in my garden, or others very close to us. Yesterday we watched the fawn nursing in a sheltered sort of wild part of our back garden. Then the doe and the fawn spent a few minutes licking each other. They have been pruning my roses, of course, but I really don't mind - I love all of the wildlife in our garden.

Jackie

How much repeat do you get from Cl. Crimson Glory?

I think it makes a much nicer climber than other HT sports because the flower stems are short and droopy.

This post was edited by michaelg on Tue, Jul 30, 13 at 17:12

What a beautiful rose, and a wonderful story Jackie I love the old fragrant hybrid teas, I'm not as strict with the red colour though. It is particularly nice to have one from an old garden in the neigbourhood. The only one I have which can compare with yours is climbing Etoile de Hollande, which I planted mostly for the fragrant flowers. I have it up my wall, and it is between flushes, with two flowers at the moment. It repeats fairly well. Have you fuzzed with clever pruning techniques? Climbing hybrid teas are suppose to be a bit difficult.

Michael - it has blooms on it all summer, but not a full flush as in the Spring.

Taoseeker - Hah! I do not do any fancy pruning techniques on any of our 120 roses. This Cl Crimson Glory was supposed to be twined around a rose folly. That lasted maybe 12 months, then it took off and is growing on the next door arch which was intended for Sombreuil. Now we just prune off the dead stuff, and tie up the new canes onto the arch - it likes it up there. I have two flowers at the moment too - they are so beautiful - here is the bud:

Jackie

It took me a while to get Cl CG in the ground. I had to move several plants to give it the feature spot by the chimney that I wanted, and I didn't want to do any transplanting while the heat was at its worst. To make room I moved Madame Plantier to the all-white garden near the cottage. And that had to wait until my DH made me a new copper trellis, and I had repositioned a mature blueberry bush, a white clematis and a couple of white delphiniums. You get the picture. But all is done now and I am happy as a clam. With a little luck, next year I may be posting pictures much like Jackie's.

Rosefolly

Hi Jacqueline:

Really enjoyed your story - but one tiny correction. 'Climbing Crimson Glory' wasn't introduced in the US until 1946, so it couldn't be from the 1930's. Of course, it could have been from any time after it's introduction. Just keeping things historically accurate.

I'm tyring to find the best way to prune my climbing hybrid tea, I dont' have much experience either. They have a reputaiton for not repeating very well, if at all, but it seems to be all about pruning. I have an old rosebook (graham stuart thomas), and he writes they need to be pruned ever so carefully since they only for buds on the sideshoots of the twigs and canes which already have flowered. That might come naturally if left to nature, but if pruned too hard, the plant will only sprout lots of green leaves. I'm not sure if this matters at all in Calefornia zone 9 where there hardly is any winter, but where I live roses go dormant and it very much does. Anyone esle growing climbing hybrid teas?

I dug up this thread because I REALLY like Jacqueline's photo of CLIMBING CRIMSON GLORY and the story is as beautiful as the rose. The original shrub version (Hybrid Tea, 1936) was a Gamble Fragrance Award winner in 1961. Lusciously full velvety red blooms are intensely fragrant and nod downwards on thin stems, which is always a merit for a climbing rose. So beautiful...

Thanks, Patrick. Sort of startling to see this old post suddenly pop up. fyi, Crimson Glory is still going strong, as is the white rose in the pic - Sombreuil, aka Colonial White.

Jackie

The older books sung the praises of Crimson Glory. The bluish reds are coming back into favor, thank goodness.

I grew Jackie's Climbing Crimson Glory when I lived in California. It is as beautiful and as fragrant as you are imagining.