That's a beautiful rose, thanks for the recommendation!

Jeri, are you on a mission to bankrupt many of us with your luscious rose porn? I've noticed you've upped the ante lately with pictures that make one drool. Maybe you have a hidden agenda? Every time I see one of your pictures I think of that commercial on TV where the little girl is trying to entice a lady to buy a whole box of donuts with winks and come-hither gestures.

You peeked! LOL! I can SEE Jeri's "come hither" antics as she posted that. She's right, though, great rose and the one she spoke of is almost a ROOM you can nearly walk in to. Kim

Thanks for the post, Jeri. I have a Red Radiance that I'm planning to plant in a space vacated by Radiance that was murdered by rabbits. I like the idea of having "the best of the best". I'll let you know how it does in the southeast a it matures.

You guys are SO COOL!

Jeri ;-)

Does anyone else think Jeri's partial to red ones ... ?

I have a Radiance which I just moved into more sun yesterday. Maybe next year she'll be happier.

Gean

Jeri is RED RADIANCE really that color=003300>R-E-Dcolor=red>? In other pictures I've seen it appears more dark pink or cerise than red. I know Radiance and its sports are sinfully fragrant but do they work well as cut flowers? Anybody grow PINK RADIANCE? I've got rose fever. LOL!

Image of Pink Radiance by OldBlush at Hortiplex.

I don't know if they have a GREAT vase life, but I observe that I can get 2.5-3 days in a vase, and that's good enough for me.

That presumes that they are picked fairly tight, of course.

As to color . . . Red Radiance is more red than, say, Lady Ann Kidwell or Benny Lopez -- two roses which I really think of as "cerise."

That said, this is definitely a blue-toned red, rather than the screaming meemie red of more modern red HTs.

We once grew 'City Of San Francisco'. The color was so blaringly, blazingly, screaming red that we removed the perfectly-healthy plant, after one year. That's NOT my kind of red. 'Red Radiance' is my kind of red.

I agree, Malcolm! There was some truth in the statement that the Radiance roses could be grown "anywhere civilized Man could live."

Here is the huge Red Radiance that grew at Rancho Camulos (Piru, CA) for many decades. Given what we know of the property and it's history, I am reasonably certain that this was planted prior to 1924, when the original family there sold the property. The rose was very close to the "Small Adobe," which was built "around 1920," by Nachito del Valle -- and was, I think, associated with that building.

Sadly, the rose is now gone. The only remnant of it is a small own-root plant on my front porch -- which is soon going to live with my friend Kim.

I should add that I am positive that this was two roses, probably planted on either side of this wide concrete pathway. Both were budded onto "Ragged Robin," which was trying hard to take over.

Gorgeous, Jeri.

I used to grow 'Red Radiance' here, but mine was more a deep pink than a true red.

Also mine got both PM and rust. Not the worst rose for either disease, but not as disease free as I believe it can be elsewhere.

I kept 'Careless Love', a less vigorous member of the Radiance clan, partly because I love striped roses and don't have any others just now, and partly in memory of Carol Markell, whose favorite rose it was.

Rosefolly

I love Careless Love, too. I haven't been able to get it to grow here, but I've always wondered what it might do, grafted to something like Fortuniana.

No rust or mildew here on the Radiance roses. Funny how location works . . .

I have Radiance and I love it. It's great here in Mid TN. Now I guess I'm going to have to find Red Radianceâ¦although I will have to keep it to a manageable size.
Thanks Jeri
Susan

Ah, Susan, that RR in the photo probably had a good 75-80 years to reach those proportions.

It breaks my heart that they killed it.

I want to grow it. I love the fragrance. Jeri, that's the rose growing next to the grave of Bessie Lee Rogers that I told you about with some blooms reverting to Radiance.

I have one little maltreated plant from it. I'm giving it to Kim, to bud onto VID rootstock -- so there can be more of it.

Very good!

Jeri, I am glad to hear that.

It just makes sense. :-)

It just makes sense. :-)