Gemini

15 years ago

This is a truly amazing rose. Too bad I got it as a standard, as the rose grows too big later in the season to even photograph. Here is what it looks like now.

Fame and English Sachet in background.

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TriniStar
15 years ago
These are BEAUTIFUL!! I just planted my Gemini today and I can't wait to see it bloom! Hopefully it's as pretty and full as yours!
newyorkrita
15 years ago
It is really such a lovely rose.
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hosenemesis
15 years ago
This may be my favorite hybrid tea, and your photos are wonderful.
Renee
C Schaffner
15 years ago
Beautiful. Mine is getting ready to bloom soon. I can't wait.
zeffyrose
15 years ago
A friend of mine has this rose and it is so gorgeous and healthy.

Great picture

Florence
canadian_rose
15 years ago
Wow!! Those are amazingly beautiful two-toned perfect blooms. I keep thinking of getting it, but I really like scented roses. Where I lived before - none of my roses had scent. But here, scent actually happens, and I long for it. But oh my goodness those are gorgeous!!!

I'm going back up for another look!! :)

Carol
hoovb zone 9 sunset 23
15 years ago
Very nice indeed. I like that rose a lot.
Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
15 years ago
Very nice group of pictures. Makes me go hmmmmm...Maybe I need to buy this rose. I've always been leary about the thrips problem though.
kathy9norcal
Original Author
15 years ago
It has never had a thrips problem here, Mary. To me, it is a 'beginner' rose as it always opens perfectly.
seil zone 6b MI
15 years ago
Wow! That's amazing, Kathy! Have you tried pruning it really deep to keep it shorter? I agree that HT's don't make the best standards for the very reason you mention. They just like to grow too tall. But you have to admit they're gorgeous!
kathy9norcal
Original Author
15 years ago
Seil, I do prune it way back in winter, but HTs are bred to have long stems and IMHO, should not be offered as standards. Not all of us, especially me, are smart enough to know this! Even Ebb Tide, which isn't a HT, grows too tall for a standard. Oh well, we learn sometimes after mistakes.
buford
15 years ago
Beautiful! Sigh, I HAD a Gemini, but it has RRD or some kind of disease and I had to shovel prune it.
jean_ar
15 years ago
Its a very beautiful rose.And it has a very good scent when it first opens.Later in the day the scent kind of vanishes.

Jean
Mandyrose
15 years ago
Beautiful!
seil zone 6b MI
15 years ago
When you dead head cut deeper, Kathy. It shouldn't hurt it a bit and maybe will keep the blooms down where you want them.
ron_and_susan
15 years ago
Kathy--Just like a ad in Gardens Beautiful.--Ron