April 13th, 2004
Rose ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’
Noisette rose ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’. 2004-04-13. Austin, Texas. Zone 8.
Dateline: 2004
The cold snap that came last weekend has dropped nighttime temperatures into the 40s and ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’ is loving it. Her flowers hold their shape better in cool weather. Under normal April conditions they open and fade in an afternoon and looking, sadly, like crumpled tissues. The flowers are larger than ‘Madame Joseph Schwartz’ and more of a peachy pink than ‘Souvenir del Malmaison’.
Dateline: 2003
The noisette ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’ is a good rose for a garden seat under a trellis because the dainty blossoms bend their heads on thin, flexible stems. Although this characteristic would be a fault in a hybrid tea rose, it’s great for a climbing rose that you want over an arch or any situation where you look up at it.
In just the three years since I’ve planted ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’, she’s filled in a V-shaped trellis to the roof of our one-storey house. She remains attractively bushy from bottom to top even when not in bloom.
The cup-shaped flowers hold their form better in cooler weather. They open rather loosely and fade quickly. What they lack in form they make up in scent.
Madame Alfred Carriere. 2003-04-11. Austin, Texas. Zone 8.
by M Sinclair Stevens in Austin, Texas
September 6th, 2003
I live in z 7b and would like to know if this rose could tolerate the heat. Also how tall can it get? Thank you
Like most noisettes, ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’ survives the heat (in Austin, we average 10 days above 100 each year); they are good Southern roses. It’s the cold that they’re sensitive to. However, she doesn’t bloom during the heat of summer. In fact her best season for bloom in my yard has been fall and winter. This could just be because I’m stingy with my water. Height? So far she’s easily climbed 10 feet to the roofline of my one-storey house. I’ve read elsewhere that she can grow to 20 feet. — mss
April 14th, 2004
It seems like your photos just keep getting better. Did you get a new camera since you took the 2003 photos, or did you just get better at taking pictures? The 2004 photo seems to be crisper, and I would say, have better color, except I don’t know what this rose looks like to make that judgement.
Kathy, yes I got a new camera just about a year ago. It is a digital Nikon Coolpix 4300. The earlier photos were taken with the digital still option of a video camera, the Canon Elura. And at the time I was impressed with the quality over my Sony 8mm. But now all those photos look unfocused and grainy. So I’ve spent the year retaking the photos I did before. Eventually, I’ll get the whole site updated…then it will be time to get a new camera. — mss
April 7th, 2005
OK, I am green with envy. I HAVE to have this rose, but I live in Detroit. Typically z6-ish. Do you think I stand a chance if it is cozied among lots of brick for heat absorption? I have a small south facing bed next to the brick drive with the brick porch behind….A girl can always dream!
The best person to ask is someone else who lives up north. Your site sounds like an excellent place to give it a try. That’s all any of us can do. — mss
May 8th, 2005
Deze roos doet het prima in Belgisch klimaat.
Wel moet ze een paar keer per jaar flink worden ingetoomd.
Ze doet het goed als snijbloem, en bloet van begin mei tot in de herfst.
November 13th, 2005
I had a ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’ planted in Portsmouth, New Hampshire - zone 5 or 6. Had to wrap it in salt hay and burlap in the winters but it survived with some kill on exposed canes - hard to wrap a climber.
November 20th, 2006
Is the ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’ a good climber for a entryway? I’m planting a rose garden and I wanted to grow the ‘Madame Alfred Carriere’ on a trellis for the entrance to my garden.
You didn’t mention where you live but in my part of the country she’s an excellent trellis rose. I have her on a trellis on the south side of my house. She can easily climb two stories and her canes are long and flexible which is good if you want to tie her to a trellis. Also she’s not very thorny so she’s easy to work with. — mss