{"id":1778,"date":"2008-03-31T18:19:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T00:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2017-07-20T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T17:52:01","slug":"rose-souvenir-de-la-malmaison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/plant-highlights\/rose-souvenir-de-la-malmaison\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love the cyclical nature of gardening. I’m amused to find myself taking photos of ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ as I did exactly one year ago. I wish I could put her on pause because today all her flowers are in full bloom and by tomorrow the petals will be scattered on the paths. And I really wanted Carol<\/a> to see her. Ephemeral beauty. She’s bloomed non-stop all through March but she won’t make it to April. Fortunately ‘Blush Noisette’ is waiting in the wings to take the spotlight. Thus I am consoled.<\/p>\n

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Dateline: 2007<\/h3>\n


\n\"photo:
March 28, 2007<\/i>
\nDespite my losing almost half my roses in the last two years to rose dieback, my favorite rose ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ is still growing strong. She is the undisputed queen of the roses in my garden. Her flowers are almost twice the size of any of the other heirloom roses. They have a beautiful shape in all of their forms, as a buds, partially opened, and fully opened. The flowers are sweetly scented and they cover the bush like huge pom-poms.<\/p>\n

In addition to being covered with flowers right now, she’s sending up new canes. I had to cut her back a bit because she insists on growing out into the path and attacking the meter reader. She hasn’t been bothered with spring cankerworms this year–I’ve found hardly any so far.<\/p>\n

Garden History<\/h3>\n

Dateline: 2000-10-11<\/strong>
\nI plant the climbing ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ under our bedroom window in compost, greensand, and composted manure.<\/p>\n

Dateline: 2001-10-11<\/strong>
\n‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ has been the most incredibly vigorous rose I’ve planted. From the base it has produced three thick stalks an inch in diameter and two slightly thinner ones. These stalks arch out over seven feet. I have tied them down to an iron railing. Each stalk has broken and produced flower stems along their lengths about two feet tall. It bloomed in the spring, but it was wet then and so the many flowers balled. I’m looking forward to a tremendous fall bloom soon.<\/p>\n

Dateline: 2004-03-11<\/strong>
\nGiven the abundance of rain we’ve had the last two months and the mild winter (no late hard freezes like in 2002 and 2003), the roses are sprouting new growth like never before. They’re all three or four years old now, so that might also be a contributing factor. Most of the roses still had last year’s leaves, which are ragged, turning yellow, and subject to black spot. So I’ve had to strip them (which I usually do anyway a couple of weeks before pruning them).<\/p>\n

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March 10, 2004<\/i><\/p>\n

The bourbon rose ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ is the first to put on a show. This year she managed to open her flowers before the annual attack of spring cankerworms. She’s still recovering from the powdery mildew<\/a> that’s troubled her since last November. This causes the flowers to ball. The outer petals form a hardened case that the inner ones can’t break apart. So I have to open each affected flower by hand. The flowers are so double, though, you can’t tell that the outer petals have been removed.<\/p>\n

Despite the extra effort she requires, ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ remains my favorite rose.<\/p>\n

\"photo:
February 22, 2005<\/i><\/p>\n

Dateline: 2006-03-12<\/strong>
\nYesterday the first flower opened on ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ and today she is covered with flowers. With temperatures near the 90s, the flowers open and fade in the same day. However, given how dry this spring has been, none of the flowers are balling. They are absolutely gorgeous this year. She sets flowers on small sidestems which grow off long arching canes. So I think she’d be a great rose for an arch.<\/p>\n

I stripped the old leaves in the last week of January…so it took about six weeks for her to respond. And she’s beat the spring cankerworms this year. Of all the roses, she responds to stripping most dramatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ March 31, 2008, in a light mist…coming down with a case of powdery mildew.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[83,227,411,444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5568,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}