Blue Girl
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Purchased as a potted plant with some buds on it, this was the first plant to flower in the garden in 1998. The buds start out as a maroon color when you can first see color in the slits of the outer coverings, and as they continue to open they turn to a very pale shade of lavender. They smell like a delicate strawberry milkshake. Two roses will fill an office with their scent. The flower has a perfect rose bud shape as it starts to open, |
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and it looks great in a bud vase as a single flower.
The plant did not suffer from blackspot after a very wet spring. Blue girl goes quickly from bud to flower, and when cut lasts only a few days in the vase, but is a very beautiful rose. An arrangement of the light colored blue girl, with the slightly darker Heirloom and some white Fountain Squares was truly beautiful.
The plant seemed to not like the high heat and humidity we had very early in the summer, with any new buds that formed dying off very quickly. It seemed to respond to greatly increased watering a bit, but still not the type of growth the other bushes were showing. The plant grew to 29" tall and 32" wide.
Blue Girl was not a terrific producers of flowers it's first year, there were some on it in May (it was purchased with buds on it), a few more in the middle of August, and nothing through to the first week in September when this page was updated.
