I have had a Barbra Streisand for two years. I got it because I like purple roses but have had trouble finding varieties that could grow...Read More in my cold NE Wisconsin (Zone 5) climate. Edmund's Roses recommended it, so I tried it. BAD mistake!
The rose does not get through the winter well, even when boxed and buried in ground. When it finally gets growing, it does not have many blooms. Many of the blooms ball up and do not open, or are deformed. And in my northern climate, the stems tend to be too short for cutflowers.
I think I got one cutflower off of this bush in two whole years. In my garden it is a waste of space. It's time for me to cull. Next year I will try another cultivar in that space.
Babs is a real prima donna for me. She has stayed tiny after five years or so. She offers up about one bloom at a time.However those bloo...Read Morems are so fragrant and have such a lovely and relatively rare lavender color; that she has been spared from "spade pruning". Her flowers are just beautiful in a vase in combination with peach and pink roses .
Rosa 'Barbra Streisand' grows beautifully for me. It's foliage is dark and quite striking on a compact shapely plant. In our area roses...Read More are especially prone to powdery mildew and rust but Rosa 'Barbra Streisand' has much less than the others...even those supposedly resistant to these problems. The scent of this rose is the real showstopper. You can smell it throughout an entire quadrant of my garden when in bloom and even when cut and brought indoors it holds its scent for days. The scent is not overly sweet; it is a bit spicy but very intense. I have tried propogating it from softwood cuttings but have not succeeded yet. Has anyone else done so? Very worth obtaining if you are in the Bay Area.
I have a lot of roses, and this one is by far the worst one to have blackspot. Yes, it blooms a lot, but I'm not sure that's a good enou...Read Moregh exchange to make it worth the trouble of trying to deal with the blackspot.
This rose has been wonderful with it's production of flowers. It has lots of buds on it & has been blooming consistently for about 6 wee...Read Moreks now. Wonderful fragrance!
I have had a Barbra Streisand for two years. I got it because I like purple roses but have had trouble finding varieties that could grow...Read More
Babs is a real prima donna for me. She has stayed tiny after five years or so. She offers up about one bloom at a time.However those bloo...Read More
Rosa 'Barbra Streisand' grows beautifully for me. It's foliage is dark and quite striking on a compact shapely plant. In our area roses...Read More
I have a lot of roses, and this one is by far the worst one to have blackspot. Yes, it blooms a lot, but I'm not sure that's a good enou...Read More
This is a pretty rose with a great fragrance, but I took out 3 of them because of the horrible black spot they get in my zone 5 garden.
Prone to blackspot.
This rose has been wonderful with it's production of flowers. It has lots of buds on it & has been blooming consistently for about 6 wee...Read More