Noisette, Tea Noisette Rose 'Crepuscule'

Agree with earlier post that this is a great rose for the South. In my garden, it replaced another apricot-colored rose that was plagued...Read More with blackspot; Crepuscule fares far better. The color is subtle and lovely. My only knock on this rose: it doesn't last long as a cut flower. But it's gorgeous in the garden.

Planted this at our winter home in New Orleans to disguise a poorly-repaired brick wall with a glaringly obvious difference in mortar col...Read Moreor. The planting area is about 10” wide by 12 feet long and filled with mostly sand which I mixed with some topsoil, manure, and compost at planting time…definitely not ideal conditions. It didn’t seem to care and has rewarded me with fast growth, good health, and lots of blooms. I do fertilize it when I’m here and also continue to dress with compost. It appreciates a hard pruning each year and has been easily trained horizontally on wire cables.Left alone, I can’t imagine how big it would get, but I know it would be BIG! I love the colors…buds are tinged with red, open to a delicious shade of apricot, and fade to yellow. Individual flowers don’t seem to last long, but there are many in the cluster. It sometimes gets a bit of black spot, but on the whole is very healthy, especially considering that it gets absolutely no care for the 8 months of the year we’re not here. Only one thing is disappointing to me: Based on many writeups, I was expecting it to be very fragrant, but mine has no scent at all. I love it anyway.

It is blooming now in my zone 7b garden. Love the pretty peach blooms!

I have this trained against the south end of my house and I'm very pleased with it. It is a vigorous plant and blooms reliably all summer...Read More long. It needs a good bit of space, but if you give it that, it's quite happy.