Rugosas: Tough as nails, hardy, disease resistant and repeat blooming. These are good reliable performers. They can be touchy about transplanting and require watering the first year until they've acclimated. After that, all they'll need is any dead wood cut out and a spring feeding. 'Rosarie de l’Hay’ Cochet-Cochet 1901 Large, just double flowers of deep purple-red. Strong fragrance of roses and clove. Beautiful in bud. This is my favorite Rugosa. It was in bloom most of the summer last year. Grown well, it will not disappoint. 5 x 5 Stands shade, but even better in sun. SOLD OUT FOR 2011
Large, double, ruffled flowers, red in bud, then deep pink fading to rose. Interesting parentage: (R. acicularis xR. rugosa kamitchatica) X (R. amblyotis xR. rugosa plena) x Betty Bland. About 4' here. SOLD OUT
will sulk and decline. We pick the good ones. Cut them hard in spring after a season or two and give them regular feedings. Dead head for best repeat bloom. 'Graham Thomas' Austin 1983 Large, very double, rich yellow blooms with egg yolk yellow centers. Strong tea rose fragrance. Good repeat bloom. A beautiful tribute to the rosarian. Said to be bushy and healthy. Each year we've sold out before we got ours. 5x4 Can also be used as climber- 10 to 12' with support. SOLD OUT FOR 2011 'Huntington' Austin 2005 Very large petal-filled, deeply cupped blooms in a pleasing deep pink. 'Huntington' exhibits old rose character and fragrance. Said to be particularly tough and healthy, the plants are somewhat arching and mounded. SOLD OUT FOR 2011 'Tess of the D'Ubervilles' Austin Tess has large fragrant flowers of bright red crimson. Deeply cupped at first, they reflex back as they open giving the bloom a sweet informality. Good old rose fragrance. The rose is named after the heroine in Thomas Hardy's novel of the same name, which was first published in 1891. SOLD OUT FOR 2011 'The Herbalist' Austin Think of it as a repeat blooming Gallica officinalis. A semi-double rose that opens flat to expose a large bunch of golden stamens. The color is light crimson, varying to dark pink. A strong and reliable rose of broad, bushy habit and typical Old Rose character. An ideal border plant. Good re=bloom. Light fragrance. SOLD OUT FOR 2011 HYBRID SPINOSISSIMAS (Scotch Roses) ' Karl Forster' Kordes Germany 1953 1.5m ('Frau Karl Drushki' x R.pimpinellifolia) Ivory-white blossoms on an arching shrub. Good bloom early rose season and recurrently until frost. Beautiful 3" high-centered blooms opening to yellow stamens. Some fragrance. Does well in poor soils or shade, stands salt. Deadhead to encourage later bloom. "Ideal rose for the woodland garden." 5' X6' Very hardy, zone 4 at least. SOLD OUT FOR 2011 Species Roses Rosa hugonsis: aka “Father Hugo’s Rose” and “Golden Rose of China” Scanlan 1899 Small butter-yellow flowers en mass on graceful, arching branches. Foliage is small and ferny. The earliest blooming spring rose here. This is often in bloom by The tavern at Landis Valley just before Mothers’ Day where it always draws many admirers. Fragrant & once-blooming. SOLD OUT FOR 2011 Rosa gallica ‘Rosa Gallica’ pre-1500 Shallow, cupped, deep rose-pink, single blooms with bright yellow stamens. Good fragrance. Sets oval hips. Low growing. Possibly the parent species rose of the gallicas. Easy. SOLD OUT FOR 2011 |
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