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. ‘Frau Dagmar Hartoop' (‘Fru Dagmar Hastrup’) Hastrup, Denmark 1914 This rose was brought to our attention by a woman searching for a low-growing rose with remarkable hips that she saw growing in Denmark years ago. We identified it and were taken with it enough to carry it. Large, single, fragrant, clear pale-pink flowers, veined deeper pink on a compact plant. Very large, deep-red hips contrast with dark green foliage. 4’ x 4’ 'Moje Hammerberg' Hammerberg 1931 Large violet-rose, semi-double flowers with bright yellow stamens and a strong old rose fragrance. Very large scarlet hips said to be particularly tasty and good food for jelly, tea & vitamin "C." 4' x 4' Grandiflora / Hybrid Tea: ‘Queen Elizabeth’ Lammerts, 1954 Large, medium-pink, perfectly formed flowers on a bushy, upright, healthy, disease resistant plant. This deservedly popular rose blooms on in gardens from the 50's and 60's and at a nearby Burger King where it impresses us each year with its health and floriforousness. Scrolled, pointed buds become full cup-shaped flowers. Recurrent. David Austin describes it as & “almost indestructible.”A Classic. Voted World's Favorite Rose in 1979. 5' Shrub Roses: 'Cinderella Fairy Tale' Kordes, GER, 2004 We've been hearing about the good health and bloom of the Fairy Tale roses and like Kordes roses in general, so we’re offering ‘Cinderella’ this year. Abundant blooms are very full, light pink deepening at the center. Extremely healthy foliage. 4’ Somewhat arching. Very good re-bloom. Sweet, apple-like fragrance. Can be trained as small climber. Gold Medals from trials in Baden-Baden, Geneva and Rome. 'Frontenac': Clusters of large, fragrant, deep pink blooms cover this medium, upright shrub in early summer with continued bloom until hard frost. Very winter hardy and highly resistant to black spot and powdery mildew. One of the Explorer Series. 3’ x 3’ Some fragrance. 'Louis Joillet' An abundant bloomer, Louis smothers itself in double, deep pink flowers with a light, spicy fragrance. Upright bush, suitable as a lower climber. Good repeat and excellent disease resistance. Good glossy, deep green foliage. Very hardy.
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. 'Harlow Carr' Austin 2004 Old Rose Hybrid Pure rose pink, medium sized flowers with a strong old rose fragrance. Tough, free flowering and healthy. 4’ x 3’ rounded shrub. Quite hardy, through at least zone 5. Named for the Royal Horticultural Society's Garden in Yorkshire.
Wonderfully fragrant. Can be used as climber. We sold out last year, but tended Jack’s sister’s plant in the greenhouse all summer and enjoyed them in the vase until mid- November. Elegant! 4 1/2' x 4 1/2' 'Wildeve' Austin 2003 Blush pink flowers touched with apricot on a robust, healthy plant. Very free-blooming and generous. Good choice for post and rail fence. Good fragrance. 3 1/2' x 3 1/2' Very winter hardy. Wildeve was a character in Hardy's The Return of the Native. |
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