This fragrant, highly disease resistant beauty is raved about in the cut flower circles online, a sought after David Austin variety. I've ordered 3 arriving today and will report back on how they do in SE Michigan. Characteristics include opening first with a slightly yellow tinge, then full open white & cream colors.
It is repeat flowering and is described on the website and elsewhere having a medium-strong, fruity, citrusy scent. The blooms are medium, shrub size 4ft x 3ft. Full, lush blooms, with a petal count of 80. I will be using it in a mixed border. It can also handle some shade.
I had bought what I thought was a white iceberg rose from Tractor Supply. The first two years, the rose was a long-stemmed yellow rose. Obviously, the graft wasn't even an iceberg rose! Then, this year, the graft must have died and the rootstock just exploded! My research indicates that Dr. Huey roses are often used for rootstock because the roots are so tenacious. Unfortunately, it only blooms once a year for the most part and then the spent canes apparently develop black spot, which has been happening to mine. The recommendation is to prune back the spent canes as it only flowers on the 1-year-old growth. So, if you want more flowers next year then you'll need to stop wasting energy on spent canes and prune immediately after blooms are spent. I was hoping to get a rose that I could use to collect rose petals so I had wanted an iceberg as they are prolific. However, this dark red (rather than white) bloom is also stunning in how deep red and velvety it is and also seems to resist sun bleaching. So, I think I'm going to keep this rose anyway as it's much better than the long-stemmed yellow rose. I will collect so many petals for my crafts!
It's a small and particular rose. More than once I noticed that the second bloom may occur in just one full color (yellow on mine, I read elsewhere that it can bloom also only in red) instead of the striped one.
Antique climbing rose. The very perfumed flowers keep growing continuously from spring to beginning of winter. Flowers aren't very longlasting (even cut).
A super resistant rose that grows quickly and requires very little care (if you don't have enough space, you will need to cut branches from time to time).
It's a medium size rambling rose (up to around 3 mts height). Branches and flowers starting from the lower part of the plant.
Pros: strong plant, longlasting, strongly perfumed groups of flowers.
Cons: It blooms in waves, a strong 1st bloom in spring followed by generally 2 small blooms (early and late summer). Flowers are sensitive to rain.
It was "discovered" in the 1800s growing in the yard of the church of St. Michael and All Angels in Woolverstone, Suffolk, England, where one of my ancestors was Rector from 1597 until his death in 1615.
"Lara" is a creamy white rose I saw at the Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival in England this summer. I fell completely in love with her lacy petals and bought it for my aunt there. Searching for her in the US - a little hunting online shows it's also been sold here as "Home and Family" or "Atomic Blonde." The fragrance is just lovely with hints of almonds and anise. Very different.
My Rosa 'Peggy Martin' froze back nearly to the ground during the -6F Great Texas Freeze of 2021. So, of course I had to get another one. By that time, it had started growing back from the ground and 2023 blooms are in the posted plant picture. This plant sends up new rooted shoots from the roots as well as from branches that touch the ground and is easily propagated that way.
My purchased ones grow on large heavy duty arbors adjacent a 6 foot fence after seeing one of the neighborhood arbors collapsed from the weight of the shoots.
In our garden the rose is over 6 ft tall, though it's taken over 10 years for it to establish itself. The bloom form often resembles many of the early HT
Named for the founder of Portmeirion Pottery (together with her husband Euan Cooper-Willis), who was a great enthusiast of the English Roses. David Austin, 2010.
This is my most very favorite rose of all time, but now it's been discontinued & I'm devastated that I can't get more. I haven't had much luck propagating it, not sure why. I've been looking for another rose to match it, but I'm not sure anything will match the incredible fragrance & the huge, cupped flowers.
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