For gardeners in USDA zones 4 and colder, there's a new red climbing rose that blooms all summer and survives the harsh winters without protection.
'Ramblin' Red' features 10-foot-tall canes that have deep red, sweetly fragrant, double flowers. The bushes don't need winter protection, even in USDA zone 3, and have strong disease resistance, too.
Roses are the prima donnas of the garden world. They are lovely to look at, but often demanding to grow, susceptible to a host of disease and insect problems. Now gardeners who want the beauty of roses without all the work can turn to the new Fiji ™ rose.
This elegant hybrid tea produces incredible amounts of blooms with crenated petals in a fantastic shade of bright cherry red. Dark green, lightly glossy foliage fills in the few spaces left uncovered by the clusters of blooms. But good looks are not all this rose has to offer. The plants carry an extremely high level of resistance to both black spot and mildew, making them a great choice for gardeners looking for easy maintenance.
Fiji's compact, 2 1/2 foot size makes it perfect for the front of the border, in a pot by the patio, or anywhere it can be admired and easily accessed for cutting its plentiful blooms. Hardy to USDA Zone 6, like all roses Fiji does best in full sun and moist, but well-drained soil.
I think this is my favorite of all my roses. It's healthy as can be. The blooms are literally perfect in my eyes, I love the globular cupped shape of the blooms. I think mine might want to climb, which I'm all for.
This is the most productive and prettiest rose in my garden. It's subtly fragrant and blooms from late March until November. I'm in Southern California. Grows up to 5 feet tall, and in my garden it's in part sun.
About the mature size of Rosa 'Schneekoppe', every estimate I have ever seen says oh 3' x 2-3'. Makes me laugh every time. Because, this gorgeous and beloved rose was happy in my yard, so much so that it exceeded its projected size and I was forced to move it to a more open space. In that space, it grew to be 12ft tall and 15ft wide!! It may still be expanding, but we moved, so I don't know. Yes, I am sure that it was really 'Schneekoppe' (It is unique in all of rosedom for its unusual pale lavender color, and being a Rugosa there just is no other rose like it that I know of!)......Some years back, I worked for White Flower Farm where I bought it and I was nicknamed "the Rose Lady" there, because I have studied roses in depth).
Hello The Rosa Blaze I am trying to add is a climbing rose that grew at my old house for 20 years. the Rosa Blaze listed here I think is a Bush? is it also a climber??
I've had Rosa rugosa 'Hansa' growing in one corner of my yard since 2014 - an amazing feat in zone 3 gardens, where few roses survive. It blooms reliably every year, the fragrance is very much an 'old-fashioned rose' scent and it tops out a bit under 5 feet (I'm 5 feet 2 inches, and it's about eye-level for me.) Even better, it dislikes pruning and is extremely low maintenance.
This past spring was the first time in seven years Hansa offered up a 1-ft, perfectly-shaped off-spring (inconveniently in the middle of a mowed path). So I severed the connecting root and moved the baby Hansa to a new border bed, where it grew nicely all summer. Unlike several other rugosa roses here, Hansa stays put and does not spread or take over other areas of the gardens.
In zone 3, this is a hardy, well-behaved shrub that offers periodic flowers throughout the summer, after the first flush of blooms has passed... and even with (many) allergies, I can actually smell these flowers. I would recommend Hansa to any cold-climate gardener (where roses are hard to come by).
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I remember the Dr.Verhage Rose from the 1960s. it was a beautiful coloured rose -- deep gold, blushed sometimes on the outside petals with reddish-apricot colour.
The stem was quite ugly and it had heavy thorns and rather ugly large leaves. We used this rose a lot in the flower shop where I worked then in Birmingham. I assumed it had gone out of production because I tried to find a plant for my sister-in-law's golden wedding, as Dr.Verhage was the rose she had carried in her bouquet. Delightful scent also. In the shop we had to clean the stems of thorns. They were lethal, but I think scraping the stems damaged the cell structure? And left them open to bacteria.
It is wonderful seeing other roses on this site that we used. Black tea was a fabulous rose in the 70s and 80s, but it seemed to disappear from the markets as we were told it did not produce enough flowers.
Thank you for the pleasure here. Dr. Verhage is such a different rose today.
I remember Champagne was another fabulous colour, just right for vintage weddings!!
Incredibly easy to care for in my garden. It's in a very tough corner, bad soil, it's competing with a lavender, and under full sun, yet it's still doing very well.
The specimen with a trellis support at Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL, was labeled as Illinois Rose. This species is really found in savannah and along woodland edges rather than in the prairie. It is a shrub with some vine-like characteristics, and it does do some spreading by rhizomes and stolons. It grows about 5 to 7 feet high the most, but can grow higher and grows about 6 to 12 feet wide. Its alternate leaves are compound of 3 leaflets, though older growth can have 5 leaflets. Illinois Rose bears reddish winged stipules at the base of the compound leaf stem. The underside of the leaves have very fine hairs. It gets orange to red-orange to purplish-red fall color. The stems have relatively few thorns that are short, stubby, and slightly curved. The pink flowers fade to whitish and are about 2 to 3 inches wide that are mildly fragrant. It bears rosy-red hips. It is good to renew prune the shrub about every three years, and it blooms on new wood. It is native from Wisconsin to Connecticut to northern Florida to east Texas, and has naturalized a little beyond its first discovered native range, as into Minnesota. I like it! It is not nasty to touch. It is sold by a number of native plant nurseries as Prairie Moon and Possibility Place.
I love Rosa 'America'. It's my favorite rose. However, it getting very difficult to find in garden centers or nurseries. Even the online rose stores are either sold out or not in stock. I was able to buy two from Heirloom Roses this year. They seemed to be the only ones that were carrying it. When my two own root rose bushes get big enough, I may try my hand at either rooting or taking a cutting to propagate a few more. That will be a new gardening attempt for me!
This is my all time favorite rose. I love its salmon color! I planted three of these roses years ago and love the way they grow and bloom. I lost all of them through neglect, but have finally reordered them and added them to my garden again this year. They came as 'own root roses' from Heirloom Roses (first time I've ever ordered a plant online). They didn't look very good when they arrived. The canes that obviously began growing while in the box during shipment looked almost translucent and yellow. I planted them, gave them some fish emulsion fertilizer as recommended, and now a week later they are green, leafing out nicely, and growing!
This is a Kordes rose, so I was very surprised at how poorly the bush looks every year, not just the blackspot, which I can tolerate to some extent in my other roses, but the rust is so bad that I cringed every time I walked by it. Every year I had high hopes seeing the nice new green foliage, but in no time the rust developed. I gave up thinking it would improve as it matured and I finally removed it.
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