Data specific to Roses (Edit)
Bloom size: Medium: 2-3"
Petal count: double: 16-25 petals
Rose bloom color: Medium pink
Extra Bloom Info: In clusters
Rebloom: Some
Class: Other: Found rose
Growth Habit: Typically 6-10 feet tall
Fragrance: Moderate
Misc: Thornless or almost thornless
Hybridizer & year: Unknown
Optimal growing zones: USDA zones 4-9

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Soil pH Preferences: Moderately acid (5.6 – 6.0)
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Plant Height: 6-10 feet
Plant Spread: 12-15 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Pink
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Cuttings: Tip
Containers: Not suitable for containers

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Common names
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Location: My Yard
Date: 2022-04-22
Location: Kyle, Texas
Date: 2017-03-27
The easiest rose to grow, ever!
Location: Wood County, ztX
Date: 2020-12-04
3 days after sub-30F temperature
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Date: Peggy late March just getting started 
I just love this rose.  She has no thorns. No problems.  Just fer
Location: Kyle, Texas
Date: 2018-04-10
This rose absolutely explodes this time of year
Location: Wood County, TX
Date: 2020-04-07
Location: My Yard
Date: 2019-04-12
Location: my garden 
Date: 2015-06-01
first year blooms; rooted from mother
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Date: Early April 2021
Peggy Just getting started.  She’s completely covered in pink b
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Date: Late April 2021
An Old Peggy next to a baby new dawn
Location: KYLE
Date: 2019-03-28

Date: Late spring
Location: My garden, Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens in South Amana, IA
Date: 2012-05-24
Location: Test garden 
Date: 2017-03-03
Covered in massive blooms
Location: My Yard
Date: 2019-04-12
Location: My Yard
Date: 2019-04-12
Location: Western Kentucky
Date: June 2011
Late evening sunlight
Location: Wood County, TX
Date: 2023-04-14
2 years after the Great Texas Freeze killed it back to the ground
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Date: Late April 2021
Pretty Peggy
Location: Western Kentucky
Date: May 2011
Growing up the redbud tree
Location: Western Kentucky
Date: June 2010
Early morning sunlight
Location: Alabama Gulf Coast (z8b)
Date: April
Location: Alabama Gulf Coast (z8b)
Date: May

Date: 2009-10-30
Photo courtesy Antique Rose Emporium. Used with permission.
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Comments:
  • Posted by christinereid54 (Texas - Zone 8b) on Feb 19, 2018 6:34 PM concerning plant:
    This is the rose for people who are afraid they can't grow roses! It's vigorous to a fault. I planted mine about 6 years ago and it has thrived. It has virtually no thorns and, after a year or so, has been a spring and fall bloomer. What's interesting is that the spring blooms last a really long time (several months) here in Central Texas. Peggy Martin rose bushes don't have a fragrance but they make up for that by producing a profuse amount of small pink blooms. I do have to do some serious pruning in late winter--this rose will produce long canes and it can take over nearby plants, if you let it. Being thornless, or nearly so, it's not difficult to trim. It isn't bothered much by fungal diseases; if it gets a few ugly leaves from too much warm weather and drizzly rain, they drop off quickly. My rose gets a balanced organic fertilizer in mid February.
  • Posted by Calif_Sue (Sebastopol, CA - Zone 9a) on Feb 11, 2013 6:25 PM concerning plant:
    Noted by Antique Rose Emporium:
    "Peggy Martin is a vigorous climber that can easily reach 15 plus feet. It bears clusters of pink shaded flowers that occur from spring through fall. Promoted as thornless, we find this rose does have prickles on the backs of the leaves. If you are a novice rose grower or afraid you won’t be successful with roses, plant this rose. This rose will surprise you and within a couple of years, your neighbors will come begging for cuttings."
  • Posted by SunriseSide (Wood Co TX & Huron Co MI) on Jul 25, 2023 3:33 PM concerning plant:
    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.
  • Posted by Sharon (Calvert City, KY - Zone 7a) on Oct 31, 2011 12:26 AM concerning plant:
    The Peggy Martin rose has an interesting history. It is one of two plants that survived being under 20 feet of salt water during the flooding following Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana in August, 2005.
    Since then, it has been introduced into commerce in the United States and has become a symbol among gardeners and rose lovers of a tenacious plant associated with a spirit of renewal and regrowth in the aftermath of a devastating blow of Nature against those living and gardening in the Gulf Coast area. http://aggie-horticulture.tamu...
    This rose was a gift to me and it grows up the trunk of a huge old redbud, with little care and no disease to date.
Plant Events from our members
piksihk On February 14, 2018 Plant Ended (Removed, Died, Discarded, etc)
piksihk On May 26, 2015 Bloomed
piksihk On October 24, 2014 Plant Ended (Removed, Died, Discarded, etc)
piksihk On October 18, 2014 Obtained plant
Master G sale
GaNinFl On June 26, 2018 Obtained plant
Received from Dragons Meade Daylilys
SunriseSide On March 25, 2021 Transplanted
Planted the potted replacement adjacent to previous location
SunriseSide On March 24, 2021 Miscellaneous Event
Small runners from roots attached to fencepost
SunriseSide On March 24, 2021 Cuttings took
Small and large rooted cuttings taken and potted
SunriseSide On March 23, 2021 Obtained plant
New potted replacement
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