Shade Gardening: Your Woodland Shade Favorites 4, 1 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
I just installed Charles deMille, which I have always wanted, but it's once bloomer. I am wary of roses recommended as shade tolerant by writers in sunny climes. I have found, from my own experience, that Marchesa Bocchella aka Jacque Cartier is quite shade tolerant. I grew it under a linden that got huge, and shades the rose quite a bit, and it blooms it's brains out anyway. I put in two here.

I tend to go with lists from northen nurseries. I have been checking out the list of shade tolerant roses at Pickering in Canada.

http://www.pickeringnurseries.com/web_store_shade.cgi?&shd=s...

My limitation is that some of them are only hardy to zone 6, and I'm in 5a, but this should be no problem for you!

Here is Marchesa. The shade is cast over her pretty head for hours every day.