Marysville, WA (Zone 7a) | January 2007 | positive
I had grown this beautiful rose for several years. It was one of over a hundred varieties when I had a rose garden, and survived many col...Read Mored winters when most of the others had expired. Its hardiness and disease resistance is amazing. In our small yard it tended to get too big and was moved to a friends acreage, where it is a star performer.
Deer defoliated mine and killed it so I can't say how well it's doing. It was growing quite nicely in typical north Florida conditions (...Read Morehot, muggy, rainy, lousy acid soil, so-so drainage) until Bambi made it into snack food. I would love to try crossing it with other thorny roses to see what happens: if it produces hips readily that might be helpful, though there are such things as hips crammed with sterile seeds...
Delicate fern-like foliage. Spectacular and beautiful thorns that glow like rubies in the morning and evening light. The flowers are smal...Read Morel, single, white and are followed by red hips. It only blooms once in May/June. This Rosa was imported from China in 1890.
I had grown this beautiful rose for several years. It was one of over a hundred varieties when I had a rose garden, and survived many col...Read More
Deer defoliated mine and killed it so I can't say how well it's doing. It was growing quite nicely in typical north Florida conditions (...Read More
Delicate fern-like foliage. Spectacular and beautiful thorns that glow like rubies in the morning and evening light. The flowers are smal...Read More