rosa rugosa as a hedge
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Please help - my first Rosa Rugosa (Moje Hammarberg)
Comments (8)Wendy, I don't think you will ever regret your purchase. Most rugosas have an AARS rating of 9 or above, so you made the right choice. I've had a Rosa Rugosa Rubra for over 8 years, and I can't say enough good things about her. She needs no pampering. She does like to be pruned in the spring. If she starts looking a bit straggly, I cut her back severely. If she only has some "stragginess" (a new word!), I selectively cut her (ie, I try to keep her height, and cut the lower branches so she'll fill in nicely, because she is a great privacy bush (over 5 feet). The Japanese beetles love her, so I pick them off every day in July. I do deadhead the blooms, but I don't know if it's necessary. I'm just a nut who doesn't like dead blooms! LOL. She blooms off and on til the first frost. So enjoy your "moje"...let us know how she does....See MoreDifference - rosa rugosa species v. rosa rugosa rubra
Comments (5)kathy, be on the watch for wilt. When I lived in the Philadelphia area (very similar climates & soils, but slightly cooler) I planted a rugosa hedge which was glorious, and then a vascular wilt killed them. I suspect it was something like a Phytophthora infection, but I never had it checked out by a lab. I also didn't want to use fungicides on it. It's possible a soil drench would've saved them, but I wanted them because I thought they were going to require very little care. Not so, not in that climate and soil (also not a sandy one). My impression is that they sulk in hot sticky summer weather. They're ubiquitous up here in the Boston area and they grow quite nicely here....See Moreis this Rosa rugosa Thunberg
Comments (4)Rosa rugosa Thunberg is the name for your common, everyday, species rugosa rose. Your rose is clearly a rugosa. It might be the species or a selected cultivar of the species or it might be a close hybrid of the species. The fact that it has only 5 petals suggests that it's the species. If your husband wants a rugosa with purplish-red blooms, have him check out the various Pavement Series rugosas at Helpmefind. Dart's Dash is another good one....See MoreSources and recommendations for Rosa rugosa?
Comments (28)Cranefire, Do you know my third attempt failed, too! If I make it successfully through this fourth try it will be a relief. Some years ago I dedicated my rose garden entirely to hy. rugosas and a few OGRs. I must have tried over 30 different varieties of hy. rugosas. They are great roses. All the typical reports on them I can ditto. However, there are only four gripes I have about them that to me are significant: 1. Some varieties are poor/slow repeat bloomers. Some do not repeat at all. 2. Most varieties have flowers that look like they are having a, 'bad hair day,' every day! Twisted, disheveled petals abound. 3. The blooms drop their petals incredibly fast. They open day one. They stay open day two, then drop their petals by noon day three. Forget using them for the vase. 4. The viscous, abundant thorns can be dangerous. They are a given with hy. rugosas. All this being noted, their assets are still considerable, especially the ones I recommend. These excellent hy. rugosas I found to excell, having the least or none of my gripes about the class in them: Roseraie de L' Hay - big, abundant, 4.25", well organized blooms (a lot of the time), 5' x 3', good repeat. Henry Hudson - smallish 3" blooms, well placed petals with a lovely yellow boss, lots if blooms all summer long, 2.5' x 2.5'. Schneekoppe (aka. Snow Pavement) - exquisite cupped, chalice shaped, light lavender 3.5", blooms in abundance all season long, 3' x 3'. Charles Albanel - lovely 3.5", petal arrangement blooms with a nice yellow boss, lots of blooms, again and again until fall, 3' x 3'. Martin Frobisher - 3" blooms, packed with petals, abundant carnation like flowers, 3.5' x 2', columnar growth habit. If I could only grow one hybrid rugosa it would be Schneekoppe (Snow Pavement). Be careful of any chemicals other than water on hy. rugosas, even liquid fertilizer feeding. Their foliage is super sensitive, and will burn and fall off of if chemicaled, which fungicides and insecticides are really not ever needed. This point is not a gripe, just a heads up. Some hybrid rugosas send runners out. These varieties are essentially colonial in growth habit, not really bushy. They can be managed as bushes though, by removing the runners. The runner are bonus plants to some of us, a nuisance to others. They were not a major issue to me. Those I wanted for new plants were saved, the others, yanked up and pitched. Get them out when young if not needed, let them mature a bit before removal if new plants are wanted. Schneekoppe runs, Roseraie de L' Hay and Henry Hudson never did for me. Did you know Dwarf Alberta Spruce are dwarf only in comparison to 75' tall non-dwarf spruce trees? There is a DAS not far from me that is 15' x 12'! Yes, they do grow slowly, but like the proverbial tortoise, get there in the end. May I commend you look into a juniper, chamaecyparis, or another small, trimmable evergreen instead of DAS, which really cannot easily be trimmed to stay at a smaller size. They do not take well to trimming unlike so many other shrubby, needled evergreens which can be kept trimmed very easily. I would shoot for an evergreen that max's out at the size available in the bed, not one that needs trimming, or a Dwarf Alberta Spruce that really cannot be trimmed. Moses, whew! P.S. Henry Hudson has a far more beautiful flower, with a far neater bush form than the White Knock Out. It is fragrant also. Look at the great photos of HH at Help Me Find Roses....See Moremad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)
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