What is your largest rose bloom?
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
13 years ago
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Comments (12)WWII Memorial (lt. mauve/white), Fragrant Cloud (shocking orange red), Grande Dame (dk. pink), Pink Peace (med. to dk. pink), Pope John Paul II (white), Spiced Coffee (pink/yellow/tan-ish), Sugar Moon(white), Valencia (yellow/apricot) and Tahitian Sunset (orange/yellow) have the biggest hybrid tea blooms in my garden. I should add though, that these are cool weather blooms, as most shrink in our heat. All of the above are also highly fragrant. Of the lot, I would say Pope John Paul II is the most heat resistant (doesn't shrink). Most disease resistant (for my area) would be PJPII, Grande Dame, Valencia and Sugar Moon....See MoreWhat Roses of Yours Are Blooming in This Awful Heat?
Comments (36)I have a lot of things blooming. Mind you they don't last long and sometimes they look a little crispy. But they're blooming! Paradise, actually looks good Cherish, opens and drops Knockout, well that's kinda a given Angel Face, opens and wilts, lol Hot Cocoa, lasts pretty well but the edges crisp Iobelle, seems to like the heat as well as the cold Crimson Bouquet, a blooming machine Veterans' Honor, impervious to the heat Folklore, Gorgeous! Garden Party, lovely with a tad of the crisps Trump Card, Wow, looks great and hasn't crisped at all Home Run, eh, it's another kind of KO Zenaitta, polys seem to like the heat, covered in sprays Granada, opens and blows quick Golden Wings, tons of blooms but they wilt fast Dainty Bess, same as above Rose de Rescht, they're beautiful in the morning when she's in the shade, by afternoon they look literally melted Winter Sunset, another Buck like Iobelle that seems to laugh at the heat And two other Buck roses doing well in the heat are Rural Rhythm and Country Music. Funny that the roses supposedly bred for winter hardiness are all fairing so well in blistering heat and humidity. Golden Celebration, usually slow to open is just flying apart Julia Child is about to bloom so we'll see. The minis have more or less just shut down except for the micro, Cinderella! The other surprising thing is that even with the humidity so high I'm not having much problem with the roses balling. I don't have amy PM and very little black spot too! Although I did see some aphids this morning but since I was going to blast them all with some cold water to cool them off I figured that would take care of them....See MoreTo Zone 6ers-MidAtl-what is your largest shrub rose?
Comments (6)There are many good shrub roses that can attain considerable proportions with little attention other than a couple of cups of Rose Tone in the spring. Here are a few of my favorites: 'Applejack' gets to be about 6' x 6' in zone 4 and will be bigger in zone 6. It has rather informal light pink flowers that come in several flushes throughout the summer. This is a tough rose but does need full sun. 'Alba Semi-Plena' makes a huge shrub to 8' tall with beautiful fragrant flowers in the spring. It is very tough and can take some shade for part of the day. 'Celsiana' is a Damask that can get over 6' in my zone 4 garden. It has beautiful informal light pink flowers. 'Cerise Bouquet' is a huge rose that has reached about 10' x 10' for me. It flowers once in the spring. 'Clair Matin' is an outstanding modern shrub rose that gets to be about 6' x 6' for me in zone 6. 'Complicata' is a wonderful old gallica that easily makes 6' x 6'. It is hardy and reliable with little attention and has huge single pink flowers. 'Constance Spry' is one of the original Austin roses and still one of his best. The flowers a huge and very cupped. The plant is lax and needs some careful pruning to look its best. Fortunately, it suckers so will make a nice thicket over time. I keep mine about 5'. 'Eddie's Jewel' is one of the Moyesii hybrids and has deep red flowers on a 8' x 6' shrub. All the Moyesii hybrids make huge beautiful shrubs that flower once and require little care. 'Green Mantle' is my favorite of the Eglantine hydrids. As they are all quite similar any will do in this situation. They make 8' x 6' shrubs and are hardy and reliable. The frangrance of the foliage after a rain can be enjoyed 100 meters away. 'Harison's Yellow', the yellow rose of Texas, was found in a garden off Broadway in NY city about 1830. It has made its way all across the country. It makes a nice shrub about 6' x 5' for me in zone 6. It is about the first rose to bloom. It looks great with 'Cardinal de Richelieu' in front of it. 'Ispahan' is a Centifolia that makes a very tall but lax shrub. It is hardy even to zone 4. 'James Mason' is an outstanding modern srub rose with gallica genes. This rose easily makes 8' and does sucker around making an outstanding thicket of canes. It is very tough in zone 6 and grows with little care in partial shade. 'Lavender Lassie' is a modern shrub that gets to be about 6' x 6'. It blooms regularly throughout the summer with OGR type blooms. It is another of the outstanding roses from Kordes. 'Mme. Plantier' is a hybrid China rose from 1835. Everyone should have this rose. It makes a lax shrub 6' x 6' and blooms once with small very double white flowers. It is tough and reliable. 'Pleine de Grace' Now this is a shrub rose! My 14 year old plant knows no bounds. Its self supporting canes can easily reach 12' and with support will make another 6'. The flowers are profuse, white, single and about the size of a quarter. 'R. hugonis' is one of my favorite roses and makes a nice shrub easily 6' by 8'. It is one of the first to bloom with clear yellow flowers. Its fine foliage is rarely eaten by Japanese beetles. 'R. moyesii 'Highdownensis' is another of the Moyesii hybrids. I have to include it as it is such an outstanding rose. It will easily make a self supporting 10' shrub in zone 4. It is really a small tree and when in flower will have hundreds of flowers that makes for a spectacular landscape specimen visible for 100 meters. 'Roseraie de l' Hay' is a rugosa hybrid that makes a compact shrub about 6' x 5' with lush foliage that is disease free. It flowers several times throughout the summer and makes and outstanding and reliable shrub. 'Sara Van Fleet' is another rugosa hybrid. It gets to be about 6' x 5' for me in zone 4. It has light pink flowers and does suffer some dieback of unripe wood . 'Scharlachglut' is another modern shrub rose from Kordes. Its canes form a nice vase shaped shrub to 6' x 6' and is very hardy reliable and tough. The flowers are red and single. The hips are outstanding and pear shaped coming in huge bunches. Well, that should get you started. All of the above roses are easy to grow and require basic care of pruning out old wood and a spring application of fertilizer. I grow them with other shrubs and perennials in a mixed border for a nice display spring, summer and fall....See Morewhats your largest minature rose
Comments (17)Oh my, to say that For Love of Roses has a lot of nice roses is a bit of an understatement! He has most, if not all, of the best exhibition varieties out there today. Always sends nice quality plants, too. Since Nor'East has gone, Richard has become my favorite and main source of minis and minifloras. Of which I am very fond....See Moresherryocala
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