Fragrance! Which roses do you HAVE to have?
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Comments (48)In Mass, you're going to want to choose BS resistant varieties and/or spray. Most of my shrubs that I regard as attractive and healthy have not been great repeat bloomers. Cinco de Mayo is almost never without blooms for me and has a wonderful shape and pretty foliage, but black spots like heck if not sprayed. New in my garden this year, and my most attractive new shrub, has been Lady of Shallot. It has a graceful branches, lovely foliage, flowered all summer with blooms that hold their color and shape. I expect it will get big though. Another 1st year Austin, Munstead Wood, is smaller and I hope it will stay so. IMO the shrub is not as pretty, bloom not as prolific, but I'd still rate it highly. My Austins have all gotten big, zone 5 has been no deterrent to that tendency. I had Graham Thomas planted in my front yard and had to move him because he wanted to be 10' tall. You mentioned Caramella being zone 6B, but I'd give that another look. On HMF, it's listed at zone 6B by default, but check out the Gardens tab and you'll discover people growing it in cold locations. I've chosen Caramella for 2014. Palatine rates it as zone 5, also Pickering sells it. They are both reliable resources for cold zone roses, also High Country if you're looking for own-root. Kordes has a good reputation for producing disease resistant roses and they have many cold hardy choices. Oh, and I've just ordered Ascot from Palatine thanks to Diane's frequent praise, crossing my fingers for cold hardiness!...See MoreWhich rose class do you have the most of?
Comments (16)My rose list (badly) needs updating. At a guess I would say that my single biggest group are the Gallicas, possibly followed by Teas. I haven't got my ground in good enough shape for the latter to do well, but the once-blooming old roses of European origin are the best suited to our conditions, and of those the Gallicas are the largest class. So I have a lot of once-blooming old roses (Gallicas, Damasks, Albas, Centifolias, Mosses), which I love and which do well here, a lot of Teas and also Chinas, which I'm working to make the environment friendlier for, mainly lightening the soil. Quite a few ramblers, Multiflora, Wichuriana, species and hybrids, Noisettes, Lady Banks roses. A few 'Mlle. Cecile Brunner'-type old Polyanthas, a few Foetidas, and I wish I had more of both. Rugosas don't like it here, and I have my doubts about Spinosissimas; few HTs, no Floribundas, not because I reject them out of hand, but because I think conditions here aren't ready for them. Oh, I forgot: Bourbons, Hybrid Perpetuals, Hybrid Damasks. I have a few of the first, more of the second, and I like the HDs. These are heterogenous groups I don't know that much about, but there are some I like and I'm trying to figure out which ones. I have many of the Pemberton Hybrid Musks, which I love but don't grow well, and a few shrub roses, a group I don't know much about and haven't seen much of that was inspiring. Oh: practically no Austins. They're beautiful roses but it's too rough here for them....See MoreRoses that always have fragrance
Comments (30)I'm about to throw in the towel in defeat for the season after repeated deer attacks--the beasts seem to prefer perfumed roses, I believe, because the perfume seems to shout out "hey, deer, there's something delicious over here!" If the roses only knew they were their own worst enemies. There are exceptions, of course, when a huge petal stuffed non smeller also becomes the deer's favorite (Caramel Antique). The best smellers in my garden seem to be: Frederic Mistral (offspring of The McCartney Rose--does that surprise you, Carol?) Evelyn (the deer's A-1 favorite, blast them) Munstead Wood (deer ice cream) Augusta Luise Brother Cadfael (blooms too high up for deer this time of year-hahaha) Young Lycidas (deer fudge) Angel Face (deer candy) Ebb Tide Eglantyne The Prince (deer love this one) and not bad in the perfume department-- (deer finally sampled this one yesterday, eating the entire bouquet off the end of a tall candelabra) Golden Celebration And others, primarily Austins...See MoreWhich roses have the strongest "old rose" fragrance?
Comments (48)This is from an [old post,[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/nearly-lost-this-one-most-fragrant-votes-2005-06-dsvw-vd~1719150?n=7) which I found interesting and helpful. Houzz sometimes deletes old posts, so I will copy it here. Since this was from 2007, I wonder if this opinion pole were repeated today, how it would be different. Posted by jpw_chi 5b Chicago, IL (My Page) on Mon, Nov 12, 07 at 13:47 Due to hard drive crashes, I nearly lost this list. Thanks to a thoughtful, wise Gardenweb member who clipped the results, I would have lost voting results to my informal survey of fragrant roses altogether. Counts were based on frequency of being mentioned in response to the question "What is the most incredibly fragrant rose that takes your breath away?" RE: the most incredibly FRAGRANT rose that takes your breath away (Follow-Up #122) posted by: jpw_chi on 10.08.2006 at 11:11 am in Roses Forum Here's the updated list for "most mentioned" (as opposed to true "favorites") for fragrance, with Double Delight and Mr. Lincoln now in a dead heat: 23x Double Delight (creamy white swirled with strawberry red) 23x Mr. Lincoln (dark red) 15x Fragrant Cloud (coral red) 13x Chrysler Imperial (burgundy red) 13x Gertrude Jekyll (rose pink) 13x Jude the Obscure (honey) 10x Crimson Glory 10x Lemon Spice (pastel yellow tinted pale pink) 9x Abraham Darby (Austin, apricot blend) 9x Francis Dubruiel (dark true red) 9x Papa Meilland (dark red) 8x Evelyn (Austin, apricot pink blend) 8x Heirloom (dark mauve blend) 8x Rose de Rescht (vivid fuchsia) 8x Secret (white tipped pink) 8x Sharifa Asma (Austin, pearly pink) 8x Sunsprite (bright yellow) 8x Sweet Chariot (purple blend) 8x Tiffany (pink/yellow blend) 7x Angel Face (1968, dusky mauve) 7x Melody Parfumee (deep plum fading to clear lavender) 7x The McCartney Rose (ruffled, few petals) 7x Yves Piaget (Romantica, hot pink) 6x Granada (yellow, orange, scarlet tricolor) 6x Just Joey (clear apricot) 6x Mirandy 6x Scentimental (white striped with red) 6x Secret Garden Musk Climber 6x Zephirine Drouhin (cerise pink) 5x Blanc Double de Coubert (pure white) 5x Frederic Mistral (Romantica, light cool pink) 5x Heritage (shell pink) 5x Intrigue (rich reddish purple) 5x Madame Isaac Periere (raspberry pink) 5x Memorial Day (lilac pink) 5x Oklahoma (dark red) 5x Reine des Violettes (cerise pink deepening to soft purple) 5x Rouge Royale (Romantica, cherry red) 5x Souvenir de la Malmaison 5x Sutter's Gold 5x Velvet Fragrance 5x William Shakespeare 2000 4x Alec's Red (1970, subdued red) 4x Baronne Prevost (medium pink) 4x Blue Girl a/k/a Blue Moon 4x Elle 4x Full Sail 4x New Zealand (flesh pink) 4x Othello (inconsistent maroon/blue-red color) 4x Tamora (Austin, clear apricot) 4x The Prince (Austin, imperial purple) 4x Tipsy Imperial Concubine (pink blend) 4x Yolande D'Aragon (rich rose pink) 3x Bella Roma 3x Buff Beauty (soft apricot yellow) 3x Cécile Brunner 3x Compt de Chambourd (lilac pink) 3x Darlow's Enigma (pure white) 3x Distant Drums (mauve blend) 3x Falstaff (raspberry red) 3x Fragrant Memory a/k/a Jadis 3x Fragrant Plum 3x Golden Zest 3x Jardins de Bagatelle (creamy white edged pale pink) 3x La Reine Victoria (dusty pink) 3x Louise Odier (medium pink) 3x Madame Hardy (snowy white) 3x Perfume Delight 3x Radiance (pink blend) 3x Red Radiance (HT) 3x Royal Highness 3x Scentsational (clear mauve tinted orchid pink) 3x Sheer Bliss 3x Silver Shadows (pale silvery lavender) 3x Sombreuil (creamy white) 3x Sonia Rkyiel (soft coral pink) 3x Veteran's Honor 2x Apothecary Rose 2x Barbara Streisand 2x Belle de Crecy (cool medium pink) 2x Blossomtime 2x Bubble Bath (light pink) 2x Celsiana (light pink) 2x Clothilde Soupert (blush white with soft pink center) 2x Compassion (salmon pink) 2x Dainty Bess 2x Dolly Parton (garish orange red) 2x Dublin (MD) 2x Earth Song (rose pink) 2x Eglantyne (Austin, clear porcelain pink) 2x Eugene de Beauharnais (crimson purple) 2x Felicia 2x Felicite Parmentier (light pink) 2x Fisherman's Friend (violent magenta) 2x Fragrant Hour 2x Halloween (soft orange) 2x Harrison's Yellow (bright yellow) 2x Hot Tamale 2x Jaune Desprez (buff apricot) 2x Julia's Rose 2x Konigan von Danemark (pink blend) 2x Lady Hillingdon (egg yolk yellow) 2x Lagerfeld (silvery lavender) 2x Love Potion (florabunda) 2x Lyda Rose 2x Madame Alfred Carrier (blush white) 2x Madame Pierre Oger (soft white tipped lilac pink) 2x Maria Shriver 2 x Marie Pavie (ivory white) 2x Midnight Blue 2x Mrs B.R. Cant 2x Neptune 2x Peace 2x Petite de Hollande (medium pink) 2x Pure Perfume 2x Radiant Perfume 2x Rosa foetida 2x Sheila's Perfume 2x Shocking Blue 2x Sophy's Perpetual (pink blend) 2x St. Swithun (Austin, soft warm pink blend) 2x Star Of The Nile 2x Sterling Silver 2x Sunday Lemonade 2x Thanksgiving 2x Topaz Jewel (yellow)...See Morefragrancenutter
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