Hi roper, I would like to try some of your seed. Can I send you seed in return, or just send you postage? Tell me how to do this, I've only traded seeds a few times and it was years ago. mystic wanderer..I will try the tea soak. I am desperate to get some of these old beauties to germinate. I did order some seed from Burpee called camillion, I think that was the name of them. I ordered 2 seed pkts and just the shipping was 4.95..geeez I am saving tons of seed this year, so I can trade seed this winter. Thanks guys!!!!!

Currently 23 inches high. It was 3 tiny stems 3 months ago. They do exceptionally well with grow lights. Experimenting with different LED spectrums I found that red and white promote fast growth, thick stems and branching between leaf stems. Purple lighting promotes compact growth and large deep green leaves.

Most of North American species spread by suckering, so given time you will have more plants. Sometimes a lot more plants. Suckers were probably what you were given originally. It can be pruned to shape any time during the summer. A lot of us do the major pruning on once bloomers in early spring. It isn't something to really stress over because if you goof, the rose will get over it, and you can try again. It may take a year or two, but it will work out.

You might end up with spots on 'Iceberg'. The other one on your list I know is 'Blanche Double de Coubert'. This is a Hybrid Rugosa with the growth and foliage characters of Rosa rugosa, may therefore not look like what you are visualizing. And if on its own roots may sucker to form a thicket, or if grafted on an incompatible rootstock dwindle away after planting - I have experienced both occurrences myself with R. rugosa cultivars. R. rugosa 'Alba' actually grew under the paved private road here to come up in the garden across the street, with the shoots appearing there being identical to those of suckers on my side - and clearly not ones produced by seedlings. The only other kind of plant I have had send out a rootstock that went such a distance before sprouting was a Phyllostachys bamboo. A white one seen in local plantings - frequently where no other roses are being grown - that requires no disease protection is being circulated under the study name "Darlow's Enigma". It often produces a tall, twiggy prickly bush; the leaves and flowers are small but the semi-double flowers are sweetly fragrant and appear for months, on a plant that functions in the garden as a carefree flowering landscape shrub.