Are Rugosa Roses deerproof?
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Comments (18)Beautiful, Diane. I love the chubby bouquet. Noseometer, I love my spins. They are the most adorable naturalistic plants. They were such a delight in Alaska I cannot tell you. I needed them here too I decided, and they do great here too. I have acquired them from Vintage, Corn Hill, High Country roses and Greenmantle. I scrounged some from Leonard Heller who had/has a facebook page on Spinosissimas. I bought some from an old lady in Homer, Alaska at "Achin Acres" as she was shutting down. North of Anchorage an old lady had a "Washburn Farm Nursery" that sold some, but I got news on good authority that she mixed the names up on purpose to confuse the competition. They seem to be the roses that owners love and many people have never heard of. Rogue Valley Roses gave me Dominie Sampson. You really have to keep your eye out for these treasures. Peter Boyd was going to write a book on them which never appeared, but he has good articles on the web. Dominie in front of Doorenbos Selection....See MorePruning Rosa Rugosa Roses, help!
Comments (32)Rugosa Roses need mostly sunshine in the day. They require little else except good drainage. They don't need to be sprayed (in fact don't like to be) and you can prune them back anytime. Our Rose Society does not recommend pruning this type of rose back to the ground, but you can if you need to it won't kill the bush. They mostly grown between 4-10 ft high. Some can be used as climbers. They can have invasive offshoots if they are not taken out. They are not like the multiflora that are very invasive and sprout up everywhere. Rugosa can be a very good rose for people who want shrubs that bloom all the time with no extra work.Keep them in the sun and they should be fine. There are several varieties that stay about 4-5 ft tall. I have about 15 Rugosa bushes and they make a great hedge for me. They smell is wonderful as I walk down my driveway....See MoreRugosa Roses, other NO care roses? :-)
Comments (19)woolywoof, your availability of hardy roses probably has more to do with being in Canada than being in zone 4. If I head to nurseries in zone 4 New York, the situation is likely to be even more dire than it is here. Lack of availability of roses that do what I want roses to do is probably part of the reason I became so interested in rooting cuttings. Several wonderful roses are probably better known as pass along plants than in the nursery trade. This unfortunately doesn't make me a very good source of information as to where you should get your roses. I've bought more roses from Mike Lowe than any other source. He's in Nashua. Is Mike still in the nursery business? I don't know. Pickering, as mentioned, is a good source. I know Paul has gotten a bunch of his roses from Spring Valley in Wisconsin. I've heard nothing but good things about Spring Valley. I've often wanted to order from Corn Hill in New Brunswick, but never come up with a big enough order to make it work out. Corn Hill is Robert Osborne's nursery. If you don't have his book "Hardy Roses" you should. You should also have Suzanne Verrier's books. You want to avoid the nurseries that ship little twigs. For the money nurseries charge, you want them to send you a real plant. I'd like to be able to recommend Ashdown, but I've never ordered from him. Oddly enough, most of my recent purchases have come from Sequoia. Certainly Ralph Moore has no reason to specialize in hardy for the northeast roses, but he does have some neat oddments that I can't get anywhere else. He ships little twigs, but at least the price reflects this....See MoreRugosas and Species Roses
Comments (19)Perma, that is a tough question. I had this for a fungicide for a while. The leaves has brown colouring almost taking over but it is inside and nothing on the other side. It is clean on backside. I know it is not rust Bec we don't get rust in FL. I show it one rose person who never seen anything like that in his 80 yrs of life in FL. He was very baffled. He is a sweetheart :) who is also a Rosarian all his life. On Nov 4th, my friend saw the leaves and in a sec said pls get any fungicide from store and spray it it else it will die. I went same day and actually spray it taking no chances. Today, it had no sign of any thing and all very green leaves. I spray only twice . It recovers real fast and today is Nov 20th. So, in 16 days it is so green as if nothing happens. It has rusty brownish colour and very hard to describe. To be honest with you, I Google and Google and found nothing on line . Absolutely nothing !! That same day, I cut about 10 odds leaves ready to take it to extension office. I wanted to post it here but I feel like I bothering silly questions which I did not know that my rose could go to heaven. I am sorry if I confused a lot of Rosarians here but describing a fungal is extremely hard without pics..lol But I tried :) jin...See Moreseattlesuze
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