Your favorite roses & make roses more winter-hardy
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Comments (5)I may love other roses blooms,but for a carefree rose I choose Knockout.I have had it since it first came out and it blooms all the time except feb.carefree and healthy.It is a great rose for this area.Jessie...See MoreWinter Hardy (cane hardy) Climbing Roses
Comments (17)Hi Flowernay! I just discovered this forum--usually go to ponds as have a pond but did a search on cold climate gardening and low and behold! I grow William Baffin, John Cabot and John Davis--favorite is the last as blooms all season. Have had it planted for 5 years and is only 6 feet tall--the other two are only 2 years old so havn't reached their growth yet. If your friend wants a really tall climber my Polestar, sometimes called Polar Star is over 9 feet tall. It was taller (almost 15 feet spread along the fence) but I moved it last spring and it didn't like the move much. Had to cut down the canes to 6 feet to move it. They grow on old wood so you are not supposed to cut the canes--just prune out side canes. The flowere is very interesting white with a green bud in the center--only blooms in early spring, but I like the foilage as is a good cover for an ugly wall. The only problem is is that the thorns are about 3/4" long which is why I moved mine from beside the sidewalk to an area where I won't get bitten when I pass by. Sorry for the late post--I guess this may be e-mailed to you. Happy rose gardening! Jalal...See MoreWinter Hardy Canadian Roses.....loads of them!!
Comments (12)Yes Ma'am Celeste, For those of us in the great white north, the hardy Canadians provide some welcome roses that can be grown as climbers or just left to do their thing without fuss. I grow several, primarily as climbers where no other repeat blooming climbing roses will work. I have as climbers, John Davis, Henry Kelsey and Morden Snowbeauty. Snowbeauty is advertised as a low shrub but climbs to six or seven feet for me. I also grow Morden Blush as a hardy, disease free, repeat blooming, old fashioned shrub rose in the same bed as the Austin, Redoute and a couple of Bucks, Prairie Star and Hawkeye Belle, all without winter protection in 4b. I would highly recommend "Blush" as a bedding, landscape or low hedge rose for zone 3 to 5 winter areas. The link is to to the Canadian Rose Society hardy rose page which will take you to extensive writeups and photos of all the Canadian Explorer and Morden rose varieties. Here is a link that might be useful: Canadian Rose Society, Hardy Roses...See MoreYour favorite cold hardy orange and yellow roses
Comments (5)Easy Does It is hands down the most floriferous rose I have ever grown. It's not a vivid orange more of a saturated apricot with large frilly edged blooms. It gets some die back, I'd call it snow line hardy, but is so healthy and vigorous that it quickly makes up any loss. I'd recommend grafted. Trumpter is the most vivid red/orange I can imagine and is very hardy. It's a compact bush with fairly large blooms, a generous bloomer, tends to blackspot so does best in full sun with good air circulation or would benefit from anti-fungal spray. Oranges & Lemons is also very hardy. In my garden it wasn't the best bloomer and took up a lot for space, grew long canes acted like a short climber....See Morestrawchicago z5
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