Hi..I just purchased a rose bush on Ebay and they called it a rugosa rose with the hips..It doesn't look like the pictures that I have found of the rugosa rose...Can anyone identify this rose for me??? http://cgi.ebay.com/2-Fragrant-Anitque-Rose-Bushes-Fragrant-Beautiful_W0QQitemZ190381043426QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2c53982ee2 Thanks, Ginger

Re rugosas: My son recently said that the sweetest smell he knows, because it reminds him of his happy chidlhood, is the smell of rugosas mixed with the smell of chlorine! He explained that it is because the local public swimming pool is surrounded by rugosa hedges. He used to go there every day in summer. Niels, I probably never saw your post, but the Skagen painters mean almost as much to a Swede as to a Dane. It is part of our cultural heritage, too, and several Swedish artists spent time at Skagen. I have just retired from work and almost the last thing I did while still at work was to carry my framed print of a Hammershøi painting to a colleague who had admired it. I know Vilhelm Hammershøi was not a member of the Skagen colony but I somehow connect him to them although he mostly painted interiors. It's something about the light, our very soecial Nordic light. Finland has this same light, of course, and Hanna Pauli captures it in this iconic painting that really appeals to Scandinavians. No rose though. Here is a link that might be useful:

Found cemetery rose--deep pink, moderate scent--double with small petals and small, dark green leaves--forms hips--blooms about 2 inches in diameter, some larger, with a tendency to reflex. This spring the canes were so long and limp with the weight of flowers that it almost looked like a climber. I pruned it hard as soon as the last blooms faded in mid-May and it produced new buds almost immediately and is blooming again. It is 3-4 feet tall now, stiff and upright. If it repeated like this in the past, I must have been looking the other way, or maybe it's just more noticeable in the expanded European section. Any thoughts as t what it might be? Lindsey PS Probably the worst rose in my garden for Blackspot.

Could it be "President Herbert Hoover" Climbing rose version? President Herbert Hoover Cl. – Rogue Valley Roses I know the pictures have pink/red outer petals but one of the photos OP has shows red/darker orange before opening and often my roses don't match the photo colors. https://garden.org/plants/view/3768/Rose-Rosa-President-Herbert-Hoover/ Garden.org says it's 4 feet, but a commenter says it's really tall and RVR has a cilmbing version. Or it could be Mr. Nash Rose (Rosa 'Mr. Nash') in the Roses Database - Garden.org All I know its they are definitely not Westerland or Polka - I have those & while they're "orangey climbing roses" they're both frilly and Westerland is almost neon. President Herbert Hoover Mr.Nash More Hoover Herbert Hoover again