Which roses have the strongest "old rose" fragrance?
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Comments (14)Wow, not many of those grow down south but I have enjoyed the Compte all season and the celebration of the summer is when Great Maiden's blush casts her magic over the garde and I lead my friends around soemnly proclaiming "This is what the 12th century smelled like! I love her and yes that scent is so good. la...See MoreDo you have the book 'Tea Roses: Old Roses for Warm Gardens'
Comments (14)Ronda One of my favourite rose books was recommended by Rosebud, a former forum enabler, I'm not sure of the name of the book, it's at home in Oz and overseas so this is guess work ....Landscaping with Roses and I think the author's last name is Cox ???? I like it because it has lots of ideas for how to use roses rather than just describing individual blooms and bushes. The Tea Rose book is very good, it has quite a lot of technical information for the identification of varieties and as Jon said tries to explain some of the common mis-identification of roses. The whole thing about the Duchess being called Countess something or other makes me want to sulk though!!...See MoreWhich miniature has best old rose form?
Comments (5)Here are some pics from the www.selectroses.ca website of the Patio Wonder series. I grow all of these and have raved about them on here lots of times, in terms of winter hardiness, disease resistance, form, vigour and bloom production. Most have good scent too. Here is Graduation Day. Here is White Patio Wonder. Here is Pink Patio Wonder. Here is red Patio Wonder. The only problem being of course...is that Brad Jalbert and Select Roses do not ship to the U.S. currently......See MoreWhich old roses do you consider to be classics?
Comments (33)Indeed. I have Tuscany and love it. I would certainly consider Kazanlik & Ispahan to be classics. Conditorum is available in Germany, so it has not really fallen into obscurity in the EU. I think chance plays a part in distribution. My first introduction to old roses was the Will Tillotson catalogue in the house of a family friend, a writer who lived in the country, which we rented for the summers when I was 15 or so. The catalog was so well written I had it practically memorized with no effort on my part. Then there were also the garden books of those years, which I took out of the library & read with avidity, and the Shakespeare gardens in NYC parks which displayed some of the roses mentioned. Those set the standards for me. -- I think there must be is a distinct "founder" effect -- or bottleneck in what gets chosen as representative, thought there is also much consensus among aficionados based on observable qualities. We now have so much more info. at our disposal. I only discovered Conditorum a few months ago!...See Moreplantloverkat north Houston - 9a
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