Your newly discovered fragrant roses
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Comments (21)For fragrant, hardy, disease resistant, repeat blooming roses, rugosas are a good place to start. Rosa rugosa has a delicious clove scent. I like the species selections Rosa rugosa Alba and Rosa rugosa Rubra as much as any rugosas, but there are many good varieties. Yes, the otherwise estimable roses from Agriculture Canada are not known for their fragrance. Many of my best "Landscaping shrubs" Seafoam for example, also lack fragrance. After this, it tends towards onesy-twosies. Jacques Cartier is an all around excellent rose. Large, very full flowers are powdery pink with an excellent wafting fragrance. Foliage has excellent disease resistance. I really don't know a so-called hybrid musk that is both hardy and fragrant. I have a feeling if I continue looking I will find one, but this is hardly a recommendation. Will Scarlet is an excellent rose, though mine is not fragrant. Hmm. I guess Darlow's Enigma is listed as a Hybrid Musk. It is cane hardy for me, and very disease resistant. It is a big horse of a rose. In a garden of large roses, Darlow's Enigma might be the champion of biomass. It blooms in large clusters of small, pure white, nearly single flowers. Each flower is punctuated with a brilliant boss of stamens. The fragrance is excellent and carries well. It has the best repeat of any rose I grow. The foliage has an elegant look to it, different from most of the hardy roses I grow. This rose may be hard to find commercially, but it is easy to root from a cutting. Among "Modern Shrubs", most are over-rated here in our wet zone 5. Some Austins are very good, with Heritage and Lilian Austin being two of our best. Heritage is a shell pink, with an excellent Lemon Zinger fragrance. Lilian Austin is an interesting color, sometimes brick red, sometimes tomato soup, sometimes a perfectly acceptable pink blend. I'm not sure I like it, but it is an excellent performer. Some Buck roses are OK. Earthsong has been our best performer of the Bucks. In terms of pure hardiness, it is disappointing, but it grows back more vigorously than most. It is very floriferous. The flowers are a good pink. It has a sweet fragrance, underlaid with an enticing pungence. Get some good, reliable roses in your garden, then you'll be free to experiment. Others may know other good ones. I love my repeat bloomers, but most of my best roses are once bloomers. Few if any repeaters can catch up to what these roses do in their season....See MoreMy newly planted mauve/lavender roses
Comments (9)Patty, what a terrible thing to have happen! At least I didn't lose my love for any roses. Youth Dew perfume on the other hand....I'm still in 2 minds about Poseidon or Novalis as it is called here. Last year ( it's 1st) the buds kept going brown and shrivelled and I only got a handful of nice blooms. This season it has been a little better but still not great. The plant itself is big and healthy, with nice clean foliage but still the odd shrivelling of buds and scant blooms. No insect infestations, enough water, so it is on SP watch at present along with St Cecelia. Melodye...See MoreWhat is your favorite color rose? Do you grow only fragrant ones?
Comments (18)I'm with Seil and Ben - nothing makes my heart go pitter patter or my wallet go "poof" faster than a picotee, mutable or striped rose, the more high contrast the better. After that I'm drawn to the "oddball" colors of russet, parchment or lavender (or best all three together, like Distant Drums or Koko Loko). Dark dark burgundy flowers also zing something in my soul. As for wafting, even without my poor nose nothing really wafts very far in my dry climate. We don't get wafting of hyacinths and lilacs in the spring even though I have 100's of the former and 3 well established bushes of the latter. Peonies you have to get up close to smell, and the same for lilies. I'll get a vague "pleasant smell" from an area with over 10 Stargazer lilies blooming, but even my son with the hypersensitive nose doesn't gag at the smell. It just dissipates too fast. I never knew Darlow's Enigma or Marie Pavie were supposed to have any scent at all, and even my daughter with a good nose shrugs when presented with a bouquet of those. I like fragrance when I can get it, but I look far more often than I smell, as far as roses go. Cynthia...See MoreWhat "very fragrant" roses smell like nothing to you and vice versa?
Comments (49)So pretty! I had to laugh at your comment, lyanna. People often do tune out on me when I start in on roses. Every once in a while, someone’s interested. Maybe they’re just being polite, I don’t know. Noseo, I adore your bobcat family photo! How amazing they must have been to see. It’s been many years since I’ve seen one around here, not since I was a child. Rosefolly, I always detect a wonderful scent from Annie Laurie McDowell, and I don’t have the best sniffer. I’m looking forward to planting out the ALMD that Kim budded for me onto Pink Clouds. I’m making sure my battle with Dr. Huey is over in her spot first. I think I may have gotten rid of him for good this time. I just want to be sure, as it will be so much harder once ALMD is there. I don’t want anything happening to that precious rose! By the way, I looked it up, and found that 10% of people actually like the scent of skunk! I guess I’m not the only one. Today, I’m smelling Baronne Prevost. She’s not quite as strong as my Bourbon roses, but still strong and wonderful. Lisa...See Moresara_ann-z6bok
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ladybug A 9a Houston area
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Kristine LeGault 8a pnw
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Sylvia Wendel
4 years agoEveryone says Lavender Veranda has no scent, so I didn’t expect any. My first bloom, though, did.
I wonder if this was just a momentary blip? As a rule, once it gets hot around here almost all my roses lose their fragrance. Except for Munstead Wood, of course.
i just planted Memorial Day, specifically for fragrance as it‘s in a walk-by area. Hopeful!
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