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

Scentimental has wonderful fragrant flowers that last only a few hours. It is lovely but fleeting. It also has relatively good disease resistance. I suspect that this is not Scentimental since you say that it has no fragrance. Scentimental has a distinctly shrub form. Ferdinand Pichard is not especially fragrant. I never notice how long the individual roses last because they are somewhat smaller. I would say that they are not long lived like some roses but I don't know if they flash past as quickly as those of Scentimental. It is less disease-resistant, too. FP throws up long canes that can easily be wrapped around a pillar or guided along a fence. Of course, it could be a completely different striped rose. Since it is remontant you can rule out all the striped gallicas and probably also the Bourbon rose Variegata di Bologna which is said to repeat rarely. I have not personally grown VdB so I am going on what I've heard here. Rosefolly

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:

Sure looks like Angel Face. Here's a link to compare. Here is a link that might be useful: Angel Face at helpmefind