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Your best short landscape rose? What about Drift roses?
Comments (4)We have Peach Drift & I love it. The colors are amazing, always changing & it is has very good disease resistance. Happy Chappy is another really good ground cover rose....See MoreWhich roses are your best so far?
Comments (46)Memoire is a nice, dependable HT--but not a big showy one. It's a bit slow on the re-bloom, but blooms nicely when it gets going. It is fairly good on disease resistance (for a HT). Grows somewhat vertical--not bushy looking at all. Edges of the white petals often exhibit the slightest hint of brown (usually noticeable only if you are standing close to it)--but I think that is a problem many white and light colored blooms have. I have never seen a real live Pope John Paul II (did I get that name right?) which lots of people on this forum grow. I get the impression that its bloom is bigger and more well-shaped--so you might want to consider it also. However, I'm satisfied (if not excited) with my Memoire and have no plans to replace it with Pope John or anything else. Oh yes, Memoire is fragrant also--which is why she grows along my Perfumed Path. And like most of my HTs, Memoire is a bit on the shorter side--not growing 6 ft tall, or taller, like some gardeners claim their HTs do. Kate...See MoreIf You Could Have Only Three Roses to Design your Garden with..
Comments (35)(Since I just had a computer glitch and lost everything I wrote, let's see how much of the dream I can remember.) Ingrid, I was going to ask you "how big is this dream garden of mine?", but then I reread your post and saw that yours is your present garden, so I guess my dream garden has to fit in the space I have. When I gave you my choices, I didn't give you a plan, so here it is. Since my garden is in my small front yard, up close to and in front of my house, I can't very well have dozens of towering Tea rose bushes hiding the building. That would be silly and has been my dilemma from the beginning. So I need a "Special Small Garden in Two Parts" exemption to allow me to have a 4th rose. The dream garden plan would still be a circle in a circle, and in the center circle would be, of course, LeVesuve in all her big, bosomy pinkness. In place of the arbor at the top of the circle would be two Maman Cochets, the regal matriarchs of the garden. And in the rest of the outer circle planted en masse would be the 3rd rose in the front - Enchantress, a gorgeous magenta pink smaller Tea rose (supposed to be anyway). They would sweep up and around from the entrance at the curb to meet the Maman Cochets, bowing at their feet with arms raised in adoration. In the back garden I would need a climber because of all the oak trees I have that would want to participate in the dream. And that climber would be LeVesuve. (Oh, did that sound like a 5th rose? Nah.) The rest of the garden would be a maze of hedges of Anna Olivier and Maman Cochet, all neatly and softly clipped with no hard edges. I'm not sure if they would be mixed or all one color on each side of the path. In my dream garden Tea roses don't mind some trimming for beauty's sake. Hopefully, DH won't be too nauseated by this pastel pink and yellow dream. And then I would want more Enchantresses close to the house so we could see out the windows, right? In my dream garden there would be no north side of the house, and the west side would be just as good as the east side since there would be no BS in my garden and the setting sun is just as gentle as the morning sun. And there would be clay in the soil that would retain moisture and nutrients so all the rose bushes would have lots of beautiful green leaves to go with the flowers. In my dream garden the oak trees would not shade the roses - just the people. And no dream garden would be a true dream if the choice of roses could not be changed with the season. Now, as to the next rotation of dream roses... Sherry...See MoreBest Roses in your Garden (voted 2006)
Comments (32)It's cool to see some of Vernon Rickard's roses on this list...Erin Alonso and Robin Alonso. His Rachel is on my best list...a beautiful miniflora, deep pink, fragrant, many petals, very good bloomer, good growth. Erin Alonso is also a great bloomer for me. 2007 was such a challenging year for gardening but all the same I had some good performers. Cherry Parfait is usually a great one here but sulked in the drought. Other good ones for 07: Monsieur Tillier Comtesse du Cayla Lavaglut Angel's Camp Tea Altissimo kept it up this year Tipsy Imperial Concubine Queen Nefertiti in a pot but always blooming Midnight Blue " " Comtesse de Provence or Liv Tyler Madame Lombard Cramoisi Superieur SDLM &SDML Rouge Clotilde Soupert Abe Darby Carefree Beauty Country Dancer Felicia Marie Pavie St. Cecilia Maggie La Sevillana Lady Hillingdon OLD BLUSH the best ANisley Dickson very good bloomer Sally HOlmes The Fairy Bonica La Marne Betty Boop Quietness Frederick Mistral Those were the best out of 300. Linda...See Moreingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
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