Best all around repeat blooming, black spot free white roses you know?
Moses, Pittsburgh, W. PA., zone 5/6, USA
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Moses, Pittsburgh, W. PA., zone 5/6, USA thanked Kristine LeGault 8a pnwRelated Discussions
Your best repeat blooming climbers? how about yellow/apricot?
Comments (14)So many helpful & descriptive responses! From what almost everyone says about Crepuscule, it seems to be the perfect rose, fragrant, constant bloomer, almost thornless, disease resistant.. what more can you ask for?! I decided that this one would be my first climbing purchase ever, and I found a website through "Dave's Garden" for a nursery called Niche Gardens, which had it in stock in 1 gallon containers. I am excited to see how it does, however now I have all these other amazing suggestions to consider as my second and third climbing roses. I think I will put in an order at RU for the cl. Lady Hillingdon for next year because I just cannot get over the beauty in all the photos I have seen & I must give that rose a try. Reve D'Or looks very intriguing as well, it seems to have as good of a repeat as Crepuscle, with a softer yellow/apricot coloring that looks almost ivory.. very lovely. Buff Beauty looks lovely as well but I am not sure that I will have room for another rose that gets huge, I am sure Crepuscle will give me a run for my money in the garden space department in a few years. Kingcobb, I know that Don Juan is a red, but since everyone seems to comment that he is so fragrant & such a heavy bloomer I think I may have to add it to my ever increasing "find a place for this rose" list. I think it would add some nice contrast to all this yellow/apricot. I actually already have a rose that I have decided must be Teasing Georgia, I bought it cheap as an unlabeled, abused little thing from the "alley of impending doom" at my local nursery, and I have been nursing it back to health for a few weeks now. I posted photos of it here and a few helpful members have convinced me it is probably a Teasing Georgia. So if I can get it looking good and strong again, there is another climber for me to play around with! I'll link that post at the bottom. Has anyone had any experience growing Pat Austin as a climber? I saw an image of it on this site somewhere and it was jaw-dropping, it finally made her "weak necks" seem like a good thing, because she looks beautiful from below. Thanks again all! Jessica. Here is a link that might be useful: Mystery rose - Pretty sure it is Teasing Georgia...See MoreBest free-standing large shrub all by itself
Comments (24)also, it appears there are primulas and primulas - various clones seem to lack the incense scentof the foliage (or my nose just fails on this one) Some folk swear theirs is a strong as a buddhist temple whereas other (me) can detect nothing. If you decide to go with these yellow springtime roses, then I would have to say that hugonis would be my choice because it can be grown with a 'leg' and actually limbed up to make a very good freestanding specimen whereas many of the species roses make clumps (and in the canse of the spins, they often have no detectable lower limbs at all, just a rather cushiony soft mound (like a hebe or juniper - of course, this is one of the reasons why I love their density). Annoyingly, there are a number of glorious Canadian roses not easily aquired over here (apart from Ormiston Roy). These, while having spins in the parentage, benefit from a degree of manipulation (although a smidgeon of hardiness can be lost). A common, but very beautiful rose is Shepherd's Golden Wings which will be recurrent and also hardy in your zone. If only I could get my mitts on Beauty of leafland and Hazledean or even Suzanne.....In europe, Doorenbos bred a couple of interesting roses although they are getting hard to find (still trying to get my hands on a good Doorenbos selection). Oh yeah, just remembered the lovely yellow Aicha.... You may well find that this is the beginning of a new exploration into the joys of wildling roses (obviously, I am a mighty fan) - for all round grace and vigour, they have never been matched, even though some hybrids come close (the fruhling series, which might not manage zone 4 and the likes of Karl Foerster) I am shouting now - LOUIS RIEL. Have fun choosing and hope it does not get out of hand )although you won't be sorry if it does)....See MoreBest rose you ever got for free or on sale
Comments (8)a few come to mind. #1. Bought a Tropicana at Kmart for 50 cents in the early 70s, had beautiful fragrant blooms for 30 years before I lost it. #2. bought La Marne at Home Depot about 10 years ago in a two gallon pot for $1. It's always the first to bloom and blooms all summer, never has a problem with disease. Talk about the best $1 that I ever spent! #3. About 7 years ago someone pulled up a white rose by the roots to bring to a plant swap and didn't wrap it in wet newspaper or anything. Didn't know the name, it only had two little canes. I took it at the end of the swap because she was going to throw it away. Drove around all day with that poor rose in the back of a pickup in the hot sun. Put it in water that night and the next day it had perked up. So I planted it. It has been a consistent bloomer, but this year WOW! It has been covered with fragrant blooms all summer! I suspect it might be Iceberg, but haven't seen one that I can compare it to....See MoreRepeat blooming, climber, yellow rose, vintage or antique?
Comments (5)That's funny! "Deer resistant roses"! LOL! Like "dog resistant organic plant food". Banksiae is the most "deer resistant" I've encountered. I believe it's because it isn't succulent and they don't recognize it. But, they WILL browse it if nothing else is around. Perhaps that is why someone thought Roxburghii might also be resistant? Mermaid was successful in Pacific Palisades, but I think that was primarily due to it growing fast enough and being sufficiently prickled to outrun the deer. And, it's yellow and repeat blooming. If deer are a problem around that ailing cherry tree, you're either going to have to enclose it in chicken wire or some other barrier or use chemical means to protect it. You might check out the Repellex Systemic Animal Repellent to see if something like it might help. If possible, you could also plant a field of lavender, rosemary, santolina or some other offensively smelly plant surrounding the rose to help prevent the deer from devouring it. Their sense of smell is their primary defense mechanism. A large area of stinky planting jams their radar, preventing them from smelling nearby predators and often helps protect the plants they surround. But, seriously, roses ARE "deer food" and WILL require protection if there are deer around and they feel safe browsing the area. Good luck....See More
Moses, Pittsburgh, W. PA., zone 5/6, USA
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Feiy Lo (PNWZ8b)
10 days agoWhat about Icecap? Not the most showy one but it keeps clean throughout the season and repeats fast for me. Bloom abundantly in cluster. It's my top 10 rose. In cooler temps it may show a little pink center, but for the most part it's a creamy white. (Sorry for the poor quality of the photos.)
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Moses, Pittsburgh, W. PA., zone 5/6, USA thanked Feiy Lo (PNWZ8b)
Ryan Coastal LA Zone 10b
10 days agolast modified: 10 days agoPope John Paul is always blooming for me, sometimes in clusters and always very fragrant. Never any BS for me, a touch of mildew though in spring but right now that’s a problem for all my roses sadly so I can’t fault PJP. Bolero also as mentioned but it does get a touch of BS in early spring and late fall for me.
Moses, Pittsburgh, W. PA., zone 5/6, USA thanked Ryan Coastal LA Zone 10bMoses, Pittsburgh, W. PA., zone 5/6, USA
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mad_gallica (z5 Eastern NY)
10 days agoTrier did well for me so long as I kept acidifying the soil. Lost it to RRD a few years ago, which is why it is past tense.
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10 days agolast modified: 10 days agoHave you tried Madame Anisette? She wants to be a climber for me and has a long bloom period once she gets going. But I've heard that she doesn't adoesn't repeat bloom a. lot for some people. She can also have some blush in the center in cooler weather. I consider her a great bloomer in my garden. For me she has a very long bloom run....more continuous than in flushes
I've heard that some people hard prune her after the first flush to keep her more as a shrub.
Mine is own root.
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Gretchun Kim
10 days agolast modified: 10 days agoBeautiful @librarian_gardner_8b_pnw pictures! I second recommend mme annisette for tall and well behaved shrub. my other top pick will be Earth Angel, and Desdemona. Cant go wrong with any of them, if you have the space grow all of them!
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5 days agoI’ve had Lions-Rose for a few years. Got it based on recommendations here. Deer, rabbits and spider mites (after soil application of imidacloprid) have kept it back prior years. It has the requisite disease resistance and productivity. Some fragrance, though less than its neighbors Beverly and DeeLish. A suggestion of a bit of light peach in the center, at times, should not be a deal-breaker.
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Moses, Pittsburgh, W. PA., zone 5/6, USAOriginal Author