Rose, Barock, バラ, バロック, Climbing rose つるバラ Germany ドイツ Tantau 1990
Cupped and full blooms of soft peach apricot that pale to cream with age, decorate a compact bush covered with healthy, mid green leaves.
Marianne (a Hybrid Gallica rose) Today's featured flower is my favorite rose in our garden: Marianne! This once-blooming rose is fast-growing and absolutely covered in blooms year after year. It has a strong peachy Damask fragrance and is truly bursting with petals. We started this rose from a tiny twelve inch plant grown on its own roots (not grafted), and within two years it had grown into a sprawling eight foot bush covered in flowers each May and June. Marianne has a vigorous growth habit that reminds me of a wild rose, and we have never had issues with leaf fungus or rust, even in our relatively damp climate. It will definitely ramble if given the space. Ours is leaning on a nearby mimosa tree for support, and it made its way at least eight feet up the tree trunk last spring. The foliage is a bright, glossy green, and although the flowers only last two or three months, the plant remains green and lovely throughout the spring and summer (and well into autumn, in our zone). This rose was bred by Paul Barden, and we purchased it from The Uncommon Rose shortly after it was first made available for sale. The Uncommon Rose has since closed their retail shop, but Paul Barden's roses are now available through Rogue Valley Roses, a nursery that specializes in rare and exceptional roses. Marianne's parent roses are the Duchesse de Montebello and Abraham Darby, and it is a beautiful hybrid of the two, bursting with petals in a gorgeous peachy pink color that fades to a warm, creamy yellow as the flowers age. You can learn more about this rose by following the breeder & shop links above or by visiting HelpMeFind's Marianne page. Book note: This week I am reading The Pace by Shelena Shorts, Truly, Madly by Heather Webber, and Nightlight: a Parody by The Harvard Lampoon. I am also looking forward to picking up Forget-Her-Nots by Amy Brecount White and Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins when they are released next Tuesday. Fun! Happy reading! :)
Lightness, like a snowflake floating gently down...('Windermere') ...luxury...('Trumpeter') ...good cheer...('Disney...
Rose, Chic, バラ, シック, Floribunda rose フロリバンダ United States of America アメリカ合衆国 Boerner 1953
Bring a touch of the tropics to your sunny border or best patio container with Caribbean Breeze, a glorious Jackson & Perkins exclusive floribunda rose with petals combining all the hot tropical colors of summer. Redolent of fresh-cut peaches, this rose flowers heavily in early season, then repeats merrily all summer and into fall. Caribbean Breeze is a must-have for big color in a small space.These blooms open from classic pointed, ovoid buds, but as the petals begin to unfurl, the flower takes on a rounded, ruffled form reminiscent of English roses and grandmothers rose garden. Old-fashioned equals lush and beautiful when it comes to roses, and Caribbean Breeze is a welcome revival of this flower form.Expect the blooms to reach 2 to 3 inches wide, the largest occurring early in the season. They are scented of sweet peach, a heady aroma that makes the summer garden sing. What a lovely choice for a container on the deck or in other outdoor entertaining areas, too, where the colors and fragrance can be enjoyed up close.Just 2 to 3 feet high and no more than 2 feet wide, Caribbean Breeze can be tucked into small empty spots in the front of the border, anywhere in the perennial garden, and of course in fine containers of all kinds. This is almost an edging rose, so dense is its habit and so lovely (and abundant) its blooms. Have fun designing new ways to use this floribunda rose in your landscape. And since Caribbean Breeze was bred right here at Jackson & Perkins, you know you can rely on this floribunda to perform dependably in a wide range of climates and conditions. You will fall in love with this rose.
Fruhlingsduft (H. Spinosissima, Kordes, 1949) Roses are blooming already at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, and I thought I would use...
'Prairie Sunrise'; typical bloom Have you ever had a rose that begged you to photograph it every time you passed? One that you couldn't stop photographing even when you try to resist its siren call? One of my new roses this year is 'Prairie Sunrise', and I think I might have taken at least one photo of every bloom it has developed since this rose grew from a tiny little band. The latest photograph, of several solitary blooms (see the bottom photo of this entry), was taken on my iPhone this week. As you can see, 'Prairie Sunrise' is just flat gorgeous, aptly named for the full blooms of pink, orange, and amber tones. And also aptly named for its resemblance to a prairie sunrise such as the one below that I captured on 6/27/13: 'Prairie Sunrise'; first bloom for me 'Prairie Sunrise' is officially an apricot blend Shrub rose bred by Dr. Griffith Buck prior to 1992, but it was not introduced by him. Helpmefind.com notes that this rose was introduced in 1997 by Sam Kedem Nursery and Garden, the latter a Minnesota-based mail-order nursery that I frequented in years past. Listing the rose as "apricot" doesn't really do justice to the coloring of this very double (50 petals) rose. In colder weather, I see a lot of pinks and yellows in this rose, while in very hot weeks the blooms are almost amber, with pinkish tones banished to the outer petals. The large (4 inch) blooms display as singles or in small clusters and are very fragrant, among the most fragrant of the Griffith Buck bred roses. They are so full as to be quartered when fully open, with an occasional confused golden-orange center. The bush is healthy, with dark green glossy leaves and the rose develops minimal blackspot. At maturity, 'Prairie Sunrise' is supposed to be approximately 3 feet tall and wide and winter hardy to Zone 4. Mine is about 2 feet tall at the end of its first summer. 'Prairie Sunrise' is an offspring of 'Friesia', a Kordes-bred Floribunda, and 'Freckle Face', a 1976 Buck rose. 'Prairie Sunrise'; after a week of cool nights 'Prairie Sunrise' has already won a permanent place in my garden and likely will be a rose I propagate to proliferate across my garden wherever I need a compact shrub rose. Between the camera-catching blooms and the unbeatable fragrance, you can't go wrong by trying this one, which Sam Kedem described as in the running for the title of Rose of the Century. I'm going to have to agree with you, Sam.
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Rose, Pur Caprice, バラ, ピュール カプリス, Shrub rose シュラブ France フランス Delbard 1997