Rosa palustris, swamp rose, is a species rose native to the eastern United States. It is called swamp rose with good reason. Rosa palustris likes boggy, wet areas.
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Therese Bugnet rose is a Rugosa. Typical of Rugosa roses Therese Bugnet is cold hardy and disease resistant. Also typical of Rugosas, it flowers with…
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New Dawn is a rarity in rose gardening: a beautiful garden plant. Individual flowers may not win a rose show, but when those pale pink roses open by the hundreds in mid-spring, the lesson is complete.
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Roses are iconic across many cultures. Here are some thoughts which may help beginners and the frustrated.
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Etoile de Lyon is a tea rose of exquisite color, a large and healthy rose whose light golden blooms come in a series of flushes…
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‘The Fairy’ rose is grown in many gardens eighty years after its introduction and with good reason. ‘The Fairy’ is a tough, gorgeous garden rose…
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Buff beauty is a Hybrid musk rose introduced in 1939 in the United Kingdom by Ann Bentall. I ponder what it must have felt like…
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Fru Dagmar Hastrup rose was found and named by Knud Julianis Hastrup, who was native to Denmark. This rose is also referred to as Frau…
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Old rose Perle d’Or is a joy in the garden. It is a Polyantha rose introduced in 1884 by Francis Dubreuil (who has a fine…
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Rosa gallica officinalis is considered the first rose cultivated in a garden setting. It is called the apothecary’s rose. Rosa gallica var. officinalis is a…
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A classic tea rose, Duchesse de Brabant was introduced in 1857. Hardy zones 7-11, Duchesse de Brabant bears soft to bright pink fully-doubled roses of…
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