Rare Red Roses

This one rates two photos.(1987, Meilland) is a miniature with 1½ inch blooms on a bush that gets close to 3' by 3'. It is hardy only to zone 6, but I am willing to baby it and give it a little extra winter protection to be sure it makes it through the...

The color was ok for pumpkins or (ahem) oranges, but NOT for roses. If you scroll to the bottom of any of the articles you can click on the "Read more articles written by ...". This is my brightest, 'orangest' orange rose.

You can see in the photo below that one of those roses was a fairly typical pink cabbage rose, the other a more unusual dusky type.Somebody told her that the latter was called the coffee rose.Although its flowers are certainly dark, they are more maroon...

I bought it own-root instead of getting a grafted plant. The color is just as described in all the catalogs and it doesn't fade. I wish I had taken a photo of the entire bush in bloom to share, but a thunderstorm got it before I had a chance.My very latest...

This is a good landscape rose and has a pleasant spicy scent.'Royal Amethyst' (1989, DeVor) [r], hybrid tea. It blooms all season with large (30-35 petaled) blossoms on a 3'-4' bush.

You can purchase commercial tea bag sacks, but I figured coffee filters would do just as well. I just folded them around the tea and stapled them shut with a cotton string. These irritating hairs are the source of the novelty itching powder, so should...

It was thetree in an old rose garden at an historic house here in Greensboro. Many of theroses can be trained as short climbers or grown as tall shrubs.The classification of roses is a difficult subject to discuss mainly because there is no uniform universal...

Beyond these well recognized and festive symbols are the lasting and true aspects that tend to bring out the best of almost all of us -- peace love and hope. The fund was established for the purpose of restoring parks, gardens and green space in New Orleans,...

No need to say how relieved I was, happy to have saved at least the last two of my climbing rose cuttings!Spring came and the cuttings grew into small roses. It's funny to see her playing with them so I gave her any plastic I had, no matter how much plastic...

There is a house that fronts the property where he lives and will continue to do so as long as he wishes, after which it will belong to his son, Keith, who will move it.Most of the research that has produced approximately 500 new roses, the majority of...

After much agonizing, my husband and I (I did ask his advice on a few details) decided to center it in the rear of the house behind our pool, facing south. I know most people aren't that lucky (and I may never be again).Next, consider location, location,...

If you are planting them for security reasons, ensure that you do not get the thornless berry bushes or vines.I do not personally recommend planting these close to the house as snakes do favor berries and this could cause added risk to small children...

All-America Rose Selections is a designation given to roses that have passed a very rigorous evaluation.These evaluations are conducted at 20 AARS trial gardens throughout the country.

Trees are also present with some huge linden trees, cedars, walnuts, apple trees, all hosts to numerous birds and squirrels. A bell at the entrance of the garden is to be vigorously shaken to make yourself known, in case nobody shows up you can proceed...

They had no other place to go, and we were their only family out of Katrina's path.Thank you, Ben, you have truly given to me a gift that will last forever. On October 6, my brother's birthday, I did a little walk around in my yard.

It is a depiction of the, a shrub that grows into a dense thicket with tomato sized hips.First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy chose Franciscan Desert Rose for use in the White House and is on display in the Smithsonian as one of the largest selling patterns...

Strain.Information for this article was gathered from areas of public domain and conversations with some of my fellow Master Gardener rosarians.Credits: All the photos are courtesy of fellow members of Dave's Garden and can be found inThe photo of the...

Where can I find one? So you can can stop your search for black tulips as well.I think by now we can all agree that there are no true black roses. There have been so many gorgeous roses and I want them all.

Usually, only the seedlings that show promise are kept and allowed to grow; the others are destroyed. That is a lot to pay for lunch, but I had come to see Sean so I signed up for the luncheon.

Her many movies, television appearances, photographs and recordings are all we have left of her now. Beautiful work!The Helen Hayes rose and Hybrid Tea rose photographs are from my gardens.The photographs of Helen Hayes, the woman, are public domain.The...

My plant is so vigorous that its canes often threaten to block the stairs to the deck. As it turned out, I could smell its sweet scent from halfway across the deck! Heavenly.I'm not much of a rosarian.

Well, I seem to have bought a nice collection of old garden roses, along with a farmWe rented this place for 22 years before we bought it, and knew that there were roses. The scarlet red rose by the back door is the only one that I have totally lost.

New gardeners wanting to try a rose can not go wrong by choosing an alba. I take out a few of the oldest canes around the first week of February, but that's all the maintenance I do, other than remove any broken canes if we have an ice storm.

I kept them alive--barely--on a windowsill and come spring, not knowing what else to do, I stuck them in the ground just to see what would happen. I dumped a shovel full of soil over them while I was winterizing my other roses.

Most of these elements are already available in the air and the soil and don't need to be added by us.There are 3 macro nutrients that most of us are familiar with and play the most important part in a plant's health.These 3 elements are usually the main...

Systematic Botany. Traditionally roses were grouped together on the basis of their observable characteristics. As a low shrub at 1 1/2 ft, with 1 1/2 inch pink blooms in may and June.

Roses love pine needles so I arranged a rose garden around that grand tree. I turned the saw off, removed my goggles and made my way to the dividing wall.She was out of breath because she ran from her kitchen in her successful attempt to stop me in my...