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The yellow clusters are Lady Banks - the yellow variety has no scent unfortunately but it is a gorgeous rose. I have a white one in the back of the house but she is new and will not bloom until next spring - she smells like violets.
The quartered rose is Souvenir de la Malmaison - my very most favorite rose and the sweetest pure rose scent in the world. (Actually I like one of her sister Bourbons equally but Mme. Issac Perrier does not bloom until May but when she blooms she will be my favorite.)
The cupped rose is Duchese de Brabrant - she is an antique tea and has a bit of raspberry mixed in with the standard tea scent. Supposedly she was Teddy Roosevelt's favorite rose. I only showed you one bloom but she is a tiny bush - this is only her second year and she is covered with buds. I don't know how she will hold up her head if they all bloom.
I don't usually grow roses that don't smell good but I make an exception for Lady Banks because she is almost as early as forsythia here.
I have a Souvenir de Docteur Jamain that will be blooming soon and some other roses that have not even budded out - two of the more established roses here are once bloomers like Lady Banks but they come on later - I love this time of year - later it gets so hot that the roses and I both tend to wilt but for now it is perfect. By the time your spring is in full swing mine unfortunately will be over.
This is almost more detailed information than my brain can process. Didn't know that these pedigree roses had such aristocratic names! Guess I will gave to journey to Rocky Somewhere to truly appreciate them. Maybe next year. Thanks, Charlotte!
These roses are a feast for the eyes. Thanks for the commentary and thanks to Cathy for adding the additional NPR bit. My dad loved to grow roses. One last yellow rose that remained from his garden died a few years back when a tree fell over and uprooted the rose before my neighbor could replant it. I thought of him and how much he would have enjoyed your roses.
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Gorgeous! What kinds of roses are these? I can almost smell them!
The yellow clusters are Lady Banks - the yellow variety has no scent unfortunately but it is a gorgeous rose. I have a white one in the back of the house but she is new and will not bloom until next spring - she smells like violets.
The quartered rose is Souvenir de la Malmaison - my very most favorite rose and the sweetest pure rose scent in the world. (Actually I like one of her sister Bourbons equally but Mme. Issac Perrier does not bloom until May but when she blooms she will be my favorite.)
The cupped rose is Duchese de Brabrant - she is an antique tea and has a bit of raspberry mixed in with the standard tea scent. Supposedly she was Teddy Roosevelt's favorite rose. I only showed you one bloom but she is a tiny bush - this is only her second year and she is covered with buds. I don't know how she will hold up her head if they all bloom.
I don't usually grow roses that don't smell good but I make an exception for Lady Banks because she is almost as early as forsythia here.
I have a Souvenir de Docteur Jamain that will be blooming soon and some other roses that have not even budded out - two of the more established roses here are once bloomers like Lady Banks but they come on later - I love this time of year - later it gets so hot that the roses and I both tend to wilt but for now it is perfect. By the time your spring is in full swing mine unfortunately will be over.
This is almost more detailed information than my brain can process. Didn't know that these pedigree roses had such aristocratic names! Guess I will gave to journey to Rocky Somewhere to truly appreciate them. Maybe next year. Thanks, Charlotte!
Sorry for the blast of information, Keith - these babies are sort of a passion, but I have always been prone to too many words.
Every rose has a story - and it is hard for me to resist a good story.
Heard this on NPR a few days back. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102518565
These roses are a feast for the eyes. Thanks for the commentary and thanks to Cathy for adding the additional NPR bit. My dad loved to grow roses. One last yellow rose that remained from his garden died a few years back when a tree fell over and uprooted the rose before my neighbor could replant it. I thought of him and how much he would have enjoyed your roses.
Ann P.
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