By zuzu (Northern California - Zone 9a) on Dec 12, 2019 1:41 AM concerning plant: Rose (Rosa 'Zaide')
Zaide has very full blooms, packed with 90 to 110 reflexed petals. It is a vigorous grower, sending up arching canes that stretch out 6-8 feet in my garden. The blooms have a strong scent. The rose could be described as utterly delightful if it were not for its bloodthirsty thorns. Pruning Zaide is an arduous but necessary task because those arching canes have to be cut back frequently to keep the thorns from attacking passersby.
Red Ribbons' marketing leaves much to be desired. It's usually sold as a groundcover rose, but in my garden that's something of a misnomer. It covers a lot of ground, but not close to the ground. The canes are upright for about 3 feet before they begin arching another 2 or 3 feet in various directions.
It's also sold by some of the large chains (Lowes, for one) as 'Red Lady Banks.' It has nothing in common with Rosa banksia, however. It blooms in several flushes during the year. The 3-inch blooms are an eye-catching shade of true red with contrasting gold anthers. They have a mild, pleasant fragrance. Red Ribbons is used extensively in my county as a landscape rose on commercial properties because it takes little care to grow well.
Most hybrid musks are shade tolerant, and Dancing in the Wind is no exception. It's growing under my monster wisteria in the front of my garden, near the mailbox, and my mail carrier has had to leave me more than one note asking me to cut back some of the branches because the rose seems to expand overnight. Left to its own proclivities, it might spread out more than 10 feet in every direction. The blooms are a wonderful blend of colors, best described as peaches and cream, and they literally cover the rose bush, nearly obscuring the foliage, for much of the year.
This hybrid musk is growing under a black walnut tree in my garden. Despite the shade and the juglone, it blooms happily in that spot and regularly climbs to about 12 feet although I try to maintain a more shrub-like form by pruning it down throughout the year to about 8 feet tall and 5 feet wide. The petal-packed blooms are carried in fragrant clusters.
This grandiflora's blooms have outer petals of a pale shade of lavender, pale enough to resemble lavender-washed silver, and a darker lavender center. They are carried in large clusters at the top of the canes. The canes are strong enough to hold these bouquets erect, but this can be a drawback for the short gardener. The rose is at least 7 feet tall in my garden, so I'm rarely able to smell the spicy citrus fragrance of the blooms.
This rose wins the prize for exuberance. Its counterpart in the animal kingdom would be a rambunctious puppy. Its blooms, red with a silvery white reverse, seem to resist holding any semblance of a well-defined shape and often resemble pinwheels more than roses. Its canes and branches are equally irrepressible, jutting out in various directions with no show of restraint and no regard for symmetry. It probably would be evicted from a formal rose garden, but it's a perfect addition to a romantic garden.
This pretty rose has been a valuable addition to my garden. It has a pleasing habit, a fragrance that's strong without being cloying, and frequent flushes of blooms in a wonderful combination of colors -- petals of silvery mauve with a white reverse.
I see it growing in many gardens in my town, but it might be a local phenomenon because it was named for the oldest branch of a California-based chain of home improvement stores on the 75th anniversary of that chain -- the now defunct Orchard Supply Hardware chain.
This hybrid tea, with its perfumed yellow blooms with pink edges, is exceptionally difficult to find in commerce these days. It's a pity because the rose is highly resistant to pests and disease in my garden and is a vigorous grower.
Its namesake, Suzanne Massu, headed an ambulance unit as a major in the Free French forces in WWII. Kordes named two hybrid teas for her, but it inexplicably misspelled her name each time. She was always Suzanne, not Susan.
Whenever I climb on my soapbox to declare that grafted roses are superior to own-root roses, I have to add the disclaimer that my own-root Postillion is one of the largest and healthiest roses in my garden. Its thick and sturdy canes easily hold the clusters of large blooms erect. It has no wispy canes or nodding blooms. The bright orange buds open to reveal golden-yellow blooms with copper tinges.
I have three of these rose bushes in my garden, but not by choice. Three different mail-order nurseries sent me 'Folksinger' when I ordered other Buck roses. I can only assume there's a surplus of these roses in commerce. It wouldn't be surprising because this is a large and vigorous shrub that grows well on its own roots, so most cuttings of it would probably thrive, whereas the cuttings of other Buck roses might be less viable.
All three are among the tallest of the Buck roses in my garden and they have an attractive habit, but their blooms are of a ho-hum color and a ho-hum shape, so they're strictly background plants. They also have virtually no disease resistance. In particular, they're plagued with black spot, just as all of the Buck roses in my garden are.
When Vintage Gardens had a retail outlet in my town, there was a 50-cent table of overstock band roses. Some of my roses came from that table, and Anna Zinkeisen is the best 50-cent rose in my garden. The color of its blooms is the palest of yellows, a calming shade that provides a nice contrast to roses of more vivid colors. It's officially described as a rose that repeats only occasionally, but in my garden it's in bloom for much of the year. The shiny foliage is a dark shade of green, setting off the light yellow blooms superbly.
'The Poet's Wife' is another in a long line of awesome Roses introduced by David Austin. I say that because, when first introduced to his 'English Roses', I discounted them a bit... thinking English Roses could not possibly do well on the Southern Great Plains. Boy, was I wrong!
Since then every one of the David Austin Roses I have tried has performed admirably in central Oklahoma.
'The Poet's Wife' achieved an extra degree of prominence, however, when my friend Billie asked for a Rose for her decidedly shaded small garden. David Austin touted this Rose as shade tolerant... and our local nursery carried it... but I still had doubts.
Until, of course, we planted it and it threw blooms all summer long in a site I thought only a Hosta would thrive in. It is in its third year in the ground now and it still produces an admirable quantity of its exquisite blooms.
I highly recommend it as a shade tolerant Rose.
Federico Casas, one of Pedro Dot's hybrid teas from the early 1930s, is a Pernetiana rose, so the shape of its blooms is highly variable, ranging from high centered to flat, and always with a more casual arrangement of the petals than the exhibition-quality blooms of most hybrid teas. The bloom color is also highly variable, but always exhibits a combination of orange, yellow, and pink. In my garden it is also more floriferous than my other Pernetiana roses and blooms almost continuously rather than in separate flushes.
Three Weddings produces clusters of cupped blooms, cream-colored with pink edges. It is narrow for a climbing rose, so I grow it on a pillar. The canes stay pliable for a long time and can be wrapped around a pillar with ease. It is an exceptionally healthy grower. A storm once sent a heavy mimosa branch crashing down on the rose, crushing the pillar and breaking all of the rose canes. After I cut all the canes down to about 12 inches, the rose quickly grew back to its previous 12- foot height.
Terracotta produces beautiful high-centered blooms with reflexed petals. It probably should be classed as a grandiflora because the blooms are carried in clusters. The bloom color is a russet blend of dark brick-red and a slightly lighter shade of brownish-red, fading to a russet tan. Although it's a sport of Leonidas, a famously finicky florists rose, Terracotta is a tall and vigorous rose bush that fights off disease quite successfully.
Music Box is sold as a compact shrub, but it's quite large in my garden, about 4 feet tall and 6 feet wide. It is a phototropic rose, so the bloom color is quite changeable. It's usually a pale yellow or cream with discreet pink edges, but the pink becomes more pronounced when the rose experiences hot sunshine for most of the day, to a point at which the blooms appear to be pink with yellow tinges. The rose is highly resistant to disease, as are all of Ping Lim's roses in my garden. After the rainy season ends in spring, almost every rose in my garden suffers from black spot, but the foliage of Music Box and my other Ping Lim roses stays clean and healthy all year.
City Girl is a pretty Harkness floribunda that grows well as a climber. The canes stay pliable for a long time, so they are easily trained horizontally for maximum blooms. The large pale-salmon blooms are high centered and are carried in clusters of three or four. City Girl has a light fruity fragrance.
For years, Heirloom Roses was selling Albertine as Gloire de Dijon. When I ordered Gloire de Dijon, the tiny toothpick Heirloom sent me took three years to bloom, at which time I saw that the rose was an imposter. In the next few years Albertine grew into a huge rose in my garden. It was pretty, but it had vicious thorns and an unpleasant scent. I ultimately gave it away because I couldn't give so much precious space in my garden to a huge once-bloomer.
Spiced Coffee, a hybrid tea introduced about 30 years ago, suffers from the bare-ankles and bare-knees flaws common to many other hybrid teas. The tall rose bush carries its blooms and most of its foliage at the top, so it's best to situate it behind some shorter plants to cover the bare spots. It also loses much of its foliage regularly in my no-spray garden, and the remaining leaves are not particularly attractive. All of these flaws are forgiven, however, when it blooms. Russet-tan petals surround a lavender-pink center. As the blooms fade, they take on a silver-beige hue with a pale pink tinge. These sublime colors are set off by a delicious lemon fragrance.
Queen of Hearts is one of the Kordes roses that shares a name with another Kordes rose, a hybrid tea. In contrast to the hybrid tea, which is a tall and sturdy rose bush in my garden, producing several flushes of florist-quality cupped blooms each year, the Queen of Hearts floribunda is a small and weak rose bush and is stingy with its flowers.
The merchandising photos of the rose show quartered blooms of a vivid orange blend, but mine has produced only blooms of pale salmon, verging on peach. It was originally marketed as one of the roses of Kordes' Fairy Tale line, but it stays quite small and never grows into a huge rose bush, as the other Fairy Tale roses commonly do. I must not have been the only one disappointed by the floribunda because it is virtually absent from commerce today and is not even offered by nurseries carrying all or most of the Fairy Tale line.
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