Gardening With Rosier Roses

Everything’s coming up roses

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COVER ALL the current and old-fashioned roses available, even in a book entirely devoted to roses. Although I've chosen to feature hybrid teas and climbers, you should have a working familiarity with some of the other rose groups. Here I've given some very, very basic descriptions and definitions.

• Alba Maxima is a large alba rose that blooms once a year.

• Alba — these are shrub roses, known to be fragrant and hardy. They grow from 2 to 2.75 meters tall. They have abundant green foliage but bloom only once.

• Bourbon — these plants are vigorous, but sensitive and fragrant. They will grow up to 2 meters high and may re-bloom. They can be trained to climb.

• Centifolia — also called Provence roses, these shrub roses will bloom only once but will provide huge flowers. The fragrant flowers are often seen in clusters. These plants range from 1 to 2.2 meters in height.

• China — these roses range from low to tall, have clusters or single flowers, and will bloom repeatedly They are not particularly

•Fantin-Latour is a vigorous centifolia rose with fragrant cupped or flat flowers in a delicate shade of pink.

•Floribunda — these plants are low growing, bushy, and hardy They may or may not have fragrant flowers, which can either grow singly or in clusters. These roses provide nearly continuous blooms.

• Eglantine hybrids — Eglantines produce fragrant single or clustered flowers on arching shrubs growing up to 4 meters. Look out for bright red hips in the autumn.

•Gallica — Gallicas are compact, hardy shrub roses reaching about I to 1.2 meters high. Their large, Fragrant flowers will bloom once per season. Special care for Gallicas includes watching out for suckers.

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