Heavy feeder. After roses are in full leaf, apply a balanced granular fertilizer to each plant. Fertilize again after 1st bloom. Fertilize again 6wks before anticipated first frost (but not after September 1st in most areas).
For proper hardening of canes for winter, do not fertilize in the fall. Prune in the spring before new growth begins, removing weak, damaged and crossing branches. Cold protection in areas where temperatures fall below 28-30F.
Below is the list of roses in our garden, grouped by types. To see how the roses are laid out in the garden, please see the rose map here.
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Tamora - English Rose (aka Austin Rose or Shrub rose)
The rose has an easy temperament, nice at the front of a border, dense and compact, reaching a tidy 3 to 4 feet
Bloom Color: Apricot and apricot blend
Bloom Shape: an old-world, cupped formation with a modern-apricot shading.
Flower Fragrance: Very Fragrant a fragrance that is bewitching: a lovely concoction of myrrh and spice, that is quite intoxicating.
Bloom Time: Late Spring/Early Summer. Blooms repeatedly
Habit: Bush, 3-4 ft, Can be trained as a standard or tree form
Other Details: Resistant to black spot mildew rust, stems are very thorny
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Home Run - English Rose (aka Austin Rose or Shrub rose)
This flame-red offspring of the famous Knock Out kicks the competition up a notch when it comes to disease resistance. Home Run has a phenomenal fortitude against the dreaded black spot (like its father). But, unlike Dad, it is also completely resistant to powdery mildew & has a much higher level of tolerance to downy as well.
Height/Habit: Medium / Rounded, bushy, fast-to-flower and nearly always in color. Coast to coast, it's the cleanest. Deepest red in cool temps.
Bloom/Size: Medium, single
Petal count: 5
Parentage: (City of San Francisco x Baby Love) x Knock Out
Fragrance: Slight
Hybridizer: Carruth - 2006
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Height: 6-8 ft. (1.8-2.4 m)
Spacing: 4-6 ft. (1.2-1.8 m)
Hybridizer/Date: Weeks, USA 1983
Parentage: seedling x Tiffany
Fragrance: VERY strong, tea
ARS Color: Medium pink
Awards: All America Rose Selection 1983
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Eureka - Floribunda
Eureka, which is nearly as wide as it is tall, provides a sparkling hedge-type look with its glittering gold hues. The 3 ˝ foot tall AARS award-winning floribunda offers a beautiful old-fashioned looking bloom of rich apricot yellow with four-inch flowers.
In groups of three or five, Eureka offers a golden anchor to the border, a centerpiece or accent area. It will become very popular because of its abundant blooms, exceptional reblooming ability, glossy green leaves, easy-to-grow vigor, excellent disease resistance, with an upright and spreading habit, and light fragrance.
The Kordes Company hybridized Eureka from Bernstein Rose and Sun Flare.
Height: 3 1/2'
Fragrance: Lightly Fragrant
Price: $15.95 per rose bush
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Honey Perfume - Floribunda 2004 AARS Winner
Honey Perfume is an upright and well-branched floribunda with apricot yellow blooms. Pointed, shapely buds open to reveal beautiful, four-inch blooms with petal counts of 25 to 30 nestled amongst dark green, glossy foliage that accentuates its color.
Growing to about 3 1/2 feet high and 2 1/2 feet wide, Honey Perfume exhibits a great spicy scent and very good resistance to disease, including rust and powdery mildew.
Hybridized by Keith Zary, Honey Perfume is being introduced by Jackson & Perkins Wholesale, Inc. of Medford, Ore.
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Dark green foliage; good disease resistance; best color in cool climates; long stems, small thorns; bushy habit
Designation: JAClace
Hybridizer/Date: Warriner, USA 1980
Parentage: Dr. A.J. Verhage x Bridal Pink
Fragrance: Mild fruity
Awards: AARS Winner 1982
Flower Color: Pastel apricot to ivory buds open to white
Flower: 1 to 8 blooms per stem; large double blooms in small clusters; 30 petals
Height: 3.5 feet
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Bushy and free-flowering, yet rounded and contained in habit.
Color: purple red
Introduced: 1999
Fragrance: strong clove & spice
Size: medium
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Height 3-4 ft, spacing 3-4 ft. The most unusually colored rose to come out in the last decade, Hot Cocoa is a plant every gardener must grow.
This hardy floribunda rose has it all. The flowers grow in fragrant clusters, and each bloom is large, fully double, and well formed.
The deep rust-colored buds open to reveal a chocolatey haze of velvet smoke tones. Lighter in hot weather, and darker in cool, Hot Cocoa’s flowers are always changing, and always a mysterious blend of smoky colors that defy description. And unlike some novel roses of the past, Hot Cocoa’s range of colors is universally appealing. In other words, you’ll love it!
Not only is the smoky chocolate orange color incredibly appealing, ‘Hot Cocoa’ is a plant so exceptional that you’d want to grow it even if it didn’t have flowers. The foliage is very deep green, and so glossy it looks as if someone shined each leaf individually.
Great flowers, super foliage -- that’s enough, right? Wrong. The ‘Hot Cocoa’ plant is so disease resistant that it was unaffected by last season’s insidious nationwide blackspot epidemic.
Naturally disease resistant, ‘Hot Cocoa’ can remain blackspot free without spraying, from early spring right through early fall. This, of course, makes ‘Hot Cocoa’ exceptionally easy to grow. Just a little water and fertilizer keeps this plant vigorous and free blooming all season long.
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2006 AARS winner. Saturated scent, bold new-fangled colors & camellia-like form. The first lavender-toned rose to take the AARS award in over 20 years, clusters of ruffled ruby-red-purple blossoms give a great show of distinct lavender 'eyes'. Clean deep green leaves make this vigorous Grandiflora a mean bouquet machine for the garden.
Height / Habit: Medium-tall / Upright & bushy
Bloom / Size: Medium, ruffled
Petal count: 25 to 30
Parentage: [(International Herald Tribune x R. soulieana derivative) x (Sweet Chariot x Blue Nile)] x (Blueberry Hill x Stephen's Big Purple)
Fragrance: Strong citrus blossom & rose
Hybridizer: Carruth - 2006
Comments: Deeper colors in cool temps. Gets better with establishment.
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Yellow roses often have a reputation as disease magnets because the gene responsible for adding yellow to modern cultivars' color palette also brought high sensitivity to blackspot fungus.
Sunsprite - a floribunda introduced in 1977 by Kordes of Germany, a hybridizer known for its healthy roses--doesn't deserve this rap. This sturdy rose produces large, flat, double sunny yellow blooms with a strong scent that some liken to cinnamon toast. Moderately prickly, it has light-green, glossy , disease-resistant leaflets.
Considered by many the best yellow floribunda, Sunsprite is one of a select few roses to win the American Rose Society's James Alexander Gamble Rose Fragrance Award.
HeightHardy to Zone 5. About 3 feet in height and width.
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Dr. Jo - Floribunda
From England. Gorgeous scented blooms of warm, peachy apricot, that are large for a floribunda and beautifully formed. They are carried in profusion on a neat bushy plant that is lavishly clothed with attractive dark green foliage.
Named for Dr Jo Taylor head of the renal unit at the Dorchester Hospital. Her rose will help the Dorset Kidney Fund Support Group improve facilities for renal patients.
Height 2’6”. Very Fragrant.
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Raised by an amateur who grew his seedlings on a London windowsill
Dimensions: Height 90cm, wide 60cm
Color: Orange
Scent: 7 out of 10
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AARS winner 1997.
You might think stripes are a new-fangled thing. But it is the old rose heritage that brings the genetic stripping to this spicy scented new-comer. Each petal is as unique as a snowflake--some more burgundy-splashed-white, some creamed-swirled-red-all on the same vigorous plant.
The old-fashioned form & fragrance may remind you of its stingy blooming ancestors. Yet the nearly continuous number of blossoms lets you know there's modern kinfolk in there, too. Distinctive clean quilted foliage.
Height & Habit: Medium/Rounded 3 feet
Bloom & Size: Large, double
Petal Count: 25 to 30
Fragrance: Strong sweet spice
Parentage: Santa Claus X Times Square
Hybridizer: Playboy X Peppermint Twist
Comments: Best color & size in moderate temps. Perfect for potpourri.
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One of the finest of all miniature roses. The gorgeous blooms are a bright, chrome yellow garnished with bright red edges. All in all making a striking show. May be the most popular of all miniature roses. Award of Excellence winner.
Height: 2 ft +
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MacLaren - Miniature Rose
Melon yellow with perfect form. Very fast bloom cycle.
Light: Half to full sun
Water: Keep soil moist at all times.
Fertilizer: Feed with balanced rose food according to directions.
Winter: cover with mulch or extra soil.
Hybridizer: Brad Jalbert of Select Roses (Canada).
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Carley - Miniature Rose
Everyone loves a true red rose, and nothing comes closer to the perfect red in miniature than this darling. The plant is compact and tight growing with excellent winter hardiness, even branching and tough deep green foliage. The dark foliage sets of the red roses to perfection.
Hybridized by Brad Jalbert
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Poulesta - Miniature Rose
Grown by the pond. The miniature rose plant has abundant, non-fading, lavender-pink flowers.
Hybridizer: Poulsen Roser ApS (Fredensborg, DK)
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