Greenmantle (Hybrid
Eglanteria, Penzance 1895) Reddish pink blend, single, fragrant,
typical fragrant
foliage, shade tolerate, good hips, 8 x 5 ft
Rosa eglanteria (from
Europe <1551) Single light
pink, apple scented
foliage, shade tolerant, very fragrant, small to medium wiskered hips, 10+ x 8 ft. Photo
courtesy of Bill Murray.
R. gigantea
macrocarpa (Himalayas 1889) As the name implies,
this is a
huge Species rose. Shade tolerant and once blooming, 5" light yellow
single, very fragrant flowers. Our
plant came from cuttings from Mel Hulse who received his rooted cutting
from Bill Grant, who grew his
plant from seed from Dr. Viru Viraraghavan in India ! The travels of a
rose...and on it will go, up to
about 40 x 10 feet. We've got R. gigantea and Mermaid doing duty (or
will it be "duking it out"?) along
our back fence. It will be a few years before they really get going.
From India, this cultivar is not
winter hardy. Of hybridizing interest, Belle Portugaise
is a direct
offspring of another form of R.
gigantea, and Lorraine
Lee is a grandchild. Photo is from our first
sellable rooted cutting, fast
overtaking the small pot and then the one gallon. It is generally known
that
this variety doesn't bloom for 3-4
years, but this one bloomed its first year while waiting to be shipped.
We can only guess that the climate in the mist house reminded it of its
native home. Click here
to see it at 2 years old and 6' high on our back fence: 
Rosa glauca (R.
rubrifolia, from Europe
<1830)
Single medium pink, gray/purple
foliage, dark
round hips, thornless, shade tolerant, summer flowering.
Excellent nearly year-round
garden interest, 6 x 5 ft.
Rosa roxburghii
"Chestnut
Rose" (from China <1824) Fully
double, fancy medium
pink, fragrant flowers found on very unique rose foliage. Each light
green leaf is composed of up to 15
leaflets. Round orange-yellow hips follow in fall. 6 x 5
ft, Z6
Rosa
rugosa alba (Species) Large, very elegant, single white,
fragrant flowers on a dark green shade tolerant and deer resistant
Shrub. 5
x 6 ft, Z2
