English

Austin, England, 1994

Chaucer® x Conrad Ferdinand Meyer x Graham Thomas

1' (new)

Species

1551

species 

12'

Rugosa

Hastrup, Denmark, 1914

r. rugosa seedling

4'

English

Austin, England, 1992

Mary Rose x Graham Thomas

1' new

English

Austin, England, 1992

Abraham Darby x Charles Austin

1' (new)

Rugosa

Schaum, Holland, 1905

unknown 

12'

Rugosa

Agriculture Canada, 1976

"Schneezwerg" seedling

3'

English

Austin, England, 1984

seedling (Floribunda "Iceberg") x "Wife of Bath"

5'

Iceberg

Floribunda

Kordes, 1958

'Robin Hood' x 'Virgo'

3'

Shrub

Svedja, Canada, 1986

R.kordesii x(Red Dawn x Suzanne)

10'

Bourbon

Margottin, France, 1851

unknown 

12'+

Shrub

Dept. of Agriculture Canada, 1968

'Schneezwerg' seedling

12'

English

Austin, England, 1983

"Wife of Bath" x "the Miller"

5'

Shrub

Collicut & Marshall, Canada 1988

complex hybrid

18"

English

Austin, England, 1991

"Graham Thomas" x "Yellow Button"

6'

Princess of Wales

Floribunda

Harkness, England, 1997

unknown

6" (new)

Species

species

12'

Rosa rugosa Albo-plena

Species

species

suspected sport of r. rugosa alba 

1' (new)

Rugosa

Van Fleet, USA, 1926

r. rugosa x 'My Maryland'

10'

Rugosa

Lambert, Germany, 1912

R.rugosa x R. bracteata

6'

Damask/
Hybrid Perpetual

Vibert, France, 1847

Seedling of Belle de Trianon

2'

Species

Lee, 1838

R.x damascena bifera x R.spinosissima

4'

White Meidiland

Shrub

Meilland, 1986

Temple Bells x MEIgurami 

4'

English

Austin, England, 1984

seedling x Canterbury (Shrub, Austin, 1969) x Golden Wings

1' (new)

CARE & FEEDING:

I cannot give any better advice than to consult and follow to the letter the wise instructions of Lloyd Brace of the Roseraie at Granite Ridge in Maine. Best bare root roses I've ever seen, and the best instructions for planting and caring for them you'll ever read. I can look around my garden and tell the roses I ordered from the Roseraie. Nope, except for an annual phone call to place an order, I have no connection with the place; just an extremely satisfied and loyal customer.

If you won't take my advice and just ask Lloyd Brace how to care for roses, here's my poorer, much abridged version: I take great care to plant my roses properly, and I find that, having done that, they're well prepared for whatever life throws at them. Although the garden is sheltered from the wind by the house, garage, and a 6' wooden fence, they get no futher coddling, save a heavy layer of oak leaves from the trees next door. I try to remember to give them a couple of good soakings before the first freeze. Some time between Thanksgiving and first of the year, I'll throw a couple of spades full of manure at each of them. During the growing season I give them a heavy weekly watering (more often for new plants) if there hasn't been enough rain. Once a month or so from May through August they each get a bucket of pond water to which I've added fish fertilizer & SuperThrive for the babies. I don't spray.

PRUNING: I generally don't bother much about pruning, except to shape the plants up after the ravages of winter and deadhead the repeat bloomers and anything that won't produce hips. In April of 1998, I was guided by some strange instinct to prune all the English roses rather savagely, and they rewarded me by growing twice as tall as ever before and pumping out blossoms until Christmas, so I have amended this policy a bit for them.