May 2018: a year in the ground.
Pictures from 2017:
One of the roses that I bought at the Sacramento City Cemetery Open Garden rose sale. It is believed to possibly be the same as 'Rubens'. This is a young plant in my yard, I have had it for almost a year. I am hoping that the plant will bloom more consistently and grow better the older it gets. It is a nice color, and different than the normal pink a lot of roses are. For now it is a slow growing rose in my yard. It may be a good rose in a warmer climate than in the Willamette valley.
I noticed a lot of these roses are small. Is that what they call tea roses? Are they fragrant?
ReplyDeleteSeveral of the roses are on young plants, so they may get bigger as the plant ages. Others the flowers just aren't the big show blooms that are common in modern roses. A Tea rose is a class that originated from roses from China, often from either 'Hume's Blush Tea scented china' or 'Park's Yellow Tea scented china'. They can be fragrant, and often are. The name Tea could come from the theory that when first introduced people thought the fragrance was similar to tea, or the theory that the roses were brought to Europe in tea chests.
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