All for Roses: September 2021

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

My first-ish thoughts on Evelyn

To be fair, I only recently acquired Evelyn, roughly a month ago, so I don't have a full growing season to go on, but this rose has been interesting. At all the stages of color that I have seen the roses have been fragrant.

These two pictures were the roses that opened right after I planted the bush. I'm calling them the whitish stage. I'm not sure if these are characteristic of Evelyn for end of August/beginning of September in Missouri, but here were the first two blooms I saw. I wasn't exactly impressed by them.

The next two pictures were about a week or so after the first two. I guess you can call this the apricot stage? Or I am going to, at least compared to the first two pictures and the next. At this point I'm enjoying this rose more.

I'm calling this the pink phase. This opened up yesterday and doesn't appear to have much apricot to it. When I saw it my first thought was to compare it to my experience that Abraham Darby goes into a pink phase sometimes as well. Maybe the pink phase is just part of something that apricot roses do?

Overall, I am going to say that I believe this rose is going to become one of my favorites. Time will tell.

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Monday, September 27, 2021

Treasure Trail

Treasure Trail is a new moss rose bred by Paul Barden. I just recently acquired this rose and this is the first bloom to open in my yard. I will be making more posts on Treasure Trail next year when I have had it longer.

Moss roses are named that because of the moss-like growth on the buds and sometimes seems.

For more information on Treasure Trail:

https://www.helpmefind.com/gardening/l.php?l=2.58130

Showing the moss-like growth on the bud.

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Sunday, September 19, 2021

Memphis Botanic Garden: The Roses

I was able to go to the Memphis Botanic Garden recently and there were several roses in bloom. Amongst the roses that were blooming include The Fairy, Old Blush, Green Ice, the Green Rose and Buff Beauty. I just wanted to make a few comments on some of the roses.

Old Blush: This is one of the four stud roses that came from China. Another name for it is Old Pink Monthly, which implies that it could bloom every month, and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it does in warm climates. In the gardens that I have grown it in Georgia and Oregon, it was the first to bloom in spring and went to frost in the fall. It is also believed to be to be the rose from which the Green Rose sported from.

Speaking of the Green Rose, it is unique in the rose world. The plant has mutated in a way that it doesn't have petals or reproduction parts. The plant replaced the petals and reproduction parts with sepals, which is the green bud coverings. This plant is sterile, so it can't be used in breeding. To me it is very fragrant of black pepper.

Green Ice is a miniature rose that has a green tint to the predominantly white flowers.

Mutabilis is a rose that is 5 petalled and opens yellow, and ages to pink. In warm climates it can be used as a climber or large shrub. There were several houses in Georgia that had it growing across the front door.

A Noisette rose in the garden

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Saturday, September 11, 2021

A few David Austin roses

Some roses from David Austin

The Prince

Graham Thomas

Belle Story

Evelyn, left Heritage, right

Othello

Abraham Darby

Sunday, September 5, 2021

A first look, for me, of a few roses

I recently, yesterday, acquired several rose bushes. Amongst them were Evelyn, The Prince and Sister Elizabeth. These are David Austin roses from the early 90's and early 2000's. I will revisit them as they continue to grow and as I see them in different seasons.

For more information on the roses:

Evelyn:

https://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.1755