In this video I go over a few ways to use to identify a rose. You can see this video here:
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I hope that you had fun trying to identify the pictures. Also with any luck I was able to show why it is important to show more than just the flowers when trying to identify roses.
Some other things that were mentioned that are useful to use as identifiers include: Where is the plant? This can refer to where in the garden the plant is (sun/shade exposure), also what climate is the rose growing in?; how big is the plant?; where did the plant come from?; is the flower fragrant? (in at least one case the foliage is actually fragrant, which can be used as an identifier as well); picture of the backside of the flowers, plus pictures of the sepals (the bud covering); and how old are the plant?
Now to the identities:
Rose #1: Bliss Parfuma
Rose #2: Evelyn
Rose #3: Abraham Darby
Thank you to those who participated!
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Rose gardening is all about producing tons of glamorous blooms as possible, right? All that time spent in the yard, getting that perfect bloom, right? Not quite. Come, take a trip through the unglamorous rose garden:
This is the last rose in the series for this year. It is also my favorite rose. This is the rose that got me into growing old garden roses. If I can only choose one rose to have Charles de Mills would be it. It seems to have stayed on the more pink side of purple this year, but it seems that most of my purples stayed pinker than normal. I think it was a weather related occurrence. You can see a short video about Charles de Mills here:
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A Paul Barden gallica. Bred by using Duchesse de Montebello and Abraham Darby. It in a way leans/cascades down the hillside where it is growing. For me it does have some issues with rain and humidity combined with heat. It is very vigorous. Well worth growing. You can see a short video of it here:
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This was supposed to be Variegata di Bologna, a bourbon rose. Unfortunately, sometimes Variegata di Bologna becomes a solid pink, which is what I believe happened here. You can see a short video of it here:
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