There is certainly a lot to plan for and think about this month, and there are definitely many temptations that lie ahead for lovers of roses! Also, remember that there are many gorgeous older roses on the market, and sometimes the best rose choice is not the newest rose on the market but an older, well-proven rose. The right rose in the right place will bring you a lot of happiness, so before you buy, research the rose and consider whether the size and shape of the bush at maturity are appropriate for your space. Imogen flowers freely with soft yellow rosette blooms with a button eye characteristic.īare-root roses will be in the nurseries in January and available also by mail order. The buds start orange-red and open to a perfect peach color. Roald Dahl is an incredibly free-flowering shrub with a medium to strong fragrance. Although Carruth’s Easy Spirit is classed as a floribunda, the white-cream blooms have hybrid tea form.ĭavid Austin has two other introductions this year. Parade Day is a strongly fragrant, striking fuchsia-pink and white-striped Bédard grandiflora. Oh Happy Day is Kordes’ classic-shaped creamy apricot hybrid tea on a hardy shrublike bush. In the class of hybrid teas, Meilland has two strongly fragrant and very disease-resistant introductions: the light yellow large blooms of Moonlight Romantica, and the large double peachy-pink blooms of Sweet Mademoiselle. If you are a fan of Knock Out roses, there are several introduced this year in white, coral and peach. This rose is orangy-gold suffused with pink with a gold reverse. Bédard also has an interestingly named and colored floribunda, Rosie the Riveter. Kordes’ Firebird is a floribunda with bicolored blooms in yellow and intense red, and Kordes’ grandiflora Crazy Love has large, bright, copper yellow blooms. If you want bright, flashy colors, Bédard and Carruth are the dual hybridizers of Frida Kahlo, a completely one-of-a-kind floribunda that will bring a piece of art to the garden with its swirls of scarlet red and gold-striped flowers. Two very disease-resistant shrub roses are Red Captain, an eye-catching Ping Lim rose and Top Gun, a Tom Carruth dark red semi-double. Other floribundas in red are Meilland’s dark red Bloody Mary and Kordes’ wine-red Bordeaux. Looking for a red rose? The 2017 ARS Members’ Choice Award winner is Oh My! a Bédard disease-resistant floribunda with stunning deep velvet red ruffled blooms. Kordes has two strongly fragrant climbers, a 6-foot-plus climber with beautiful double pink blooms called Kiss Me Kate and 8-foot-tall Tangerine Skies, aptly named for its large, double tangerine-colored blooms. Christian Bédard, with Weeks Roses, has an 8-to-10-foot climber named Lady in Red, which has dark red old-fashioned and ruffled blooms held in small clusters. If you are in the market for a climber, David Austin’s many-petaled Bathsheba has large, fragrant and rich-apricot blooms on 10-foot canes.
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