America Climbing Rose

America Climbing Rose is a recently developed cultivar with rich salmon pink flowers throughout the season. A repeat bloomer, its strong sweet fragrance and high disease resistance make this a must-have in any garden. AARS winner in 1976.


The 'America' climbing rose is a real prize. Its large flowers (46 petals) are a unique orange-coral pink, intense in color at first then growing paler. It blooms all season long. A hybrid of 'Fragrant Cloud' and 'Tradition', it's also richly fragrant. The plant has a nice upright habit, thrives in dry climates,

Lasting Peace Rose

A breakthrough in Grandifloras! Deep coral-orange blooms are held high atop lustrous, dark olive green foliage. Disease resistance is high and vigor is maintained throughout the summer. Like an amber sunset reflecting on a sandy beach, Lasting Peace salutes its ancestor in glowing, ever-changing hues.

About Face Rose

About Face Grandiflora Rose is a unique rose among bicolor roses, the reverse coloring of Grandiflora About Face™ demands a double-take. Each petal bears darker bronzy-red on the outside and lighter golden-orange on the inside. As the plump, pointed buds open into full, old-fashioned blooms, an array of shades dances and blends, and the effect is exotic. Color combined with clean, deep green foliage make this robust, upright 2005 AARS winner worth second and third looks.

Passionate Kisses Rose

Passionate Kisses is a relatively new rose that first attracted attention because of its name. As if a rose needed to advertise being romantic. A continual blooming floribunda, Passionate Kisses has salmon colored blossoms that light up in partial shade. Staying compact at about 3 1/2 to 4 feet, its a good candidate for borders and containers

The fresh salmon colored blooms blend well in mixed perennial beds. This new Floribunda is always in bloom! The non-stop blooms, along with the attractive shape of this rose, make it perfect for cutting to enjoy indoors

Caroline de Monico Rose

The Caroline de Monaco is a hybrid tea rose. A lovely floral tribute to Princess Grace's daughter. Elegant white buds slowly unfurl to reveal a pure white blossom of timeless beauty. Blooms have up to 45 petals with a light fragrance. Noted for excellence disease resistance. A princess among roses with large blooms and a vigorous, upright habit. Creamy white roses tipped with pink bloom throughout the season. Especially chosen by Princess Caroline from Selection Meilland.

Gypsy Carnival

The Gypsy Carnival is a vibrant combination of large, striking strawberry-red and yellow blooms, fully double. This ever-blooming compact Grandiflora is flashy and in your face. A great combination of color between the blooms and dark green foliage.

Fame!

Fame, a 1998 All-America winner in the Grandiflora class, is a tall, upright, almost shrub-like rose. Fame's 4 1/2 inch blossoms are a deep rich pink with striking dark green, glossy foliage.
A must have for the garden. A great show with long lasting blooms. Eye popping. The best rose in the garden when it is in full bloom. Blooms in flushes. Big bloomer. This rose is destined for Grandiflora stardom. The deep pink blooms held on this vigorous plant have a light pretty fragrance.
Flashy, perfectly formed flowers on vigorous bush with dark green leaves. Produces tons of buds and blossoms and needs very little care

Mirandy Rose

The Mirandy is a garnet red in color, with large blooms. A relaxed look gives this rose an elegant grace. Heavy blooms cause the stem to naturally weep. The sturdy bush is quick to repeat blooming of its very fragrant flowers.

The flowers have a deep red color with a hint of purple and a sweet fragrance that I typically associate with red roses. They are near perfection in terms of their looks. However, the flowers open quickly, and they typically lose their petals within a few days after opening.

Mirandy is a Hybrid Tea Rose hybridized by Walter Lammerts in the US in 1945. It has a perfect rose form and a rich saturated velvet red color.

Don Juan climbing rose

The Don Juan Rose is a lovely climbing red rose with beautiful large double blooms and velvety romantic red rose petals makes a stunning effect in a garden, especially if it's trained against a white painted support.
The super fragrant flowers on 'Don Juan' appear singly or in small clusters and have a lovely hybrid tea shape.

Starting in early spring there is a profusion of flowers with a moderate repeat-bloom during the rest of the season.

The orange hips appear in the fall adding extra interest to the Don Juan climber and food for the birds in winter.
Don Juan should be trained on a split rail fence, a very good way to display this red climbing rose, as red roses show up better at a distance than any other color roses.

Don Juan rose was for several years the leading dark red crimson flowered climber in the US, and it's still widely available around the world.
The beautiful rose flowers last well, both as cut flowers and on the bush. The tough dark green foilage is very attractive, though it might need protection from blackspot in some areas.

The plant is vigorous, prickly, and upright, but not especially tall growing, which means it can be used as a pillar rose. It is also a perfect rose as a climber for a small garden or balcony.

Climbing Don Juan does especially well in hot areas. It's scent is absolutely delicious.

Chicago Peace

A color variant of the most famous rose of all time that was discovered in the windy city of Chicago. The pink edge of Peace becomes deeper, and sometimes suffuses the entire surface of the petals—and the reverse is a deep rich gold. A rather unstable sport and to keep your plant pure, cut the reversions to the point of origin. Same rugged plant and foliage and fragrant only if you have a good imagination. Weatherproof and hardy on a tough, disease resistant plant clothed in dark green, leathery foliage. Hot weather is its favorite and it laughs at frigid temperatures. Flower Color: Glowing pink with canary yellow shading; coppery yellow reverse.
Vigorous; free flowering; prone to develop black spot; good cut flower; needs full sun; upright bushy habit; large in size; leathery, shiny, dark green leaves

Double Delight

Whether it got its name from the two contrasting colors in its blooms, or whether the Double Delight is its color and its scent, nobody knows. The opening bud is stunning; this is the perfect hybrid tea that also makes a long-lasting cut rose.

The flowers are creamy white at first, with just a red tinge on the outer petals, but as they mature so do the extent of the red coloring, especially in hot climates.
The most delightful thing about Double Delight rose is it's startling contrast between the layers of the bright cherry red outer petals and the creamy white heart.
The flowers are large and usually come singly. though sometimes in two's and three's, on long sturdy, prickly stems. Double Delight roses are one of the best known and most widely grown roses in the World.

St. Patrick's Rose

The luck of the Irish blesses the 5-inch flowers of St. Patrick, a rose distinguished by its unique color. Chartreuse buds unfurl slowly (unusual for yellow roses) to reveal a yellow gold flower. As the temperature rises, St. Patrick becomes tinged with shades of green.

This vigorous hybrid tea has long, upright stems graced with grey green foliage and is perfect for indoor bouquets. Introduced by Weeks Roses, St. Patrick was hybridized by Frank Strickland, one of the few amateurs ever to win the AARS award. The rose is an offspring of Brandy and Gold Medal.

It is big, beautiful, takes it's sweet time to open so that you can love the green outer petals and gasp at the beautiful yellow as it blooms.

Almost Black Rose

Here's a variety you won't see blooming in every yard. Its petals are so dark they're almost black! Add a sophisticated touch and lovely fragrance to your garden. We couldn't think of a better name to describe this exotic deep crimson rose than to call it "Almost Black". The full double flowers are such a deep red they look velvety black, exotic deep crimson rose!

Peace Hybrid Tea Rose

The radiant, sweetly perfumed flower with a fascinating history: this rose was named the day Berlin fell to the Allies. The day peace was signed with Japan, it won AARS honors and members of the newly formed United Nations were presented with its blooms. The colors are golden yellow with pink edging.

The Garden

I have started this blog to keep up with everything Bobby does in the yard. Right now he has 96 roses bushes and we are trying to grow vegetables with several tomato plants (one bush has one tomato), squash and radishes. We had planted cantaloupes, watermelon, zucchini, lettuce, corn, green beans and other vegetables but a rain storm we had several weeks ago, that lasted almost 5 days straight, washed out most of the vegetable garden. Here is a picture of the squash plant that has a bloom on it!