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Old Garden Roses
(Heirloom or Antique)
Our grandmothers back to our gg or ggg
grandmothers - most women had at least a few roses around their home
These roses were very hardy bush and climbers grown on their own roots - once started, need little care
Rose Rustlers
These roses were very hardy bush and climbers grown on their own roots - once started, need little care
Rose Rustlers
Ladies in Texas are Rose Rustlers -
actually a good thing - they have been taking cuttings from old roses
growing in cemeteries and along fence lines. They then grow new
roses from the cuttings for us to enjoy today. Cuttings are best
taken end of summer, first of fall - require some doing but can be a
great way to reproduce your favorite rose. Many rose growers today
market their roses as OR (grown on own root).
1. Mlle. Cecile Brunner - 1881 - Polyantha (small bush with small blooms, heavy bloomers) - this is the sweetheart rose - perfect pink buds - very fragrant - 3ft tall
2. Cecile Brunner - 1894 - Climber - very robust - good for covering trellis - covered in blooms in May/June - soft pink
3. Comte de Chambord - 1860 - Portland (bush rose, repeat blooming) - beautiful old fashioned blooms - pink to lilac/mauve - fragrant - 4ft tall
4. Mme. Isaac Pereire - 1881 - Bourbon (roses of Victorian England, large full blooms, vigorous big bushes, frangrant, repeat bloom) - heavy fragrance - dark raspberry/purple - 6ft. tall
5. Reine Victoria - 1872 - Bourbon - very fragrant - big full blooms of rose pink/lilac - continuous bloom - 6ft x 3ft wide bush.
6. Salet - 1854 - Moss (Victorian rose - fragrant moss-like growth on sepals) - very fragrant - best repeat blooming of the Moss roses - dbl bright pink - vigorous - 4x5ft
7. Zephirine Drouhin - 1868 - Climber - Thornless - bright pink semi double blooms - lots of spring & fall blooms - Fragrant - some shade tolerant - vigorous 15-20 ft.
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few old roses - year they were introduced - type of rose
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1. Mlle. Cecile Brunner - 1881 - Polyantha (small bush with small blooms, heavy bloomers) - this is the sweetheart rose - perfect pink buds - very fragrant - 3ft tall
2. Cecile Brunner - 1894 - Climber - very robust - good for covering trellis - covered in blooms in May/June - soft pink
3. Comte de Chambord - 1860 - Portland (bush rose, repeat blooming) - beautiful old fashioned blooms - pink to lilac/mauve - fragrant - 4ft tall
4. Mme. Isaac Pereire - 1881 - Bourbon (roses of Victorian England, large full blooms, vigorous big bushes, frangrant, repeat bloom) - heavy fragrance - dark raspberry/purple - 6ft. tall
5. Reine Victoria - 1872 - Bourbon - very fragrant - big full blooms of rose pink/lilac - continuous bloom - 6ft x 3ft wide bush.
6. Salet - 1854 - Moss (Victorian rose - fragrant moss-like growth on sepals) - very fragrant - best repeat blooming of the Moss roses - dbl bright pink - vigorous - 4x5ft
7. Zephirine Drouhin - 1868 - Climber - Thornless - bright pink semi double blooms - lots of spring & fall blooms - Fragrant - some shade tolerant - vigorous 15-20 ft.
MaryCarol's Tips (learned
the hard way) on growing roses
1. Prepare a sunny spot where they are to be planted - roses like lots of water but not wet feet - good to raise your bed - we use landscape timbers. Amend soil with compost - humus - cow manure - shredded leaves or whatever. Dig hole - fill with water, let drain down. Add 1 cup of cottonseed meal and 1 cup of bone meal per bush, working into the soil. If container grown, take out and put into hole, fill dirt well around the bush - mulch, keeping away from rose canes - water. Wait until shows signs of growing before adding fertilizer (slow release or spray liquid).
2. First year or two - roses need plenty of water, mulch, and fertilizer. After that, if keep good mulch on them they pretty well take care of themselves. The mulch goes back to the earth, feeding the roses. Finely shredded leaves make a great mulch, will feed the roses for years - but small pine bark mulch works good too.
3. For more and bigger blooms - work 1 cup of cottonseed meal and 1 cup of bone meal in around roots early spring.
4. And if you really want to give them a boost - especially the first few years - each spring, dump 1 or 2 bags of cow manure around the rose bush as a mulch - it works it way down. Make sure keep away from canes.
5. Unless you are willing to REALLY prepare the rose beds and keep LOTS of manure on them - probably best to stay away from the Hybrid Tea roses. But Floribundas do GREAT - and climbers and the old garden roses. The David Austin Roses are bred like the old garden roses but with new rose traits.
1. Prepare a sunny spot where they are to be planted - roses like lots of water but not wet feet - good to raise your bed - we use landscape timbers. Amend soil with compost - humus - cow manure - shredded leaves or whatever. Dig hole - fill with water, let drain down. Add 1 cup of cottonseed meal and 1 cup of bone meal per bush, working into the soil. If container grown, take out and put into hole, fill dirt well around the bush - mulch, keeping away from rose canes - water. Wait until shows signs of growing before adding fertilizer (slow release or spray liquid).
2. First year or two - roses need plenty of water, mulch, and fertilizer. After that, if keep good mulch on them they pretty well take care of themselves. The mulch goes back to the earth, feeding the roses. Finely shredded leaves make a great mulch, will feed the roses for years - but small pine bark mulch works good too.
3. For more and bigger blooms - work 1 cup of cottonseed meal and 1 cup of bone meal in around roots early spring.
4. And if you really want to give them a boost - especially the first few years - each spring, dump 1 or 2 bags of cow manure around the rose bush as a mulch - it works it way down. Make sure keep away from canes.
5. Unless you are willing to REALLY prepare the rose beds and keep LOTS of manure on them - probably best to stay away from the Hybrid Tea roses. But Floribundas do GREAT - and climbers and the old garden roses. The David Austin Roses are bred like the old garden roses but with new rose traits.