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Smell of roses - quasi-philosophical rambling and pondering
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 617935" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>ThreeShadows: My greatgrandmother in fact was one of those, who tried impossible. She tested all kinds of roses (mostly from England) and very few survived. While we live much norther than most of you (big part of Alaska would still be 'south' from my point of view) Gulf stream makes a big difference so our hardiness zone is not that bad. I think your hardiness zone 3 is about the same. Still, many species don't survive that either.</p><p></p><p>Our most traditional roses tend to be cultivated Burnet roses (those are not growing wild quite this north) and for example one in my avatar is Rosa Pimpinellifolia Plena. My grandmother also had few other Burnet rose cultivates that smelled really great. One of my favourites is Poppius, that both looks and smells great. Also Rosa Splendens does well around here and has a really nice scent. Some Rosa Rugosa cultivates also do well around here same with few Rosa Gallicas. All these old ones that tend to do well here are shrub roses.</p><p></p><p>In my garden the really old ones are Plenas. My mother in law took out the Splendens and put in some Rugosas. Those do even too well, and I'm planning to make the patch bit smaller and putting Splendens back. And I just decided that I need a Poppius to my garden too. husband's granny also says that she ones had a Gallica doing well in one part of our garden, but it got taken some in some plumbing reno well over 50 years ago. (Yes, we live in a house where father in law and mother in law lived before us and before them father in law's parents and so on. Makes making any kind of changes interesting, I can tell you...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 617935, member: 14557"] ThreeShadows: My greatgrandmother in fact was one of those, who tried impossible. She tested all kinds of roses (mostly from England) and very few survived. While we live much norther than most of you (big part of Alaska would still be 'south' from my point of view) Gulf stream makes a big difference so our hardiness zone is not that bad. I think your hardiness zone 3 is about the same. Still, many species don't survive that either. Our most traditional roses tend to be cultivated Burnet roses (those are not growing wild quite this north) and for example one in my avatar is Rosa Pimpinellifolia Plena. My grandmother also had few other Burnet rose cultivates that smelled really great. One of my favourites is Poppius, that both looks and smells great. Also Rosa Splendens does well around here and has a really nice scent. Some Rosa Rugosa cultivates also do well around here same with few Rosa Gallicas. All these old ones that tend to do well here are shrub roses. In my garden the really old ones are Plenas. My mother in law took out the Splendens and put in some Rugosas. Those do even too well, and I'm planning to make the patch bit smaller and putting Splendens back. And I just decided that I need a Poppius to my garden too. husband's granny also says that she ones had a Gallica doing well in one part of our garden, but it got taken some in some plumbing reno well over 50 years ago. (Yes, we live in a house where father in law and mother in law lived before us and before them father in law's parents and so on. Makes making any kind of changes interesting, I can tell you...) [/QUOTE]
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