Rose Details

Baby Faurax

Baby Faurax is a Polyantha introduced in 1924 by breeder L. Lille.

• Color: Amethyst in clusters of 5-10 tiny flowers
• Fragrance: Little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A very compact plant with sprays of two dozen or more tiny double flowers
• Size is 18 to 24inches tall, and the color is more intense in cooler weather
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth
• Location: Numerous Baby Faurax are found at the south end of the Stroll Through Rose History, which is along the west wall of the Library building.

This rose is a delightful dwarf even among Polyanthas. Often thought to be a sport of the rambler Vielchenblau, it was introduced by Lille of Lyon, France, and named in honor of the Faurax Nursery in Belgium. It is susceptible to mildew and heat.

Baby Grand

Baby Grand is a Miniature introduced in 1992 by breeder L. P. Olesen.

• Color: Pink
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can easily build up with strong basal canes
• Size: It is generally a short compact plant 18” tall
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Several Baby Grand are found in the central part of the Sensory Garden.

Baby Grand was the first miniature to resemble an Old Garden Rose from 1875. The flowers are a bright clean, non-fading pink.

Belle Story

Belle Story is a Shrub introduced in 1984 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: Pale peach with yellow
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A stout caned variety, tall, somewhat arching and broad.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: In the “David Austin” section at the corner of Court and College Streets.

The rose, with its semi-double peony-like blooms, has been described as "flushed with sweet charm and alluring individuality; its fragrance as "strong myrrh and spicy." The flowers open up to reveal a large tuft of stamens in the center. It commemorates the first woman to serve in the British Royal Navy as a nursing sister in the 1880's.

Betty

Betty is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1905 by breeder A.A. Dickson.

• Color: Flesh-pink with yellow-salmon reverse
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: Low, twiggy shrubs that may be as broad as they are tall.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: One sample at the east end of the Sensory Garden.

Betty is a rare survivor from Alex A. Dickson's early contributions to the Hybrid Tea class; the coloration of its blossoms has been called "haunting."

Bill Warriner

Bill Warriner is a Floribunda (Tree Rose) introduced in before 1995 by breeder W.A. Warriner.

• Color: Orange-pink blend
• Fragrance: Little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Similar to the old original Hybrid Polyanthas, growth is quite low and compact to about 2 feet or so, with flowers of large petals.
• Pruning: Winter pruning is limited to removal of leaves and dead or diseased wood.
• Location: The west end of the Sensory Garden area.

The rose is named in honor of Jackson & Perkins' chief hybridizer, Bill Warriner. It bears individual blooms of superb form in clustered masses throughout the season. Foliage is a deep bronze-green and shiny. It has a compact habit and long season of blooms.

Blue Mist

Blue Mist is a Miniature introduced in 1970 by breeder Moore.

• Color: Lilac to lilac pink in clusters
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: Of the older group of miniature Chinas, very twiggy plant that can build up to 3 feet or so.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: In the Species area at the start of the Stroll Through Rose History.

Distinguished by large clusters of tiny flowers with good fragrance, this miniature recalls the graceful and spreading habit of older Polyantha roses.

Bonica

Bonica is a Shrub introduced in 1981 by breeder M.L. Meilland.

• Color: Pink with darker edges
• Fragrance: Little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A spreading plant that grows wider than tall, spreading its canes along the ground.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: In the David Austin area at the corner of Court and College Streets.

One of the first of Meilland's "Landscape Roses," it is virtually immune to disease, needs no pruning and is extraordinarily prolific in blooms. It produces abundant orange hips. It was an All-American Rose Selection winner when introduced in the U.S. in 1987, the first landscape rose to receive this honor. It should not be confused with a 1958 Floribunda called Bonica introduced by Meilland in 1958.

Break O'Day

Break O'Day is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1939 by breeder Brownell Family.

• Color: Apricot-buff
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Low, twiggy shrubs that may be as broad as they are tall
• Pruning: Prune as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: In the David Austin area at the corner of Court and College Streets.

One of the early cold-hardy Hybrid Teas developed by the Brownells of Rhode Island. The rose's blooms are small by Hybrid Tea standards but nonetheless striking for the period and even today (see also Shades of Autumn and Orange Ruffels).

Brown Velvet

Brown Velvet is a Floribunda introduced in 1975/1982 reintroduced by breeder S.D. McGredy IV.

• Color: Orange brown
• Fragrance: Little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A taller grower, reaching 5 to 6 feet with basal canes about that length, and informal flowers of modest size.
• Pruning: Prune as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: On the east end of the Court Street side.

The color of the blossoms of this rose can be exceptional and out of the ordinary, especially in cooler weather. It won the New Zealand gold medal for roses in 1979. The name accurately describes the rich color of the rose at its best.

Bubble Bath

Bubble Bath is a Hybrid Musk (Tree Rose) introduced in 1980 by breeder Matson.

• Color: Blush pink in clusters with an outstanding fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Almost like a Tea Noisette, it has long arching canes
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: One plant located in the center circle of the Sensory Garden.

A recent introduction to the Hybrid Musk class, the rose makes a spectacular shrub, climber or, as the case here, standard. A chance discovery, it is thought to be a cross between Kathleen (found in our North Garden on an arch) and the Climber Cecile Brunner.

Cal Poly

Cal Poly is a Miniature introduced in 1991 by breeder R. S. Moore.

• Color: Yellow
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can build up with strong basal canes to 4 feet or more.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.

Cal Poly is a non-fading yellow rose. Excellent form, compact plant and disease resistant foliage. It is named after California State Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

California

California is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1940 by breeder F. H. Howard.

• Color: Tawny gold-pink
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: Low, twiggy shrubs that may be as broad as they are tall.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: East end of the section along Court Street.

A fitting tribute to the "Golden State" developed by Fred Howard working in Southern California and being one of the most successful Hybrid Tea breeders during the 1940s and 1950s. This rose received the All-American Rose Selection award in 1941. Ironically because of its unavailability in California at this time, the rose could be located only in South Carolina.

Cameo

Cameo is a Polyantha introduced in 1932 by breeder DeRuiter Innovations.

• Color: Salmon-pink to white in clusters
• Fragrance: Little or Light
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A very compact plant with sprays of two dozen or more tiny double flowers.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding and crossed branches and crossing branches.
• Location: Along the west wall of the Library building.

Cameo is a sport of the Orleans Rose raised by Levavasseur in 1909; this charmer has some of Mme. Norbert Levavasseur’s blood in its heritage. It is softer in color, less ambitious and the blooms fade to white with the effect of two different colors of blooms on one plant.

Captain Christy

Captain Christy is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1873 by breeder L. Lacharme.

• Color: Light pink with pink center
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: This plant is found as either grafted or own rootstock
• Habit: Captain Christy inclines toward its hybrid perpetual parents with thorny, stout canes and large, cabbagey blooms.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth and crossing branches. On grafted plants be careful not to cut back into the graft area, otherwise the plant will grow new branches from the root stock which won’t be the same plant.
• Location: Captain Christy located at the south end of the arched walkway along the Library’s west wall, and also in the area along Court Street.

One of the original "hybrids of the Teas" (the Hybrid Perpetual Victor Verdier and the Tea Safrano), the rose has been described as having "the boldness of a Hybrid Perpetual and the delicacy of a Tea." According to contemporary accounts, Lacharme "crated a new rose of the first order which he dedicated to Captain Christy of London, one of the great amateur rosarians of England...." (Journal of Roses, 1878). Admired by generations for its cabbage-like blooms and mahonia-like foliage, this rose is one of the rare early Hybrid Tea roses still in cultivation. Francois Lacharme, who worked in Lyon, France, contributed significantly to the development of Hybrid Perpetual and Bourbon roses in the second half of the 19th century.

Carefree Delight

Carefree Delight is a Shrub introduced in 1996 by breeder J. Mouchotte.

• Color: Pink with cream in clusters
• Fragrance: Little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: This is a grafted plant
• Habit: Shrub of modest height, generally spreading and arching, of relatively light wood.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding and crossed branches. Do not cut branches back beyond graft, or else the new growth will be from the rootstock, which is not the same plant.
• Location: Carefree Delight plants located on the corner of Court and College Streets.

This rose is one of the more distinctive of the numerous so-called "Landscape Roses" developed by Meilland in France over the past two decades. It was awarded an All American Rose award when introduced in this country. Vigorous, spreading and continuously blooming, it is aptly named.

Catalonia

Catalonia is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1933 by breeder Pedro Dot.

• Color: Terracotta-orange/yellow to smoky crimson
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring.
• Grafting: Own rootstock
• Habit: Plant is a low, twiggy shrub that may be as broad as it is tall.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth and crossed branches.
• Location: East end of the section along Court Street

During the 1930s, Pedro Dot, better known for the shrub rose Nevada, raised some remarkable Hybrid Tea roses in Spain, Catalonia, with its intense and transforming coloration is one of them. One of its parents was Shot Silk. It should not be confused with a Hybrid Tea rose with the same name introduced 50 years later by Dot’s son.

Champagne Cocktail

Champagne Cocktail is a Floribunda introduced in 1983 by breeder C.P. Horner.

• Color: crimson or cardinal red with golden yellow shading
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: this is a grafted plant
• Habit: Grows as the classic 1950s Floribundas, ranging from 3 to 4 feet tall with smaller clusters of larger more shapely blooms.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth and crossed branches.
• Location: In the area in front of the large garden sign, just to the left of the start of the arched walkway.

This plant produces medium-sized, double flowers with a yellow center and splashed with shades of pink towards the edges. The blooms are fragrant and very striking.

Chaucer

Chaucer is a Shrub introduced in 1970 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: Blush-pink with button eye
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A stout caned variety, tall, somewhat arching and broad.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding and crossed branches.
• Location: along the walkway at College Street

Chaucer has been described as having "the grace and flowers typical of [that found in the paintings] of the old Dutch Masters." In fact, one of its parents was a Gallica. Named for Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet and author of The Canterbury Tales.

Child’s Play

Child’s Play is a Miniature introduced in 1991 by breeder F. H. Saville.

• Color: white with pink edges
• Fragrance: Little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can easily build up with strong basal canes to 4 feet or more.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding and crossed branches.
• Location: In front of the large library garden sign.

Child’s Play is the only miniature to receive both the Award of Excellence and the All American Rose Selection awards from the American Rose Society.

Clothilde Soupert

Clothilde Soupert is a Polyantha introduced in 1889 by breeder Soupert & Notting.

• Color: White with pink centers and red shading
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: As with the larger Polyanthas, which grew into larger shrubs, compact like Marie Pavie or spreading like The Fairy.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding and crossed branches.
• Location: along the west side of the walkway under the arches.

The flowers are very double and have been described to be of "Victorian perfection," but they tend to ball in cool, wet weather. Nonetheless, the rose, with its perfumed bouquets, is another outstanding member of this class.

Collette Clement

Collette Clement is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1927 by breeder C. Mallerin.

• Color: Orange with red shading and golden-yellow undertones
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: a stout plant, smooth of cane, with well spaced branches, capable of building up to 5 feet.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth and crossed branches.
• Location: In the section facing Court Street.

Probably the most flame-colored of the singles from the 1920s and 1930s, this beauty has R. Foetida bicolor ("Austrian Copper") as a grandparent. Charles Mallerin (d. 1960) was a French railway engineer and amateur rose grower who bred not only this but others such as Virgo in 1947.

Comtesse de Murianis

Comtesse de Murianis is a Moss rose introduced in 1843 by breeder J.P. Vibert.

• Color: White with light pink shading
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Non Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: a solid armature to their canes of large and large and small bristles and thorns.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding and crossed branches.
• Location: in the section directly in front of the large garden sign.

Vigorous and quite tall, the rose’s buds are "enfolded in hard green moss" and open in true Old Garden Rose form with quartered or swirled blooms and pronounced button eyes. Graham Stuart Thomas and David Austin suggest that it may be one of the Damask Moss ancestry. It should not be confused with a Centifolia introduced the same year and with the same name.

Countess Celeste

Countess Celeste is a Floribunda introduced in 1998 by breeder L.P. Olesen.

• Color: Coral
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Shrubs of modest height, generally spreading and arching, of relatively light wood.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding and crossed branches.
• Location: in the section at the corner of College and Court Streets.

Very similar in habit and flower form to Princess Mariana and Queen Margrethe, this is another rose from the Poulsen firm in Denmark. It is however, very individual in the color of its blooms.

Cramoisi Supérieur

Cramoisi Supérieur is a China rose introduced in 1832 by breeder Coquereau.

• Color: Crimson, sometimes striped with white in the center
• Fragrance: No fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: Very twiggy shrub that seems to put new growth from any given point on the plant.
• Pruning: While dormant, remove all leaves and dead wood, shape by light pruning. no hard pruning especially when young.
• Location: Along the walkway under the arches.

An outstanding China rose forming a compact, tidy bush. The flowers in large clusters are semi-double and cupped, especially in bud. Their color is clear, unfading red with paler centers and with the odd petal sometimes faintly streaked with white.

Cressida

Cressida is a Shrub introduced in 1983 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: Apricot or Apricot blend
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Grows as packed with canes of more modest size, Falling outward when the weight of flowers becomes excessive.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding. Be careful not to prune branches back into the graft section; otherwise the plant will then produce growth from the rootstock plant.
• Location: Along the walkway under the arches.

Described as having an "informal character," the irresistible deeply-cupped, globular flowers owe much of their apricot color to Gloire de Dijon, one of its grandparents. Named for Shakespeare’s passionate character, a Trojan priest and the beloved of Troilus in Troilus and Cressida, it was named by Rayford Reddell as one of his "50 Immortal Roses."

Crested Jewel

Crested Jewel is a Climber introduced in 1971 by breeder R.S. Moore.

• Color: Deep pink
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can easily build up with strong basal canes to 4 feet or more.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: In the section directly in front of the large garden sign.

A miniature version of the unique Centifolia rose, Chapeau de Napoleon from 1826, it has smaller versions of the deep pink blooms and sepals that are frilled and crested (reminding one of a three-cornered cockade hat).

Cupcake

Cupcake is a Miniature introduced in 1981 by breeder M.C. Spies.

• Color: Clear pink
• Fragrance: Little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can easily build up with strong basal canes to 4 feet or more.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding and crossed branches.
• Location: in the section directly in front of the large rose garden sign.

Cupcake is a good rose for pots because the plants are compact. High centered, double long-lasting blooms.

Cymbelline

Cymbelline is a Shrub introduced in 1983 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: Soft dove-gray to pink
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: Plant is packed with canes of more modest size, Falling outward when the weight of flowers becomes excessive.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding and crossed branches.
• Location: Along the west wall of the library building, under the arches.

Named for a legendary king of Britain and the title role in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, it is perhaps one of the most rewarding of subtle-colored roses.

Dainty Bess

Dainty Bess is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1925 by breeder W. Archer & Daughter.

• Color: Light pink with salmon shading and yellow reddish stamens
• Fragrance: Little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Among the more robust growers, it is moderate of cane growing very densely and tall.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth . Be careful to not prune branches back past the graft; otherwise new growth will be from the rootstock plant.
• Location: Memorial Garden

Probably the most admired of the single-flowered Hybrid Tea roses, she has a good dose of Ophelia's blood. The combination of the colors of its blooms and stamens has been seen as "a study in contract and simplicity." Dainty Bess received the National Rose Society of Great Britain Gold Medal in 1925.

Dame Edith Helen

Dame Edith Helen is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1926 by breeder A. Dickson.

• Color: Deep pink with salmon-pink highlights
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: The plant inclines toward its hybrid perpetual parents with thorny, stout canes and large, cabbagey blooms.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: In the sensory garden area along Court Street.

Thought to have been bred from a Hybrid Perpetual and an early "Pernetiana" Hybrid Tea, her blooms were admired immediately upon introduction and described as "large, finely shaped, with plenty of substance" and "good for garden purposes" (American Rose Annual, 1926). Particularly during the 1920s through the 1940s, she was one of the most popular exhibition roses; it is said that in New Zealand, she was even confined to a class of her own so that other varieties could have a chance. Even today, this rose still receives praise, e.g., Gregg Lowery has stated that "no rose reaches the zenith of floral perfection of Dame Edith Helen." She can be temperamental and usually gives her best blooms in the Fall. She was named for the Marchioness of Londonberry.

Dick Koster

Dick Koster is a Polyantha introduced in 1929 by breeder D.A. Koster.

• Color: Pink-orange in clusters
• Fragrance: Little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: A very compact plant with sprays of two dozen or more tiny double flowers.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: In the Stroll through Rose History section under the arches.

A sport of an earlier Koster Polyantha, the lineage of this rose can be traced back to the Multiflora Ramber Tauschendschoen (Thousand Beauties,) from 1906. The more famous Margo Koster was a sport from Dick Koster and subsequent sports established a small dynasty well past the 1930's.

Distant Drums

Distant Drums is a Shrub introduced in 1984 by breeder G. J. Buck.

• Color: Bronze-brown-lavender
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: Shrubs of modest height, generally spreading and arching, of relatively light wood.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: In the Sensory Garden area long Court Street.

The color of the blossoms of this rose can be exceptional and out of the ordinary, especially in cooler weather. It won the New Zealand gold medal for roses in 1979. The name accurately describes the rich color of the rose at its best.

Dominie Sampson

Dominie Sampson is a Hybrid Spinosissima introduced in before 1848 by breeder Unknown.

• Color: Light pink
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Non Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: Compact shrub.
• Pruning: Winter pruning should be limited to removal of leaves, dead or diseased wood, and overcrowded and/or old canes that no longer produce. After Spring bloom, randomly remove at least one half of the spent flowers by dead-heading.

The flowers are soft pink to blush, marbled darker, especially at the petal base. Small semi-double ruffled flowers on a compact shrub with tiny matte foliage. Delightfully reminiscent of scots brier.

Doorenbos Selection

Doorenbos Selection is a Hybrid Spinosissima introduced in 1950 by breeder SGA Doorenbos.

• Color: Dark red
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Non Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: Dense compact shrub with small foliage.
• Pruning: winter pruning should be limited to removal of leaves, dead or diseased wood, and overcrowded and/or old canes that no longer produce. After Spring bloom, randomly remove at least one half ot he spent flowers by dead-heading.
• Location: The Woodland Library Rose Club acquired the plant from Rose Acres and as a donation from Price Amerson; we have a total of two Doorenbos Selection located in Section NA.2. This particular rose was installed in Winter 1999. Its parentage is unknown.

A very short, very dense shrub with small, fine foliage. Single flowers of deep plum to rose-purple, darker at the center with a lively boss of sulfur-yellow stamens. Long periods of bloom--scattering into October when well tended.

Dove

Dove is a Shrub introduced in 1984 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: light pink
• Fragrance: Good, “apple” fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring / occasional, 4 inch flowers
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: the English Roses, with the weight of their large blooms quickly lowering the canes to an arching, spreading habit.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: at the corner of College & Court Streets, near the walkway arch.

The flowers of this rose are perhaps closest to those of the earlier Teas and Hybrid Teas with pointed buds and flat, full rosettes style when open. The name apparently refers to the color of the blossoms.  

Dresden Doll

Dresden Doll is a Miniature moss rose introduced in 1975 by breeder Ralph Moore.

• Color: light pink
• Fragrance: strong fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring, blooms of 1.4 inches with 18 petals.
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can easily build up with strong basal canes to 4 feet or more, with glossy leathery foliage.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: along the walkway that parallels Court Street.

This rose represents years of work by American breeder, Ralph Moore, in developing a distinguished variety of miniature roses. One of its parents was Fairy Moss, one of the early "Miniature Moss" roses that he accomplished by combining the attractive mossy buds of Moss Old Garden Roses with the habit and remontancy of Miniature roses. 

Edith de Murat

Edith de Murat is a Bourbon introduced in 1858 by breeder J.C. Ducher.

• Color: blush pink to white with button eye
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Very short and compact; behaves more like a Floribunda than typical Bourbon.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: south end of the “Stroll thru Rose History” walkway, near the arches

Another rare survivor from the 19th century, this rose is a modest grower and, under the right conditions, presents a continuum of unique and perfect blossoms. The rose is named after Edith de Murat de Lestang (1835-1885).

Ellen

Ellen is a Shrub introduced in 1984 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: Apricot or Apricot blend
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring / occasional
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: As with the English Roses, the weight of their large blooms quickly lowering the canes to an arching, spreading habit. Plant can be 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide, lots of prickles on the canes.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest corner of the garden, near the south parking lot fence.
• Parentage: Charles Austin x seedling.

Considered to be temperamental, Ellen, when happy, can be spectacular. She also is known for her "cheerful fruity fragrance." Named for an Austin Nursery employee upon her retirement.

Ellen Willmott

Ellen Willmott is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1935 by breeder W. Archer & Daughter.

• Color: Creamy blush pink-pink with golden anthers and crimson filaments.
• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: a stout plant, smooth of cane, with well spaced branches, capable of building up to 5 feet.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: south side of the garden, along Court Street.

Another charming single-flowered rose, it was named for one of the most famous collectors of roses and author of the treatise The Genus Rosa. This rose was bred by the English rose grower Archer who produced Dainty Bess, the latter and Lady Hillingdon being the prestigious parents.
The rose was named after Ellen Willmott (1858 – 1934) an English horticulturist who grew hundreds of thousands of species of plants in her garden at Warley Place. There are over sixty species of plants named after her, including this rose.

Emily

Emily is a Shrub introduced in 1992 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: Blush pink with a button eye
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Growth typical of the English Roses, with the weight of their large blooms quickly lowering the canes to an arching, spreading habit.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest corner of the garden, near the south parking lot fence.
• Parentage: The Prioress x Mary Rose.

This rose bears similarity to one of its parents, Mary Rose, except for the color of its blooms. It was named for the character in Chaucer's The Night's Tale described as "being fairer than the lily or the May rose."

Étoile de Holland

Étoile de Holland is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1919 by breeder H. Verschuren.

• Color: crimson, rarely blueing
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Low, twiggy shrubs that may be as broad as they are tall.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

When introduced in 1919, enthusiasm for this rose was worldwide and, even with the number of red roses introduced subsequently, the rose still has many admirers. One of its parents was Hadley. Verschuren was a Dutch hybridist; the name translates as "Star of Holland."

Excellenz von Schubert

Excellenz von Schubert is a Hybrid Musk (or polyantha) introduced in 1909 by breeder P.Lambert.

• Color: purple to crimson in clusters
• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: upright to spreading canes ending in large clusters of small flowers, up to 4 feet tall.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest corner of the garden, near the south parking lot fence

When introduced, there were no classifications for "cluster-flowered" roses. Peter Lambert thus classed this and other similar seedlings in a group called "Lambertianas" after himself. The rose is a Lambertiana of exceptional quality and rivals many of the later "Landscape Roses." One of its parents was Madame Norbert Levavasseur.

Fair Bianca

Fair Bianca is a Shrub introduced in 1982 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: white to near white with green eye
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: A stout caned variety, tall, somewhat arching and broad.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest corner of the garden, near the south parking lot fence

Her flowers have been compared to the old Damask rose Madame Hardy and her fragrance described as "strong myrrh." It was named for the sister of Katherina, the shrew in The Taming of the Shrew.

Fairy Magic

Fairy Magic is a Miniature introduced in 1979 by breeder Ralph Moore.

• Color: deep rose-pink with no fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can easily build up with strong basal canes to 4 feet or more.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: along the walkway that parallels Court Street

 A slightly later Miniature Moss in the mold of Dresden Doll and Fairy Moss with attractive mossy buds.

Fairy Moss

Fairy Moss is a Miniature introduced in 1969 by breeder Ralph Moore.

• Color: crimson-purple
• Fragrance: little or no fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Of the older group of miniature Chinas, very twiggy plants that can build up to 3 feet or so.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: along the walkway that parallels Court Street.

One of Moore's earliest Miniature Moss which retains much of the Moss characteristics of its grandparent, William Lobb (1855), in the color of its blooms and pungent mossing. Buds open to small semi-double blooms which are abundantly produced on a compact plant.

Fantin-Latour

Fantin-Latour is a Centifolia or Hybrid Bourbon introduced around 1908 by breeder E. A. Bunyard.

• Color: light pink, small green eye, clusters of 4-6 flowers
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: non-recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: arching growers to 6 feet or more with a mix of fine and coarse prickles, and large rounded foliage.
• Pruning: Winter pruning should be limited to removal of all leaves and dead or diseased wood. After spring bloom remove all spent flowers and lightly shape plant.

Abundant blooms in spring and sporadic through summer and Fall, this rose has been grown under many names that provide a glimpse of its rich history and apparent ancient origins. Rayford Redell includes this rose as one of his "50 Immortal Roses." It is also a Yolo County Heirloom Rose. The rose is probably the most popular of non-repeating Old Garden Roses. Yet, its origins and history are a mystery. The rose was discovered by the famed English rosarian Graham Stuart Thomas and tentatively classified as a Centifolia. This classification is now widely doubted and, frequently, it is seen as a Hybrid Bourbon or Hybrid China. Regardless of classification, the flowers remain a marvel of Old Garden Rose form and fragrance. It was named by Thomas for the 19th century French painter of flowers. The rose was named after Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), a French painter known for his floral still life paintings.

Figurine

Figurine is a Miniature introduced in 1991 by breeder Frank A. Benardella.

• Color: white with pink edges
• Fragrance: little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can easily build up with strong basal canes to 4 feet or more. The specimen in the Woodland Library Rose Garden has never gotten bigger than 2 feet. Few prickles.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.

There are three Figurine roses located in front of our big stucco sign, between the sign and the walkway. Figurine is a well shaped plant with delicate blooms.

First Prize

First Prize is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1970 by breeder E.S. Boerner.

• Color: rose pink with cream blending
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: a stout plant, smooth of cane, with well spaced branches, capable of building up to 5 feet.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.

Our “First Prize” is located at the south end of the Stroll through Rose History arches, to the left of the first arch. Vigorous and upright, the rose's high-centered blooms consistently live up to its name, regularly receiving highest honors as an exhibition rose as well as awards from the All-American Rose Selection, as well as an American Rose Society gold medal In 1971. It may very well be the triumph of Gene Boerner's hybridizing career.

Fragrant Cloud

Fragrant Cloud is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1963 by breeder M. Tantau, Jr.

• Color: coral-red ages to geranium red with an outstanding fragrance, borne mostly as a single.
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: a stout plant, smooth of cane, with well spaced branches, capable of building up to 5 feet.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: the south end of the Stroll through Rose History arches, to the left of the first arch. 

One of German breeder Mathias Tantau's masterpieces, its flowers are voluptuous and read as a beacon from a distance. The always popular Tropicana (Super Star everywhere else in the world) was also developed by Tantau. Fragrant Cloud received the ARS Gamble Fragrance Medal in 1970.

Gartendirektor Otto Linne

Gartendirektor Otto Linne is a Shrub introduced in 1934 by breeder P. Lambert. It is listed variously as polyantha and hybrid musk.

• Color: deep pink in clusters of up to 30 flowers; fades to pale pink
• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant Habit: A spreading plant that grows wider than tall, spreading its canes along the ground. Almost thorn-less.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest corner of the garden, near the south parking lot fence.

Apparently inhibited by its long, cumbersome name, the rose was grown widely, under various replacement names, until recently and is now enjoying a revival under its proper name, especially as a landscape shrub. It is very prolific; few roses can rival its constant production of large sprays of pink pompoms and weeping character. Named after Otto Linne (1869-1937), the first Director of Gardens & Cemeteries in the city of Hamburg, Germany.

Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll is a Shrub introduced in 1986 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: deep rose-pink, very ruffled
• Fragrance: good, “old rose” fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: being packed with canes of more modest size, Falling outward when the weight of flowers becomes excessive. Can be trained as a small climber.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Along the east side of the Stroll Through History, between the walkway and the wall of the library.

Austin claims this to be the most fragrant of his "English Roses." It also may be one of the most daunting in size, humorously nicknamed "Galloping Gerty" by the Curator of Rose Collections at the Huntington Botanical Garens in San Marino. It was named after one of the most influential figures in English gardening in the 19th century. In Woodland, “Gertrude Jekyll” has a profuse first bloom and scattered blooms the rest of the year.

Gingerbread Man

Gingerbread Man is a Miniature introduced in 1994 by breeder L.P. Olesen.

• Color: Yellow / apricot or apricot blend
• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can easily build up with strong basal canes to 2.5 feet or more.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: On the north side of the walkway that runs along in front of the big stucco garden sign.

Gingerbread Man has cup-shaped blooms which resemble a David Austin rose. It is resistant to disease. Color blends from pumpkin orange to apricot, with 1 ½ to 2 inch flowers of 55 petals each. It is a continual bloomer.

Girona

Girona is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1936 by breeder Pedro Dot.

• Color: soft red and rich yellow blend, a large flower with thirty petals.
• Fragrance: good, “damask rose” fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: a stout plant, smooth of cane, with well spaced branches, capable of building up to 5 feet. The foliage is bright green.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

Girona is another color wonder to survive from Pedro Dot of Spain, the mix and blend of red and yellow challenges the imagination of the viewer.

Gloire de Dijon

Gloire de Dijon is a Tea Noisette introduced in 1850 / 1853 by breeder Jacotot.

• Color: amber-yellow to buff
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: climbing sport of the other Noisettes, sends up long canes that do not end in flowers, but bloom abundantly on laterals.
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow.
• Location: Along the Stroll Through Rose History under the arches.

Usually classified as simply a Noisette, the rose is probably more accurately a cross between a Bourbon and a Tea. A celebrated "Victorian" climber, the rose was named for Dijon, France, where the hybridizer Jacotot resided. It is irresistible to make an analogy between the color of its blooms, often tinged mustard and Apricot, and the city long famous for its mustard. Winner of the World Federation of Rose Societies (WFRS) “Old Rose Hall of Fame” 1997.

Golden Wings

Golden Wings is a Shrub introduced in 1956 by breeder R.E. Shepherd.

• Color: butter yellow with amber-red stamens in clusters
• Fragrance: good, “tea” fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: taller stout-caned type, spreading and arching.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: East end of the walkway along Court Street.

This rose is considered to be one of the best of modern shrub roses not only for its beauty but also for the continuity of its flowering. The result of crossing an early Hybrid Tea with a Hybrid Spinosissima, it is one of the few roses remaining in commerce by Shepherd who authored the “History of the Rose”. Sometimes it is refereed to as a bush form of the famous Mermaid and received an American Rose Society National God Medal in 1958.

Gourmet Popcorn

Gourmet Popcorn is a Miniature introduced in 1986 by breeder L. Desamero.

• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring, almost continual, foliage almost evergreen.
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can easily build up with strong basal canes to 4 ft or more.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: along the walkway that parallels Court Street

Gourmet Popcorn is a sport of Popcorn, which is a Miniature introduced by Dr. Dennison Morey of Santa Rosa, CA in 1973. This rose, like its parent, resembles when in bloom a batch of freshly popped corn. The sport has probably become one of the most popular Miniatures in the U.S. Its parent was named as one of Rayford Redell's "50 Immortal Roses" and "the Miniature rose I would grow if allowed to grow only one variety." In the Woodland Library Rose Garden, it is used as a hedge. The flower is more "doubled" than its parent Popcorn.

Grace Darling

Grace Darling is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1884 by breeder H.Bennett.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant with a habit that inclines toward their hybrid perpetual parents with thorny, stout canes and large, cabbagey blooms.
• Habit:
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

One of the very early Hybrid tea roses by Bennett, this is a surviving treasure of the period and unlike Lady Mary Fitzwilliam, this was one of the early Hybrid Teas to win popularity. It was named for the daughter of an English lighthouse keeper who rescued passengers from a shipwreck in 1838. It is said that, for years afterward, the 15 year-old Grace Horsley Darling, was the heroine of all English schoolboys. Apparently, Bennett was no exception.

Great News

Great News is a Floribunda introduced in 1973 by breeder E.B. Le Grice.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: A classic 1950s Floribunda, ranging from 3 to 4 ft tall with smaller clusters of larger more shapely blooms.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

The color of the blooms are rare for a Hybrid Tea, but not for the nurseryman who is known for breeding unusually colored roses. It has olive green foliage and a modest cluster of blooms.

Green Ice

Green Ice is a Miniature introduced in 1971 by breeder R. S. Moore.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: Of the older group of miniature Chinas, very twiggy plants that can build up to 3 ft or so.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Southwest corner of the garden, near College and Court Street

Opening with a light green color, the flowers open fully and paling to white. A pleasing small compact bush, blooms in small clusters with dark glossy leaves.

Greensleeves

Greensleeves is a Floribunda introduced in 1980 by breeder Harkness Rose Center.

• Fragrance: no fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: As with its tea rose parents, the plant is twiggy, compact and bushy.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

Opening from salmon-rose buds, the rose is a chameleon in color as it changes from pink-green and chartreuse (especially in cool weather) to creamy white with, at times, pink spots. It was named after the famous English folk song. The blooms are desired by flower arrangers for their unusual color.

Gruss an Aachen

Gruss an Aachen is a Floribunda introduced in 1909 by breeder P. Geduldig.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: A classic 1950s Floribunda, ranging from 3 to 4 ft tall with smaller clusters of larger more shapely blooms.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Along the west side of the Stroll through Rose History walkway

Introduced long before the classification was adopted, the rose, however, is now generally claimed to be the first Floribunda rose. Its charming flowers open with a flat swirl of fragrant petals and, once established, it blooms almost continuously. The form of the flowers has similarities to the look that David Austin later emulated in many of his "English" roses and it is probably not surprising that he retroactively adopted this beauty as a member of his family of roses. Geduldig, a German raiser in the early 20th century, named the rose after the ancient capital of Charlemagne. Literally it translates as "Greetings from Aachen."

Gustav Grunerwald

Gustav Grunerwald is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1902 by breeder P. Lambert.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant with a habit that closely resembles their tea rose parents, and are twiggy, compact and bushy.
• Habit:
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

This rose, bred in Germany, was one of the early offspring of the first Hybrid Tea roses, Mme. Caroline Testout, and a Tea rose, Safrano. (NOTE: we have examples of both of these roses in the garden.) Breeder Peter Lambert became known as a leading hybridist in Germany around 1900 and later developed a series of roses called "Lambertianas" after himself (see Gartendirektor Otto Linne in our garden).

Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant is a Floribunda introduced in 1995 by breeder A. Meilland.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: taller stout-caned type, spreading and arching.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Southwest corner of the garden, near College and Court Street

This member of the "Romanticas" bears elegant old-fashioned double blooms (90 to 100 petals each) and is named for the French 19th century author and master of the short story. It was introduced on the 100th anniversary of the famous Parisian rose garden, Rosarie de l'Hay.

Hadley

Hadley is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1914 by breeder A. Montgomery.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring. Blooms solitary; long stems may blue with age or cool weather
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: low, twiggy shrubs that may be as broad as they are tall..
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

This rose, while little known today, was nonetheless a rose admired for generations after its introduction. It was introduced by Pierson/Montgomery Co. and named by Alexander W. Montgomery, Jr. for Hadley, Massachusetts.

Händel

Händel is a large climber introduced in 1965 by breeder S. D. McGredy IV.

• Fragrance: little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: a large flowered climber, hybrids derived from Rosa wichurana, which make long, rather flexible canes with a wealth of lateral blooming wood.
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow.
• Location:

A very pretty and distinctive climber, this rose was cited by Sam McGredy as his favorite among the many roses that he raised. Flowers bloom in long-stemmed clusters of three to nine. Flowers open to a ruffled rosette, with glossy dark-green foliage.

Happenstance

Happenstance is a Hybrid Bracteata introduced in 1950 by breeder Mrs. Buss.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a root sport plant
• Habit: shrubs of modest height, generally spreading and arching, of relatively light wood .
• Pruning: while dormant, remove leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes. Remove overcrowded, twiggy growth.
• Location: South Parking Lot Center.

A wonderful happenstance indeed, as the low-growing shrub bears continually small replicas of the yellow blooms of its famous rampart parent. It is delicate in leaf and habit. This is a root sport of Mermaid. Single petal bloom that flush throughout the season.

Harison's Yellow

Harison's Yellow is a Hybrid Foetida or hybrid spinossisimas introduced in 1824 by breeder G.F. Harison.

• Color: Intense yellow
• Fragrance: Fetid
• Bloom Pattern: non recurring, blooms once in early Spring
• Grafting: The plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Tall arching growers, often vase shaped, leaving room around their “legs” to plant lower companion plants. The flowers are 2 inches across, with up to 25 petals
• Pruning: winter pruning should be limited to removal of leaves, dead wood, or canes that are no longer productive. After Spring bloom, randomly remove at least one half ot he spent flowers by dead-heading and prune lightly to shape plant.
• Location: West side of the arched walkway that runs along the West side of the Library building.

This rose, known as the harbinger of spring for over a century, was circulated widely across the U.S. by pioneer families and many of those roses survive today (it has been called "tough as nails"). History has that it was discovered by a New York lawyer growing in what, at the time, was his suburban estate on the Lower West Side of Manhattan and it was a natural cross between R.spinosissima (the wild scots brier) and R. foetida (a brier species from the Middle East). It often has been associated with the "Yellow Rose of Texas," but this might be more myth than fact

Honey Bear

Honey Bear is a Miniature introduced in 1987 by breeder L. M. Chaffin.

• Color: Apricot or Apricot blend
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini, which can easily build up with strong basal canes to 4 feet or more.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: On the north side of the walkway that runs along in front of the big stucco garden sign.

These Apricot and Apricot-blend blooms have 50 5o 55 petals. Cupped, small, very double bloom form. Small double cupped blooms that flush throughout the season.

Intrigue

Intrigue is a Floribunda introduced in 1982 by breeder W. A. (Bill) Warriner. It was an AARS winner in 1984

• Color: Plum-purple, up to 25 petals
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A classic 1950s Floribunda, ranging from 3 to 4 feet tall with smaller clusters of larger more shapely blooms.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Along the walkway that parallels Court Street.

Intriguing in color and fragrance, the rose has become a favorite within this color range and should not be confused with a red Floribunda of the same name introduced by Kordes in 1978. Large double petals that flush throughout the season.

Irene Watts

Irene Watts is a China introduced in 1895 by breeder P. Guillot.

• Color: Salmon pink to light pink, with up to 50 petals
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: The red Chinas, which form a dense inter-crossing mass of light wood.
• Pruning: While dormant, remove all leaves and dead wood, shape by light pruning. no hard pruning especially when young.

A special rose that never fails to charm and delight in flower and scent. Her ability to repeat flower rivals a modern Floribunda. Greg Lowery believes this is actually a “Pink Gruss an Aachen”. It is a short, well-branched plant.

Irish Elegance

Irish Elegance is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1905 by breeder A. Dickson.

• Color: Salmon-flame buds that open to peach, total of five petals.
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Being among the more robust growers, it is moderate of cane growing very densely and tall.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: South side of the garden, along Court Street. .

From the early 1900's until the 1930's, there was a vogue in Europe for single-flowered Hybrid Tea roses and this is one still admired for its simplicity and subtle beauty. Rose breeder Alex A. Dickson, in Northern Ireland, was one of the early contributors to this group of roses that decades later remain nonetheless charming and delightful.

Irish Fireflame

Irish Fireflame is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1914 by breeder A. Dickson.

• Color: Orange with scarlet shading, crimson veining that ages to yellow. Fawn colored stamens.
• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Being among the more robust growers, it is moderate of cane growing very densely and tall.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: South side of the garden, along Court Street.

This is a slightly later introduction to this group from the A. Dickson firm and is more intense in color and may be the most fragrant of the group. It received a National Rose Society of Great Britain Gold Medal in 1912.

Jean Giono

Jean Giono is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1996 by breeder A. Meilland.

• Color: golden yellow with tangerine blend with 110 to 120 petals.
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Shrubs of modest height, generally spreading and arching, of relatively light wood.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Southwest corner of the garden, near College and Court Street

Named for the French writer, the rose is striking in its blends and vibrant range of yellow and orange and is only now becoming known in this country. The plant has medium green glossy foliage, with numerous prickles.

Jeanne LaJoie

Jeanne LaJoie is a Miniature climber introduced in 1975 by breeder E.P. Sima.

• Color: medium pink. Sweet one-inch size flowers with 40 petals borne in small clusters
• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Shrub that forms spreading plant, usually wider than tall, with canes along the ground.
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow.
• Location: Southwest corner of the garden, near College and Court Street

Climbing canes will get to ten feet. The blooms are small, fully double and pink kissed with coral. The growth pattern can be a large free-standing pillar or trained on a fence. It is extremely hardy. The rose JeanneLaJoie was a winner of the ARS Award of Excellence in 1977. The person Jeanne LaJoie was a French-Canadian folk heroine of the 1920s.

Joseph's Coat

Joseph's Coat is a Climbing Floribunda introduced in 1964 by breeder D. L. Armstrong.

• Color: yellow orange and red blend, flowers 3 inches in size, with 23-28 petals.
• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A taller grower, reaching 5 to 6 feet with basal canes about that length, and informal flowers of modest size.
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow.
• Location: along the walkway that parallels Court Street.

This modest climber is distinguished by its constantly changing colors as the flowers age. Again, it is a rose that tests the cliché that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." For some, it is ravishingly beautiful; for others, it is simply very garish. One of its parents was Circus. It was, of course, named for the Old Testament story of Joseph and his coat of many colors. Large full petals in small clusters, bloom flushes throughout the season.

Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure is a Shrub introduced in 1989 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: Apricot with cream shading, 55-70 petals, large deeply cupped blooms with incurred outer petals
• Fragrance: good to intense
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: being packed with canes of more modest size, Falling outward when the weight of flowers becomes excessive.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest corner of the garden, near the south parking lot fence..

Admired for its magnificent fragrance and beautiful old-fashioned blooms, the rose has only limited availability in this country. Upon its introduction in Europe, it won a prestigious award for perfume in Italy. It was named for the 19th century novel by Thomas Hardy.

Julia's Rose

Julia's Rose is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1976 by breeder W.E. Tysterman/Wisbech Plant Co. Ltd.

• Color: peach-pink to parchment-tan, flowers are 2 ½” in size, 22 petals. Color shows up best in cooler temperatures
• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant with a habit that closely resembles their tea rose parents, and are twiggy, compact and bushy.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

Another rose with flowers of unique coloration--a rather indescribable blend of mocha and lavender to parchment and dependent on the season. Cherished by flower arrangers since its introduction, it was named for the famous flower arranger Julia Clements. It can be temperamental and more subject to leaf disease than other Hybrid Tea roses. Double blooms that flush throughout the season. The foliage is reddish with upright growth, and is considered to be not a prolific bloomer.

Kathleen

Kathleen is a Hybrid Musk introduced in 1922 by breeder J.H. Pemberton.

• Color: blush pink pink to white in clusters
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: behavior almost like tea noisettes, these are the largest growers in the class. suitable as small climbers, they take up great breadth of space with long arching canes. This forms a very large plant.
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow., and randomly remove at least one half ot he spent flowers by dead-heading.
• Location: On Arch on North Street

The many admirers of this rose usually compare the flowers to those of apple blossoms. It will continue to flower even if some hips are left when deadheading. Actually the combination of the sprays of blossoms and small orange hips are very attractive. This rose has been admired for "imparting a mood of serenity to its corner of the garden." It remains as one of the best of the many Hybrid Musks created by the Reverend Joseph Pemberton in England in the early part of the 20th Century. Small 5-petal flowers that bloom in clusters throughout the season.

Kathleen Harrop

Kathleen Harrop is a Bourbon introduced in 1919 by breeder A. Dickson.

• Color: light pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: long basal canes and short flowering laterals. Suitable for use as climbers or widely pegged shrubs..
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow..
• Location: located along the Stroll Through Rose History on the arches. .

This is a sport of the more famous Zepherine Drouhin and is more subtle in her beauty. Like her parent, she is mostly thorn-less with a light but refined scent. The plant is susceptible to powdery mildew.

Ketchup & Mustard

Ketchup & Mustard is a floribunda bred by Christian Bedard.

• Color: red with deep yellow reverse
• Fragrance: mild fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: recurring bloom
• Grafting: unknown
• Habit: A modern floribunda, which can be a dense grower. The plant is stout of cane, moderate in height from 3 to 5 ft. Tendency to produce immense candelabras of blossom from basala canes, sometimes with 100 or more blooms to a spray.
• Pruning: remove dead and twiggy growth, and reduce by 1/3 in winter.
• Location: South-west corner of the Sensory Garden.

a rose of striking contrast in color between the upper and lower side of petals, and appropriately described by its name. There are several roses with food-related names in this section. How many can you find? (hint…..Apricot Nectar is one). Produces 3 ¼" flowers with 20-28 petals, flowering in clusters. The rose is nearly thorn-less.

Killarny

Killarny is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1898 by breeder A. Dickson.

• Color: seashell pink with light pink shading and white undertones,
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: being among the more robust growers, it is moderate of cane growing very densely and tall.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches. .

This rose is one of the earliest contributions to the Hybrid Tea class from Alex A. Dickson and the Northern Ireland family firm established in the 1880s [see also Irish Elegance and Irish Fireflame and Betty, Short Silk and Dame Edith Helen. William Paul of The Rose Garden (1903) described this rose as "showy" and "splendid." This rose produced numerous sports and remained popular into the early 20th century.

King Tut

King Tut is a Miniature climber introduced in 1989 by breeder C.H. Warner.

• Color: yellow with a lighter reverse
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own rootstock plant
• Habit: Small climber, growing up three to four feet
• Pruning: Remove dead and older wood. Remove twiggy growth, tie / train onto a small fence.
• Location: On the fence in the north-east section of the Sensory Garden.

Small flowers with double petals in clusters that flush throughout the season.

L.D. BRAITHWAITE

LD Braithwaite is a shrub rose bred by David Austin in 1988.

• Color: dark red / crimson that does not fade to blue
• Fragrance: Old Rose fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: recurring in flushes
• Grafting: grafted
• Habit: light of wood, dense and compact with plentiful foliage. Easily maintained, grows to 4 or 5 ft tall
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: Southeast corner of the main garden.

The brightest crimson color in the English Roses. The flowers are full petaled, opening wide and slightly cupped. It has a charming Old Rose fragrance. The plant was named after David Austin’s father-in-law.

La France

La France is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1867 by breeder J.B.A. Guillot, with a flower about 4" wide with recurring petals.

• Color: light pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant with a habit that closely resembles their tea rose parents, and are twiggy, compact and bushy.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches. .

A rose that has the distinction of later being christened as the first in the Hybrid Tea class. It was also a sensation when it was introduced, being chosen out of 1,000 candidates to bear the country's name. Admired for combining the grace and elegance of the Teas with the vigor and hardiness of the Hybred Perpetuals, her exquisite fragrance and pink flowers, high-centered and packed with petals, still captivates us.

La France Striped

La France Striped is a Hybrid Tea, and is a sport of La France.

• Color: pink blend
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: own rootstock
• Location: Next to "La France", southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

Identical to La France, except with light red striping. Not much else is known about this rose, which came to the Woodland Library Rose Club from the UC Davis Arboretum.

La Reine

La Reine is a Hybrid Perpetual introduced in 1842 by breeder J. Laffay.

• Color: dark pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring, with 3.9" cup shaped very full flowers.
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: moderately stout, branching plants of upright habit between 4 ft and 6 ft tall.. Few thorns.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding. Long canes can be "pegged" to the ground to increase flowering
• Location: south end of the "Stroll thru Rose History" walkway, near the arches.

An important early Hybrid Perpetual and a parent to many later Hybrid Perpetual roses, "The Queen" received considerable fanfare when introduced. The French Journal d'Horticulture Pratique of September 1843 called it "the most beautiful of all roses, the Rose of artists, the Rose which dethrones the Centifolias." "One of the gems of the season" echoed the English Contributions to Horticultural Literature. She remained a longtime favorite among gardeners in Europe and the U.S.

La Sylphide

La Sylphide is a Tea introduced in 1842 / 1848 by breeder T. Boyau.

• Color: light pink with salmon pink shading
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: a generally small and spreading plant, with very twiggy stems and branches.
• Pruning: while dormant, remove all leaves and dead wood, shape by light pruning. no hard pruning especially when young.
• Location: South end of the "Stroll thru Rose History" walkway, near the arches. .

A rare Tea rose deserving more attention, she is demure of habit and delicately beautiful in flower. The rose is named for the ballet "La Sylphide" from the 1830s, about a Sylph (spirit) who falls in love with a mortal man

Lady Hillingdon

Lady Hillingdon is a Tea introduced in 1910 by breeder Lowe & Shawyer.

• Color: Apricot
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: the classic Tea, whose growth is taller and more upright, but still rather light-caned and twiggy. It produces 4" flowers which bloom in clusters of three to seven flowers.
• Pruning: while dormant, remove all leaves and dead wood, shape by light pruning. no hard pruning especially when young.
• Location: south end of the "Stroll thru Rose History" walkway, near the arches.

Widely appreciated for her hardiness and colorful blooms, the latter is enhanced by the plum-purple stems and new foliage. She may, in fact, be one of the most popular of the surviving Teas. She has been simply, and accurately, described as "elegant."

Lady Mary Fitzwilliam

Lady Mary Fitzwilliam is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1882 by breeder H. Bennett.

• Color: light pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant with a habit that closely resembles their tea rose parents, and are twiggy, compact and bushy. It produces 4.7" blooms.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

A rose, very lovely and fragrant in bloom, that has survived despite being met with derision when first introduced. Henry Bennett remains one of the most important of the early breeders of Hybrid Tea roses and pioneered modern methods of planned parent selection. This rose, in fact, is one of the most important ancestors of many lines of later Hybrid Tea roses. It was named for the granddaughter of King William IV of Britain. . Its parentage is: Devoniensis X Victor Verdier

Lady of the Dawn

Lady of the Dawn is a Floribunda introduced in 1984 by breeder G.P. Ilsink.

• Color: light pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A shrub rose of modest height, spreading and arching.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: Southwest section of the Sensory Garden.

The plant produces large semi-double petals that flush throughout the season. They are plumes of old-fashioned pink-fringed ivory blossoms that are lit from within with a warm golden glow. The petals are ruffled as a petticoat.

Lady Silvia

Lady Silvia is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1925 by breeder G.A. Stevens.

• Color: light pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: a stout plant, smooth of cane, with well spaced branches, capable of building up to 5 ft..
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches. .

A sport of Madame butterfly, which was a sport from the famous Ophelia, this rose lays claim as one of the loveliest of pink roses. From the time of its introduction until the late 1960s, it was a great favorite in Britain.

Lamarque

Lamarque is a Tea Noisette introduced in 1830 by breeder Marechal.

• Color: white with yellow undertones
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A more compact type of Noisette, this is an upright shrub with an abundance of stout basal canes ending in large flower clusters. Grows to about 4 to 5 ft tall. The plant is nearly thornless
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow..
• Location: Along the Stroll Through Rose History on the arches. .

Apparently an early cross between Blush pink Noisette and Park's Yellow Tea-Scented China, this rose has been a favorite in the southern and western U.S. for over a century. It was named for the French general Jean Maximillien Lemarque – 1770-1832.

Lavender Dream

Lavender Dream is a Shrub introduced in 1984 by breeder G.P. Ilsink.

• Color: pink with lilac shading in clusters of 10 to 40 flowers 1 1/2" across
• Fragrance: little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Shrubs of modest height, generally spreading and arching, of relatively light wood.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest corner of the garden, near the south parking lot fence..

This recent shrub is very free-flowering and delightfully uplifting when smothered in its attractive semi-double blossoms. . Its parentage is: Yesterday X Nastarana

Lavender Friendship

Lavender Friendship is a Shrub introduced in 1984 by breeder Vershuren Company.

• Color: dark purple, white center and yellow stamens.
• Fragrance: little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: A spreading plant that grows wider than tall, spreading it's canes along the ground.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Along the east side of the Stroll Through History, between the walkway and the wall of the library

A recent shrub that is more recumbent that upright with large sprays of small blooms blended mauve-purple

Lavender Pinocchio

Lavender Pinocchio is a Floribunda introduced in 1948 by breeder E.S. Boerner.

• Color: Lavender with undertones of cappuccino brown
• Fragrance: strong and fruity
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: a short, compact plant growing 3 to 4 ft tall
• Location: along Court street

Since its introduction, this rose has remained as one of the most "hauntingly attractive" roses. Its coloration is somewhat indescribable, but has been likened to that found in Persian carpets. Certainly it is one of Eugene Boerner's masterpieces introduced by Jackson & Perkins (see Saratoga) and a parent of many unique-colored roses subsequently developed. At the time of its introduction, it was named, rather innocently, as a lavender version of its popular parent Pinocchio. Large full petals with cluster flowers that flush throughout the season. This is a very prickly plant

Leonie Lamesch

Leonie Lamesch is a Polyantha introduced in 1899 by breeder P.Lambert, with small 2" flowers in clusters of 3-15 flowers..

• Color: Copper with a yellow center. Aged flowers fade to white.
• Fragrance: good to moderate
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: A larger, spreading polyantha.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding
• Location: Along the east side of the Stroll Through History, between the walkway and the wall of the library..

Rosarian William Paul (The Rose Garden, 10th edition, 1903) described this forgotten treasure as a "quaint but novel variety, producing flowers of coppery red color with terra-cotta edges…that are imperfect in shape, but …valuable [and] vigorous." The rose was named by Peter Lambert in honor of his wife who was the daughter of a Luxembourg nurseryman. Peter Lambert started the German rose industry.

Lilac Charm

Lilac Charm is a Floribunda introduced in 1962 by breeder E.B. LeGrice. It has 4" blooms in clusters of 3-15 flowers.

• Color: Lilac or pale lavender with crimson stamens
• Fragrance: little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: Grows as the old original Hybrid Polyanthas, quite low and compact to about 2 ft or so, with flowers of large petals.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: along Court Street, C.5.

A later introduction to the group of single-flowered Hybrid Teas, but it is no less exquisite and graceful. Gregg Lowery has likened it to "a cloud of fog blowing in off the blue Pacific." One of its parents was Lavender Pinocchio (also found in this garden); its other parent was a seedling from the species R. californica. The English breeder Edward Burton LeGrice (d. 1977) was responsible for raising a long series of roses of unusual distinction. This rose received a National Rose Society of Great Britain Gold medal in 1961, the year before being introduced to U.S. commerce by Wayside Gardens Co.

Lilac Rose

Lilac Rose is a Shrub introduced in 1990 by breeder D.Austin.

• Color: pink blend
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A stout caned variety, tall, somewhat arching and broad, with prickly stems.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: at the corner of College & Court Streets, near the walkway arch. .

The delicate lilac color of the blooms is most impressive during cooler weather and the blooms have been described as appearing to "have been crafted from crepe paper." The lilac color is more prominent in cool weather. In the heat, the color is pink.

Little Green Snake

Little Green Snake is a Shrub that serves as a ground cover introduced in 1996 by breeder L. Lens.

• Color: white to near white
• Fragrance: little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: A spreading plant that grows wider than tall, spreading its canes along the ground.
• Pruning: Winter pruning should be limited to removal of all leaves and dead or diseased wood. After spring bloom remove all spent flowers and lightly shape plant..
• Location: There are many Little Green Snake plants along the walkway at Court Street

Very short and compact, it hugs the ground as it spreads like its name. It comes from Louis Lens, a Belgian grower of unique roses.

Louis Phillipe

Louis Phillipe is a China rose introduced in 1834 by breeder Guerin Company. The flowers open to show a ring of yellow stamens with a white patch in the center. White streaks can run up the petals, a feature of China roses.

• Color: crimson to dark purple
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: China roses grow in a dense intercrossing mass of light wood, to about 2 feet tall. Lots of prickles.
• Pruning: while dormant, remove all leaves and dead wood, shape by light pruning. No hard pruning especially when young.
• Location: At the north end of the Stroll Through Rose History (west of the sidewalk)

The rose is named for the King of France who reigned from 1830 to 1849. Bushy and angular, it reads as a rose-red beacon from a distance. Its fragrance has been described as "rich cherry perfume." This rose was planted in Texas by the Texas Republic's minister to France almost immediately after its introduction. It is sometimes confused with another China called Cramoisi Superieur (also in this garden); and further, it is said that all red Chinas in the South are generally called Louis Phillipe.

Love Potion

Love Potion is a Floribunda introduced in 1993 by breeder J.E. Christensen.

• Color: mauve to purple blend
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A taller grower, reaching 5 to 6 ft with basal canes about that length, and informal flowers of modest size.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: along the walkway that parallels Court Street and by the upright rosemary bush..

Also known as "Purple Puff." A rich, slightly spicy, very raspberry scent radiates from classically formed, deep lavender blooms. Medium to large full blooms that flush throughout the season.

Lydia

Lydia is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1949 by breeder H. Robinson.

• Color: Saffron to chrome-yellow
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: low, twiggy shrubs that may be as broad as they are tall..
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

Herbert Robinson raised a number of Hybrid Tea roses in England at mid-century, but sadly most of them have been forgotten except for this beauty with brilliant yellow blooms that retain much of their intensity as they age.

Madame Edouard Herriot

Madame Edouard Herriot is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1927 by breeder J. Pernet-Ducher.

• Color: coral red with copper shading that ages to pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: low, twiggy shrubs that may be as broad as they are tall..
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

In the complexity of the shadings of color, the flowers of this rose were seen as a color break at the time of its introduction. One of its parents was Mme. Caroline Testout; the other an unidentified "Pernetiana." Gregg Lowery has stated that "the genius of Pernet-Ducher lies in roses such as this." The rose received it alternate name from being awarded, in an international exhibition in London, the gold cup by the Daily Mail newspaper for the best new rose. It is still known by the alternative name in England.

Maiden's Blush Pink

Maiden's Blush pink is an Alba rose introduced in 1400 by an unknown breeder. The rose has up to 50 petals, 3 ¼", in rosette form.

• Color: white with blush pink shading
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: non Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: a broader, heavier caned version of the alba, often broader than tall.. Almost thorn-less.
• Pruning: after spring bloom, do not remove spent flowers except to prune lightly for shape.
• Location: Along the east side of the Stroll Through History, between the walkway and the wall of the library.

The rose is shorter and more spreading than the older Great Maiden's Blush pink from which it reportedly sported in London's Kew Gardens around 1797. It has been described as having a "neat, innocent informality and a pure sweet scent."

Maria Callas

Maria Callas is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1965 by breeder M.L. Meilland. The blooms are large 6" flowers.

• Color: deep pink with an outstanding fragrance
• Fragrance: Strong fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: super vigorous, with very stout and tall canes, spaced somewhat openly.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: along the walkway that parallels Court Street.

Also known as Miss All-American Beauty. Capable of challenging Queen Elizabeth in proportions, the rose was originally named for the great Greek opera diva but, when introduced in the U.S., it received a more generic and anonymous title. An All-American Rose Selection winner for 1968. Large full solitary blossom that flushes throughout the season.

Marie Pavie

Marie Pavie is a Polyantha introduced in 1888 by breeder A. Alegatiere. Hit has small flowers, 2.2" in clusters of 5 to 20 flowers.

• Color: blush pink with white shading
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: A larger, spreading polyantha. The plant is nearly thornless.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: At the north end of the Stroll Through Rose History, which runs along the west wall of the Library

An outstanding member of the class, she consistently sends out candelabras of very fragrant double blooms in a most mannerly way. She was once very popular as a corsage or buttonhole rose.

Martin Frobisher

Martin Frobisher is a Hybrid Rugosa introduced in 1961 by breeder F. Svejda. It has 2 ½" flowers in clusters of 3 to 5 flowers, with 26-40 petals per flower.

• Color: light pink. Per the ARS Encyclopedia of Roses, "the pink color appears to be dabbed onto the flowers and is strongest toward the center."
• Fragrance: little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: Exhibits a more open, branching and arching growth inherited from the other species in their ancestry.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: At the north end of the Stroll Through Rose History, which runs along the west wall of the Library

The first of the "Explorer" series of super hardy roses developed by the Department of Agriculture, Canada. Well scented, double soft pink flowers. Foliage is dark green, growth upright, and "almost thorn-less" ( per Help Me Find, and ARS ER).

Mary Rose

Mary Rose is a Shrub introduced in 1983 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: pink
• Fragrance: little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A lower looser style of English rose, which may spread by suckering or arching, but is still quite compact.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest corner of the garden, near the south parking lot fence..

The flowers have been called "quintessential old-fashioned Damask Rose" and as having the look of "an old-fashioned petticoat." It commemorates the recovery, off the southern coast of Britain, of Henry VIII's flagship named for his sister Mary Rose Tudor.

Medallion

Medallion is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1973 by breeder W. A. Warriner.

• Color: Apricot
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: super vigorous, with very stout and tall canes, spaced somewhat openly. Very few prickles.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Near the south entrance to the Stroll through Rose History

With its immense blooms and good fragrance, this rose never fails to attract admirers. It probably is one of Warriner's most famous roses (see Thanksgiving), and won the All-American Rose Selection for 1973. It is one of Rayford Reddell's "50 Immortal Roses." Large old fashioned bloom form that flushes throughout the season.

Mevrouw Nathalie Nypels

Mevrouw Nathalie Nypels is a Polyantha introduced in 1919 by breeder M.Leenders. It has 2.4" flowers in open, upright clusters of 3-15 flooms.

• Color: medium pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: A larger, spreading polyantha.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: At the north end of the Stroll Through Rose History.

Similar to Marie Pavie in manner and continuous bloom, except for its cupped-shaped blooms which in older literature were often referred to as "hydrangea pink."

Minilights

Minilights is a Shrub introduced in 1987 by breeder P. Dickson.

• Color: yellow
• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: Of the older group of miniature Chinas, very twiggy plants that can build up to 3 ft or so.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near Court Street.

A recent introduction from the old Northern Ireland firm, the small plant can be covered in small, single blooms that give meaning to its name. Blooms flush throughout the season.

Mademoiselle Cécile Brunner

Mademoiselle Cécile Brunner is a Polyantha introduced in 1880 by breeder M. Ducher.

• Color: pink with light pink edges
• Fragrance: little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Very hardy with husky basal canes, rather bristly, with large pyramidal heads of flower.
• Pruning: Winter
• Location: along the walkway that parallels Court Street.

A rose that has become a classic and has been endearingly labeled the "Sweetheart Rose," undoubtedly due to its small and perfectly formed high-centered buds that are not unlike small Tea rose buds. Indeed, one of its parents was a Tea and this, and other similar polyantha at the time, were referred to as "Polypoms." It is also sometimes classified as a China. One should be aware of later and significantly larger imposters still sold under this name. Pertpetual blooms throughout the season. This rose is included in the World Federation of Rose Societies Old Rose Hall of Fame. The Old Rose Hall of Fame recognizes roses of historical or genealogical importance and those roses which have enjoyed continued popularity over a great many years. Dedicated to the Cécile Brunner (1853-1927), sister of Ulrich Brunner fils, or possibly to his daughter Cécile (b. 1879)

New Dawn

New Dawn is a Climber, and is a repeat-blooming sport from a Wichurana Rambler introduced in 1930 by breeder Somerset Rose Nursery.

• Color: light pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: Long flexible canes with a wealth of lateral blooming wood.
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow.
• Location: Along the Stroll Through Rose History on one of the arches.

Although over 60 years old, this is the rose by which climbing roses are still being judged today and indeed has been an important parent to subsequent repeat-flowering climbing roses. A sport of the once-blooming "Dr. W. Van Fleet", it was found in a Connecticut nursery and holds the first plant patent issued in the U.S. It is one of Rayford Reddell's "50 Immortal Roses" and was named "World’s Favourite Rose" in 1997 (ARS).

Old Blush Pink, Climber

Old Blush pink, Climber is a China rose introduced in 1752 by an unknown breeder.

• Color: pink
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring, in fact is in bloom almost year-round.
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: Upright, open, and spreading, can get quite tall. Very vigorous.
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow..
• Location: Along the Stroll Through Rose History on one of the arches.

Old Blush pink (aka "Parson's Pink China," "Common Monthly," "Common China," "Monthly Rose," "Old Pink Daily" and "Daisy Rose") is thought to be one of four seminal roses introduced from China to Europe in the late 18th century. It is unknown when the climbing sport occurred. Although somewhat less remontant than the parent, the climbing form, however, creates "sheets of flowers," particularly in spring and Fall. Old Blush pink apparently made its way to the U.S. quite early. When one of the oldest houses in Philadelphia was reconstructed internally in 1824, Mrs. Rueben Haines planted a rose garden that included Old Blush pink. It is also long associated with the famous lines of the Irish bard, Thomas Moore: "Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone." Indeed the verse appears today on a plaque along with Old Blush pink in the Dublin botanical Garden. Climbing canes will get to ten feet. The blooms are small, fully double and pink kissed with coral. The growth pattern can be a large free-standing pillar or trained on a fence. It is extremely hardy. According to the ARS Encyclopedia of Roses, "It was crossed with the roses grown in Europe, especially Damasks and Gallicas, to produce the Bourbon roses and Hybrid Perpetuals. Its genes are present in all modern roses."

Ophelia

Ophelia is a Hybrid Tea bred in 1912 by unknown French breeders, and was introduced to the US by W. Paul.

• Color: salmon pink with pink shading and light yellow center
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: a stout plant, smooth of cane, with well spaced branches, capable of building up to 5 ft..
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southeast side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

A beloved heirloom from the early part of this century, Ophelia produced some of the most notable sports of any rose including "Mme. Butterfly" (1914) which in turn produced "Lady Sylvia" (1926). William and George Paul were two of the more famous English rose growers and introducers from the second half of the 19th century through Word War I. Ophelia and Mermaid are two of their best known introductions. The origins of Ophelia, however, remain a mystery. History has it that it was a mislabeled plant sent to the Paul nursery from Pernet-Ducher! "Long slender buds became the industry standard for Hybrid Teas." (ARS Encyclopedia of Roses) "The bud forms a perfect conical shape and the petals reflex elegantly as they unfurl" (ARS Encyclopedia of Roses)

Orange Ruffels

Orange Ruffels is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1952 by breeder Brownell Family.

• Color: orange blend
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: low, twiggy shrubs that may be as broad as they are tall..
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

Another color treasure to survive from the Brownwells of Rhode Island (see Shades of Autumn). Large ruffled blossoms that flush throughout the season.

Padre

Padre is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1921 by breeder B.R. Cant & Sons.

• Color: Red with copper shading and golden yellow undertones
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant with a habit that closely resembles their tea rose parents, and are twiggy, compact and bushy.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

A very rare rose of distinctive color from the 200 year-old English firm Benjamin Cant & co. It received a National Rose Society of Great Britain Gold Medal in 1921.

Paul Neyron

Paul Neyron is a Hybrid Perpetual introduced in 1869 by breeder A. Levet in France.

• Color: Claret-pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Stout caned version of the hybrid perpetuals, often with long flower stems, usually quite tall. The canes are nearly thornless.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest end of the "Stroll thru Rose History" walkway, near the arches

With large, cabbage style blooms, this old-favorite is often confused with the Centifolias. According to the Journal de Roses (published 1877-1914), it was named for a medical student who died after the Prussian siege of Paris in 1870. It is said that this rose inspired the term "Neyron pink."

Perfume Delight

Perfume Delight is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1973 by breeder Swim & Weeks.

• Color: pink
• Fragrance: outstanding fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A stout plant, smooth of cane, with well spaced branches, capable of building up to 5 ft..
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: along the walkway that parallels Court Street.

With large, globular blooms and excellent but evanescent fragrance, this rose received the All-American Rose Selection award in 1974. Solitary blooms with high centered bloom form that flush throughout the season. One of its parents is "Peace".

Pierre de Ronsard

Pierre de Ronsard is a Climber introduced in 1987 by breeder J. Mouchotte.

• Color: Cream with carmine pink edges, which age to a soft pink as the flower opens.
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: An upright, spreading grower, flowering at the ends of all new growth. Few prickles.
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow..
• Location: Along the Stroll Through Rose History on one of the arches.

The rose was named for France's "prince of poets," on the 400th anniversary of his death (1584), who sang of the beauty of the rose in many of his poems and also was an avid gardener. It was labeled "Eden Rose '88" in the U.S. when introduced; it should not be confused with the 1951 Hybrid Tea Eden Rose also from Meilland. One of its parents is "Handel".

Pink Gruss an Aachen

Pink Gruss an Aachen is a Floribunda introduced in 1929 by breeder R. Kluis.

• Color: soft pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring.
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: A classic Floribunda, ranging from 3 to 4 ft tall with smaller clusters of larger more shapely blooms.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: North end of the Stroll Through Rose History

A sport of "Gruss an Aachen", it is identical except for the pinker blooms.

Pink Pearl

Pink Pearl is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1924 by breeder M. Leenders.

• Color: rose pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: a stout plant, smooth of cane, with well spaced branches, capable of building up to 5 ft. Nearly thornless.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

A handsome and very fragrant survivor, this rose has prestigious parents, one being "Ophelia", but it has become relatively rare. Raised and introduced by the Leenders brothers in Holland who introduced a number of pink Hybrid Tea roses between World War I and World War II.

Playboy

Playboy is a Floribunda introduced in 1976 by breeder A.M. Cocker, in Britain.

• Color: yellow and red with red edges
• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A classic 1950s Floribunda, ranging from 3 to 4 ft tall with smaller clusters of larger more shapely blooms.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: South end of the Stroll Through Rose History, just right of the Rose Garden sign.

A rose that makes a dazzling display in the garden and, although bred by a Scottish grower, is much more popular in the U.S. than in Britain. One of Rayford Reddell's "50 Immortal Roses." Solitary cluster flower with a flat to cupped bloom form that flushes throughout the season.

Polka

Polka is a Climber introduced in 1992 by breeder J. Mouchotte.

• Color: Apricot-peach
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: larching growers to 6 ft or more with a mix of fine and coarse prickles, and large rounded foliage.
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow..
• Location: corner of College & Court Streets, on the walkway arch.

A recent introduction, it makes a striking companion with the earlier "Romantica" climber Pierre de Ronsard. It is rich in fragrance and color. Polka is a very vigorous grower and is very disease resistant.

Portrait

Portrait is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1971 by breeder C. Meyer (U.S.)

• Color: rose pink with darker mid-pink back of petal.
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Shrubs often as broad as they are tall, 4 ft x 3 ft
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: along the walkway that parallels Court Street.

This beauty was the first rose raised by an amateur to win an All-American Rose Selection award (1972). Also known as Stephanie de Monaco in Europe. Stephanie de Monaco (1965) is the daughter of actress Grace Kelly and her husband the Prince of Monaco. The blossoms are a double high centered bloom form that flushes throughout the season.

Pretty Jessica

Pretty Jessica is a Shrub introduced in 1983 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: deep pink
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an "own rootstock" plant
• Habit: A stout caned variety, tall, somewhat arching and broad, 2 ½ ft wide / tall.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Southwest corner of the garden, near College and Court Street

Almost thornless and one of the more dependable of the Austin "English Roses." It ws named for the daughter of Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

Princes Marianna

Princes Marianna is a Shrub introduced in 1997 by breeder L.P. Olesen of Denmark.

• Color: light pink that ages to white
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Shrubs of modest height, generally spreading and arching, of relatively light wood.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest corner of the garden, near the south parking lot fence

A sister to "Queen Margrethe" in every way except for the color tonalities of its blossoms.

Purple Tiger

Purple Tiger is a Floribunda introduced in 1991 by breeder J.E. Christensen.

• Color:Purple with mauve streaks and white flecks
• Fragrance: little fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A classic 1950s Floribunda, 3 ft tall with smaller clusters of larger more shapely blooms.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Along the center walkway that parallels Court Street, south side of the garden.

An unusual rose even among the many modern striped versions. It has a richness in color and charm that is particularly pleasing as a massed display. Jack Christensen, a contemporary American breeder, was associated with Armstrong Nurseries in Southern California for a number of years. Many of his more recent roses have been introduced by Jackson & Perkins. The flower has forty petals per blossom that flush throughout the season. "Intrigue" is one of its parents, also found in this garden. Purple Tiger is not a vigorous rose in Woodland.

Queen Margrethe

Queen Margrethe is a Shrub introduced in 1991 by breeder L. P. Olesen.

• Color: pink
• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Shrubs of modest height, generally spreading and arching, of relatively light wood.
• Pruning: winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Near the corner of Court and College.

From the Poulsen firm in Denmark that has been breeding distinctive roses since 1878. The compact, recent variety provides sparkle and freshness to the garden. It was named in honor of the present Queen of Denmark (1940 - __). It has a beautiful flower, it opens with a quartered center in clusters of three to nine 3-inch flowers.

Queen Nefertiti

Queen Nefertiti is a Shrub introduced in 1988 by breeder David Austin.

• Color: light yellow with Apricot and light pink blending
• Fragrance: good fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A stout caned variety, tall, somewhat arching and broad.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: southwest corner of the garden, near the south parking lot fence

A rose with a namesake of mystique and a coloration of mystique in the double blooms that can show all of the above colors individually not blended. It was named after the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti (1370-1330 BC). One of its parents is "Tamara", a rose which is also found in this garden.

Rainbow's End

Rainbow's End is a Miniature introduced in 1984 by breeder F.H. Saville.(US)

• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: A robust form of Mini
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, remove overcrowding stems and open center, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes.
• Location: We have 1 Rainbow's End located in the NE section of the Sensory Garden.

Blooms are deep yellow with red edge-bi-color. High centered flowers shaped like mini Tea Roses. Small dark green glossy foliage. Excellent for containers. Winner of the American Rose Society Award of Excellence (for miniture roses) in 1986.

Redouté

Redouté is a Shrub rose introduced in 1992 by breeder David Austin(UK).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: A stout caned variety, tall, somewhat arching and broad.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding canes.
• Location: We have 1 Redouté located at the southwest corner of the garden. Its parentage is: sport of Mary Rose

A sport of Mary Rose and very similar in growth and habit except for the color of the blossoms which is a softer pink. It was named for Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1849), the famous illustrator of one of the most important early rose books, Les Roses, and the court painter of flowers to Empress Josephine.

Red Radiance

Red Radiance is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1916 by breeder Gude Bros. Co.(US)

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Among the more robust growers, it is moderate of cane, growing very densely and tall.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded stems.
• Location: We have 2 Red Radiance located in SW and SE side of the garden, near Court Street. Its parentage is: sport of Radiance

A Crimson sport of Radiance (pink-1908), the rose shares its parent's vigor, globular-shaped blooms and delicious fragrance. For years, its parent, bred by John Cook of Baltimore, and this rose were the best-selling roses in the U.S. Radiance has a very incestuous parentage include Mme. Caroline Testout and Lady Mary Fitzwilliam.

Regensberg

Regensberg is a Floribunda introduced in 1979 by breeder S. D. McGredy IV(New Zealand).

• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Quite low and compact to about 2 ft or so, with flowers of large petals.
• Pruning: Remove overcrowded growth, can be hedged.
• Location: We have a total of 15 Regensberg located in a half circle off the main axis of the garden. Its parentage is: Geoff Boycott x Old Master

One of the earlier and still one of the outstanding "Handpainted Roses" developed by the New Zealand rose grower Sam McGredy. This rose's ruffled blooms are a beacon from a distance and a delight from up close. Large double blooms that flush throughout the season. Makes an excellent low growing hedge for the front of the border. Regensberg is a famous Universtiy town in Germany.

Reine des Violettes

Reine des Violettes is a Hybrid Perpetual class rose introduced in 1860 by breeder Milet-Malet(France).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Arching, long caned hybrid perpetual that tend to bloom on short lateral stems on lithe branches. The branches can be trained for climbing or pegged down in an archto the ground.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding canes.
• Location: We have 2 Reine des Violettes located at the south end of the “Stroll thru Rose History” walkway. Its parentage is: seedling from “Pope Pius IX”

Still a popular favorite among Old Garden Roses, described as the "bluest of all roses" by Graham Stuart Thomas. "Queen of the Violets" has grayish, peppery-scented foliage with few thorns. Peter Beales has said that "If I had to choose just one Hybrid Perpetual, it would have to be this one." It is thornless and will do well in a partially shaded location.

Red Masterpiece

Red Masterpiece is a Hybrid Tea rose introduced in 1974, bred by William Warriner.(US)

• Fragrance: very fragrant
• Bloom pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: grafted
• Habit: Vigorous upright plant, spaced somewhat more open.
• Pruning: Winter prune to remove dead wood and leaves. Shape by shortening main stems and removing weak growth.
• Location: Memorial garden. Parentage: one of its parents is Chrysler Imperial

Beautiful, high centered tea rose with large dark green leathery foliage. Vigorous upright plant.

Robert le Diable

Robert le Diable is a Centifolia class rose introduced in 1858 by an unknown breeder in France.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: non Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: arching growers to 4 ft or more with a mix of fine and coarse prickles, and large rounded foliage. Ours are much shorter.
• Pruning: Winter pruning should be limited to removal of all leaves and dead or diseased wood. After spring bloom remove all spent flowers and lightly shape plant.
• Location: The plant was donated by Price Amerson; we have 1 plant of Robert le Diable located at the North-west end of the “Stroll through History”. .

With obvious Gallica influence, the rose is still classified as a Centifolia. In the middle of the 19th century, however, it was called a Hybrid Provence, belonging to a group of roses intermediate between the Gallica and the Centifolia. Lax in growth, its blooms are among the most astonishing of any rose, include crimson, purple, grey and violet. It has been suggested that this rose was introduced and named in the 1830's when the opera by this name was a sensation in Paris.

Rosa californica

Rosa californica is a wild species native to California woodlands and stream banks.

• Fragrance: light
• Bloom Pattern: non Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Upright, with densely packed basal canes, also suckering and forming thickets.
• Pruning: After spring bloom, do not remove spent flowers so hips can develop except to prune lightly for shape. In winter remove thin branches and control spread of thicket.
• Location: Rosa californica is located in the Species Garden .

A wild rose found in wooded areas of California, forming a thicket with light pink single flowers in clusters in summer that develop into tear shape hips. Soft dull green leaves. Takes little summer water when plant in afternoon shade.

Rosa gallica 'Officinalis'

Rosa gallica 'Officinalis' is a Gallica class rose introduced prior to 1240 to Europe from the Middle East. Also known as the ‘Apothecary’s Rose’, ‘Red Rose of Lancaster’, ‘Rose of Provins’.

• Fragrance: strong fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: non Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: It is of moderate low stature, growing 3-5ft tall, suckering densely, the canes arching somewhat with the weight of the blooms.
• Pruning: Winter pruning should be limited to removal of all leaves and dead or diseased wood. After spring bloom remove all spent flowers and lightly shape plant.
• Location: Rosa Gallica 'Officinalis' is located on the west side of the Stroll through Rose History. We have a total of 4 plants. They were planted in of Summer of 1999 and Summer 1998.

This is the rose thought by some to have been brought back to Europe during the Crusades in the 13th century. It does seem to be one of the oldest European garden roses still grown today, being in cultivation at least since the Renaissance period. It has also been claimed to be the red rose chosen as the emblem for the House of Lancaster at the time of the Wars of the Roses in England and also has been claimed to be the first rose brought to the U.S. by the Pilgrims. The alternative name "Offley" refers to plants in Virginia that were supposedly carried there by colonists fleeing the British during the American Revolution. Its fragrance is not especially strong when the flowers are on the bush, but become intensely fragrant when dried. Historically it has been the choice for a number of medicinal and culinary uses. It is almost thornless and will colonize.

Rosa gallica 'Versicolor'

Rosa gallica 'Versicolor' is a Gallica class rose introduced prior to 1581. Found as a sport of Rosa ‘Officinalis’. Also known as Rosa Mundi.

• Fragrance: strong fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: non Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: It is of moderate low stature, growing 3-5ft tall, suckering densely, the canes arching somewhat with the weight of the blooms.
• Pruning: Winter pruning should be limited to removal of all leaves and dead or diseased wood. After spring bloom remove all spent flowers and lightly shape plant.
• Location: Rosa gallica 'Versicolor' is located on the west side of the Stroll through Rose History. These plants came from Rose Acres; we have 1 plant. Its parentage is: sport of Rosa gallica 'Officinalis'

A sport of Officinalis, and perhaps more famous. Some of its flowers occasionally revert back to the color of its parent. It also has a rich history and is surrounded by legend. At one time, it was said to be a rose brought back from Damascus during the Crusades and named for Fayre Rosamond, the mistress of Henry II. More supportable claims are that it originated later, perhaps in an English garden. Sir Thomas Hanmer wrote in his Garden Book of 1659 that R. Mundi was "first found in Norfolk a few years ago upon a branch of the common Red Rose and from thence multiplied."

Rosa glauca

Rosa glauca is a wild Species rose native to Europe

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: non Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: It has the species rose habit of tall arching stems tending to be vase shaped plant.
• Pruning: After spring bloom, do not remove spent flowers so hips can develop except to prune lightly for shape.
• Location: Rosa glauca is located in the Species Garden. The plant came from Smith and Hawkins; we have 1 plant. This particular rose was planted in FALL 1998.

Native from the European Pyrenees to the Balkans, this rose is widely admired for its foliage of pewter-gray leaves and reddish stems. In spring, this is enhanced by small single flowers of considerable charm that are followed by olive colored hips. It has been compared to the nuances of color found in Pompeiian frescoes. Medium cluster flowers that bloom once in spring or summer. It is very disease resistant and nearly thorn-less.

Rosa moschata plena

Rosa moschata plena is a wild species rose also down as the Musk Rose. It was introduced into cultivation into Europe prior to 1513.

• Fragrance: strong musk fragrance
• Bloom pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: Own roots
• Habit: Tall bushy, arching, overhanging branches
• Pruning: Prune in winter to remove dead wood and crossing branches
• Location: wall garden

This is the doubled form of the Musk Rose. The musk rose has been grown for centuries in Europe and America. This class of rose was native to Southern Europe, No. Africa and Western Asia. It blooms in big clusters in late summer to fall. It was used as parent to the Noisette class of roses.

Rosa nutkana.

Rosa nutkana is a wild species introduced to cultivation in 1876. Also known as the Nootka Rose.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: non Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Similar to the wild California rose but much more upright, with densely packed basal canes, also suckering and forming thickets.
• Pruning: After spring bloom, do not remove spent flowers so hips can develop except to prune lightly for shape.
• Location: Rosa nutkana located in the Species Garden . The plant came from Rose Acres; we have a total 1? plants.

Native to Northern California and the Pacific Northwest to Alaska, it is an arching, lightly-thorned wild rose with beautiful single flowers, generous rose-red hips, and brown stems with gray-green foliage. Recently, rose-leaf fossils were discovered in Oregon that are believed to be R. nutkana and to date 35 million years old. Large single blooms that bloom once in spring or summer. It develops plump oval shaped hips. Discovered by Biologist Archibald Menzies.

Rosa primula

Rosa primula is a wild Species rose introduced into cultivation in 1890 by F.N. Meyer.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: non Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Arching but rather broad spreading. They make full and very graceful shrubs.
• Pruning: Prune after flowering to shape and randomly remove at least one half ot he spent flowers by dead-heading so that hips develop.
• Location: We have 1 Rosa primula located in the Species Garden The plant came from Regan Nursery;.

A most attractive Species with arching growth and reddish-brown prickly stems covered with small, fern-like leaves. Its blooms are single and a very delicate creamy yellow and it is from the flowers that it received its botanical name (i.e., referring to the primrose). The foliage is aromatic when brushed or crushed, hence the common name "Incense Rose." Native to Northern China to Turkestan, discovered by Frank Meyer of Meyer lemon fame. Small single flowers that bloom in spring or summer.

Rosa richardii

Rosa richardii is a wild species brought from Ethiopia to Europe, ca. 1895.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: non-recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: bushy plant 3-5’ tall with slender stems
• Pruning: Winter pruning should be limited to removal of all leaves and dead or diseased wood. After spring bloom remove all spent flowers and lightly shape plant.
• Location: We have 1 Rosa richardii located in the Species Garden. The plant came from Heritage Roses of Tanglewood Farms; Its parentage is: Rosa gallica L. × Rosa Phoenicia Boissier

Perhaps the most beautiful of single-flowered roses when in bloom in the spring. It is low growing but arching and spreading. It is undoubtedly one of the oldest roses known in cultivation and thought to be an ancient, natural hybrid between R. gallica and R. Phoenicia. Apparently native to northeast Africa and/or the Middle East, it was identified in 1888 by the anthropologist Sir William Flinders Petrie as the rose fragments found in Egyptian tombs dating from ca. 170 A.D. It is also known to have been planted around Christian churches in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) by the 4th century and preserved, cherished and closely linked to religious ritual there for centuries. This rose has also been compared with the rose found in frescoes at Knossos in Crete and dating from ca. 1900-1700 B.C. Large single blooms that bloom once in spring or summer. Very prickly stems and rugose leaves.

Rosa roxburghii

Rosa roxburghii is a wild species of rose.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: spring bloom and occasional repeat bloom
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Arching but rather broad spreading. They make full and very graceful shrubs.
• Pruning: After spring bloom, do not remove spent flowers so hips can develop except to prune lightly for shape.
• Location: This plant is located in the Species Garden. The plant was donated by Vintage gardens and Greenmantle Nursery; we have 2 Rosa roxburghii.

Native to China, it is known to have been grown in Chinese gardens for centuries. It is a very distinctive rose. The massing of petals and color of its blooms are similar to a Gallica hybrid. The bristles on the buds and hips give the the impression of a chestnut burr. Its leaves are fern-like and its bark flakes with age. It can become quite awesome in size and beauty. Single bloom form in spring or summer. Named for it’s discoverer, Dr. William Roxburgh (1751-1815)

Rosa virginiana plena

Rosa virginiana plena is a wild species introduced to cultivation before 1759.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: non Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Similar to the wild California rose but much more upright, with densely packed basal canes, also suckering and forming thickets.
• Pruning: Prune after flowering to shape and randomly remove at least one half to he spent flowers by dead-heading so that hips develop.
• Location: It is located in the Species Garden. The plant came from Greenmantle Nursery; we have 1 Rosa virginiana plena.

At one time this graceful shrub was thought to be the double form of R. virginiana (native to northeastern U.S. and Canada). Like the latter, it has beautiful autumn foliage and well-formed semi-double flowers. It is now thought to be a cross of R. virginiana and R. carolina. Also known as "Rose d'amour," "St. Mark's Rose." Semi double to double blooms once in spring or summer.

Rose de Castile

Rose de Castile is an alternate name for the Damask Rose. It is an ancient rose known in Greece and Italy.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Moderate to large growth reaching 5-7 feet tall, arching with tapering branches that bow down with the wieght of their blooms. Tall boad-spreading canopies , heavy caned below and twiggy at their extremities.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have 1 Rose de Castile located at the south end of the “Stroll thru Rose History” walkway, near the arches

Abundant blooms in spring and sporadic through summer and fall, this rose has been grown under many names that provide a glimpse of its rich history and apparent ancient origins. It was possibly known to the Greeks as early as the 5th century B.C. and is thought by some to be the twice flower rose described by Virgil. Until the introduction of Chinas and Teas from Asia into Europe in the 18th century, this rose was particularly valued for its remontancy and it is an ancestor to many later roses, especially the Portlands, Bourbons and Hybrid Perpetuals. The name, Rose of Castile, refers to the form brought by the Spanish to the "New World" and planted particularly at missions in memory of their homeland. Rayford Reddell includes this rose as one of his "50 Immortal Roses." Also known as, among many, Four Season Rose, Quatre Saisons and Autumn Damask.

Rose de Rescht

Rose de Rescht is a Portland class rose introduced from Persia, reintroduced to Europe in the 1940s.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Neat compact plant of 3.3’tall by 2.5’wide.
• Pruning: Winter prune to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have 1 Rose de Rescht located on the east side of the ‘Stroll through History”.

Another mystery rose, but it is so loved that most people have forgotten that we know very little about it. Supposedly found in Persia (now Iran) by Nancy Lindsay and introduced into Europe in the 1940s, it is outstanding for the form and color of its pompon flowers, its repeat-flowering ability, and its Damask fragrance. Rescht is a provincial capital in Persian (Iran,located near the Caspian Sea). It has been proposed that this rose was perhaps French in origin and was possibly brought there in the early 19th century during Napoleon's rapprochement to only be discovered later and returned to Europe. There's some disagreement regarding which class of rose Rose de Rescht belongs; the following have been proposed Damask, Damask Perpetual, Portland, and Shrub.

Rose du Roi

Rose du Roi is a Portland class rose introduced in 1819 by breeder Ecoffay, Souchet, Lelieur(France).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: 3’ tall shrub with thorny dark green stems. It suckers freely.
• Pruning: Winter prune to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Along the east side of the Stroll through History, between the walkway and the wall of the library. Its parentage is: Portland Rose X Rosa gallica officinalis

Remarks: Rose de Roi translates to “The King’s Rose”. The rose, according to history, was renamed because of Louis XVIII's regard for it. In the later 19th century, it was still highly regarded, e.g., "One of the most beautiful and remontant varieties…Its appearance was greeted with enthusiasm because, at that time, perpetual (repeat bloom) quatre-saisons roses were uncommon. “To raise so perfect a rose was a veritable triumph..." Les Roses by Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney, 1873). This rose is often considered as the rose that provided the genes of clear crimson coloring found in later Hybrid Perpetual and Hybrid Tea and was a parent of the first Hybrid Perpetual. It is an example of the Portland class of rose.

Rosemary Rose

Rosemary Rose is a Floribunda introduced in 1954 by De Ruiter Innovations BV(Netherlands).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Moderate in height from 3 to 5 feet which tend to grow densely and with stout canes.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: Southeast side of the garden, near Court St and College St.

In fragrance and form of flower, this rose anticipates the Austin "English Roses" so popular today. It has considerable Bourbon blood in its ancestry and that no doubt accounts for much of its beauty and perfume. Gijs de Ruiter, a Dutch roser breeder, is probably best known for the somewhat later Floribunda ‘Europeana’ (for which Rosemary Rose was one of the parents). Double petals, solitary flower blooms in rosette form that flushed throught the season.

Rose Parade

Rose Parade is a Floribunda introduced in 1974 by breeder J.B. Williams(US).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: the habit is like the classic 1950s Floribunda, ranging from 3-4’ tall with smaller clusters of larger more shapely blooms. Dark leathery foliage, compact vigorous bushy plant.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: Along the walkway that parallels Court Street. Its parentage is: Sumatra X Queen Elizabeth

Named for Pasadena's famous New Year's Day Parade, this American Rose Society winner for 1975 was bred by Benjamin Williams of Maryland and remains as the most popular of the several roses he developed. One of its parents was Queen Elizabeth. Blooms in flushes throughout the season.

Rotes Meer

Rotes Meer is a Hybrid Rugosa introduced in 1983 by breeder K. Baum(Germany).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Low suckering shrub with upright canes, somewhat branched and very close growing.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding, and randomly remove at least one half ot he spent flowers by dead-heading.
• Location: On the corner of Court and College Street.

Although a recent introduction, this rose has all of the beauty and elegance of the ancient R. rugosa except for the large size. It has a compact size and suckers freely to make a controlable thicket. Like its ancestors, it also sets beautiful hips for a final fall display. “Rotes Meer” is German for Red Sea. One of our original Rotes Meer has created a white sport on the opposite side of the path.

Rouletii

Rouletii is a China class rose introduced before 1818 by an unknown Chinese breeder, rediscovered by Colonel Roulet and introduced by Henri Correvon 1922.

• Fragrance: little
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Of the older group of miniature Chinas, very twiggy plants that can build up to 3 ft.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: South-east section of the Sensory Garden.

Said to have been rediscovered in Switzerland in 1917, this treasure seems to be an early pure-bred miniature China perhaps bred in Europe or perhaps introduced from Canton in the 19th century. Called a Lawrenceana at times, it is like a small version of Old Blush pink. Sometimes it is confused with Pompon de Paris (1839) and the two are very similar if not identical. Small full but flat blooms that is in bloom all year long and is evergreen in Woodland. Does get black spot. Rouletii is known for being the parent of most of the modern miniture roses.

Rubaiyat

Rubaiyat is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1946 by breeder Sam D. McGredy IV(Ireland).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is on own roots.
• Habit: Is a Modern Hybrid Tea rose with rather stout canes with well spaced branches and capable to build up to 5 ft. but can be kept controlled with pruning.
• Pruning: Prune in winter to at least one half in height and remove all lateral growth and any dead wood and crossing branches.
• Location: South west corner of the garden.

Elegant and captivating in its spiral blooms with a ruby glow (they have been compared to a Ceylon ruby) and intense Damask Perfume, this is another masterpiece from the Sam McGredy family before the firms’s move from Ireland to New Zealand. Winner of AARS award in 1947. In literature, The Rubaiyat is a collection of Persian poetry written by Omar Khayyam, an astronomer and mathematician, in the 1100s and translated into engrish in 1859. This rose, although a HT, has the fragrance of the Damask rose that is native to the middle east.

Safrano

Safrano is a Tea rose introduced in 1839 by Beauregard (France).

• Fragrance: old rose scent
• Bloom pattern: recurring
• Grafting: unknown
• Habit: Grows to 5 ft tall x 4 ft wide
• Pruning: Prune lightly because it will bloom on the thinnest wood.
• Location: 1st rose on the South West section of the wall garden

Safrano is one of the earliest Tea roses introduced to cultivation. The flowers have nodding appearance. It has typical Tea Rose habit of blooming on thin twiggy wood. It has smooth wood and is almost thorn-less. The red bronze tinge to new growth is a nice contrast to the flower color.

Salet

Salet is a Moss class rose introduced in 1854 by breeder F. Lacharme(France).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is on own roots
• Habit: Among the thorniest of roses the Moss roses have a proliferation of mossy glands on their sepals and a solid armature to their canes of large and small bristles and thorns. Arching growth to 6 feet and often broad and suckering.
• Pruning: Prune when dormant, remove dead flowers, dead wood and leaves. Shorten canes and thin out over crowded canes. Shovel prune suckers.
• Location: South-west section of the Sensory Garden.

The Reverend A. Foster-Mellier, a Victorian rosarian, found that “the real odour of musk is to be found only in ‘Salet’”. This rose is probably the most popular of the surviving Moss roses primarily because of its excellent repeat-flowering, charming blooms and light red mossing. Yet, some writers on Old Garden Roses have been particularly disparaging in their remarks on this rose. It is one of the old Garden Roses that has been used successfully in the breeding of modern Moss roses.

Sarabande

Sarabande is a Floribunda introduced in 1957 by breeder F. Meilland(France).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Compact bush up to 3’ tall.
• Pruning: Lightly prune in the winter to remove leaves, crossing canes and dead wood.
• Location: North-east Section of the Sensory Garden.

A floribunda with almost single flowers with bright gold stamens that remains popular. Its intense color is often seen as difficult to integrate into a garden. “Sarabande” was a dance originating in Central America in the 16th century. Handel composed a suite of music with that name. Winner of AARS in 1960.

Saratoga

Saratoga is a Floribunda introduced in 1963 by breeder E.S. Boerner(US).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is on own roots
• Habit: It has a classic 1950s Floribunda shape; they tend to be fairly short, ranging from 3 ft to 4 ft tall, spreading with smaller clusters of larger, more shapely blooms.
• Pruning: Lightly prune in the winter to remove leaves, crossing canes and dead wood.
• Location: Parallel to Court St.

The flowers of this classic white rose have been described as “crisp white” and “gardenia-like”. It received the All-American Rose Selection award in 1964. The breeder, Eugene Boerner, was a major American Contributor to the floribunda class and was affectionately nicknamed “Papa Floribunda”. He was Director of Research for Jackson & Perkins from the mid-1940s until his death in 1966.

Saturania

Saturania is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1936 by breeder Aicardi.

• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: recurring .
• Grafting: the plant is on own roots
• Habit: Low rather twiggy shrub that may be as broad as they are tall. Good for containers.
• Pruning: Lightly prune in the winter to remove leaves, crossing canes and dead wood.
• Location: This particular rose was planted in the section along Court street

A rose of singular coloration that imbues (saturates) the blossoms with beauty and perfume. Domenicho Aicardi remains as Italy’s best known rose breeder who introduced many popular Hybrid Tea roses from the 1930s to the 1960s, but unfortunately, they are rarely found today. Vintage Gardens states in their catalog “we know of no other rose of this rare coloring

Sea Foam

Sea Foam is a Shrub introduced in 1964 by breeder E.W. Schwartz(US).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is grafted
• Habit: Forms spreading plant which grow wider than tall usually be spreading their canes along the ground.
• Pruning: Lightly prune in the winter to remove leaves, crossing canes and dead wood.
• Location: We have 8 Sea Foam located in the north parking lot

Raised and introduced by an American breeder, this rose still rivals any of many later roses now classified as Groundcover roses. With small, glossy foliage, it has described as a “rich carpet on which double white flowers spread their foam”.

Seven Seas

Seven Seas is a Floribunda introduced in 1973 by Harkness(UK).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring.
• Grafting: the plant is on own roots
• Habit: Similar to the classic 1950s Floribundas, which tend to be fairly short, ranging from 3-4ft tall, spreading, with smaller clusters of larger, shapelier blooms.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth
• Location: South-west section of the garden along Court St. Its parentage is: Lilac Charm x Sterling Silver

With its semi-double blooms that float like waves it is one of the more beautiful of the mauve-colored Floribundas. It is one of Jack Harkness’ many creations that have contributed to his status of being one of England’s foremost rose breeders today. This rose is the child of two roses we have in the garden: Lilac Charm x Sterling Silver

Shades of Autumn

Shades of Autumn is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1943 by breeder Brownell(RI, US).

• Fragrance: strong
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring.
• Grafting: the plant is own roots
• Habit: Low rather twiggy shrub that may be as broad as it is tall. Good for containers.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: We have 1 Shades of Autumn located along Court Street

This little treasure with colors strewn through the petals is very evocative of its name. Introduced by Dr. and Mrs. Walter Brownell who developed a particular group of HT roses from the 1920s to the late 1950s to withstand the severe winters of their Rhode Island home. Hardy and Rich. Thornless.

Sharifa Asma

Sharifa Asma is a Shrub rose introduced in 1989 by breeder David Austin(UK).

• Fragrance: outstanding fragrance
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Short sturdy plant for an Austin rose. Good for a small garden
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: Southwest corner of the garden, along College St. Its parentage is: Mary Rose x Admired Miranda

The rose has proven to be a charming addition to the English Rose collection, especially in its subtle changes of coloration and sumptuous bouquet. It can be temperamental, but usually "settles into the garden" after 2 to 3 years. Sharifa Asma is a princess of the Omani Royal Family.

Shocking Blue

Shocking Blue is a Floribunda introduced in 1974 by breeder R. Kordes(Germany).

• Fragrance: Good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is on own roots
• Habit: Similar to the classic 1950s Floribundas, which tend to be fairly short, ranging from 3-4ft tall, spreading, with smaller clusters of larger, more shapely bloom.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: South Section along Court St.

The Large Hybrid Tea like flowers are not really blue nor are they necessarily shocking. They are, however, gorgeous and richly scented. This rose comes from Germany’s most distinguished rose growers, a firm established by W. Kordes in 1887 and that has continued for three generations to present with unique roses in all categories.

Shot Silk

Shot Silk is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1924 by breeder A. Dickson(N. Ireland).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: low, twiggy shrubs that may be as broad as they are tall..
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Southwest side of the garden, near the start of the arches.

The silky texture and changing color of this classic never fail to enchant and have been coveted for generations. It is an example of classic Hybrid Teahigh centered buds. The ARS states that it is the first example of “Pernetiana” Hybrid Tea (i.e. those with yellow or orange in their coloring. Named by Rayford Reddell as one of his "50 Immortal Roses."

Smoky

Smoky is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1968 by breeder M. Combe(France).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is grafted
• Habit: Stout and rather smooth of cane, with well-spaced branches, somewhat spreading, capable of building up to 5ft., but with pruning can be kept to a moderate stature.
• Pruning: : As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth .
• Location: Along Court St. The plants were donated by club founding member Pat Murray.

A rose that changes color according to the season, but, at its best, is true to its name and mysteriously attractive. When introduced by Jackson& Perkins in 1968, it was described as ‘Smoky ox-blood red, shaded burgundy”.

Snowbird

Snowbird is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1936 by breeder R. M. Hatton(US).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: low, twiggy shrubs that may be as broad as they are tall.
• Pruning: as for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: Southside of the garden, near Court Street.

Not just another white Hybrid Tea rose, this one has a distinctive beauty and fragrance that reminds one of Old Garden Roses such as Souvenir de la Malmaison. The 1939 American Rose Annual described it as "The most satisfactory of all white roses…an indispensable white rose." It is one of only two roses recorded for Rose Breeder R. Marion Hatton of Harrisburg, PA.

Sombreuil

Sombreuil is a Climbing Tea introduced in 1850 by breeder Robert (France).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Plant has long, rather flexible canes with a wealth of lateral blooming wood.
• Pruning: prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow and trained on to the frame.
• Location: Along the Stroll through Rose History on the most northern arch.

Always a favorite when in bloom, its flowers are full, flat and almost quartered and are seen as exquisite Old Garden Rose form. This despite the fact that it is now doubted that this is the rose introduced by Robert in 1850. Believed to be named for a heroine of the French Revolution who was the caurghter of the Comte de Sombreuil, who was governor of Les Invalides during the French Revolution. It may very well be from an early 20th century American Rose breeder. It is one of Rayford Reddell’s "50 Immortal Roses."

Sophie’s Perpetual

Sophie’s Perpetual is a Bourbon class rose but sometime classed as a China rose, it is an older rose that was re-introduced into commerce in 1960

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Can be grown as a shrub or as a small climber.
• Pruning: The Chinas and Teas resent hard pruning especially when young. Winter prune to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: The plant came from Greenmantle Nursery;Sophie’s Perpetual located at the south end of the “Stroll thru Rose History” walkway. Its parentage is unknown.

An old variety found by Humphrey Brooke in an old English garden, its globular flowers are enchanting, especially at twilight. It is virtually thornless. "Sophie" was the Countess Beckendorf. It is also known as ‘Dresden China’.

Souvenir de la Malmaison

Souvenir de la Malmaison is a Bourbon class rose introduced in 1843 by Jean Beluze (France).

• Fragrance: wonderful
• Bloom pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: unknown
• Habit: Very short and compact to 3 feet.
• Pruning: While dormant, remove all leaves, hips and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded and twiggy growth.
• Location: We have 1 plant located in the perimeter garden. Parentage: Madame Desprez x unknown Tea

Most famous and beautiful of the Bourban class roses. It has a wonderful fragrance unique to this rose. It was named after Empress Josephine Bonaparte’s home, Malmaison, near Paris. Flowers are very doubled with a classic quartered form. It performs best in dry climates, because when rain, dew or water from spinklers settles on the buds the flowers form into balls that won’t open.

Stanwell Perpetual

Stanwell Perpetual is a Hybrid species; cross between a damask and the Scots rose, introduced in 1838 by breeder C.B. Lee.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Taller stout-caned type, spreading and arching with open growth.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have 1 Stanwell Perpetual located in the Stroll through Rose History on the south west side. The plant came from Pickering Nurseries. Its parentage is: found rose

A seedling of a Damask rose and the Scots Rose. This rose was initially found in a Cottage garden in Stanwell, UK. A prickly, arching, graceful shrub with numerous gray-green leaves with tints of purple. Flowers are fully double, blush pink and very scented. A favorite of Peter Beales, a British nurseryman and author.

Starina

Starina is a Miniature class rose introduced in 1965 by breeder Marie-Louise Meilland(France).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Small stature mini-12-18 inches.
• Pruning: Remove dead wood, crossing branches, old flowers and twiggy growth.
• Location: We have 2 Starina located along Court street. The plant came from Fountain Square Nursery; this particular rose was planted in 1998. Parentage: (Dany Robin x Fire King (Fl)) x Perla de Montserrat

A rose which has become a classic among miniature roses and has rather large flowers for its class. It has classic exhibition formed doubled florets. This rose was bred by Marie-Louise Meilland, one of the few female rose breeders.

St. Claire

St. Claire is a Shrub type rose re-introduced in 2005 by C.P. Horner.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Typical of old Hybrid Teas that incline toward their hybrid perpetual parents with thorny, stout canes and large, cabbagey blooms.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: We have 1 St. Claire located in Southwest corner of the garden, near College and Court Street. The plant came from Rose Equus; it was planted in the winter 1999. Its parentage is: unknown.

An early Hybrid Tea that has lost its identify but not its dignity in its large and full double blooms.

Sweet Chariot

Sweet Chariot is a Miniature class rose introduced in 1984 by breeder Ralph Moore(Visalia, CA).

• Fragrance: very good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Of the older group of miniature Chinas, very twiggy plants that can build up to 3 ft or so.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have 2 Sweet Chariot located along the east side of the Stroll through Rose History. The plant came from Vintage Gardens (donated) and Capital Nursery. This particular rose was planted in FALL 1998. Its parentage is: Little Chief x Violette

Capable of producing masses of rich purple blooms with a very double neat rosette, it is spreading but graceful. One of its parents is the rambler Violette(growing on the arches). It is floriforous and quick to rebloom. A good rose to grow in a container.

Talisman

Talisman is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1929 by Montgomery Co..

• Fragrance: outstanding
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A tight-upright shrub with little side branching.
• Pruning: In winter remove dead leaves and wood, remove interior branches to open up shrub.
• Location: we have 1 Talisman located in the NE Section of the Sensory Garden. The plant came from Regans Nursery;. This particular rose was planted in Spring 1998. Its parentage is: Ophelia x Souvenir de Claudius Pernet.

A classic among Hybrid Tea roses and a favorite for generations after its introduction. It shows the influence of the so-called “flame-colered roses” or the Pernetiana group of Hybrid Teas developed in the early part of the century by Pernet-Ducher. One of its parents was indeed Souvenir de Claudius Pernet; and the other Ophelia (found in our Rose Garden). It is the parent to another rose in our garden-Girona. It won the American Rose Society Gold Medal in 1929.

Tamora

Tamora is a Shrub rose introduced in 1983 by breeder David Austin(UK).

• Fragrance: great
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: One of our plants is grafted; two are own-rootstock plants
• Habit: This a very compact English Rose that can be planted at the front of the border. It is very thorny.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have 3 Tamora located at the corner of College & Court Streets. The plant came from the Regan Nursery; it was planted in the Spring of 1998. Its parentage is: Chaucer x Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

This rose has been described as packing "all the best qualities of the Old Garden Roses into a compact shrub that just doesn’t stop blooming." It has Souvenir de la Malmaison in its gentic background. Tamora was the Queen of the Goths in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1965 by breeder Bill Warriner (US).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is on its own roots
• Habit: A robust hybrid tea grower. It grows very dense and tall.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have 1 Thanksgiving located in the South East Section along Court Street. The plant came from Vintage Gardens. This particular rose was planted in spring 1998. Its parentage is:

High centered and goblet-shaped, the blooms are richly colored which Gregg Lowery has termed ”turkey-red”. William (Bill) A. Warriner succeeded Eugene Boerner as Director of Research for Jackson & Perkins in 1966. He previously worked for Howard & Smith in Southern California. He is responsible for a number of roses, including Pristine and Simplicity, that have added to the prestige of the Jackson & Perkins dynasty.

The Alexandra Rose

The Alexandra Rose is a Shrub introduced in 1992 by breeder David Austin(UK).

• Fragrance: Light
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A plant being packed with canes of more modest size, Falling outward when the weight of flowers becomes excessive.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have 1of The Alexandra Rose located along the east side of the Stroll through History. The plant came from Dumars Landscaping and Nursery; Its parentage is: (Shropshire Lass x Shropshire Lass) x Heritage.

Seen as a departure from the usual Austin "English Rose", it has the look of the Alba class of roses. It blooms continuously, can produce very decorative hips, and may be pegged in an arch to encourage flowers to form all along thestem. Named for Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), wife of Edward VII and founder of the Alexandra Rose Day charity in the United Kingdom.

The Fairy

The Fairy is a Polyantha introduced in 1932 by breeder Ann Bentall (UK).

• Fragrance: light
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is on its own roots
• Habit: Plants grow in a shrub form; can be used as a hedge.
• Pruning: Remove spent blooms, deadwood and can be hedged in winter to reduce height.
• Location: We have multiple plants of The Fairy located in the North Parking lot along Carnegie Way and North Street. The plants came from Emirisa Nursery. These particular roses were planted in spring of 1998. Its parentage is: Paul Crampel x Lady Gay (a hyb wichurana)

Although introduced almost 70 years ago, this rose remains as popular as ever. Short and spreading, it is very disease resistant and constantly sends up clusters of neat small pink flowers.

Tiffany

Tiffany is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1954 by breeder Robert V. Lindquist. (US)

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is grafted
• Habit: A robust Hybrid tea grower. It grows very dense and tall, up to 5 feet.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have 2 Tiffany located in the south east section of the Sensory Garden. The plants came from Regan’s Nursery. This particular rose was planted in spring 1998. Its parentage is: Charlotte Armstrong x Girona

With its large goblet-shaped blooms, seductive color and intense Tea-Damask fragrance, this rose still remains a favorite and even a “treasure” to some. It has equally impressive parentage, being bred from the infamous Charlotte Armstrong(1940-dark pink) and one of Pedro Dot’s color masterpieces Girona(a rose found in our Rose Garden). It was an All-American Rose Selection winner in 1955 and the recipient of a fragrance award from the American Rose Society in 1962.

Topaz Jewel

Topaz Jewel is a Hybrid Rugosa introduced in 1987 by breeder Ralph Moore(Visalia, CA).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is grafted
• Habit: Grows to a large (4’ tall) round bush with very prickly, sharp thorns.
• Pruning: Remove dead wood and crossing branches in winter.
• Location: We have 1 Topaz Jewel located in the north-east section of the Sensory Garden. The plant came from Regan’s Nursery. This particular rose was planted in spring 1998. Its parentage is: Golden Angel (mini) x Belle Poitevine

Spreading in habit and blossoming with semi-double, pale yellow flowers, this rose represents the range and magnitude of Ralph Moore’s interests and creations beyond his long obsession with miniature roses. Yellow Hybrid Rogosas are rare and this rose received considerable fanfare when introduced. Its alternative name is Yellow Fru Dagmar Hastrup.

Touch of Class

Touch of Class is a Hybrid Tea rose is was breed by Michel Kriloff (France)

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom pattern: recurring
• Grafting:
• Habit: This rose is vigorous and tall-above the average height.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have 1 plant of Touch of Class located in the Memorial garden. Parentage: Micaela x (Queen Elizabeth x Romantica)

This rose makes excellent cut flowers with it classic large blooms with high centers on long stems. It is a good repeat bloomer. It is of French origin and in France it is known as ‘Marechal le Clerc’ who was the hero of the liberation of paris in 1945. This rose won the AARS in 1986.

Ulrich Brunner fils

Ulrich Brunner fils is a Hybrid Perpetual introduced in 1881 by breeder Antoine Levet.

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Lithe caned type hybrid perpetual, also upright but taller than other HP with long spaces between leaves and a dense habit.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: The plant is from the UC Davis Arboretum; we have a total of two Ulrich Brunner fils located at the south end of the “Stroll thru Rose History” walkway, near the arches. Its parentage is: Paul Neyron x unknown

The goblet-shaped blooms foreshadow a style continued by the Hybrid Tea. It was claimed to be a seedling of ‘Paul Neyron’ and was named for a rose-grower at Lausanne, Switzerland. In Roses for Amateurs by Rev. H. Honywood D’Ombrain published in 1908, the rose was described as a "Shell-petaled Rose of sweet fragrance and a great favorite."

Veilchenblau

Veilchenblau is a Hybrid Multiflora or a Rambler introduced in 1909 by breeder Johann C. Schmidt (Germany).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: non-Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Typical of the multiflora group, tall and arching like their ancestor, Rosa multiflora, but with a hybrid vigor that produces very long canes, lightly thorned, with immense flower panicles on lateral shoots.
• Pruning: Prune after flowering as this only blooms once a year. Winter pruning should be limited to removal of all leaves and dead or diseased wood. After spring bloom remove all spent flowers and lightly shape plant.
• Location: We have one Vielchenblau located on one of the Arches of the Stroll through Rose History. The plant came from Greenmantle Nursery. This particular rose was planted in Summer 1998. Its parentage is: Crimson Rambler x Souvenir de Brod.

A charmer and, considering its alternative names (Violet Blue or Blue Rambler), this rose is another prime candidate for the "bluest" of roses. In fact, when introduced, is was called a "blue rose" and created a sensation. This rose represents the Rambler class in our garden and will do well in some shade.

Violette

Violette is a Hybrid Multiflora or Rambler introduced in 1921 by breeder Eugene Turbat & Co. (France)

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: non-Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Typical of the multiflora group, tall and arching like their ancestor, Rosa multiflora, but with a hybrid vigor that produces very long canes, lightly thorned, with immense flower panicles on lateral shoots.
• Pruning: Prune after flowering as this only blooms once a year. Winter pruning should be limited to removal of all leaves and dead or diseased wood. After spring bloom remove all spent flowers and lightly shape plant.
• Location: We have one Violette located on an Arch in the Stroll through Rose History. The plant came from Rose Acres. This particular rose was planted in Summer 1999. It is a seedling of Veilchenblau.

When in bloom, this rambler is among the leading candidates for the "bluest" of roses. Its flowers remind some of clusters of purple grapes. Its color is a deeper purple than the other Rambler on the Arches, Veilchenblau. They are both nearly thornless.

Virgo

Virgo is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1947 by breeder Charles Mallerin.(France)

• Fragrance: light
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is on its own roots.
• Habit: A robust Hybrid tea grower. It grows with an open habit, up to 5 feet.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have one Virgo located along Court St. The plant came from Vintage Gardens. This particular rose was planted in spring 1998. Its parentage is: Blanche Mallerin x Neige Parfum

This rose, for many years after its introduction, was considered the white rose and still today has many admirers. It has been seen as “one of the jewels of Charles Mallerin’s art as a hybridist” (see also ‘Collette Clemente’ in our garden). It blooms singly or in clusters on long stems.

White Pearl in Red Dragon’s Mouth

White Pearl in Red Dragon’s Mouth is a China by an unknown Chinese breeder.

• Fragrance: light
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Forms a dense intercrossing mass of light wood. It is as wide as it is tall.
• Pruning: While dormant, remove all leaves and dead wood, shape by light pruning. no hard pruning especially when young.
• Location: We have 2 White Pearl in Red Dragon’s Mouth located in the west corner of the garden near the intersection of College and Court Streets. Its parentage is: Unknown

Apparently an old Chinese garden rose. Its Chinese name is ‘Chi Long Han Zhu’ according to Stephen Scanniello, in his book ‘A Rose by Any Name’, the flower “summons up a traditional motif in Chinese art: a dragon guarding a pearl, a Taoist symbol of wisdom and creative energy”. It is now collected widely in this country, its globular flowers with the distinctive eye are as charming as its name.

White Pet

White Pet is a Polyantha introduced in 1879 by florist Peter Henderson (NY, NY)

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: A very compact plant with sprays of two dozen or more small double flowers.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have six White Pet located along the parking lot west of the library. The plants came from Regan’s Nursery; they were planted in the Summer 1998. Its parentage is: sport of Felicite et Perpetue

Usually cited as a sport of the rambler ‘Felicite et Perpetue’ (1827), it is very graceful and is perpetually flowering. Its pompons of double blooms have been called "the essence of Victoriana.” ‘White Pet’ is an unusual ‘sport’ because it came from a climbing rose and not the typical reverse, a bush form sporting into a climbing form.

White Wings

White Wings is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1947 by breeder Alfred Krebs (US).

• Fragrance: light
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: A stout plant, smooth of cane, with well spaced branches, capable of reaching up to 5 ft.
• Pruning: As for hybrid teas and floribundas, while dormant remove all leaves and dead wood and shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded growth.
• Location: We have one White Wings located in the south side of the garden, along Court Street. The plant came from Heirloom Old Garden Roses; it was planted in the summer of 1998. Its parentage is: Dainty Bess x unnamed seedling.

A late member of the single-flowered Hybrid Tea but nonetheless striking in its elegance and beauty. The beloved Dainty Bess was one of its parents and undoubtedly she would have been very proud of her offspring.

Wife of Bath

Wife of Bath is a shrub rose introduced in 1969 and bred by David Austin (UK)

• Fragrance: strong
• Bloom pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: unknown
• Habit: Light of wood , much branched, dense and compact with plentiful foliage, upright and easily maintained at 3-4 feet.
• Pruning: While dormant, remove all leaves, hips and dead or diseased wood and light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowded and cumbersome twiggy growth.
• Location: We have one plant located in the perimeter garden. Parentage: Mme Caroline Testout x (Ma Perkins x Constance Spry)

Remarks: This is an early David Austin ‘English Rose’ and one of his first repeat blooming. It has a beautiful full cupped old-fashion flower. As with many Austin roses it is named after a character from classic English literature which makes it perfect choice for the Library garden. The wife of Bath is a character in Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’

Wild Plum

Wild Plum is a Miniature introduced in 1998 by breeder Keith W. Zary (US)

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is on own roots
• Habit: A vigorous, tall (to 3’) grower for a miniature.
• Pruning: In winter thin out dead, thin and crossing branches. Reduce top by half.
• Location: We have 3 Wild Plum roses located in the southwest section of the Sensory Garden. The plants were donated by Vintage Gardens. This particular rose was planted in spring 1998. Its parentage is: Winsome (mini) x Eloquence (FL)

A true lavender miniature with perfect little hybrid tea like blossoms. It has a nice fragrance for a mini. It is bloom 12 months out of the year.

Winter Magic

Winter Magic is a Miniature introduced in 1986 by breeder Betty Jacobs (US).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is on own roots
• Habit: A short compact miniature in our garden.
• Pruning: Lightly prune to remove dead wood and crossing branches in winter.
• Location: We have two Winter Magic roses located in located in the southwest section of the Sensory Garden. The plant came from Fountain Square Nursery. These particular roses were planted in spring 1998. Its parentage is: Rise n’ Shine x Blue Nile

This rose is very fragrant for a miniature and a uniquie color of grayish mauve. The color shows best in cooler weather in spring bloom; in summer heat it fades to white.

Wise Portia

Wise Portia is a Shrub introduced in 1982 by breeder David Austin (UK).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: A stout caned variety, tall, somewhat arching and broad.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: This rose is from Heirloom Old Garden Roses; we have one Wise Portia located in southwest corner of the garden, near College and Court Street. Its parentage is: The Knight x Glastonbury

The rose has been described as taking "on the look of a bush covered with anemones" and having the "charm of Gallica Rose taken out of Josephine’s garden at Malmaison." It was named for the heroine of Shakespeare’s, The Merchant of Venice.

Yesterday

Yesterday is a Polyantha or Hybrid Musk introduced in 1974 by breeder Jack Harkness. (UK)

• Fragrance: light
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: The smallest varieties in this group are closely related to the polyanthas with upright to spreading canes ending in large clusters of small flowers, up to 4 ft. tall.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have 2 Yesterday located in our garden. The plant came from Sacramento Old Cemetary Garden. They were planted in October 2019. Its parentage is: (Phyllis Bide x Shepherd’s Delight) x Ballerina

Although a modern introduction, this rose has been aptly named as it has the charm of older Polyantha and Hybrid Musk roses. In fact, one of its parents was the beloved ‘Ballerina’ (a hybrid musk) from 1937.

Yves Piaget

Yves Piaget is a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1983 by the breeder Marie-Louise Meilland (French).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: the plant is a grafted plant
• Habit: Shrubs of modest height, generally spreading and arching, made of relatively light wood.
• Pruning: Winter pruning to remove dead leaves and wood, shape by light pruning to shorten main canes and remove overcrowding.
• Location: We have one ‘Yves Piaget’ located in the southwest corner of the garden, near the intersection of College and Court Streets. The plant came from Capital Nursery. Its parentage is: (Pharaoh x Peace) x (Chrysler Imperial x Charles Mallerin)

Impressive in flower and fragrance, this member of the "Romanticas" was named for the famous member of the Swiss watchmaking family and a devoted rosarian who sponsors, in large part, the international rose contest in Geneva, Switzerland.

Zephirine Drouhin

Zephirine Drouhin is a Bourbon rose introduced in 1868 by breeder Bizot (France).

• Fragrance: good
• Bloom Pattern: Recurring
• Grafting: The plant is an “own rootstock” plant
• Habit: Long basal canes and short flowering laterals. Suitable for use as climbers or widely pegged shrubs.
• Pruning: Prune for growth habit on the arches, at least 5 to 7 strong long canes should be allowed to grow.
• Location: We have one ‘Zephirine Drouhin’ located on an arch Along the Stroll through Rose History. The plant came from the UC Davis Arboretum; its parentage is: unknown

This rose is mostly thornless and currently is regaining much of her previous popularity. This is quite a feat for the French raiser Bizot since it is his only recorded rose creation. Although information on the namesakes for mother (Zephrine) and daughter (Kathleen Harrop) are not available, they are reunited here on either side of the arch providing a pleasing, if not perfect harmony.