I have a special fondness for striped and flecked roses, especially if they involve pink or mauve. Here is a summary of the few pink stripers I do own as well as at least one I don't own. If you have a favorite striper I should know about, email me its virtues.
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I know little of this 1826 Gallica rose except that the flower is small, about 2 inches across, at this stage of bloom. I photographed it at the Gardens of the Rose in St. Albans, U.K. |
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Nice individual flowers, fair scent. Own-root plant of 4 feet so far produces nice individual blooms but not in profusion. |
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Instead of giving the appearance of many petals, the petals look folded over. The form is not great but the scent is pretty good. This own-root plant is very vigorous (4 ft. its first year, now 7 ft. tall) and flowers are produced in profusion in the spring, making it my most floriferous striper. Produces many hips. |
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Wonderfully healthy climber as a new plant. Interesting combination of buff yellow background and red flecks. Rebloom hasn't been great. Very prickly and sets a billion hips, which it hides very effectively. |
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A fragile beauty in my garden. This is the best and the worst of my stripers: the most utterly beautiful flowers, dark pink on a soft pink background, with terrible rust and blackspot-prone foliage. I've heard this rose loves a hot climate. |
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Shadow Dancer |
This Ralph Moore rose was released by Weeks in 2003, when I snapped it up own root. It blooms in flushes, more than its parent Dortmund but with the same fabulous clean foliage. I'm not sure it will be a big climber. Right now it's a ground-hugger. |
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This almost-once bloomer wins my favor for best scent and best mauveiness. The flowers are more pink than mauve in the heat, but here you can see it against Excellenz von Schubert, which is very mauve. The plant is a long, leggy bourbon that hasn't had a chance to show its stuff yet. |
