Roses R to Z

Awesome flush. This is a great little groundcover rose. It is bright and showy from a distance. "Creepy" is marketed as 'Trailing Red.' Give it at least a 6 x 6 spot (I didn't). This is a spiny little devil. Available from Ralph Moore's Sequoia Nursery.

Very clean foliage that reminds me of miniature peach leaves (without the peach leaf curl). Perfect pink buds, sweet scent. Very lax growth.

This miniature climber by Ralph Moore is an unusual color red. In cool weather, it is quite lovely deep rose red. But there is a strange faded red shade as well.

I got my plants from Liggett's Rose Nursery (budded) and from Petaluma Rose Company (own root). Won't climb. Color is difficult in the garden, wonderfully cheery in the vase.

Wonderful scent, good in a pot. Spots after each flush and recovers quickly.

Rose gardener with a life (sometimes).

Blows instantly, each a beauty. A scented hybrid musk with as much grace as many Austin and a lot more foliage. First year it got blackspot. Last year it mildewed instead. Flowers are a lovely complicated buff, apricot and pink. Will probably be a 5 x 5. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.

A miserable young rose, mildewing badly, now much better. Buds appear out of nowhere for almost constant flowering. The bush is twiggy and thin, but the individual flowers have some quality I can't resist. Blooms blow in a day. Beauty can be so fleeting. Available from Ralph Moore's Sequoia Nursery.

Lovely cool weather coloring. A most vigorous rose that can produce 1000's blooms in a flush. A pair in the ground 13 months, their second spring, their third spring and fourth. Stout rose, angular by the end of the season. A good climber, lots of work to deadhead. Rebloom best with lots of fertilizer.

Nice little rose but won't repeat well unless deadheaded religiously. Does blackspot. Sets hips daily. Pink in cool weather. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.

This is the first flower on a cutting that I took in July of 2000 from a plant that grows on Highway 1 in Mill Valley. Such a vicous, thorny beast that I let it die.

A wonderful disease-free climber with good scent and good repeat. I have two, one budded on Manetti and one own root. Slow to establish on its own roots.

In cooler weather, the color is a bluer fuchsia color streaked with white. Wonderful scent. Terrific in a pot, perfect foliage, flowers darken with age and last 8 days if not disturbed. Top 10 disease resistant roses in my garden. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.

Souvenir de Mme. Léonie Viennot

The shrub. Everyone loves this rose, though at times I find the yellow hard to blend in a garden landscape.

Languid, drooping flowers on a handsome, open plant (shown at 2 yrs old) with nice camellia-like foliage. New growth is paprika-colored. Here's another showing the distinctive buds that excel in arrangements. Seedling of Belle Portugaise, expected to be 8 x 10'. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.

"Tam Glow," probably Jaune Desprez

A nice clean rose, uncomplaining, good foliage. Holds its own against larger competing shrubs. Always the last to bloom in my garden, it produces an impressive flush. Flowers fade to white with brown stamens, not beautiful.

My finest cut rose - 5 to 6 inch blooms. A cane bearing the clusters of very large flowers that are full of substance. Scent is a faint old rose and raspberry. Leaves are shiny, rounded. The laterals are stubby. From the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden through Liggett's Rose Nursery. Spring flush, scattered blooms later.

Delicious scent, stripes are very mauve in cooler weather. No repeat in my garden. I expect 8 - 10' canes.

Variable color. A spray and several of them. Vigorous and scented. The flowers blow quickly but will scent an entire room for a day. If the color is difficult in the garden, the cut flowers are easy on the eyes. Probably happiest as a 12 ft. tall climber. From Liggett's Rose Nursery.

William Allen Richardson

Healthy, though slow to start like the other tea noisettes in my garden; wonderful yolky buff color; repeat is improving with age. From Liggett's Rose Nursery.

Ralph's Creeper	Awesome flush. This is a great little groundcover rose. It is bright and showy from a distance. "Creepy" is marketed as 'Trailing Red.' Give it at least a 6 x 6 spot (I didn't). This is a spiny little devil. Available from Ralph Moore's Sequoia Nursery.
Renae	Very clean foliage that reminds me of miniature peach leaves (without the peach leaf curl). Perfect pink buds, sweet scent. Very lax growth.
Red Wand	This miniature climber by Ralph Moore is an unusual color red. In cool weather, it is quite lovely deep rose red. But there is a strange faded red shade as well.
Rosarium Uetersen	I got my plants from Liggett's Rose Nursery (budded) and from Petaluma Rose Company (own root). Won't climb. Color is difficult in the garden, wonderfully cheery in the vase.
Rose de Rescht	Wonderful scent, good in a pot. Spots after each flush and recovers quickly.
Rose Gardener	Rose gardener with a life (sometimes).
Rosemary Harkness	Excellent scent. Color veers alarmingly close to coral but stop just short. Foliage only fair.
Rostock	Blows instantly, each a beauty. A scented hybrid musk with as much grace as many Austin and a lot more foliage. First year it got blackspot. Last year it mildewed instead. Flowers are a lovely complicated buff, apricot and pink. Will probably be a 5 x 5. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Safrano	A miserable young rose, mildewing badly, now much better. Buds appear out of nowhere for almost constant flowering. The bush is twiggy and thin, but the individual flowers have some quality I can't resist. Blooms blow in a day. Beauty can be so fleeting. Available from Ralph Moore's Sequoia Nursery.
Sally Holmes	Lovely cool weather coloring. A most vigorous rose that can produce 1000's blooms in a flush. A pair in the ground 13 months, their second spring, their third spring and fourth. Stout rose, angular by the end of the season. A good climber, lots of work to deadhead. Rebloom best with lots of fertilizer.
Sea Foam	Nice little rose but won't repeat well unless deadheaded religiously. Does blackspot. Sets hips daily. Pink in cool weather. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
September Morn	Lots of problems - foliage, bloom. Looks like a hybrid perpetual with hybrid tea foliage. Vigorous.
Shadow Dancer	Awesome foliage, nice fresh scent, excellent repeal, much better than its parent Dortmund. A wonderful striper. A Ralph Moore rose.
Silver Moon	This is the first flower on a cutting that I took in July of 2000 from a plant that grows on Highway 1 in Mill Valley. Such a vicous, thorny beast that I let it die.
Sombreuil	A wonderful disease-free climber with good scent and good repeat. I have two, one budded on Manetti and one own root. Slow to establish on its own roots.
Sophie's Perpetual	In cooler weather, the color is a bluer fuchsia color streaked with white. Wonderful scent. Terrific in a pot, perfect foliage, flowers darken with age and last 8 days if not disturbed. Top 10 disease resistant roses in my garden. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
Souvenir de Mme. Léonie Viennot	A vigorous climbing tea with blooms that point toward the ground. Repeat has been sporadic in the young plant. Large tea-like foliage. From Antique Rose Emporium and Amity Heritage Roses.
Sparrieshoop	Not the best in my garden, though it was grown in inhospitable conditions. The most enormous, angular, spiney shrub, lacking in grace. Didn't repeat well. Gone.
Sunsprite	The shrub. Everyone loves this rose, though at times I find the yellow hard to blend in a garden landscape.
Susan Louise	Languid, drooping flowers on a handsome, open plant (shown at 2 yrs old) with nice camellia-like foliage. New growth is paprika-colored. Here's another showing the distinctive buds that excel in arrangements. Seedling of Belle Portugaise, expected to be 8 x 10'. From Vintage Gardens Antique Roses.
"Tam Glow," probably Jaune Desprez	This beautiful climber is growing in a 1 foot wide strip of soil that it shares with a utility meter. Beautiful nodding blooms with about 80 petals, soft noisette scent, nice apple green foliage. Possibly Jaune Desprez (Desprez á Fleures Jaune). A webpage page with detailed descriptions for identification.
The Fairy	A nice clean rose, uncomplaining, good foliage. Holds its own against larger competing shrubs. Always the last to bloom in my garden, it produces an impressive flush. Flowers fade to white with brown stamens, not beautiful.
Thor	My finest cut rose - 5 to 6 inch blooms. A cane bearing the clusters of very large flowers that are full of substance. Scent is a faint old rose and raspberry. Leaves are shiny, rounded. The laterals are stubby. From the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden through Liggett's Rose Nursery. Spring flush, scattered blooms later.
Variegata di Bologna	Delicious scent, stripes are very mauve in cooler weather. No repeat in my garden. I expect 8 - 10' canes.
Westerland	Variable color. A spray and several of them. Vigorous and scented. The flowers blow quickly but will scent an entire room for a day. If the color is difficult in the garden, the cut flowers are easy on the eyes. Probably happiest as a 12 ft. tall climber. From Liggett's Rose Nursery.
William Allen Richardson	Healthy, though slow to start like the other tea noisettes in my garden; wonderful yolky buff color; repeat is improving with age. From Liggett's Rose Nursery.