New Shrub Rose

Hey GT....this is the same rose I just rescued from the DIY store (see blog: New addition...). This is a fantastic rose. Have you seen it in bloom? It smells nice too.

This is a rose from the Canadian Parkland series. It is hardy down to zone 3 with no winter protection although I have seen it listed as zone 2 also. It is also very disease resistant. It grows only to about 3 feet I believe and is a reliable recurrent bloomer. If it is anything like Morden Blush which I've had for 6 or 7 years, it is a winner.

When you plant it are you going to put it into the ground or are you growing in a pot?

Ah, Gilli! :-) I was reading you had about 50 roses and you get cold there, so I thought you'd be a good authority. :-) I'm putting in new beds as a short wall around my compass garden and this will go in a wider raised bed at the front. I'm thinking I wont put down the weed cloth beneath it since it has a good zone class to have access to the soil. (I use the cloth to keep out rampant wild rasberry.) I haven't seen it blooming but I like its sunny face, that it is fragrant and should be a good starter rose for me. Sounds like it will be great!

i like this rose, my granparents loved roses, grandad use to tell me always look out for little suckers at the base of plant growing,they are usually lighter in colour but feed all the life out of your roses, so if i right on that, thats my bit of addvice greenthumb, and greenfly love roses so watch out for those to, i pray with soapy water just as good, am i right gilli? good luck with it greenthumb, look forward to seeing it flower :)

Good luck with your baby rose, GT.
Looks a lovely, healthy one :o)

Good luck GT :o)

Lovely Rose............

Soapy water is good Sanbaz....except it willl also kill the beneficial insects like ladybirds and lacewings. I only use it when the aphids get really bad, otherwise I knock them off the canes with a good spray of water from the hosepipe. The suckers you mention will kill off a grafted rose and must be removed.

GT ~ what zone are you in up there? I think that you will have to give it some major winter protection even though it is zone 2-3. When you plant, make sure the hole is deep and then mix in some bone meal at the bottom of the hole to encourage deep rooting. Usually this rose is grown on its own roots so there shouldn't be a graft that you have to worry about. I would plant it a little deeper than it is growing now.
Apparently this rose also propagates well from softwood cuttings. You could take cuttings in the fall and root them over the winter and have more bushes by next year!! :o)

Ah, thank you each for your support! I'm very excited. We gardeners around here say we're zone 3, but thats wishful thinking. :-) We are classed as zone 1. But I have zone 3 three things survive all the time. An early subzero is the only fear or real late frost. It'll be wrapped up. I'll be on the watch for aphids and picking up bone meal for the clematis as well. Is this one I would cut back in fall also? Or since it is small, let it fill out?

I'm glad it will propagate well. I'm taking a lot of cuttings this fall since last year was such a cold winter. So I can keep the things that may not make it. Thanks so much for all this info Gilli. I feel far more brave. :-)

With my roses GT, I only cut the long canes in the fall to prevent the wind from breaking them off. I don't prune until the spring. Roses store a fair amount of energy in the canes and I like them to be able to access it over the winter. The canes gradually die back and in the spring I trim down to live tissue. You may have to give it a bit of a trim in the fall depending on what type of protection you are going to use, just so it will be easier to wrap or cover but I wouldn't do too much more than that.

You might want to take a look at the Canadian Rose Society web site. They have some good suggestions for winter hardy roses that you might find interesting......

http://www.canadianrosesociety.org/hardyroses/crs_hardy.html

http://www.canadianrosesociety.org/recommended/crs_selecting.html

GT ~ how is your Morden Sunrise rose doing? Have you had lots of blooms? Doesn't it smell wonderful?

I was so excited, it died the moment it had a breath of fresh air. Just fell over. I'n not sure why. I've got another hoodless rose called adelaide. Maybe the early start wasn't its favorite. I had a few spring catastrophes this year sadly.

Oh no GT.......I wonder what on earth went wrong. It's a pretty hardy rose, the fresh air could have set it back or sent it semi-dormant again but it shouldn't have killed it. What a shame.

Adelaide Hoodless looks a bit like my Cuthbert Grant rose. I hope that one does well for you.

It was strange. Just slumped over and never perked up again. Adelaide is doing well, and getting ready to go in the ground. I can't decide the exact place. :-)

That's always a big descision GT. :o)