Mid July is the time when the miniature roses have a second flush of blooming.
This is 'Golden Horizon' (Moore, 2006) one of the last roses released by Ralph Moore in his 65 year career breeding miniature roses.
It is a very intense yellow. At the end of a bloom's life, it suddenly fades to nearly white.
From 'Teddy Bear' (Saville 1989) to 'Teddy Barf' in four days.
This miniature rose makes wonderful blooms of a brick orange/brown color. However they do not age well, especially if the rose is in full sun. This is unfortunate because roses need full sun to be healthy.
For this rose to look good, it must be deadheaded. Blooms older than 2 days must be removed. Too much effort in my opinion.
This rose was rescued from the abandoned garden in 2021.
It is the end of June and most of my roses are going quiescent for the summer. I'm ending the daily posts about the roses I find in my grand garden archeology project.
I'll still be working in the rose garden, but without the photos.
I hope you've enjoyed these photos and now know that roses aren't all needy temperamental prima donnas of the garden.
Here's some photos of what the garden looked like in the 20 years ago when I had a garden staff.
#bloomingtoday (-20y) #roses #flowers
This is 'Unstable Dorothy', a white sport of Dorothy Perkins. The blooms are crazy - most of them are white, but sometimes totally pink; or maybe one pink petal; or maybe two pink petals; sometimes half and half.
I wanted to sell this rose as 'Suzy Derkins', but we couldn't acquire the rights to that name.
It blooms only once per season and is the last of roses to start blooming. It's a climber and could probably climb to the top the highest tree around.
This is rose is a winner. The Red Fairy (Moore 1995) has survived the ultimate rose endurance test: no water, no pruning, no spraying for 15 years and it still looks magnificent.
It blooms prolifically all summer long, though it starts later than most roses. It stands 1.5m tall and about 2m in diameter. It has proven impervious to the entire compendium of rose diseases.
This is a perfect rose for the dry summers of Western Oregon. USDA zones 6b through 9b.
Suddenly a wild 'Mermaid' (William Paul 1906) bloom appears near the top of a fence. We did not know that this rose still existed here at all - lost in a crowding of climbing roses along the rear fence line of the rose garden. We've not seen a bloom on this rose in more than 10 years.
The large pale yellow blooms have a simple five petal form. A shrub with many blooms will give the impression of butterflies resting on the shrub.
This is 'Charles de Mills', a Gallica rose from the Netherlands about 1786. This is a wandering rose that doesn't stay where it was planted.
It forms a low thicket that spreads underground - always seeking better accommodation and abandoning locations it doesn't like. If there were a time lapse satellite view spanning years, you'd see it move across the landscape like an ameba.
My plant has moved a full 20 meters from where it was originally planted.
This is Dakota Redwing (Barden 2006). This rose is really tough to photograph. It is the color of blood - so dark that digital camera sensors don't deal with it very well. It has a velvety sheen that is lost when photographed.
This rose grows long arching canes with clusters of blooms.
This rose propagates via cuttings very easily and grows well on its own roots - no grafting required.
This rose is thornless!
This is 'American Pillar' a Hybrid Wichurana (Van Fleet 1902). This is an amazing survivor of a rose that prospers in complete neglect.
It blooms only once per year and is one of the last of the once bloomers to get started. It's often in full flush on the 4th of July, American Independence Day. It's a little early this year.
It can be trained as a climber but really it does best when treated as a libertarian with no rules or constraints. Up to 4m tall!
A decade and half ago, this greenhouse held inventory plants. Sometimes a pot would fall behind a bench and take root on its own.
This is Precious Dream (Moore 2001) and it won't go away.
You could say it has converted us into slaves to help it reproduce. In this terrible location, we dig it up, pot it, and then relocate it. The left over roots that we missed then grow a new shrub. We dig it up again. This has repeated every 2 years since 2007.
K Lars Lohn