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| Photo Credit: ©2001 Dolezal Publishing/John M. Rickard |
| Old garden roses boast marvelous scents and include very double flower forms. | What’s old is new again with old garden roses. These wonderful old beauties, around since before 1867, have started gaining in popularity again after decades of declining interest. That’s because these wonderful bloomers offer striking beauty, comely fragrance and a romantic link to the past. Heritage roses are growing in popularity, too. This group describes old European varieties, several of the species roses, as well as tea, China and wild roses. Planting these historic species and cultivars in your yard is practically a history lesson brought to life. One can bend down to a damask rose to drink in its intoxicating dusky scent and imagine toga-clad Roman and Greek women of times long ago and places far away.
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| Photo Credit: ©2001 Dolezal Publishing/John M. Rickard |
| Wild (or species) roses are very hardy when planted in hardiness zones that match their native region, and they’re great for creating arresting floral displays! | Here’s a bit about some of these wonderful roses: Alba: Tall, upright, hardy plants bearing delicate foliage and many thorns, with nonrecurring, fragrant blooms in late spring. Bourbon: Natural hybrid first found on Reunion Island, popular in 1800s France. Tall, upright plants bear recurrent, ruffled, pendulous blooms. Centifolia: With blooms of 100 or more petals, they are aptly called “cabbage roses.” Most flowers are white, pink or violet in hue.
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