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The Center Rose Garden
There are about 220 roses in the center rose garden, consisting of 30 Hybrid Teas, 10 English Roses, some polyanthas and a lot of miniatures. The garden is a circle 40 feet in diameter, divided into 6 sections separated by brick paths radiating out from the center. In four of the sections there are Hybrid Teas towards the center with miniature roses and some polyanthas toward the outside and along the paths. In the remaining two sections there are the English Roses.
The miniature climber Jeanne Lajoie is not in the center rose garden but is off by herself, devouring my bird feeder.
The Roses by David Austin,
often referred to as English Roses, are
his attempts to create roses that have the look of the Old Roses
but with the ability to repeat like the modern roses. At first I was
very exited about having roses like my Old European roses only with
with repeating bloom. But after growing some English Roses, I find
them to be much closer to hybrid teas in winter hardiness, disease
resistance than the Old roses. Some,
like Mary Rose, are pretty hardy though and form a nice shrub.
Hybrid Teas and Floribundas
are the modern roses seen everywhere these days. They are
*just* barely hardy here. Those that are grafted will have to
have the bud union protected in the winter, either by mounding
dirt around the graft or by planting the rose with the graft
several inches below ground. What ever remains exposed to the
cold and wind will be dead the following spring. Besides
protecting the bud union, the other tricks to making they
survive the winter are watering them throughout the winter,
and making sure they go into dormancy healthy.
Miniature Roses
are wonderful little roses that come in all the colors possible for
roses. They vary a great deal in flower form and size, some
being a short as 4 inches while others are close to a
floribunda in size. Despite their tiny size, they are not
fragile. In fact, they survive the winters much better than
their taller hybrid tea cohorts in the garden. Mine are
all on their own roots so there is no bud union to worry
about protecting in the winter.
Polyanthas
are usually smaller roses, flowering in clusters. They were popular in
the 1920s but now there are only a few commercially available.
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