Rugosa Roses
The wild rugosa rose has single blooms with five petals in a single row while hybrid rugosa roses have double blooms numerous petals in an informal arrangement.
Rugosa roses. Large hips follow highly fragrant flowers. Rugosas are low maintenance with great cold tolerance and pest resistance. Rugosa with garden roses. Hansa roseraie de lhay named for the french rose garden of the same name blanc double de coubert theresa bugnet bell poitevine and moje hammarbergwhen these roses are blooming our entire garden is filled with their beautiful fragrance.
They have so many wonderful attributes that they should be included in every garden. Most rugosa roses are tall shrubby sprawling multi branched plants that need plenty of room to spread out. They are generally identified by their foliage which is usually bright green and heavily textured. Singled out for their toughness and disease resistance these roses will grow almost anywhere.
Well known for its incredible hardiness and legendary disease resistance rosa rugosa commonly known as rugosa rose or japanese rose is rich of many vertus and can be relied on to provide interest and color. Almost all rugosas and hybrid rugosa varieties are extremely fragrant with few exceptions. Parent to many shrub roses this is a vigorous tough prickly sprawling suckering shrub that is amazingly tolerant of dry sandy soils salt spray and wind. Rosa rugosa rugosa rose beach rose japanese rose ramanas rose or letchberry is a species of rose native to eastern asia in northeastern china japan korea and southeastern siberia where it grows on beach coasts often on sand dunes.
Rugosas are very healthy and winter hardy sturdy shrubs. Souvenir de philemon cochet is a double white a dense growing rose excellent. It should not be confused with rosa multiflora which is also known as japanese rosethe latin word rugosa means wrinkled referring to the wrinkled. It is a low growing freely suckering bush with rugosa character and sublime scented large cerise single flowers.
They form large dense often very thorny shrubs with plentiful deeply veined leaves. The fragrant flowers come in. The royal horticultural society is the uks leading gardening charity. This new zealand bred rose ken nobbs is named for the long time gardener of one of our most eminent rosarians nancy steen.
Rugosa roses these very distinctive roses are the result of crossing r. One of the easiest classes of roses to grow is the rugosa rose. Rugosa alba and scabrosa are two popular types however lots more are available. Technically rugosa roses are species roses native to eastern asia but to me they are a bit of heaven on earth.
I have 17 or so rugosas.