For your consideration. Mom
The article is interesting although I don’t think Knockout Roses are ancient, lol.
I was annoyed - in a nonpolitical sense - to see my local garden center loaded up with “Barbra Streisands.” It’s a pretty rose, with a great smell, but cannot be grown in our zone.
My Charles Aznavour is already producing gorgeous buds.
I like the David Austen roses. They look like antique roses, they smell like heaven, and they’re bug- and disease-resistant, but they’re actually hybrid teas so they bloom almost continuously, and very generously. Roses give me such joy and I’m sad that my back yard has become too shady for them.
I love Souvenir de St. Anne's, I'd rather grow Gruss an Aachen and its sport, Pink Gruss an Aachen. Glorious, glorious roses. I don't know the lady in this blog but she has very representative pictures. http://www.rosenotes.com/2010/08/pink-gruss-an-achen-in-the-garden-1.html
The Buck roses were bred for Iowa's brutal weather conditions, but most of them are excellent roses for the South. The more sophisticated will just have to ignore the names of these roses, you will be happy you brought them home with you. http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/cad/rose1.html. The website has pitiful pictures, but this is the web home for Dr. Buck's marvelous creations.
Its hard for me to pick a favorite Buck rose. I love Freckles - you have to see the delicate pink, satin textured petals speckled with the darker pink to understand. Another favorite is Distant Drums - an unbelievable and enchanting color combination. Earth Song is my favorite pink. The best of the best is Quietness. Delicate, fragrant, robust and prolific blooming.
Also loves: the china, Comtesse du Cayla; the tea, Clementina Carbonieri; another great tea, Souv. d’un Ami. I'll stop at that.
A great place for own-root & antique roses. Good site. I have visited the nursery in Oregon--Wow.