Old Garden Roses Defined

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Jun 282011
 

For you OGREs out there, Paul Zimmerman, master rose grower, has written a fine article describing exactly what an Old Garden Rose (OGR) is.

What is an Old Garden Rose? To history it is a rose being of a class in existence before the year 1867. Why 1867? Simple. This is the year a rose named “La France” was introduced. La France is considered to the be the first Hybrid Tea. It is the offspring of the Hybrid Perpetual “Madame Victor Verdier” with the Tea rose “Madame Bravy”. The hybridizer was Guillot and what marked La France as being different from other roses was the high centered blossom we associate with Hybrid Teas of today. The name Hybrid Tea in fact comes from a wedding of the classes of the parents of La France. A Hybrid Perpetual and a Tea rose.

Centifolia – Gros Choux de Hollande

Notice I use the words “class of roses” in existence before 1867. This means that even though say a particular Bourbon (a class of Old Garden Rose) was introduced after 1867 it’s still an Old Garden Rose. In fact it’s possible that an Old Garden Rose could be hybridized and introduced to the growing public today.

Here’s the rest: What Is An Old Garden Rose? <– Unfortunately, this link appears to be dead (as are all links to Paul Zimmerman’s old site) and a diligent search of the web failed to uncover a new location for this article. The article was quite good, so we will keep looking, and we will update the link if it reappears.

 

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Spokane 2011 Rose Show Winners

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Jun 282011
 

The Rose Show for 2011 was a great success. While we didn’t have as many roses as we’d hoped, we had a lot more than we feared, especially in the mini categories. We also had a bunch of really nice arrangements, which will be in another post.

Winners: The HMF links will take you to the specific rose on HelpMeFind.com.

For the minis, the winners were:

  1. Valentine’s Day, Queen (see it on HMF)
  2. Caliente, King (HMF)
  3. Glowing Amber, Princess (HMF)

For the Tea’s, the winners were:

  1. Dick Clark, Queen (HMF)
  2. Olympiad, King (HMF)
  3. Elina, Princess (HMF)

Pictures of the Mini winners

Valentine's Day miniature rose

Valentine's Day, Winner of the Mini Queen award

 

Cliente miniature rose

Cliente, Winner of the Mini King award

 

Glowing Amber, miniature rose

Glowing Amber, the Mini Proncess winner.

 

The Court Pictures:

Dick Clark, Hybrid Tea, Court of Honor

Dick Clark, Queen, Court of Honor

 

Olympiad, Hybrid Tea, King, Court of Honor

Olympiad, King, Court of Honor

 

Elina, Hybrid Tea, Court of Honor

Elina, Princess, Court of Honor

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May 2011 Meeting: Carolyn Starner on Garden Design

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Jun 112011
 

Carolyn Starner’s garden

We were privileged this month to have Carolyn Starner with us, author of the book Emerald Journey: A Walk Through Northwest Gardens. Carolyn gave a very enjoyable presentation on garden design. Carolyn had some good ideas that many of us felt would help to improve the look of our own gardens.

Carolyn showed some very nice phtotgraphs of her own garden and told us a great deal about her work designing and revamping her garden. This was so intriguing that I asked her to allow us to visit her garden in August for a tour. You won’t want to miss that!

Carolyn is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Art with a BFA in interior Design, and completed a course in terraced, town and village gardens at the English Gardening School in London, England. She has been a Master Gardener since 1992. She has 20 years’ experience photographing gardens and is a member of the Garden Conservancy.

Pat Vacha provided refreshments.

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Spokane Rose Society Events for June 2011

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Jun 032011
 

Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens

The Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens is our destination for June 12. Their website says:

The Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens were extensive and impressive residential landscapes reflecting a distinct way of life during the early development of Spokane, Washington.  This archaeological resource contains much of its original form and material that is easily identifiable as a designed landscape reflecting the Arts and Crafts movement in America.  In May 2000, the Moore-Turner Garden was placed on the Spokane Register of Historic Places.  The D.C. Corbin House register listing was amended to include the Corbin Heritage Garden.  The Corbin & Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens project is the first residential landscape of its kind in the state of Washington.

Gwynne and I visited it before it opened and it looks like it should be a nice visit. This is not a tour, just a “go and see what’s there.”

The garden is mostly flat, but it’s on a hillside and has gravel paths. We weren’t able to go in, but it looked to be very nice. I have no idea what the roses will look like on the 12th, but maybe we’ll get lucky and see come nice blooms.

June 12, Sunday

2011 Spokane Rose Show

The Rose Show will be at Northland Rosarium this year (see below for map.) This will give people  an opportunity to check out the Rosarium, in addition to the show. We’ll also have Lynn Schafer, Carol Newcomb, and Ping Lim (more about Ping and his roses is here.)

If you have a few, or a bunch of, nice blooms in your yard then bring them by the show and we’ll show you how best to present them. If you are going to bring your own roses, here are a couple of easy steps to follow:

  • Keep as much stem as possible. We can trim it at the show, if necessary.
  • Keep the leaves!
  • Put the stems in water as soon as you clip them and bring them to the show that way.
  • The bloom should be just starting to open.
  • You do have to know the name of your rose and it has to have been grown in your yard.
  • We have a wide variety of categories and arrangements, so we should be able to find a class for any rose you might have. You can see all the show rules here.

Here’s the show info:

Jun 25 , Saturday

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Spokane Roses for 2011 – Easy Does It

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Jun 022011
 

Here’s a gorgeous orange-pink Floribunda rose that’s new for this year. It’s a small to medium sized bush that’ll be a nice fit for that little spot right there. Or use it to make a border.

  • Registration name: HARpageant
  • Exhibition name: Easy Does It

Orange-pink blend, moderate, fruity fragrance.

Flowers are about 4″, full (26-40 petals), in small clusters, with a scalloped bloom form.  Continuous bloom throughout the season.
Height of 3′ to 4′ (90 to 120 cm).
Can be used for beds and borders, cut flower or garden.  Vigorous.  Disease resistant.

Easy Does It

Easy Does It

You can get Easy Does It, on it’s own roots, at the Northland Rosarium. Will you be able to see one at the 2011 rose show? Maybe, it’s been a late, cool, wet spring, so who knows? We might have to show off our phlox or other early bloomers instead of roses.