This was the answer to one of the trivia questions at our November dinner meeting. The world’s largest rose bush is a white rosa banksiae banksiae, commonly known as Lady Banks’ rose, located in Tombstone, Arizona. Rosa banksiae banksiae was introduced in the United Kingdom in 1807. The original root of this spectacularly successful rose [...]

Posted in Unusual Roses No Comments »

This maybe too many roses . . . then again, maybe not. View the full photo gallery of his roses at the LA Times. A tour of florist Jacob Maarse’s 3-acre rose garden Now he has between 3,000 and 3,500 bushes and significantly less lawn.   Tags: rose garden

Posted in Rose Gardens No Comments »

I found this on flickr: Multi-colored roses http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewdarnjenny/1389033263/ On display at the LA County Fair…yep, they are REAL and alive! They were created in the Netherlands and are dyed using hypodermic needles inserted in the stems as they grow. Crazy!!   Tags: multi-color roses, multi-colored roses, Netherlands roses, tie-dye roses

Posted in Unusual Roses 18 Comments »