There's thousands of them out there - the combined fragrance on my front deck this morning is amazing. But then it's a beautiful spring morning, and a Saturday, and the dogs know it and I know it and the cat doesn't care about it and there are tomatoes to plant.
Varieties: brandywine, ildi, sungold, matt's wild cherry.
I'll start there.
I'd been thinking about growing 'New Dawn', but may put 'Cecile Brunner' on the wishlist instead, oh if only someday I could have thousands of those buds~
Annie
Posted by: Annie in Austin | 22 April 2007 at 11:43 PM
Annie: I like New Dawn too - and have one out by my front fence that needs rescuing (it's been smothered by a white lady banks). My experience with Cecile Brunner is that it starts off slowly - but mine is now eight or so years old, and the spring bloom is just spectacular - literally a thousand or more roses at once. Now that the plant is mature, it also reblooms in the late fall for awhile, which is very nice. I have no disease problems with it at all - it's a wonderful rose.
Posted by: Pam | 23 April 2007 at 01:07 PM