Roses have important biological traits like flowering, flower architecture, flower color and scent, easy vegetative propagation and more. Some of these biological traits are also key economic characteristics of roses. Continuous flowering is such a trait. The complex but well-documented history of rose...
creamy white, semi-double flowers which eventually fade to white. They have a powerful musky clove scent and are produced in great abundance on strong, dense, twiggy growth. The flowers are followed by masses of small hips in the autumn. ...
choose a site that will offer full sun year-round. The more sun you have, the more flowers your plants will produce. In the southern half of the U.S., choose spots with a little bit of afternoon shade. This protects blossoms from the ...
Grace and Kevin walked in the garden with their grandmother."I like the roses best," said Grace, "I like to smell their sweet scent." Kevin reached to pull a rose to his nose."Be careful!" said Grandma. Roses have sharp thorns that can hurt your fingers" She held the flower so tha...
(2) Container-grown roses.These are roses that have been grown in containers for a whole growing season or more. They can be more costly, but then again, they are available year-round. You can plant them all year round, provided the ground is neither frozen nor very dry. If you live...
Named for a fuzz that covers buds and stems, moss roses stand out among the rose family. These glands give the plants not only a unique appearance, it also gives them a piney scent. Common names of plants often confuse and confound, so take care to not confuse them with “moss roses”...
I have two Portlands in my garden… Rose de Rescht Rose de Rescht is a lovely deep pink Portland Rose with a rich damask fragrance that dates back to before 1900. She is hardy in zones 4b through 9b. This is the second year for Rose de Rescht in my garden, so we are just getti...
have a strong scent, perhaps not unpleasant but I suppose it depends on the one smelling it–I can’t say I ever have so don’t have an opinion either way. The first yellow hybrid tea,‘Soleil d’Or’was accidentally bred from a cross between‘Rosa foetida’and a red hybrid perpetual...
a :to have or give off an odor the candlessmelllike roses b :to have a disagreeable odor:stink c :to give a hint or trace of something the plansmellsof trickery smellernoun smell 2 of 2noun 1 :odor,scentsense 2 2 :the process or power of becoming aware of an odor ...
With a bounty of abundant blooms, the Floribunda rose is also known as a highly scented flower. Winning awards such as the Gamble and others, these hybrids have a strong, often lemon-like, fragrance. For example, the Floribunda variety Angel Face is a lavender rose with what can be termed...