Rugosa Roses
I've always adored rugosa roses, and over the years have collected as many as I can to squash into my garden. I check the local nurseries for new hybrids as well as the old-fashioned varieties. I love the foliage, and I've read that they rarely get 'bugged' by aphids. And of course some set the most beautiful rose hips in autumn. Yeay for rugosas! I hope you'll find your favourite rugosa rose in my collection.
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Rugspin Rugosa Rose...
- Rugspin is a striking rose - a rugosa, single, with magenta-red (AKA carmine) coloured flowers. All the online nurseries agree - it's healthy, grows quite tall, and has beautiful hips in autumn.
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Roseraie de L'Hay Rose...
- Roseraie de L'Hay is one of my most successful rugosa roses. The flowers are wonderfully fragrant with a soft, relaxed form - 'neither purple nor crimson, but somewhere in between', to quote the New Zealand rosarian Trevor Griffiths.
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Yellow Dagmar Hastrup AKA Topaz Jewel...
- Have just watered one of my newish roses, the rugosa 'Yellow Dagmar Hastrup'. But she is puzzling me. The original Frau Dagmar Hastrup (which grows by the glasshouse) is a single pale pink rugosa with large blooms. This yellow rose sounds like a relation, but is quite different. Something's funny!
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Pink Grootendorst Rose...
- I bought some pink Grootendorst rugosa roses in a sale. I love rugosas, I love the colour pink, and I love good cheap shrubs - not that any self-respecting gardener needs any reasons to buy new roses...
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Yellow Agnes Rugosa Rose...
- This is the well known yellow rugosa rose Agnes. It is one of the first to flower in the garden near the glass-house, and the soft amber lemon flowers look beautiful against its strong green rugosa foliage.
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Robusta Rugosa Rose...
- Robusta is a modern rugosa rose hybrid which has crimson red single flowers. The name describes the rose perfectly - Robusta is very thorny and extremely vigorous. Strong red against strong green is such an appealing colour combination, too.