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Posted by lavender_lass WA zone 4 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 17, 09 at 22:08
| What are your favorite roses in your cottage garden? What do you like to plant with them? Would love to know which roses do well with other cottage garden plants.
I have two Fantin Latour roses and I'd like to turn the area where I planted them into more of a cottage garden. I would also like to add some more roses. There are some white peonies I can move to that area and lavender, of course. What other plants would do well?
Thanks for the input and would appreciate any pics :)
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RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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| Im just starting to add roses , they always terrified me but they are just wonderful! I just fell head over heels for david austin roses, the look is so romantic, and remind me of peonies. i love pastels for cottage gardens as well. i wish i had something to show, maybe next year! I saw you posted on the antique rose forum, their pictures are so inspiring! |
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I'm another David Austin fan, have several of these. The old garden roses would also be a must have for me if I had more room, especially the albas the scent from these is wonderful, also consider the ramblers if you want to cover large areas.
The David Austins I have are Constance Spry, Abraham Darby, Graham Thomas, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Gertrude Jekyll, Glamis Castle and Asha Sheriff, hope I spelled them right.
Constance Spry will cover a large wall but only blooms once, the rest are repeat bloomers. Most of the pics I have are of single blossoms so they wouldn't give you an idea of how they grow. Annette |
RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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| I'm going to move my "Playboy" to the cottage garden next spring. It has single or semi-double flowers with a visible yellow eye on a bush that stays fairly small. What I'm wondering is, what yellow plant will look nice as a companion planting? I save my fully double and cabbage rose styles for the rose garden. Rain2Fall |
RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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| Thank you all for your input. I would like to add a few David Austin roses, but so far Gertrude Jeckyll is the only one I like that seems to be cold hardy enough for my area. I do want to put in some Albas and Damasks along the house, mixed in with other flowers. On the west side of the house (hot in summer and more exposed in the winter) I'm thinking of putting in some Rugosas and Gallicas. They both seem prone to sucker, so hopefully if I plant them together, with some bee balm and herbs, they can all fight it out and eventually live happily together :) |
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| Another fan of DA roses. I have: Carding Mill, Gentle Hermione (new, bought last year), Graham Thomas, Tamora, Teasing Georgia, The Dark Lady, and Windermere (new, bought last year). My favorites of those are Windermere, soft white with buff tinted center, and Teasing Georgia, which has a wonderful scent and beautiful light yellow blooms. LL, maybe you could a Nepeta (catmint) next to your roses? There are many colors that you could contrast to your roses. I moved a light blue 'Walker's Low' next to my Graham Thomas. I thought those colors might look nice together. Most Nepetas are pretty hardy I think. I have others too. I have a few Hybrid Tea roses, which I am not really that fond of. Almost all of the HT's I have are really bright colored, which is too bad since I prefer pastel and dark wine colored. One, 'Tuscan Sun' is such a good grower though. Have quite a few un-named grocery store minis too. But my favorite will always be my grandmothers rose, passed down the years. Have no clue what it is. Even the good folks on the Name That Rose forum couldn't identify it. She took a real beating from last winter. Now it isn't half the size it is in this pic. I took a cutting of it this year to make sure I will always have it. Here is a pic.
CMK |
RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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| CMK, I've also have an old rose that I tried to have identified, the Antique Rose form came up with two possibles, does yours resemble mine in any way? Annette |
Here is a link that might be useful: Can someone identify this old rose?
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| CMK- Beautiful rose! It seems kind of familiar. Have you ever taken a cutting up to the Manito rose garden and asked them? It seems like a lot of the old rose bushes in Spokane were shared with friends and neighbors and show up at a lot of different homes. Maybe that's why it seems familiar. Wish I could be more help :) |
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| Sorry I did not get back sooner, GW is having troubles and I couldn't log in. -Annette, that is a beauty! Mine looks a bit different; the shape on mine are more cupped. My rose also has repeat blooms and, I think, was grafted. I asked on the Name That Rose forum last year (please excuse the worse than normal spelling, I must have been rushed that day!), here is the thread: Rose Id. Good idea. I may have to try again sometime on the Antique Rose forum. I moved the pics on my photobucket account, so they don't show up. I still have them in my new My Rose Album. The ones at the bottom of the page, called Unknown Front Rose are them. I took pics of the buds, stems, foliage etc. to help narrow it down. -LL, thanks! I haven't done that, though someone suggested I take it to the local rose society. Maybe someday I will get around to it. I will always love the rose even if I don't get an id on it, though I shure would like to know what its true name is. Lol, you guys know how uptight I am with the proper names. ;-)
CMK |
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I am so glad so many of you have DA. I am in WA 8 and have read mixed reviews on them. Now I will go forth with confidence next spring. Just gotta find a place to put some...did I say SOME?????
Jackie |
RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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| Hi Jackie! Very nice to hear from you. I live in Spokane, which is a bit different in climate than your zone 8. Do you live in the Seattle area (if you don't mind my asking)? I know that there are some DA roses that are reported to do much better in your area than other kinds, like better resistance to fungal issues due to moisture, lack of sun, flowers holding up better during rainstorms, etc. Here are some interesting articles and pages about DA roses in the PNW. I read them a long time ago, but still find them very useful and interesting. There is also a Rose forum and PNW forum on gardenweb that I am sure would be glad to give you some ideas and suggestions too. Were you looking for any specific kinds/colors? David Austin Roses for the PNW from Rose Magazine. And the wonderful site rdrop.com
CMK |
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Hi CMK! I live in Tenino, which is 70 miles south of Seattle. I keep seeing in my mind a yellow or peach shrub in this one area of my yard. I want wonderful fragrance. I do have some floribundas, a couple a hybrids, and some fairies here and there. I have had a terrible time with the deer, but found one of those egg, milk recipes on line that has worked. The deer ate some of the roses to the ground this past spring. So far they have not touched my roses again. Now that the rain is back I won't be able to keep the spray on. Right now the deer have disappeared, as they do every hunting season, but they will be back soon. Thanks so much for the link.
Jackie |
RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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- Posted by eduarda Z10 - Portugal (My Page) on
Fri, Oct 23, 09 at 11:34
| "I keep seeing in my mind a yellow or peach shrub in this one area of my yard. I want wonderful fragrance." Jackie, then you need DA's Jude, The Obscure :-) I grow a few DAs and this one is the best, hands down, at least in my climate. Other DAs tend to languish and look ratty in our hot dry Summers. But of course your climate is quite different, so all I can say is try. Christin, I find old or old fashioned type roses look better in a cottage type garden. From the ones I grow, Ispahan, a damask, is my favorite. Other ones I have and love are Old Blush (china), the Apothecary's Rose (gallica), Rosa Mundi (gallica), Queen of Denmark (alba), Ballerina (musk) and William Lobb (moss). Once blooming, with the exception of Old Blush. Love them all. Eduarda |
Here is a link that might be useful: Some of my garden roses
RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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| Jackie- I was just looking at DA roses on their website, and they list roses that do well by climate. I have hot summers and very cold winters, so my situation is the opposite of yours, but they list roses by climate, by height, by color, by use, etc. They also have gorgeous pictures and tell you the fragrance for each rose. You can also request they send you a free catalog. :) |
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| We grow David Austens up here in Ontario Canada. I know they are grafted so they can withstand our brrr winters. (which dips -20C to 30C (sometimes with windchill it gets to feel -40C). However we do have lots of snow which provides a lot of insulation so this helps the DAs survival too. |
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eduarda, your Jude The Obscure rose is absolutely stunning! I was going to ask about a cutting then seen you are in portugal....Darn!
I have a Mme. Isaac Pierre that I LOVE. The fragrance is out of the world!
Tammy |
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| My climate is opposite of yours with mild winters and very hot,dry summers. I put an English style garden in my front yard a year ago. I have 5 Austins there - Molineaux, Charlotte and Carding Mill (in the yellow section of the garden), Glamis Castle and Huntington Rose. The first three are great successes! Glamis Castle is in partial shade. I didn't realize the pattern of the neighbor's tree. I'll move it this winter once it's dormant. It's a pretty cupped white but so far hasn't bloomed too much. I'll move it to more sun and see how it does year two. Huntington Rose has beautiful flowers but is throwing octopus arms (Austin's often do this in my area). I'm moving it out of the front yard and replacing it with a new Austin this year - Young Lycidas (I couldn't resist). I'm also adding Lady Emma Hamilton to the yellow garden. I have found Austin's to be a fitting addition to the cottage style garden since David Austin deliberately bred them for the overall shape of the bush as well as the flower itself. His catalog and website do show Austin's that are very cold hardy. I'm sure someone on the Antique Rose Forum could advise you on that. I remember someone over there who rose gardens successfully in Montana. Good luck. I couldn't imagine a garden without roses and Austins are just opulent! Debbie |
RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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| For overall general soul-satisfaction: Heritage. 
For fragrance: Gertrude Jeckyll. 
For early bloom, ease of care, and autumn leaf color: Theresa Bugnet (no picture available). For a short, continually blooming fragrant front of porch rose: Harlow Carr. 
For home security: Sara Van Fleet (planted in front of all first floor windows. It's like 7 foot tall bales of barb wire, but prettier) 
For covering a stone wall in just a few years: Awakening (no picture available). |
RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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| Lois- Beautiful pictures! How do you choose when you don't have room for all of them? :) I do want to put in a few Therese Bugnets and I'm wondering if anyone has Marie Bugnet? I think they might look nice together and I've read Marie Bugnet is more deer resistant, which would be nice! |
RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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| gorgeous! breath taking! absolutely divine. Love heritage and getrude jekyl most of all. |
RE: Favorite roses for cottage garden?
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| Glad you like the pictures. I love Theresa Bugnet because she blooms a week or so earlier than the rest of the roses, as well as being healthy and almost thornless, at least on the upper part of the canes. I found a picture, by the way.. 
Here is a picture (not so good) of Awakening. It looks white in this picture, but it's actually a pale pink. 
Lois in Pa |
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