Hi, everyone. I am cross-posting this here as well as the OGR forum. I bought a very old (100+ year) house that has roses running rampant. Now that they have bloomed I can see that I seem to have primarily three varieties, or possibly there were four originally with red climbers and pink climbers mixing amongst themselves. I'm trying to figure out exactly what I have here. I have uploaded pictures and apologize for some fuzziness as it was a very windy day when I was taking these. Thanks in advance for any and all help!!!
Your pale pink climber is either Dr. W. Van Fleet or New Dawn. The only difference between the two is that New Dawn reblooms and the Dr. only blooms in the spring. Nice roses.
Hmmm, actually the pale pink is the only one that is NOT a climber if the base of the plant is any judge. It is a really stout and sturdy rose "bush," and has sent arms up and over an old rickety arbor and re-rerooted itself on the other side. Some of the stems on that one are as big around as my pinkie finger. But I will look up the two names you gave me and see what I can see. Thank you!!
I looked up this rose on another site, and even a comment I saw about the color of the blooms being a bit different in sun and shade (shade being paler) seems to fit, since a bit of this is in the sun, but most is in the shade and the shade blooms are paler pink. Yay!!! One down, three to go, lol.
