My Favorite Rose Today ... Schoener's Nutkana

The roses in the garden are beginning to bloom fast and furious.  Every day, there's more and more flowers ... it's so exciting!

This is Schoener's Nutkana.  I look forward to it every spring, and it never disappoints.

I got this rose three years ago by mistake.  I had ordered a rare hybrid tea called Schultheis' American Beauty.  The tag on the rose I received was the one I ordered, so I had no reason to suspect that there was a mistake.

Then it bloomed, and I knew this was not the rose I ordered.  It's a large arching shrub, and every spring it is completely covered with huge, gorgeous, dark pink flowers.  Look at those stamens!!

These flowers are a full 4 inches across!  Look how many of them there are on the bush ... and it's just getting started.

By the end of the week, it will be completely covered.

Look at the stem ... it's almost completely thornless.  Schoener's Nutkana's one weakness is that it can be somewhat susceptible to blackspot.  This is easily controlled with fungicide.

I was having fun this evening, playing with backlighting.  The petals are delicate, and they glowed in the light of the setting sun.

After it finishes blooming, Schoener's Nutkana must move.  Since it isn't the hybrid tea I expected it to be, I cannot leave it where it is sprawling all over its neighbors.  I have a perfect new spot, a little behind where it is now, in a bed with two lilac bushes. 

This rose needs room to be able to spread its graceful branches.  I have been told that I can expect it to reach 6 feet high and 8 or more feet wide ... I can't wait!

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Let me take a minute to thank everyone who left comments here or sent emails expressing sympathy about our water-damaged ceiling.  Grandson's ceiling is the only damage (thank goodness)  Our floors and our furniture are fine.  The air conditioning repair-guy was here this afternoon.  He repaired the unit, and things should be working well from now on. Once things dry completely, I'll repair the ceiling and you'll never know there was ever a problem.

(written by Hartwood Roses.  Hartwood Roses blog)

White Roses on Wednesday

I  am sorry to have to tell you this ... are you sitting down?  These are the last of my white flowers photographs.  I searched all of my photo folders, and there's no more.  One last dozen ...

Paul's Himalayan Musk Rambler.  I saw photos of this once-blooming rose cascading from trees, and I fell in love.  Here, I have it planted at the base of a wild cherry tree beside the driveway, and it's happily scrambling toward the top.

Rosa Macrantha.  You know how much I love singles and stamens.  Isn't this beautiful?

Moonlight ... I have shown this rose before.  It's so photogenic.

Madame Plantier.  Pure white flowers, pale green leaves, nearly thornless canes and stems, good disease resistance ... this Alba hybrid rose is practically perfect.  Give her space, because she can become a big girl.

Dagmar Spaeth is a lovely smaller floribunda.  Sometimes her white flowers will have a small red stripe or two.

Secret Garden Noisette, found rose.  This class of rose was very popular in the early/mid 1800's ... and there have been many unidentified Noisettes discovered in abandoned sites over the years.  This one was found in the same garden as the more-well-known rose, Secret Garden Musk Climber.

Haywood Hall, another found rose.  I grow this one on a rebar tripod in my front border ... it blooms like crazy and smells wonderful.

White Killarney ... a color sport of Killarney, the famous pink hybrid tea rose from 1898.  I love the form of these early hybrid teas.

I think I might have used this photo of Leda in a Friday Flowers post a few weeks ago ... I love it so much, I'll use it here, too. 

Souvenir de la Maimaisson isn't really white.  The flowers bleach out a bit in the hot sun, and this photo made it look almost white.  SDLM, as it's abbreviated, doesn't like cool, damp weather ... but it's a fabulous rose in the heat of July, when many other roses are suffering.

I forgot to take a photo of the label for this rose, and I have no idea which one it is.

Our final white rose is Silver Moon.  Pure white flowers (which I love), simple single form (swoon) and look at those stamens.

I was thinking ... if I had been on the ball earlier this week, I would have gone out to the garden while we had snow and taken White Wednesday snow pictures.  Winter is just beginning, so I'll make a note to do that the next time we have snow.  (wink wink)

(written by Hartwood Roses.  Hartwood Roses blog)