HERB - Re: HERB roses, was cordials

[Katherine Blackthorne]

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>I lost my eglantina rose due to last years' drought and the drought
>severely damaged one of my Chinas (Ducher) but I highly recommend the older
>roses for durability and scent.  They have smaller flowers but a much
>sweeter scent and you wind up being fascinated with the history of roses
>and how they came to be.....
>
>Clare
>

Agreed.  My aformentioned friend's    Victorian home came with a wealth of
rose bushes varying in age from *extremely* modern (a blue rose near the
front gate -- call me silly, but I *love* the smell of blue roses)  (and
before I get a ton of responses, bue roses are a lavender/purplish color)
to "old fashioned" ones with the typically Victorian shape (open blossoms
flat accross the top) to a couple of plants with tiny, 5-petaled blooms.
She & I spent the her first spring there anxiously waiting to see what each
bush would be.  (We joke that I live vicariously through her garden.)  Some
of the bushes are so old that they are the size of my leg at the soil
level.  Both of our favorites tend to be the older varieties.

--Katherine


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