Roses of Yesterday and Today - Old, Rare, Unusual and Selected Modern Roses

[Scuba]

Fall is a great time to plant roses, and Roses of Yesterday and Today of Brown's Valley, California has some very interesting varieties. I've planted roses from this firm at four different locations in Wisconsin and Illinois, all with great success. They sell roses appropriate for all zones.

http://rosesofyesterday.com/aboutus.html

Double Delight. Hybrid Tea. (1977) 3-4 feet. Blooms repeatedly. Zones 5-10.
After so many requests for this popular variety, we have decided to add it to our catalog. With several important qualities in a rose - strong rose fragrance, eye-catching color, and good cutting stems, Double Delight serves well in the garden, as a prolific free flowering bush with well formed, creamy pointed buds that blush red in the sun.



Rosette Delizy. Hybrid Tea. (1922) 3-5 feet. Flowers repeatedly. (ros-ETT duh-luh-ZEE)
The vigorous, compact plant and the beauty of the blooms make this Tea rose one of the finest. Pert, well-formed flowers of cadmium yellow edged and shaded with chestnut red on a plant that knows no diseases . . . even laughs at aphids! Very fragrant, with the special scent of the Tea roses.



A spreading plant with handsome, glossy, ribbed foliage common to all Rugosa roses, and carmine double blooms that are strongly perfumed. The bees hover around all the Rugosa roses and pollinate the flowers so that beautiful, round, orange red hips form. The plant flowers and sets hips at the same time, so if you want the large hips to form do not remove spent flowers. Very hardy and recommended to everybody anywhere. You couldn't be disappointed with this rose.

[elleng]

1. THANKS, Scuba!

Thinking of planting some roses in my new/old cottage, http://smd.craigslist.org/apa/3907272842.html after I move in!

[beac]

6. Wow-- what a place!

Definitely cries out for some charming roses.

[elleng]

7. Sure does, beac!!!

Will look for some roses once I get closer to getting moved in, but lots to do before that.

How y'all doing???

[beac]

8. Settling in.

Moving is HORRIBLE, especially when the movers damage furniture and lose boxes, but we LOVE our new house/town/state.

[elleng]

9. HAPPY you love the house/town/state.

Sorry about loss and damage. Daughter may have to deal with some of that, as she's probably taking most of the stuff from husb's apartment, but as she's also having a baby, I 'assume' the loss and damage won't be too horrible for them.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Double Delight is a marvelous rose

I have had it in many gardens.
Tends to blackspot in our humid weather, but did it also in dry Cal. air. Worth the trouble, and is good at repeat blooming if cut back.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. I have one rose bush.

And I didn't want it, but had it gifted to me. It is an old heirloom Jackson & Perkins "Aloha", hardy as hell. Never any disease.

The reason that I never wanted roses is because they attract Japanese Beetles....and this one does too. I even dug it up and threw it away once when the beetles were bad. Three years later, it had grown back from some roots that I must not have gotten. So, it is here to stay, I guess.....I don't have the heart to try to destroy it again. It's will to live is too powerful.

[hedgehog]

4. What is nice is that they note hardiness zones -

many hybrid teas are sold at big box stores in places where they won't survive the winter!

[Worried senior]

5. Since moving where we are now in NE WI

I've had good luck with several roses, some I paid more for and some came from a big box store, they are all thriving and doing well. We give them no special care and it's basically survival of the fittest with us.

We have four Rugosa roses also and they are extremely hardy. We did have a problem this year after being here for nine years with rose chafers, something we have never seen before but the roses are blooming again so I hope there was no permanent damage.

[BlueToTheBone]

10. This is my favorite antique and unique roses website/nursery

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they also grow wonderful fruit trees. I purchased a French Petite Plum, Turkey Fig and a Blue Pearmain Apple. I didn't get my order in early enough last year for my roses, so next year will be when I start my rose collection. My fruit trees will be producing in the next year, two at the most.
http://www.greenmantlenursery.com/