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The following is a selected list of rose varieties and cultivars which currently (2017) [1] hold the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] List of roses
The flowers are produced in large corymbs, each flower small, 1.5–4 cm (5 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) diameter, white or pink, borne in early summer. The hips are reddish to purple, 6–8 mm (15 ⁄ 64 – 5 ⁄ 16 in) diameter. Plants of the World Online and Flora of China [4] include the varieties: Rosa multiflora var. adenochaeta (Koidz.) Ohwi
'Maiden's Blush', an Alba rose (before 1400) Literally "white roses", derived from R. arvensis and the closely allied R. × alba. The latter species is a hybrid of R. gallica and R. canina. [14] This group contains some of the oldest garden roses. The shrubs flower once yearly in the spring or early summer with scented blossoms of white or pale ...
The International Rose Test Garden in Portland, Oregon is a public garden used for testing and growing new varieties of rose, and helped establish Portland as a "City of Roses." Established in 1917, the Test Garden is the oldest official, continuously operating rose test garden in the United States, and possesses over 7000 plants of ...
Rosa californica, the California wildrose, [1] or California rose, is a species of rose native to the U.S. states of California and Oregon and the northern part of Baja California, Mexico. The plant is native to chaparral and woodlands and the Sierra Nevada foothills, and can survive drought, though it grows most abundantly in moist soils near ...
Hybrid tea roses did not become popular until the beginning of the 20th century, when French rose breeder, Joseph Pernet-Ducher, introduced the cultivar 'Soleil d'Or' in 1900. 'Soleil d'Or' is the first yellow rose introduced and the ancestor of the modern hybrid tea rose.
Rosa gallica, the Gallic rose, French rose, or rose of Provins, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family, native to southern and central Europe eastwards to Turkey and the Caucasus. Rosa gallica was one of the first species of rose to be cultivated in central Europe. [ 2 ]
'Black Baccara' is a tall, upright hybrid tea rose, 5 to 6 ft (1.5–1.8 m) in height, with a 2 to 3 ft (0.61–0.91 m) spread. Bloom size ranges from 3 to 5 in (76–127 mm). It has a high-centered, very full (41+ petals) bloom form. The flowers are dark red-burgundy with a velvety texture.