Techniques Of Growing Tea Roses In Your Garden
March 9th, 2010 | by oneway6 |Tea roses have been around growing in gardens for decades and some date back to the 1800’s. Listed below a some of varieties of tea roses dating back to our great-grand mother’s day and earlier.
‘Snowflake’ or ‘Marie Lambert’ (1886) is four feet of dense, twiggy, thornless, fresh green bush with small pointed foliage. It bears an infinite number of pointed shining white buds opening into two and a half-inch roses. It is the only tea I grow that is prettiest in the bud. It is beautiful with red roses.
‘William R. Smith’ (1908) is much like a hybrid tea except for hardiness, and variation of color. It has large, high pointed, flesh colored blooms with pink at the petal base. Other blooms may be pale pink with creamy outer petals. All are lovely.
‘Lady Hillington’ (1910) could be used as a husky foliage plant with burnished bronze foliage, but she gives generously of semi-double cupped blooms, apricot yellow in spring and almost orange in fall. The buds are pointed and full blown with the stamens showing.
Climbing ‘Gloire de Dijon’ (1853) . When April comes, I wish Dean Hole, the fabled English rosarian, could be with me to enjoy my two huge climbers. One covers a large pear tree which blooms before the leaves come. The white pear blossoms and sunset colors of this rose intermingle. The other I trained up a 25-foot iron pipe where it cascades down making a huge ball of buff, yellow, salmon and sometimes orange double roses. Only a few token blooms come in fall but it gives a solid six weeks of splendor in the spring.
Climbing ‘Perle des Jardins’ (1874) is a heavy bloomer, spring and fall. It has large, shining golden, high pointed, very thick double blooms, quartered when open, deliciously fragrant.
Climbing ‘Devoniensis’ or ‘Magnolia’ (1841) blooms all season with many petalled five-inch flat roses, fully quartered when full blown. Some are white with pink hearts, others are blush pink. Two of these climbers with two-inch thick trunks cover an arehway, and mocking birds nest in the boughs.
Two I grow for sweet sentiment are ‘Safrano’ (1839) and ‘Old Blush’ (China 1796). ‘Safrano’ with bright yellow (almost orange in fall) semi-double roses takes me back to childhood when as little girls, sister and I played “milliner” under a huge bush in Papa’s garden. We made hats of leaves and trimmed them with these blooms and with the loose double pink blooms of ‘Old Blush! As this was in the willow plume era, we used pampas grass plumes. These two old roses grow in the shrubbery border for color when the shrubs are resting.
Many more I grow for their true worth and beauty. Many tea roses may be planted with the proudest hybrid teas and hold their own.
Growing Tea roses in your garden is a great way to start a rose legacy in your family.
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