RE: Easy rose trend

**"* <e*@gaias-gift.com>**

I think roses being "hard to grow" is a myth.  It's a wee con to tell people
that everything in a family of flowers is hard to grow except for a few new
introductions.  When they try them and they have no problems the myth is
perpetuated.

Of course, many of these easy roses were developed by going back to crosses
with old roses that are very hardy and very pretty, although you may have to
live with an excess of floral exuberance in June, attractive hips and
interesting foliage for the rest of the year.  But I've never understood the
problem with that. However, in my experience, roses that have been used in
the landscape since the late 1800s and the early 1900s are much easier to
find in France than they are here, at least in the Northeast.

I grow mostly hybrid teas because they are easy to find and cheap and I
still don't find them all that hard.  

This does not give me heartburn though because one thing I believe in is the
seductive powers of the rose; any rose.  I trust some number of people will
try something "harder" after their experience with these "easy" ones and be
pleasantly surprised.

Now dahlias; (in zone 5/6) those are hard.

Esther
Who has been trying to find vielchenblau in the US for years
www.gaias-gift.com

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