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Re: What is pimpinellifolias?

Gallicas are indeed wonderful roses, but of course like many of the old
roses they are once blooming.  Not a problem for me because I just have
them mixed into my perennial border which is currently about 80'x10' and
when out of bloom they provide an attractive green.  I'm going to try
training Potentilla nepalensis "Miss Willmott" to drape over the bushes
this year after the flowering period is over for the roses. Have seen it
done with clematis too, but they seem awfully vigorous to use for that
purpose to me.
Mind you, I think I get as much bloom out of the gallicas in about a month
as I do out of my Austins over the entire growing season (and the same for
hybrid teas)  And they aren't blackspot free, they just don't get it as
badly as most modern roses, and it seems to cause little leaf drop at least
under my conditions.  I spray some sulphur but try and minimize that.

The albas I had in mind were Alba maxima ( the Jacobite Rose), Maiden's
Blush, and Konigin von Danemark. I may add others to that list later.

Pimpinellifolias were formerly called spinosissima and are commonly called
Scotch or Burnet roses. The original species is native to northern Europe
and there are related varieties found down in to Turkey and over in
northern China and Siberia.  Many, but not all are singles or semidoubles
and there are a number of very nice yellows in both single and double.
Stanwell Perpetual is a   pimpenellifolia hybrid developed in 1838 with 
fully doubled quartered soft blush pink flowers. Probably the easiest of
this type of rose to get your hands on. Should be about 5'x5' when mature.

I have not grown own root as yet but will. Most of our Austin roses seem to
be produced by Jackson and Perkins at least at the local nursery I
frequent.  Some of my grafted roses have been in for five years now and no
problems have occurred so far, but up here we routinely set the graft about
2" below grade level, and I know people in our garden club who have kept
grafted roses going for 20 years- not every rose of course, but some of
them. And those are hybrid teas and floribundas.

Bob
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