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RE: yellow roses

On Wednesday, May 27, 1998 9:15 AM, Jeaa1224 [SMTP:Jeaa1224@AOL.COm] wrote:
> Has anyone tried Golden Wings (shrub) or Sunny June (pillar) ?
> I've heard they're quite hardy/carefree and both supposedly have
> pronounced, dark stamens...
>
> Joanie

Joanie,

I have a bush of Golden Wings that is in its third year.  It is quite vigorous 
and upright, about 5 x 4.  Its blooms are single, yellow, some as large as 4 
inches, with golden orange stamens, very striking.  Light, pleasant fragrance, 
early to bloom in the spring.  Since the last two winters were relatively mild 
for northern Illinois, I can't say how much dieback it will have when our 
normal cold winters return.  There is (or was) a bed of them at the Chicago 
Botanic rose garden and a bush at the Boerner Gardens in Milwaukee.  One of the 
books I use as a reference for rose hardiness, Hardy Roses, lists it as Zone 4 
and Spring Valley Roses in Wisconsin, where I got mine, also considers it hardy 
for our part of the Midwest.  It has always been one of my favorites and was 
one of the first I ordered when I finally got a sunny garden.  Has been very 
disease resistant so far.

Lynn in Rockford, IL
hlbarton@execpc.com
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