Re: Re: species roses-shade

The Fairy is a polyantha rose, perhaps one of the best polyanthas.  It 
grows where I live (zone 5) to be about 2 1/2 feet tall and 3 -4 feet 
wide.  It bears a profusion a pink 1 inch blooms in clusters starting 
around the end of June through the first light frosts-bloomed through 
October this year.  Actually, it does slack off in the hot summer months, 
but is probably the most prolific blooming rose I have.  The foliage is 
very desease free-very few problems this summer when just about 
everything else had black spot.  And I rarely see a Japanese beetle on 
it. I never have to cover it in the winter and it doesn;t need specail 
treatment in terms of feeding and watering.  It is a very low maintanance 
rose and if you wanting to get started with a few roses, a good one to 
get at first.  I probably have 60 -70 different roses right now, AND i 
have about 5 or 6 Fairys at various locations in the gardens.

Denise Leonard, Zone 5
Tanstaafl Farm
Greenfield, MA
dal@shaysnet.com


On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 KrisP64@aol.com wrote:

> I am not very familiar with roses. Can someone tell me what kind of rose a
> Fairy rose is?  Kris P in cold Illinois
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