Re: R. glauca was: Foliage, purple or otherwise
- To:
- Subject: Re: R. glauca was: Foliage, purple or otherwise
- From: M* T*
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 23:23:55 -0500
To my eye, R. glauca is a delicate gray-mauve-over green, rather than
actually purple - this leaf color seems to remain all season...v. nice with
the single smallish deep rose pink flowers and a bit of a clashing (but OK)
contrast with the orange-red hips.....this one seeds around a bit.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
Editor: Gardening in Shade
current article: Mailorder Nurseries - On and Off Line - Part 2 - Munchkin
Nursery
http://suite101.com/welcome.cfm/222
----------
> From: M R W <mrwill1@juno.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 4:08 PM
>
> One thing I like about putting roses in a perennial border is that if
> you're careful, or lucky, you can have yummy reddish purple or bronzy
> foliage when the new growth starts in the the spring. When I choose a
> rose, if there are several whose flowers will give the effect I want,
> then I pick the one with colored new foliage. (Easy to do in a garden
> center with potted roses, harder with most catalogues.) Two of my
> favorites for this are English rose "Brother Cadfael" and hybrid tea
> "Bing Crosby". I haven't tried rosa glauca, but I hear it holds the
> purple foliage for a long time.
>
> Mary
> zone 6
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
