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Re: Roses

Dear Janis,

Have you contacted the rose curators at Mo Botanical Garden?

Lisa Flaum,
Waterloo, IL
>
>Can anyone suggest truly disease-resistant roses to replace them?  Here in St.
>Louis (zone 6) with our hot, humid summers, I have had wonderful luck with my
>priaire rose, Rosa setigea, and other wild species roses.  Rosa setigera is
>native to Missouri.  I don't feed it, prune it or even water it and it
>thrives!  They are great, but, alas, have a short blooming season.
>
>'The Fairy' is covered with blooms from May to hard frost in my garden and is
>disease and trouble free.  What a joy!
>
>Michael Dirr has high praise for R. rugosa 'Frau Dagmar Hastrup'.  Is anyone
>growing that one, and if so, is it really disease-resistant?
>
>Any other suggestions?
>
>--Janis
>
>
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