Very fragrant roses, that are good for cutting have always been high on my priority list. Especially a good white rose! In many Danish gardens I noticed a low climber, with gorgeous creamy white hybrid tea rose shaped flowers. They had a very powerful fragrance and were very great for cutting lasting 5 days in vase, scenting the rooms with it's delicate perfume. I found out the rose's name was White Nights or s. 'Amorique', s. 'Chateau Angelus'. Confusing that the same rose have all these names for marketing purposes in different parts of the world. I do not find that Poulsen Roses have been very good at promoting their roses. Especially not since they picture this rose as light yellow on their website.
Most grew it as low stiff upright climber against walls and fences and it seemed to be able to reach a height of about 7 feet. Perfect - since most of the flowers were in nose-height! Over the years it has become one of my favorite roses. The first year it looked like a small pathetic hybrid tea rose. The second year it was 3 feet tall - I began to doubt that it would ever become a climber, maybe it did not do well in my garden? The third year it shot 3 huge basals - that reached 7 feet and I began to be pleased with it --- especially the wonderful scent and how great the creamy white roses were for cutting. The fourth year and this year, it is a spectacular rose!
Like most large flowered climbers, it has a stiff upright growth habit and only needs a little support. I estimate that this single plant produces at least 400 nice cut roses each year, even though the stems are not very long and the flowers sometimes comes in clusters - sometimes a single stem makes a bouquet.
The buds are light yellow and the flowers have lower petal count, than most hybrid tea roses. As the flowers develop, they are sometimes creamy white and sometimes have pink hues on the inner petals.
Fully open they fade to a pure white. I highly recommend this rose. It is one of my favorite roses, though very modern in appearance, with the reddish new growth and glossy leaves.
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9 comments:
Beautiful Roses! Keep up the good work!!!
Beautiful, stunning. . .I'm a bit of a rose beginner--the old tea roses make my heartrate jump. . .I found a local source of David Austen roses and was beside myself. Here in the US the hybrids are plentiful but the heirlooms few.
Do you have any advice for organic solutions to pests? We have children and I plant my roses among the vegetables and herbs in our gardens; for this and many other reasons nonorganic sprays are out of the question. Blackspot be doomed!
These are lovely. I can imagine their wonderful scent.
I want to tell you how much I enjoy reading your blog. I am new at rose gardening and have found your blog to be a wonderful resource- Thank you!
Thank you for visiting my blog - I should have started this blog a long time ago - it is so nice to keep a log of what's going on in my garden and share the roses I am seing through my lens.
And It is very nice to see others blogs and gardens - people from all over the world! Either gardeners are nice persons or gardening makes them nice persons?!
Kim: I am definitely going to write more about growing roses organically. Since I do not have a very big garden, I have to cram everything in - including many herbs. I also use many of the roses to make rosesyrup for desserts and that makes it unacceptable to use fungicides or pesticides.
I use a natural insecticide made out of extracts from Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium also called the Dalmatian Chrysanthemum. They can be grown frm seeds and you can make a tea to spray. Here is a Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrethrum
If you like Antique roses you can find a wealth of information on this gardening forum:
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/rosesant/
Ask what roses have the best resistance to fungal diseases in your area.
I am not sure what zone you´re climate zone is 5-6? Tea roses are old culture roses, while Hybrids Teas are modern roses, that are high maintainance and do not have very good disease-resistance. Some do however - like some of the new Tantau roses, but they are hard to find locally, but has to be mailordered from Hortico or Pickering.
'Rose De Rescht' is one of my favorite Antique Roses. Here it can be grown no spray and it blooms for 5 month every year. It is extremely fragrant and can be used for many delious things like rosesyrup.
Nothing that comes out of a sprayer can replace good garden practices - but Ashdown Roses have recently released a series of organic products for growing roses - I have not tried them myself yet but perhaps they are worth looking into:
http://www.ashdownroses.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=71#1
http://www.organicplanthealthcare.com/
Thanks so much for all the information. We're in zone 6, but I think sometimes it gets too cold for plants indicated to that hardiness, so I try to aim for a lower zone most of the time. I'll have to look up that particular rose--five month bloomer? Amazing!
Niels,
This rose is new to me. Could you comment on if it is thorny and if so, very, etc. Love the smooth caned roses since I hate to wear gloves.
JimEastCoast
Hi Jim - think I have seen your name from on GW roseforums? White Nights is armoured with thorns! So very often I think I can care for my roses without wearing ox- or goat skin gloves - In the evenings I sit and pick out thorns from my fingers and hands - promising myself that I will remember to wear gloves, but I always forget!
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns,
or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have me convinced! Thanks for your lovely lovely blog!
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