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  • From: "Dan Clost" <dan.clost@sympatico.ca>
  • To: "gardenwriters-on-gardening" <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] In need of a rose
  • Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:55:14 -0400

Martin Frobisher is a nice, even-toned pink. It has  an upright nature and lends itself to pruning into a standard. William Baffin (David's better known brother in Canada) is more of a deep pink, sort of a flat faced flower with a yellow centre.
I agree with Maryann that the Explorer series is one that Hampton should consider. Perhaps Alexander MacKenzie would work- bright red with a bit of yellow at the petal base; Champlain, which can be trained as a climber- which can make it difficult to keep as a tidy shrub as can John Cabot. Cuthbert Grant has the most beautiful of buds- so deep red they almost appear black- but opens up, again, into a bit of a flat flower- semi-double.
Anyone of these should work nicely in Hampton's garden. They were developed in Morden Manitoba and Ottawa Ontario to be cold hardy and disease resistant. Big Plus- all are own-root roses.
Dan
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