A MacKenzie Good, reliable rose.

Alan Titchmarsh Color of the blooms

Aloha (Kordes)

 Ambiente

Andie MacDowell Color and reliable repeat blooming cycle.

Benilli I loved her soft color and how the bush looked in the garden. Large spray of flowers. Fragrant

and blooms fade into good colors.

Black Cherry Red velvety blooms, good foliage, hardy. Transpanted to new area this summer and is

producing 2 + inch flowers.

Burgundy Iceberg This is a first-year plant. Small blooms but are very pretty; unusual color; grows like Iceberg;

Color of flowers and habit of shrub.

Caliente STRONG CANES AND SHINY DARK GREEN LEAVES.

Candy Land

Cinco de Mayo The abundance of blooms; blooms profusely; the color of flowers.

Cinnamon Twist

Citrus Splash Bloom bright and cheerful.

Coffee Bean Color of the blooms; extremely winter hardy here; the color a cross of Hot Cocoa and

Santa Claus; well formed blooms; good foliage.

Crested Damask

Deidre Hall

Deja Blu Color & substance of petals is outstanding; long lasting blooms.

Dream Come True Will be an excellent exhibition entry if I get one at show time (not yet); potential for nice

sprays; long stemmed; like the look of the overall bush; foliage has good tones;

wintered well.

Ebb Tide The clovelike fragrance; color of the blooms; petal substance; long lasting; exhibition quality

blooms.

Edisto Color; petal substance; long lasting; exhibition quality blooms; unusual bicolor.

perfect bloom form, unusual bicolor.

Falling in Love The flower form and sturdiness of petals; vigorous growth; good repeat; no disease; color;

foliage; destined for Queen.

Fire ‘n’ Ice The bloom form and color mix.

 Gentle Giant

Glenda Marie

Golden Fairy Tale Bloom form and color.

Good ‘n Plenty Great color and lots of blooms. Small bush good for front of bed; long lasting colorful blooms.

Grande Amore

Happy Thoughts The bush form and the blooms coloration.

Here’s Gert

Home & Garden The blooms last a long long time. The pure pink color is delightful.

Iced Raspberry Lovely show quality blooms & color combination. Repeats well.

In The Mood

Incantation Color of the blooms.

Julia Child Vert pretty rose with multiple light yellow blooms. Minimal disease. Good foliage. Shape of

bush; long bloom cycle; very healthy plant; fragrance, fullness of bloom, free flowering;

good repeat; beautiful clusters of yellow roses.

Jupiter Bloom form and color

Just Peachy

King’s Macc Healthy full plant, lots of blooms

Kismet Beautiful color combination and saturation. Good substance, foliage and exhibition form.

Lasting Love The burgundy color

Leading Lady High exhibition center; almost no disease; fair repeat; long lasting cut blooms delicate

color; good flower form; pleasing color.

Lichfield Angel

Mardi Gras The color; grew to 5 ‘.

Marilyn Wellan

Moondance Beautiful rose with perfectly formed clusters of white blooms. Disease resistant and pretty

Moondance foliage. Puts up good sprays.

Morden Amorette Hardiness, compact bush with good repeat

Pink Bianca Beautiful coverage of soft pink roses with great repeat.

Pope John Paul II Fantastic bloom form! Free flowering; fragrance. One of finest white roses on the market.

Beautiful full blooms, free flowering, fragrance. The bloom form exceeds that of Crystalline

and is more likely to give you those well formed blooms time after time.

Power Point Great color and fully open flower form. Great bloom form; very hardy.

Queen of Sweden Lovely open cup soft pink rose.

Rainbow Knock Out Slow, but steady development in growth habit. Excellent border plant; minimum care; lovely

pink color; full; always in bloom; appealing color blends.

Rainbow Sunblaze Lots of long lasting blooms. Pleasing blends on blooms; no real disease of any kind.

Redoute Beautiful full blooms, vigorous bush, good repeat; color of blossom; self cleaning.

Ricky Hendrick Bloom form and rich color, holds form a very long time.

Rock & Roll Beautiful color mix on the blooms; beautifully formed bush. Should do well at show.

Scarborough Fair Blooms nicely

Show Stopper

Sisters at Heart Loved her beautifully light apricot blooms and her pretty foliage to set them off.

Sky’s the Limit Many canes/shrubby while young. Almost always in bloom all summer long. Glossy foliage.

Snowcone

Snowdrift A 3-way winner – winter hardy, disease resistant & very floriferous

Strike It Rich Bright color

Super Excelsa

Tahitian Sunset Great color and large blooms.

Teeny Bopper Blooms nicely, beautiful buds

The Shepherdess

Tiddly Winks Color of the blooms.

Topsy Turvy Beautiful blooms that are long lasting.

Unbridled Great exhibition flower form. Very hardy bush; nice medium size; no real disease problems.

Vavoom Beautiful electric color; bright orange blooms; seems like it will take off.

Her bright orange blooms are a real eyecatcher in the rosebeds. The bush seemed like it would take off and do well.

We Salute You Planted in July and showed superior vigor. Disease resistant, great foliage, fragrance, bloom color,

size and exhibition form, borne on long stems. Vigorous.

Whirlaway Top notch exhibition flowers; bloom form; pureness of color.

Wild Blue Yonder Last year the blooms were very striking with brillent stamins.

A MacKenzie Only slight repeat after 1st showing of blooms.

Alan Titchmarsh Blooms don’t last long.

Aloha (Kordes) The blooms were illregular. One would be exhibition form the next would show

a bull nose or a vegatative center – weird.

Ambiente

Andie MacDowell Didn’t survive the winter

Benilli Small size roses; very winter tender; took forever to come back each year

and then finally died….

Black Cherry Nothing

 Burgundy Iceberg Rose bush is now about 2-3 ft high with light weight foliage. Blooms were small.

Had extreme blackspot; grows slow; flowers scorch in Colorado sun.

Caliente Dies back each winter in exposed location. Not very abundant flowering.

Candy Land

Cinco de Mayo

Cinnamon Twist

Citrus Splash Habit isn’t attractive so far.

Coffee Bean

 Crested Damask

Deidre Hall Rain spoils the blossoms

Deja Blu

Dream Come True Too few blooms; repeat slow; poor exhibition for a hybrid tea; 2 years in

garden and only now shows a bit of vigor; leaves too small; blooms don’t last.

Bloom turns ungly as it ages.

Ebb Tide

 Edisto Second flush not too impressive; slow to grow.

Slow to grow.

Falling in Love Awesome thorns might bother some.

 Fire ‘n’ Ice Not winter hardy here at all. Slowly died off each winter until it did not come

back at all, no matter how much protection was given them..

Gentle Giant

Glenda Marie

Golden Fairy Tale

Good ‘n Plenty

Grande Amore

Happy Thoughts Not a hardy rose for my area.

Here’s Gert

Home & Garden

Iced Raspberry

In The Mood

Incantation

Julia Child Blooms fade from bright yellow to pale yellow;

Bushes slow to develop size,although full of bloom even when small;

tends to fade and doesnt finish nicely,

Jupiter Doesn’t bloom that much

Just Peachy

King’s Macc Blooms lose form very fast.

Kismet Very ugly bloom form when fully open. First year plant a little slow to start.

Lasting Love

Leading Lady Bloom is a bit large for a miniflora; second year didn’t bloom much and

didn’t add to size of the plant.

Lichfield Angel

Mardi Gras Needs more blooms; repeat is slow.

Marilyn Wellan

Moondance Nothing

 Morden Amorette

Pink Bianca

Pope John Paul II

Power Point

Queen of Sweden Color fades if placed in harsh sunlight for long period.

Rainbow Knock Out Bloom color is more pink than the pink/yellow blend that I expected.

Rainbow Sunblaze Did not like the first winter and did not come back from her second winter here….

Redoute

Ricky Hendrick Nothing to dislike.

Rock & Roll Nothing yet. A very good rosebush.

Scarborough Fair Did have some balling with this rose

Show Stopper

Sisters at Heart Not winter hardy at all. Even with rose collars.

Sky’s the Limit

Snowcone

Snowdrift More for the garden than the show table – a minor quibble

Strike It Rich

Super Excelsa

Tahitian Sunset Gets leggy.

Teeny Bopper

The Shepherdess

Tiddly Winks

Topsy Turvy Lack of blooms since 1st year.

Unbridled A bit bloom stingy in her first year but may well improve with establishment.

Vavoom Not enough bloom production and just had a hard time with winter here even

with rose collars. Did not make it thru winter of 2008.

We Salute You It didn’t jump into my shopping cart two months earlier.

 Whirlaway The greenish color in the white flower. Bottom notch disease resistance.

Wild Blue Yonder Small size roses; blackspot; flowered minimally.

Power Point MinFl 9 yes Medium some none none none 2

Unbridled MinFl 9 yes Medium none some none none 2

Moondance F 8.5 yes Tall some none none moderate 2

We Salute You HT 8.5 dk Tall none none none moderate 1

Whirlaway MinFl 8.37 yes Medium mod mod none none 3

Falling in Love HT 8.23 yes Medium none none none moderate 3

Leading Lady MinFl 8.2 yes Medium some none none none 4

Cinco de Mayo F 8.17 yes Medium none none none none 3

Crested Damask D 8 yes Tall none some none heavy 1

Edisto MinFl 8 yes Medium some some none none 2

Iced Raspberry Min 8 yes Short none none none light 1

Ricky Hendrick MinFl 8 yes Medium none none none none 1

Pope John Paul II HT 7.9 yes Medium none some none moderate 5

Burgundy Iceberg F 7.89 Short severe none none light 6

Julia Child F 7.87 Medium some none none light 7

Candy Land LCl 7.8 none none none none 1

Cinnamon Twist F 7.8 Medium none none none none 1

Glenda Marie F 7.8 yes Tall none some none none 1

Mardi Gras F 7.8 yes Medium some some none none 3

Super Excelsa LCl 7.8 yes Tall none none none none 1

Redoute S 7.67 yes Tall none some none moderate 3

A MacKenzie S 7.5 yes Tall none none none none 3

Alan Titchmarsh S 7.5 Tall none none none moderate 2

Ambiente HT 7.5 yes Medium none none none none 1

Andie MacDowell MinFl 7.5 yes Medium some some none none 2

Citrus Splash S 7.5 yes Medium none none none moderate 1

Coffee Bean Min 7.5 yes Short none none none none 3

Good ‘n Plenty S 7.5 yes Short none none none none 2

In The Mood HT 7.5 yes Tall none none none none 1

Just Peachy HT 7.5 yes Tall none mod none none 1

Marilyn Wellan HT 7.5 yes Tall none mod none none 1

Morden Amorette S 7.5 yes Medium none none none light 1

Pink Bianca S 7.5 yes Medium none none none light 1

Queen of Sweden S 7.5 yes Medium none none none moderate 1

Rainbow Knock Out S 7.5 yes Medium none none none none 3

Snowdrift S 7.5 yes Medium none none none light 1

Tahitian Sunset HT 7.5 yes Medium some some none light 2

Wild Blue Yonder Gr 7.5 yes Medium severe some none none 1

Kismet MinFl 7.4 yes Short mod some none none 2

Black Cherry F 7.2 yes Medium some some none light 1

Caliente Min 7.2 yes Short none none none light 2

Jupiter MinFl 7.2 yes Medium none none none none 1

Dream Come True Gr 7.1 yes Medium none none none light 8

Deidre Hall HT 7 no Short none severe none none 1

Ebb Tide F 7 yes Short none none none heavy 2

Gentle Giant HT 7 yes Short none mod none none 1

Grande Amore HT 7 yes Medium none mod none none 1

Here’s Gert HT 7 yes Medium none mod none none 1

King’s Macc HT 7 yes Medium none none none none 1

The Shepherdess S 7 yes Medium none none none moderate 2

Benilli F 6.63 dk Medium none none none none 5

Aloha (Kordes) LCl 6 yes Tall some none none light 1

Sisters at Heart F 4 no Medium some none none light 1

My favorite method of starting cuttings is to plant them directly into the earth in mid-September, or weather permitting, into November.

1.      In a semi-shady area, prepare the soil for the cutting. Dig a hole and refill it with a mixture of compost and soil until it’s level with the surrounding soil.

2.      Cut a five- to six-inch rose stem that has a spent bloom and six or more leaf stalks

3.      Remove the bloom and the bottom two leaf stalks.

4.      Dip the stem end into Rootone powder.

5.      Insert the end several inches into the well-prepared soil (deep enough so it won’t dry out easily).

6.      Water the area well.

7.      Cover the cutting with a muddy quart-sized jar. (A pint jar may work for a small miniature cutting.)

Muddy the inside of the jar by rinsing with water and dusting with soil. This helps cut down on the intensity of the sun in this mini green house. You may want to stabilize the container with stakes so it doesn’t fall over easily.

8.      Water during the winter if there are dry spells.

9.      Remove the jar in late spring.

Often, the cutting will bloom the first year. It is safer to wait until the second year to move your little rose bush after its roots are well established. It is illegal to propagate patented roses for sale.