Old Garden Roses
Old Fashioned Roses
Growing Old Roses
p>Old garden roses, such as the old Blush Rose, are antique roses, also known as old fashioned roses, or old shrub roses.
Old roses, besides their charm and beauty, are also very tough, so growing old roses is very easy.
So if you like to create an antique rose garden, go right ahead and plant some in your garden.
These old garden roses, once they were established, flourished and survived on old homesites and cemetaries for
centuries, without any care at all.
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Old roses thrived with no garden hoses, sprinkler systems, or spraying. They also survived climate extremes, such as
drought, heat waves and blizzards.
Another remarkable thing about old antique roses is their inherent beauty of form, which nmakes them very useful as
attractive landscape plants.
The color of old garden roses are more muted than that of modern hybrid tea roses, that tend to be more of a pastel color.
Types Of Old Garden Roses
Gallica Roses:
La Belle Sultane, a gallica rose. The R. gallica roses originate from an European and western Asian old rose group.
They have semi-single red rose blooms.
Gallica roses are known as the finest of the old garden roses. They flower once in summer.
Damask Roses:
Celsiana damask rose.
They originated from Damascus, hence their name.
The Summer Damasks, flower only once during summer.
They are a cross between the Gallica roses and R.phoenicea.
Another cross between Gallica roses and R. moschata produced the Autumn Damasks, which at the time were the only garden
roses to repeat bloom twice.
Centefolia, (or Province) Roses:
Cabbage rose is a Centefolia rose.
They were raised by Dutch hybridists during the 17th century.
These 100 petaled roses can be seen in the great Dutch flower paintings of that period.
Centifolias flower once in the summer
Moss Roses:
Andrewsii Moss Rose.
They are an aberation from Centifolia roses fromthe 17th century.
Moss Roses areeasy to identify for their mossy excrescence on their stems and sepals.
They are once-flowering.
Alba Roses:
Alba Maxima rose.
Albas are known as the white roses. But some varieties have a pale pink hue.
They are once-flowering ils shrub roses with bluish green foilage.
The famous White Rose Of York is an Alba rose.
China Roses
Louis Phillipe China Rose.
Four types of these extremely important group of old roses were brought in from China and eastern Asia during the 18th
and 19th centuries.
What was so special about the China Roses was that they repeat flowered through out the whole summer into fall.
The China roses eventually ended up as the modern garden roses of today.
Tea Roses:
Etoile de Lyon tea rose.
This group of old roses originated from two tea scented China Roses.
Tea Roses are a whole new breed of repeat-flowering old roses with beautiful and graceful rose blooms.
They are cold tender and are only suited for warmer climates such as the US southern states and California.
Rose de Rescht, a Portland rose.
This old rose group is named for the Duchess of Portland.
They are a repeat-flowering cross between Gallicas, Damasks, Centifolias and China roses.
Bourbon Roses:
Souvenir de la Malmaison Bourbon rose.
The Bourbons were the very first repeat flowering roses that were created from the China Roses.
The cross creation happened originally on the Ile de Bourbon in the Indian Ocean, which gave them their name.
Hybrid Perpetial Roses:
Baronne Prevost rose.
A group of Old Garden Roses that resulted from a intensive open field cultivation hybridization.
Hybrid Perpetials were the most popular class of roses in Victorian England.
They were all derived from the Bourbon roses.
Sweet Briar Roses:
These old garden roses originate from the late 19th century.
Created from R.eglanteria, Sweet Briar roses only bloom once and are mostly admired for their applescented leaflets.
Noisette Roses
The adorable Noisette roses were develpoed by Philippe Noisette of Charleston, South Carolina.
He later moved to France, where he also intoduced them.
In the US these old roses are known as roses for the south.
Ayrshire Roses:
Splendens Arvensis Ayrshire rose.
A group of old rambler rosesthat came from R. arvensis, a trailing rose species of European hedge roses.
These rambler roses do not repeat flower.
Laevigata Roses:
Cheroke Laevigata rose.
Characterized by dark green leaves and big hooked thorns.
They are indigenous to the southern part of the United States.
These roses originate from a small group of old roses from China.
They are semi-rambling and once-flowering.
Sempervirens Roses:
A small group of once-blooming roses that are descendants of R.sempervirens.
Most people know it as an evergreen rose
All Sempervirens have the ability to hold their foilage in winter.
All these old roses are available at Vintage Gardens.
Most of the rose images above are courtesy of Vintage Gardens. They specialize in old garden roses.
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