Monday, March 31, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Complicata
On the basis of its photos I did not understand why the English are so great fans of this rose, but it was so much praised that I have decided to have a try. Now I already understand. In the life it is really beautiful.
class: Gallica rose, before 1800
height: 150 -305 cm - At us around 150 cm.
width: 180 -245 cm - At us around 200-250 cm.
American hardiness zone: Z4b (down to -32 ºC)
bloom: once, then it produces hips
At us it is on a sunny place, but according to Help Me Find it tolerates part-shadow.
class: Gallica rose, before 1800
height: 150 -305 cm - At us around 150 cm.
width: 180 -245 cm - At us around 200-250 cm.
American hardiness zone: Z4b (down to -32 ºC)
bloom: once, then it produces hips
At us it is on a sunny place, but according to Help Me Find it tolerates part-shadow.
Hippolyte
One more wonderful Gallica rose.
Even its shrub is beautiful.
class: Gallica rose (Louis-Joseph-Ghislain Parmentier before 1842)
height: 120 -200 cm - At us it is around 180 cm.
width: 120 -245 cm - At us it is around 200-250 cm.
American hardiness zone: Z4b (down to -32 ºC)
bloom: once
Even its shrub is beautiful.
class: Gallica rose (Louis-Joseph-Ghislain Parmentier before 1842)height: 120 -200 cm - At us it is around 180 cm.
width: 120 -245 cm - At us it is around 200-250 cm.
American hardiness zone: Z4b (down to -32 ºC)
bloom: once
Erinnerung an Brod
This is a rose by Rudolf Geschwind.
Rudolf Geschwind was one of the most famous rose breeders of the 19th century. He was the first to produce frost-hardy roses in Europe.
His name is associated with such world famous roses like for example Geschwind's Nordlandrose or Geschwind's Schönste, Gipsy Boy or Grüss an Teplitz.
When I have seen his roses the first time in Praskac, I have thought: well, that’s famous old German rose breeding!
A little later, when I have seen a list of his roses with names like Corporal Johann Nagy or Julius Fabianics de Misefa, then it became a little bit suspicious: perhaps he has some Hungarian relation?
In fact, he had. His nursery was in Hungary, on Korpona. Help Me Find registers him as a Hungarian rose breeder.
There was a time when we lived in the middle of Europe.
class: wild rose hybrid (Rudolf Geschwind 1886)
height: 150 - 245 cm
width: 150 - 245 cm
American hardiness zone: Z4(down to -34 ºC)
bloom: once
At us it is planted on a sunny place, but according to Help Me Find it tolerates part-shadow.
Rudolf Geschwind was one of the most famous rose breeders of the 19th century. He was the first to produce frost-hardy roses in Europe.
His name is associated with such world famous roses like for example Geschwind's Nordlandrose or Geschwind's Schönste, Gipsy Boy or Grüss an Teplitz.
When I have seen his roses the first time in Praskac, I have thought: well, that’s famous old German rose breeding!
A little later, when I have seen a list of his roses with names like Corporal Johann Nagy or Julius Fabianics de Misefa, then it became a little bit suspicious: perhaps he has some Hungarian relation?
In fact, he had. His nursery was in Hungary, on Korpona. Help Me Find registers him as a Hungarian rose breeder.
There was a time when we lived in the middle of Europe.
class: wild rose hybrid (Rudolf Geschwind 1886)height: 150 - 245 cm
width: 150 - 245 cm
American hardiness zone: Z4(down to -34 ºC)
bloom: once
At us it is planted on a sunny place, but according to Help Me Find it tolerates part-shadow.
Cardinal Richelieu (Cardinal de Richelieu)
It has enchanted me at first sight, but for many years I have not even dared to think about this rose, because I thought it must be a very sensitive royal princess. However, quite on the contrary, in the reality it is one of the most robust and frost hardy roses.
It has an unbelievable color. You would think that these photos are manipulated, but no. It is really something so purple-violet-grey-beet-aubergine. In the life it is unspeakably beautiful. However, it is very difficult to take good pictures on it. None of these photos are perfect, nevertheless they give some impression of it.
In any case, they show well that complex subtlety that is completely missing from twentieth-century roses.
It is undoubtedly far from the idea of “neat and tidy”. This is its most attractive feature.
class: Gallica rose, before 1847 (Louis-Joseph-Ghislain Parmentier)
height: 90 - 185 cm - At us it is around 120 cm.
width: 60- 90 cm - At us around 120 cm.
American hardiness zone: Z4b (down to -32 ºC)
bloom: once
It has an unbelievable color. You would think that these photos are manipulated, but no. It is really something so purple-violet-grey-beet-aubergine. In the life it is unspeakably beautiful. However, it is very difficult to take good pictures on it. None of these photos are perfect, nevertheless they give some impression of it.
In any case, they show well that complex subtlety that is completely missing from twentieth-century roses.
It is undoubtedly far from the idea of “neat and tidy”. This is its most attractive feature.
class: Gallica rose, before 1847 (Louis-Joseph-Ghislain Parmentier)height: 90 - 185 cm - At us it is around 120 cm.
width: 60- 90 cm - At us around 120 cm.
American hardiness zone: Z4b (down to -32 ºC)
bloom: once
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