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General Discussion
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Do people like the smaller blooms on this rose or not. This plant is hardy to the tips in Zone 2a. They are more HT shaped than I expected since there is no known HT in its background and it is diploid. The parent most use is Rosa woodsii with a little rugosa in its background. It is too also reblooming.

What I also like about this rose is the fact that there is the rose bud and flower are pure white, but the stem, the prickles & the sepals are a rich red like Rosa woodsii.

Iam mostly posting this to see if i can post pictures. Thanks

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Dear John:

Please post again when blooms open – too early to tell, but color looks like a very clean white.

Sounds like you may be slightly to the north of me.

Bob Zone 9

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I like the separation between the flowers in the cluster & the foliage looks terrific. The bloom form is very pretty to my eye. How long was it before you got the first bloom? That certainly looks like a rose I’d want for my garden.

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Bob here is a picture of them more open. The camera pics up ivory but the flower are distictly white in person. The photo is blury because I was still learning to take close-up pictures

At zone 2a I am still very north of you at lat. 56.

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This plant was an enigma. it is the only rugosa that I have ever had that bloom in its 1st year. These are the pictures that bloom. I can tell that it is hardy because it is buds are swelling all the way up to the top and It got a -44C While only patially covered with snow. It shows all the best atributes of all of its parents

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Hi John P

Thanks for additional photo. Love the color and if it is already blooming like you say it is, I hope you’ll update from time to time to let us know if it lives up to its potential. Sounds like something I could really use without worrying in my zone 5 vacation home where I can’t risk my bracteata hybrids to the harsh (for me) winters. The leaves remind me of my only rugosa, Basye’s Purple, which I am taking with me on my next trip to zone 5, but all the stems and new leaves start out green and finish the same - no red in them like yours. Is your new rose being grown in a spray free environment? Is blackspot a probelm in your area? How much sun is it getting? I am very interested.

Thanks, Bob

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Bob the rose gets full sun. I have never seen black spot but have found mildew on one leaf inside the mother parent. I have never had to spray.

The leaves are slightly rugose but not as much as the picture shows. In reality I am trying to get away from this characteristic.