Today I took a few flowers of this cultivar over to the local rose grower. The flowers and plant appearance were identical to her specimens of ‘Mount Shasta’. I never thought they would have stocked this sort of rose…never thought there would be much of a demand for it these days.
Its probably Oz’s version of Pascali lol.
For what it is worth, Margeret Merril has tell-tale blooms and foliage. The foliage is fat, rugose and crinkled. Its blooms are simple. HT-like yet wavy. The plant gets to about 4’ tall but is stalky. Its a difficult rose to mis-ID because the combined attibutes really are not found elsewhere.
lol… we have Pascali here as well.
On another unrelated note, whilst at the rose grower’s yard this afternoon, I checked out Knockout for the first time… I cant for the life of me understand what the hype is all about…it definitely had blackspot on it, which almost immediately turned me off it!! The grower said " there is NO rose without some blackspot".
Oh… don’t get me wrong, I can understand where she is coming from, at least for my climate.
I think I had built up an unreasonable expectation of Knockout. When I finally got to see it, it was not a planted specimen or massed planting, it was more one of a few pot-bound specimens that were obviously not happy, and wanting to be planted into the Earth…I can forgive it for how it looked, sort of…
Hi George,
I can’t say that I’m in love with Knockout, but I do have to give it respect for how well it performs here (mid-Atlantic coast USA) in the ground. It isn’t completely free of ALL disease, but it’s about as good as it gets for our area. ‘Home Run’ and ‘Carefree Sunshine’ also do very well here. ‘Carefree Sunshine’ is the only one of these three that has much fragrance.
Best wishes, Tom
Fair enough, Tom. I’ll try to keep an eye out for HR and CS, they are not available here currently as far as I can make out.