Open gardens 2019

5 years ago

The Sacramento historic rose garden uploaded their 2019 sale catalogue. http://www.cemeteryrose.org/sites/default/files/article-files/Rose%20Sales%20catalog%20final.pdf

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jacqueline9CA

5 years ago

This is a fabulous catalog and pictures - worth printing and keeping just for itself. So happy to see the true 'Bloomfield Abundance' will be on sale. A clone form of Cecile Bruner ('Spray Cecile Bruner') has been in commerce (and still is, in some places) for ages under the name BA, but it has now been proven by DNA analysis that it was actually a type of CB. The true BA was "lost", but has now been found. Just exactly the kind of rose that this Historic Rose Garden was set up to protect and distribute!

One comment about "Schmidt's Smooth Yellow" (mystery rose thought to be a late 19th century polyantha - I found it, and have 1 mature bush of it which is over 10 years old, and 2 younger bushes growing in my garden): the catalog says "few, if any prickles". This is technically correct, but NONE of my three bushes have ANY prickles at all - not one. We just pruned & cleaned up the oldest one (hardly any dead growth, btw), and not one prickle, thorn, or anything like was on it. Never has been. Folks on here frequently ask about a smallish/medium ever blooming bush with NO THORNS they could plant near a doorway, path, around children, etc. - I would recommend SSY. Here in my Northern CA zone 9, it started blooming a month ago, despite the astounding amounts of rain we were getting. It blooms through Oct/Nov. Here are a couple of more pics of it fyi:

Jackie

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Sheila z8a Rogue Valley OR
5 years ago
Looks wonderful! Great roses available. Wish I were there. I'll have to go down the road.
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jacqueline9CA
5 years ago
Grrrr....for some reason the first pic I posted only shows up as a tiny square, but if you click on it, you will see the entire pic.

Jackie
jakekuro
5 years ago
Thanks for sharing! Would definitely check it out.
garden nut z9b
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5 years ago
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I’m curious to see what the list of plants they less than four of has on it. That list usually has some interesting roses on it.
jerijen
5 years ago
I can second Jackie's recommendation of "Schmidt's Smooth Yellow." It's wonderful in my Coastal SoCal garden -- and totally disease-free. Buds show traces of red but open to a beautiful butter yellow . . .

And eventually fade to a pleasing warm white, so that the bush is multicolored.
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
5 years ago
It's just as well I can't go because I would do my darndest to snag Barbara's Pasture Rose, Enchantress, Lady Roberts, Old Port, Pretty Jessica and Schmidt's Smooth Yellow. Naturally I don't have a spot for any of them.
jacqueline9CA
5 years ago
Ha! I just talked 2 of my neighbors i met recently into coming to the Open Garden - they had no idea the Cemetery even existed, although they have lived a few blocks away from me for 35 years. They have grown some modern roses for many years, so I have hope that I can introduce them to old roses and make some headway...

Jackie
garden nut z9b
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5 years ago
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Another good rose in the catalogue is miss keays pink noisette “faded pink monthly“. it can do well in areas that roses normally wont do well. Mine is in a Raised rockery area with a bamboo like plant behind it and it blooms well and puts out a lot of growth.
pacrnca
5 years ago
Hi, I don't see the list of additional roses that will be available to purchase, besides the catalog. If anyone has access to it, I hope you can post a link.

Thanks!

Priscilla
garden nut z9b
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5 years ago
http://www.cemeteryrose.org/sites/default/files/article-files/2019%20Sale%20Roses%20.pdf This is the other list. I don’t have the space for teas but Ophelia looks like an interesting tea since the only garden it is in is in Europe.
jacqueline9CA
5 years ago
The Open Garden is today and tomorrow - my neighbor is picking me up to go in 1 1/2 hours - I am so excited! We have had so much cold weather and rain, I was concerned, but it has been clear and sunny for 3 days now. Roses are amazing. My early bloomers are all about 2/3rds out in my garden, along with the chinas and some teas - I am sure the garden at the Historic Cemetery will be fine. I am hoping to see their early bloomers in full bloom this year for a change (they are usually done by the time of the Open Garden), like the yellow and white banksia which completely drape 2 different ver large trees...

I will let you know.

Jackie
Rosylady (PNW zone 8)
5 years ago
What a beautiful catalogue! It was really fun reading it. I wanted to attend the sale this year, but I wasn't able to make it. Next weekend though, I'm making a trip to the Bay Area and will be stopping in Sacramento just to tour the garden! I'm so excited. The last time I went was about 7 years ago and I was only just beginning to appreciate OGR's.

Jackie, please give us a full report, with pictures if possible!