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Well this rose is a surprise!

2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago





This rose isn't what I thought it was. What is it? Rose Courtyard was redone last February. Plants got mixed up. This looks like an old garden rose of some sort. Blooming today for the first time since the replant. No blackspot.


Someone has mentioned the rose might be Raspberry Cupcake. This is in fact, likely as I did have that rose. With all the mixup, this could have been where that rose ended up. What do you think? It does have a very old fashioned flower.

Comments (19)

  • 2 years ago

    Might you have a list Of roses from which to choose? Or absolutely no idea! LOL!

    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8 thanked Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley
  • 2 years ago
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    That's the thing Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley, the only OGR I have of this color is an unnamed pink one I salvaged by having a friend push a car off it where it was growing in an abandoned field. The flowers look similar, but the growth is totally different. Plus that rose is a once bloomer, which blooms in June and has long fininshed. I really don't think it could be that rose that a piece was put in a pot and forgotten about. Which leaves the more likely new rose 'Raspberry Cupcake'. I did have one of those which would have been dumped with all the other roses when things got dug up and replanted in February. I checked and there is a fragrance to the blossom. As for lists of roses in my garden, laugh, not that organized unfortunately.

  • 2 years ago

    Every time I look at the flowers in your photos I think "Bourbon", but many modern roses have old fashioned flower forms. The bi-color does throw me a bit. As for the foliage, it at least is not unmistakeably modern.

  • 2 years ago
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    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8, It looks consistent with examples of Raspberry Cupcake that I've seen. I find that the blooms of Raspberry Cupcake can be quite small for a hybrid tea and have several layers of reflexed petals, as seen in your photos. The blooms also pale toward the edges. RC has an incredibly strong fragrance -- very lemony to my nose. That may help you ID it, as well.

    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8 thanked windowsill_gardener
  • 2 years ago

    I don't know 'Raspberry Cupcake', and don't know what you might or might not have in your garden. So this is a wild guess, based on those two-tone flowers: 'Bijou des Prairies'.

    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8 thanked Melissa Northern Italy zone 8
  • 2 years ago

    Healthy looking rose bush and nice blooms whatever it is dara_gardener!

    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8 thanked jim1961 Central Pennsylvania Zone 6a
  • 2 years ago

    Looks like my Raspberry cupcake rose .

    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8 thanked Pink Rose(9b, FL )
  • 2 years ago

    You are on Vancouver Island (lucky you) and your sunlight in midsummer is both more filtered that most of ours and also you have longer days.

    I'd expect your pinks to be stronger colored, your buds to take longer to open, and (if Portland Oregon and Seattle are any guide) your blooms to be larger because they have the time to grow..

    A British friend was helping me pick out roses for one of my first gardens in Houston (hot and dry and humid too) and he was shocked at how little scent some roses at a nursery had, because he grew them and the scent was strong when he got home from work.

    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8 thanked stillanntn6b
  • 2 years ago

    It looks a bit like Aunt Margy’s rose …that exact color, small bloom, nice fragrance.

    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8 thanked BenT (NorCal 9B Sunset 14)
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    stillanntn6b, This makes me sad. I mainly want florist roses so they last in a vase but I do purchase some fragrant roses, and I feel like they are not strong like everyone else claims they are. My climate is so nice and temperate yet its not ideal for the perfect rose garden 🥲

    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8 thanked Z10Socal
  • 2 years ago
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    Hi Jim1961. I was thinking about you while checking out this rose! It is really healthy which would be a plus for your rose blackspot woes right now. windowsill_gardener this rose does have a strong fragrance that is somewhat like lemon, only sweeter. Melissa Northern Italy Zone 8, I checked out Bijou de Praries rose and I don't think that is it. The leaves are different and that rose is stated to be susceptible to blackspot which this rose isn't. BenTNorCal9B it does look a lot like Aunt Margy's Rose! However that one grows to be quite a tall bush, 5' or more, so I don't think that is it either. Pinkrose I'm thinking the rose is Raspberry Cupcake as many people here have recognized it as that rose.

  • 2 years ago
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    Stillanntn6B I am fortunate to live on Vancouver Island! However it is not without difficulties. It seems these days the weather is either too hot or too cold, sometimes both in the same day. We have extreme temperature jumps of 10 to 20 degrees between one day and the next. Which is hard on plants and people. Some parts of my garden are too hot and sunny to grow roses successfully, the flowers shrivel up in a couple of hours of sun, and leaves sun scorch. A few roses will handle this such as Eden climber and Preference floribunda, but most won't. However other parts of my garden don't have this concentrated light, there roses do well. Rose Courtyard gets a bit of heat / light concentration due to 5' fence all around and one side being a building wall. In general it is fine though. That is where the featured rose above is growing. We do have longer days in summer, but winter brings the dreaded POLAR VORTEX. Shudder! Last year it went from 43 f. to 7 f. in a 24 hour period thanks to polar vortex. A lot of plants were lost everywhere on the Island.

  • 2 years ago

    Stillanntn6b, your growing zone is 10Socl? That is very warm for roses all right. Rose like cool roots. I did a quick search and there are many roses that will adapt well to Zone 10 including most of the Hybrid Teas which give you the long stemmed vase roses you like. You probably won't have the fungus disease problems that many rose growers have. Folks suggested putting up temporary shade tarps if planting new roses in high heat until the roses have properly rooted. As well, it was suggested to completely lay off fertilizer during high heat, something I didn't know. Apparently nitrogen doesn't react well to heat.

  • 2 years ago

    This looks identical to my Raspberry Cupcake as well! Thats my vote 😁

    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8 thanked Julie (z9a BastropTX)
  • 2 years ago

    Agree it might be Raspberry Cupcake. Small but full blooms, strong citrus scent, very clean and healthy leaves. Below is mine taken at July 29th

    dara_gardener-Vancouver Island, Z8 thanked forever_a_newbie_VA8
  • 2 years ago

    Juliez9aBastropTX and forever_a_newbie_VA8 I agree with the general consensus that my mystery rose is Raspberry Cupcake. Everyone has been so helpful, thank you!

  • 2 years ago

    No I'm thinking I need this rose too

  • 2 years ago

    Vaporvac Z6-OhioRiverValley I'm really liking this rose too! It is doing extremely well.