Tom's Rose Garden

This once-blooming climber was the root stock for a Hybrid Tea. The graft died, but this root-stock flourished. This spring it produced a wonderful collection of deep red, semi-double flowers along long, arching canes. According to the FAQ, J&P and Roses of Yesterday and Today and other nurseries in the western US graft onto Dr. Huey. It is supposedly disease resistant, but mine has lost leaves to blackspot. This rose was an AARS.

Spring 1997

Threre are a lot of buds on the two bushes. They are still sort of straggly looking, but after they bloom, I'll put some time into tidying them up. This plant really does gets blackspot. Worst of any in the yard.