Tom's Rose Garden

This Hybrid Perpetual is my first striped rose, a gift from Jeremy Buckley when he and his wife stayed at our Bed & Breakfast. It's fragrant flowers are pink with crimson striping. The bush will grow 4-5 feet tall, and is supposed to be winter hardy and disease resistant.

"Hybrid Perpetual shrub of medium vigour and rather spreading habit, but not often over 5 ft. Flowers of medium size, semi-double, opening pink, fading to pale blush-pink, almost white, heavily streaked and splashed irregularly with crimson, deepening as the flower ages. Scented. Free-flowering. Mid to late June and recurrent through summer and autumn. A fine bushy rose, valuable for its recurrent flowering. Foliage rather light green." The Dictionary of Roses by Gault & Synge

Spring 1997

The rooted cutting I got from Jeremy is growing. It's about 12 inches high now. I'm going to have to transplant it because it's now smack in the middle of my white Rugosa hedge. I'll wait until the late fall. I'm hoping for a couple of flowers this year, but I'm more concerned with it's growth.