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Rose List

2008

Hybrid Tea Roses

This has been historically the most popular rose class.  Hybrid Tea Roses grow to about

  four feet tall and have long upright stems, great for cut flower arranging!

Most are fragrant with big, beautiful blossoms.

Elle:  This 2005 AARS winner’s flowers are a lovely soft pink and yellow blend. The blossoms are fully double petalled, have a strong spicy fragrance and recurrent bloom cycle. An outstanding variety with dark green glossy leaves that are resistant to mildew and black spot.

Eternal Flame: Soft yellow flowers with a wonderful citrus fragrance. A long bloomer with disease resistant foliage.

Falling In Love: A wonderful new introduction with fragrant, pink flowers complimented by  porcelain, creamy white reverse. Grows upright and bushy.

Honor: Long, pointed, satiny white buds unfurl slowly to large, long lasting blooms. A vigorous plant with 4 to 5” pure white flowers.

In The Mood: A vivid, true red with gray-green foliage and subtle fragrance. This rose is a medium grower with a habit that is upright and bushy.

Liv Tyler: A lovely new introduction with coral pink blossoms and an alluring apricot fragrance. The long, strong stems hold firmly quartered blooms, perfect for the cutting garden.

 We’ll have to be sure and save some of these beauties for Steve!

Peace: A favorite for nearly 60 years.  Beautiful, double, high- centered yellow blossoms flushed with pink. A vigorous grower and profuse bloomer with dark, glossy, clean foliage.

Radiant Perfume: Deep yellow flowers with yummy fragrance and deep green leaves. Grows tall.

Tahitian Sunset:  A Tahiti sweetie with a gorgeous gown of green, beset by exquisite blossoms of sunset shades.  But her heady beauty is just a temptation, enticing you to sample her fabulous fruity- rose fragrance.  Large, long-stemmed flowers are borne in great abundance on a very bushy clean garden-worthy plant.  2006 AARS Winner!

The McCartney Rose: Enormous, deep rosy pink buds mature to rosy pink blooms with a lovely sweet candy fragrance.

Tropicana: Stunning, the best orange-red hybrid tea. The flowers are fragrant and presented on long, straight stems. 

Veteran’s Honor:  Deep red, 2” buds open into large blooms with enduring color and a light raspberry fragrance.

Grandifloras

A hybrid cross between hybrid tea and floribunda roses.  Generally more flowers per stem than a hybrid tea and larger flowers than a floribunda.

About Face:  Full old-fashioned double blooms with golden-yellow-orange inside, darker bronzy-orange-red outside.  Recurrent bloom spring to fall.  Dark green leaves.  Light fragrance of fresh apple.  Upright, bushy habit to 4-5’.  Hardiness zone 5-6.  This 2005 AARS Winner will be the main attraction in your garden.

Cherry Parfait: An award winning white rose with soft blending to red edging on the petals. A great performer with a long bloom time.

Dream Come True: 2008 AARS Winner! Blossoms are edged in ruby red blush with yellow centers. Soft fragrance and upright bushy habit.

Queen Elizabeth:  This long time favorite has radiant, luminous pink flowers. A vigorous, stately, tall growing rose suitable for hedging or background planting.

Strike It Rich: The 2007 AARS Award winner!  The flowers are a lovely blend of yellow spun with orange and pink with fabulous, strong, spicy fragrance. A great performer with nice habit and clean foliage.

Wild Blue Yonder:  Up we go… into a wild new style of rose!  You’ll be ridin’ high over the saturated citrus blossom & rose scent, bold new-fangled colors & camellia-like form.  The first lavender-toned rose to take the AARS in over 20 years. Flowers are ruffled red-purple with a lavender “eye”.   Clean deep green leaves make this vigorous grandiflora a mean bouquet machine for the garden. 

Floribundas

 Generally flowers are smaller and form in clusters.  More flowers per stem than most other types of roses.  Plants often shorter and bushier.

Anthony Meidland: The absolute best yellow flowering floribunda. The plants are vigorous, bushy and mounded and bloom all season long!

Burgundy Iceberg: This new introduction’s flowers are a purple-red burgundy with cream colored reverse. The flowers offer a soft fragrance, the foliage is glossy green and clean. The habit is rounded and bushy.

Ebb Tide:  Medium, very double, old-fashioned blooms of smoky deep plum purple. Strong spicy clove scent.  Deep green leaves.

Hot Cocoa: The 2003 AARS Winner!  Smoky, dark orange, fragrant flowers.  Dark green foliage. A vigorous plant with good disease resistance. Grows 4 to 6’ tall.

Iceberg:  Ice White, Sweet fragrance.  Large clusters of clear white blooms all season long.  A superb plant for massing in the landscape, Iceberg is a strong grower, disease resistant, low maintenance and hardy.

Julia Child: Just before Julia passed away she selected this exceptional rose to bear her name.  She loved the even butter gold colored, very full old-fashioned blooms & the licorice candy fragrance.  Also the perfectly rounded habit, super glossy leaves & great disease resistance. 

Living Easy: Fragrant flowers are a lovely apricot-orange blend.

Mardi Gras: 2008 AARS Award Winner! Celebrate New Orleans with this outstanding rose. The fragrant blossoms are a lovely pink, yellow and orange blend.

Marmalade Skies:  Large semi-double brilliant tangerine orange blooms.  Everblooming.  Glossy green foliage.  Moderate fragrance.  Ideal for low borders.

Moondance: Winner of the AARS Award for 2007! Creamy white flowers with subtle fragrance grace this plant all season long. The foliage is glossy green and clean. The habit is upright and tall.

The Fairy:  Small, double, light pink flowers and tiny glossy green foliage.  Profuse recurrent bloom.  Slight fragrance. An extremely hardy, vigorous, reliable, low grower.

Super Hero: A wonderful new red variety from the Easy Elegance Series of Roses. Everblooming and disease resistant with bright red hybrid tea-like flowers. Grows 3-5’ tall and 3-4’ wide.

Topsy Turvy: This exciting new introduction has fragrant, bright red blossoms with a white reverse and glossy dark green foliage. A strong plant with a rounded bushy habit.

Romantica Roses

Romantica roses look like an older style of rose.  Most of these have flowers with a high petal count.  Romantica roses are often named after famous people in history.  

Eden Climber:   Soft delicate, pale pink center blending outward to pink outside.  Semi-glossy dark green leaves. A climber to 12’ high. 

Frederic Mistral:  Perfectly pink formed hybrid tea.  Potent & delicious fragrance of fresh citrus and ripe berries.  Disease resistant. Covered in blooms all summer. To 6’

Michelangelo: A hybrid Tea with a sweet lemony fragrance and saturated golden yellow flower petals and long stems, perfect for cutting.

Pink Taviata: Large, deep pink blossoms with more petals than we could count, absolutely gorgeous! A strong addition to the garden with good disease resistance.

Sweet Promise: Oh promises, promises, this is a sweet one! The deep salmon flowers fill the air with a very strong old rose fragrance. A great cut flower too with a long vase life.

Traviata: Like a true Italian opera!  Clear red, luscious, 4” blossoms are sturdy and long lasting with a soft, apple scent.

David Austin’s English Shrub Roses

From English rose breeder David Austin, these varieties offer large, extremely fragrant, double flowers with multiple bloom times.

Abraham Darby:  Peachy, coral pink fragrant blossoms with pale yellow reverse.  Long arching canes with glossy green foliage. Tall, bushy.

Charlotte: A long bloomer with rich, buttery-yellow 3.5-4” flowers. Habit is upright and vigorous.

Gertrude Jekyll:  Deep pink, fragrant large rosette blossoms.  Dark green foliage.  Strong damask fragrance.  Grows 5’ tall.

Graham Thomas:  A continuous supply of deep cup shaped, rich yellow flowers with a fresh Tea Rose fragrance and a hint of violets.  Medium green foliage.  Can grow on a trellis, wall or arbor.  5’ x 5’

Heritage: Large sprays of shell-pink blooms have wonderful old rose and lemon fragrance.  Glossy dark green foliage.  Vigorous yet compact to 4'.

The Mayflower:  A constant supply of small delicate pink blooms, with a delicious Old Rose fragrance.  Named to honor the Pilgrims.  4’ x 3’

William Shakespeare: Fragrant, deep, rich, velvety crimson blossoms that change gradually to a deep purple. Neat upright habit, disease resistant.

Winchester Cathedral:  A lovely white version of the “Mary Rose”4’H by4’W.  A strong fragrance of Old Rose with a hint of honey and almond blossom.

Landscape Shrub Roses

Landscape Shrub roses are tough, low maintenance rose bushes.  Great for gardeners who do not like to fuss over rose bushes.  Most varieties have proven resistance to common disease problems.   

Betty Prior:  This floribunda has dark carmine buds that open to single cupped, fragrant pink flowers in clusters. A tried and true vigorous grower and profuse bloomer. 

Blushing Knockout: Gentle, shell pink blossoms are lightly fragrant & self-cleaning.  A compact, rounded, disease resistant plant that bears hips in autumn. 

Bonica:  “Hasslefree Rose”.  Round pink buds open to gently scalloped flowers with an aroma of apple.  Dark green foliage with a subtle edge of red.  Bright orange hips appear in autumn. 

Carefree Beauty: A wonderful pink shrub rose with excellent disease resistance and twice the petal count of C. Delight.

Carefree Celebration: A fun and colorful new introduction with rich orange, semi-double flowers.

Carefree Delight:  “Hasslefree Rose”.  Carmine -pink flowers have nice fragrance.  Glossy medium green foliage and reliable red hips in fall. Disease resistant & winter hardy.  Very easy care.  Lower growing than C. Beauty.

Carefree Wonder:  “Hasslefree Rose”.  Semi-double, rich pink with a creamy reverse, slightly fragrant flowers. Profuse blooms spring to fall.   3-4’ H. Disease resistant & winter hardy.  Very easy care.

Countess Celeste:  Warm coral pink blooms.  Glossy deep green foliage.  Moderate fragrance.  Medium height.

Crimson Meidland: This new introduction is disease resistant and is covered with unique orange colored blossoms in summer.

Day Dream: Massive clusters of fuschia-pink scented blossoms open wide and flat. The disease resistant deep, glossy green foliage is stunning against the mauve blended blossoms 

Dorothy Perkins:  Small, light pink flowers in large clusters.  Also known as the Cape Cod Rambler.  Can grow to 20’.  Spring bloom.

Double Knockout:  A smaller sister seedling of the famous disease resistant Knock Out with abundant small, double, cherry red flowers that cover this plant from spring until frost.

Gourmet Popcorn:  Bright white profuse blooms.  Disease resistant dark green leaves.  Strong fragrance.  Grows only 1.5-2.5’ tall.

Grandma’s Blessing: This lovely new variety from Easy Elegance offers a compact habit (growing to only 2’ tall and wide) with double, dusty pink, large 3-4” blossoms throughout the season.

Heart n’Soul: A hardy, vigorous rose with long blooming white flowers edged in red.

A Pink Ribbon Plant! (A portion of proceeds go to Breast Cancer Research)

Home Run:  Showy, flame red single blooms.  An offspring of Knock Out, it carries the disease resistance and resistant to powdery mildew & black spot.  Nearly always in color.  Slight fragrance.

Knockout: Light red single flowers.  Blue-green foliage.  Light fragrance.  Disease resistant foliage.  Medium height. 

Lady Elsie May:  Masses of coral-pink semi-double blooms.  Ever-blooming from spring to fall with dark green leaves and subtle fragrance.  Disease resistant and hardy Grows upright to 3’, spreading to only 2’ wide.  Can be used as a mass planting, low border or a specimen plant in container.  A 2005 AARS winner. 

Midnight Blue:  Velvety, dark purple, double flowers that bloom in big groups throughout the summer.  Strong, spicy scent.  Bright green foliage.

Pink Double Knockout: A strong performer with double pink flowers. Pretty and reliable!

Pink Knockout: A carefree shrub rose with powerful, fluorescent pink flowers and mossy green foliage. A lovely, no maintenance rose.

Rainbow Knockout:  The shrub rose-2007 AARS winner! So pretty! Small, single, coral pink blossoms with yellow eye. The habit is compact and rounded.

Snowdrift: A new introduction from Easy Elegance with stunning, pure white, multi-petalled, blossoms with light apricot center. Blooms early and repeats. Grows 3-4’ tall and wide.

Tequila: A symphony of brightly colored apricot-orange flowers throughout the season.

The Fairy: Small, double, light pink flowers. Tiny glossy foliage.  Profuse recurrent bloom.  Slight fragrance. Extremely hardy, low grower.  

Watercolors: Pretty as a painting with pink and yellow, ever-changing, single, fragrant flowers and deep green leaves.

Wing Ding: Brilliant, scarlet red, single, slightly fragrant blossoms. Deep green glossy leaves and spreading habit.

Yellow Brick Road: Awesome, big, full double, deep yellow flowers throughout the season. Foliage is deep green, shiny and highly disease resistant.

Rugosa roses

The toughest roses~ they perform best without the use of chemicals. Perfect for sunny, seaside plantings (high salt tolerance), look great  combined with ornamental grasses.

Blanc Double De Coubert:  This antique beauty was introduced in 1892. It is a medium to tall growing Rugosa with clear white flowers with a sweet fragrance.

Frau Dagmar Hartopp: Makes me think of our friend Jim the Rose Man…this is his favorite Rugosa. Silvery-pink, single fragrant blossoms on prolific plants. Habit is moderately tight and low. Nice hips in winter.

Hansa: Large, double, very fragrant reddish-violet flowers.  Free recurrent bloom. Large, red fruit in fall/winter. A hybrid rugosa- Avoid chemical sprays. Medium-tall.

Linda Campbell:  A cross between a mini rose and a rugosa.  Clusters of deep crimson blooms are among the reddest of rugosas.  Gray-green disease resistant foliage on long arching branches.  Blooms June until fall.

Polar Ice: Flower buds open to pale- pink double flowers that fade to creamy white. This extremely cold hardy, disease resistant hybrid has interesting quilted, gray green leaves.

Polar Sun: Bright pink, double blossoms on this hardy prolific bloomer.

Purple Pavement:  Medium, semi-double reddish-purple blooms above crinkly rugosa leaves. Strong spice scent.  More rounded, compact plant than most rugosas.  Good for smaller spaces.  Bright red hips in the fall.

Raspberry Rugostar:  A true ground hugging, weed- smothering version of the rugosa rose.  Deep pink blooms cover this prostrate plant in June through the summer.  A light clove scent.  Bright orange red hips in fall & winter.

Rosa rugosa:  The parent plant-Tough, hardy, native plants that thrive in difficult sites.  Used extensively in seashore locations. Large, pink flowers that bloom somewhat continuously all summer. Grows to 5’ tall with equal spread. 

Rosa rugosa ‘Alba’:  Similar to R. rugosa with large, fragrant white flowers. 

Topaz Jewel:  Buttery, creamy yellow fragrant rugosa.  Free flowering. May need extra protection in cold winters (hardy to zone 6).

Flower Carpet Roses

Developed and marketed by Anthony Tesslar these Flower Carpet varieties are some of the most popular roses available today.  These groundcover roses are tough, extremely hardy and extremely floriferous.  They will grow in most soils and in full sun to part shade.  No spraying is required; they are black spot and mildew resistant.  Can be used in mass plantings, along borders or in patio pots.  Available in the following colors:

Apple Blossom:  Just lovely with soft, light pink, double flowers.

Coral: Profuse, single, coral blossoms.  Dark, shiny foliage.  Aggressive spreader, perfect for ground covering, in mass plantings or hillsides.  Disease resistant foliage.

Pink:  Deep pink, double blossoms, glossy disease resistant foliage.

Red:  Bold, bright red flowers are single in form and prolific throughout the season.

White:  Perfect, dark, velvety red 4" flowers.  Large, deep, glossy green leaves.

Yellow:  Lemon-yellow double-flowers.  Glossy apple-green foliage. 

Climbers

This type of rose bush develops long somewhat flexible stems that can be trained to climb walls, trellises, arbors and fences.  They require limited pruning, but more training.

Autumn Sunset:  Apricot-gold, fragrant, free-flowering blossoms.  Disease resistant, hardy. 

Blaze:  Medium semi-double, bright scarlet, slightly fragrant blossoms.  Very vigorous, repeat bloomer.

Brite Eyes: A bright addition to the landscape developed by William Radler (the Knockout Rose breeder) with amazing salmon color and fragrance. Only grows 8’ tall nice for smaller gardens.

Candy Land: This fun new introduction has softly, fragrant rosy -pink flowers striped with ivory-yellow. Leaves are glossy apple green. Grows 10-12’.

Eden Climber:  From the Romantica Rose Series, the Eden Climber displays soft delicate, pale pink center blending to deeper pink tones toward outermost petal outward to pink outer petal.  Semi-glossy dark green leaves. A climber to 12’ high. 

Golden Showers:  Large, very fragrant, daffodil-yellow, double, abundant blooms.  Rich green foliage.  6-8'tall. 

Jacob’s Robe: This interesting variety has lovely, ever changing blossoms of yellow to pink and red. Slightly fragrant with glossy deep green leaves. Grows 10-12’

Joseph’s Coat: An ever-changing, show of continuous colorful blooms of yellow to scarlet. A reliable repeat bloomer with amazing color grows to 12’.

Morning Magic: This new climber is a long bloomer, has a compact habit and outstanding soft, shell-pink flowers.

New Dawn: Double, soft pink blooms all season long a true performer.  Most vigorous and disease resistant will grow to 20’.

Night Owl: A smart, new introduction whose wine colored flowers have white eye and yellow stamen. The flowers are fragrant and foliage is gray-green. Will climb to 14’.

Queen Elizabeth:  Multiple bunches of clear pink flowers seem to cover this plant from spring through fall backed by lustrous green foliage.

Sky’s The Limit: A new introduction with large buttery yellow, fragrant flowers. Grows 10-12’.

White Dawn:  Double, gardenia-like, fragrant, white blossoms.  Very vigorous.  Recurrent bloom.

William Baffin:  Rose- pink, mildly fragrant blossoms.  Grows 8-10’. 

Winner’s Circle: A new climber from the breeder of The Knockout Rose series. A floriferous climber with non-fading, fire engine red blossoms. Interesting in fall too, with burgundy foliage and bright orange hips. 

Zephirine Drouhin: A unique climber with thorn-less stems and eye-catching cerise-pink flowers that have a superb old rose fragrance. A very hardy rose that will tolerate some shade.

Rose Care:

Location:  Choose a sunny location for your rose bushes.  The more sun, the more flowers and the better they will resist disease.  Areas with good air circulation will also help prevent disease.

Soil:  Rose bushes prefer rich organic soil.  Kennedy’s recommends mixing composted manure and peat moss to your soil or using ‘Complete Planting Mix’ with your existing soil.  Organic matter will help the soil and the plant to retain moisture longer. 

Watering:  Rose Bushes should be hand watered as needed.  Kennedy’s recommends using a watering wand to direct the water to the area around the base of the plant.  Do your best to avoid getting the foliage wet on a regular basis.

Fertilizing:  Roses like lots of organic matter and should be fed regularly.  Kennedy’s recommends applying Rose-Tone around each rose bush spring through summer or using a liquid rose food, such as Neptune’s Harvest every other week.  Some organic liquid fertilizers actually help prevent disease.  Watering the soil using a compost tea is excellent for adding micro-organisms to the soil.

Preventing Disease:  This is the biggest problem with roses.  Black spot is the most common rose disease.  Spots on the leaves first appear before they turn yellow and fall off.  To avoid some of these problems, choose disease resistant varieties, choose sunny locations with good air circulation, and avoid getting the foliage wet.  It is difficult to control black spot once it has started, but if you have followed the above steps then spraying may be necessary. 

Spaying for Insects and disease:  Black spot, aphids, Japanese beetles, and caterpillars are common pests to watch out for.  Many sprays are available for roses.  Kennedy’s recommends using dual purpose sprays to prevent or control insect and disease problems.  One of the best natural sprays uses an active ingredient called neem oil.  It has been proven to repel and even kill many insects and disease.  Another good organic product is a compost tea called Soil Soup, it helps prevent disease and adds life (beneficial micro-organisms) to the soil.  It can be sprayed on the leaves or watered into the soil every two weeks.  Bonide Rose Spray is a stronger chemical, but very effective on problematic roses.  Ortho also makes a convenient Ready-to-use spray.  Avoid spraying during hot days and right before rain storms.  Spraying at night or early morning also helps avoid killing beneficial bees and insects.  Always read the directions and consult our staff before spraying. 

Pruning:  Most rose bushes benefit from a good hard pruning in early spring before the leaves emerge.  It is okay to cut as much as two thirds of last years growth off.  With young rose bushes this means cutting it back to about 12” from the ground.  This helps keep the plant well rounded and eliminates any dead wood caused by the winter.  Climbers should not be cut back if you want them to continue climbing higher, but it is a good idea to periodically thin out all rose bushes by pruning out selected branches to allow better air movement.  Pruning off spent flowers during the growing season helps speed up the next set of flowers.  It is best to cut the old flower stems back to the second set of five leaves.

Tree Roses

All types of rose bushes are available to be grow as a tree.  Groundcover type tends to give a weeping effect and upright forms give a larger tree effect.  Often quite spectacular!  Tree roses do best when protected in winter.  Kennedy’s recommends moving containerized plants to a tool shed or garage for winter or dug up, leaned over and covered with mulch.  Almost always worth the extra effort!

Let us know early in the season the color preference you have for special orders.

All Rose bushes grown in 2 gal pot unless noted

Quantity Discount:

Buy 10 or more rose bushes and receive 10% of your purchase.

Not to be combined with other discounts.

For more information please see a member of Kennedy’s staff

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www.KennedysCountryGardens.com

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Last modified: April 12, 2008