The roses are blooming. Pictured is one nodding over a chain link fence on Dodge near Lyons--eight feet tall and magnificent! The most popular roses these days may be the Knockout clan, but Laurie and Mike Dolan of Roses & Roses & Roses in Wadsworth, who have been selling roses and designing rose gardens for many years, say there are many other roses "just as disease resistant." Some of their recommendations:
Grande Dame (hybrid tea)--rose-pink, heirloom flower form, very fragrant
Apricot Candy (hybrid tea)--soft apricot, ruffled bloom, fragrant, hardy.
Mother of Pearl (grandiflora)--soft peach pink, heavy bloomer.
Cinco de Mayo (floribunda)--rusty red-orange, very heavy bloomer
Julia Child (floribunda)--gold-yellow, fragrant, heirloom flwr form.
For a Climber they like New Dawn for its ability to survive our winters.
At the Merrick Rose Garden in Evanston on Sunday June 30 (noon to 5 pm) will be a Rosarian who can to answer questions and make suggestions. It's all part of the Evanston Garden Walk that day. Do u want to join us?
(The climbing rose was grown by Rayna L.--she said she does not know the name and got it from Menard's nine years ago.)
note: the writer is Chairman of the not-for-profit Ev Gdn Walk
