Antique Rose Emporium Purchases

Of course, I have no pictures of this beautiful nursery/garden BECAUSE MY CAMERA DIED! But I did console myself with some purchases. Their bushes are well-grown and in gallon pots, which is good, but the price is pretty high: $18.95 per plant, no matter how rare or common. So I didn't go too nuts, and I could have, I sooooooo could have. Especially if I had the room for more shrub or climbing roses. But I stuck with compact ones with little, mini-type blooms that won't go over two or three feet. The ones I got were in the "found rose" category, which just means that their parentage are unknown, so in a sense they are pretty unique (pics and text from their site) include:

Lindee: Like a miniature version of the Polyantha, ‘Katharina Zeimet’, “Lindee” is a compact bush of dark green foliage, but the tiny white flowers are borne in clusters rather than separately. This leads us to believe it probably is a Polyantha; in fact, some have suggested that this rose is ‘Pâquerette’, the first Polyantha. Mike Lindee, of Houston, shared his grandmother’s rose with us. This is the perfect plant for a confined area, small pot, or dainty border along a sidewalk or flowerbed.
Right now my biggest problem is deciding which of the latter to do, as I do have a narrow border it could go in, but I also like the idea of it cascading over the edge of a nice pot. If it's not in the ground then it's easier to take it with me when I move if I wanted to, but all the pots I have are full, so I'd have to make some decisions about those, and/or get a new nice pot--and those are hard to come by 'round here (would take a trip to Civilization prob.). So....I dunno yet.

Petite Pink Scotch: " This rose was found in 1949 by Jackson M. Batchelor of Willard, North Carolina, growing in the garden of a 1750’s plantation home on the Cape Fear River, near Wilmington, N.C. The area was originally settled by Scottish and English immigrants and Mr. Batchelor speculates that this rose came with them, which explains its name. (The rose shows no relationship to the ‘Scotch Rose’, R. spinosissima,) He sent plants to the National Arboretum in 1956, where it was rated as an outstanding groundcover shrub for slopes. We find that this once blooming rose makes a superb and graceful low hedge." I love the history of this one! It has really tiny leaves and blooms in tiny pink sprays--very unique looking. It only blooms once in the spring, so the rest of the year it looks like a little green shrub. I'm in the same quandary as above with this one. I don't have enough for a hedge, but it's pretty spreading so it would eventually take up horizontal space, which is kinda at a premium in the bed I'm considering. I'm already taking stuff out of it. So, hmm.

Oh, also got a really cutely-bizarre Osteosporum 'Soprano Lilac Spoon', which is an annual but might survive here in the ground or if in a group-plant pot, in the greenhouse.






Finally, a wicked Gaillardia, 'Torch Red Ember', which is a perennial and adapted well for this area. It will go in a hot and dry area of one of the front beds.