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I live near Cincinnati and was wondering what the most vigorous and
possibly unique roses to the area are. Did those old German's bring any
over on the boat? Wondering what would be an authentic kind of schrub or
climber for an old German neighborhood. Show blooms are neat, but I like
that all summer long kind of color and scent.

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I live near Cincinnati and was wondering what the most vigorous and
possibly unique roses to the area are. Did those old German's bring any
over on the boat? Wondering what would be an authentic kind of schrub or
climber for an old German neighborhood. Show blooms are neat, but I like
that all summer long kind of color and scent.


How old do your Germans have to be? Several of the century's greatest rose
breeders are/were German, one of them was even unofficial reich rosarian before
he successfully separated himself from the situAtion, as they say. Roses did
not stop being bred in Germany during WWII, and it's interesting to me to read
which ones were introduced during those years.

I think Trier is in Germany, no? Trier, then. The Rose Trier. It's small and
white, with a yellow center, and literally blooms by the thousands, and there
is never a time, from first flush to fall, when it does not have blooms on it,
this is not any kind of exaggeration. And it's immense, it's a statement, a
huge round ball that says ROSE like no other I know and the Fragrance is
Intense, and can fill a whole garden--EAsy.
People will gawk at it, there will be car wrecks.

I got mine at Heirloom Old Garden Roses, along with Sparrieshoop--or did I get
that one from White Rabbit Roses?-- which is another entirely appropriate
German selection. Kordes is either from Sparrieshoop, or does business there.
It's quite different from Trier, big pink single blooms, not densely bushy like
Trier--you could call it a climber, you could call it a rambler. Hundreds of
blooms go the length of the long canes, blooms profusely.
2 warnings on Sparrieshoop. Very beautiful pink but it fades to white in
about 19 hours and will literally jump at any opportunity to get blackspot.
It's a problem I ignore--every few years, when El Nino(a) turns New Mexico into
a sweaammp, this one acts like a terrorist.

If you actually need a rose of color, then go here
http://www.helpmefind.com/Roses
and do a search on Kordes or Tantau--you can list all roses by either artist,
I think-- and you can find a rose with a Name or anything else that suits your
fancy. There are just *so many to choose from.

Dortmund is another Kordes rose which can make a statement on its own, easy.
Huge 5-petalled blooms, white eye, very striking. Very bushy with climbing
tendencies. I once took a 'stem' of this one to the County Fair--not any
bigger than would fit in a vase-- and there must have been a hundred buds on
it, with large numbers unopened--and I had this local hoser lady ask me-- What
is THAT?, like she didn't even recognize it as a rose. Like it was from
another planet. The leaves remind you somewhat of holly with impossibly huge
clusters of roses.

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