Monday, May 16, 2011

Fairy Roses


The fairy roses are blooming! I'm counting on them to fill in my front garden; the deer won't touch them. I like to wear armor myself when I'm cutting them, the thorns are so fierce. But worth it!

8 comments:

Deanna Rabe - Creekside Cottage Blog said...

I adore fairy roses...I need to plant and grow some!

Anonymous said...

I had some very lovely Fairy roses at my previous residence. Now I have Nearly Wild roses and they are not nearly as lovely.

Kat said...

Lovely!

Kate said...

I need to find me some of these, if for no other reason than their name! Fairy Roses........absolutely enchanting!

~Kate

Rebecca said...

Are these the roses that grow wild on the fence rows? We had them on my grandparent's place in Oklahoma, and I adored them as girl, gathering armfulls to bring inside in May and more on Memorial day to adorn the graves of loved ones.

Have you been successful to cultivating cuttings? I tried again and again to no avail, but I don't have much luck with roses anyway.

Anna said...

I haven't tried taking cuttings from these, since the bushes are generous about sending up babies nearby that transplant well.

McKee Family said...

Rebecca, we have some roses that look like these, climbing roses from Oklahoma. My husband's great grandmother grew them.
His family calls them Gribble roses (that was her last name). They are very pretty, small and many petals, but don't really have a fragrance, at least ours don't. We are in northeast Texas and they are going crazy growing along the fence.

Julie said...

My mom had two different shades, and I'm really wanting some, too.

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