Nursery Market Report: June 2001, Landscape Plants: Everything’s Coming Up Roses

But the landscape is changing as new, garden-hardy hybrids and other exciting plants are being introduced. These are some of the latest choices on the market.

‘Sunset Celebration,’ named for the West Coast lifestyle magazine, Sunset, is a long-stemmed, hybrid tea rose that changes color with the weather. Colors range from amber-orange, when cool, to apricot blushed with cream or warm peach, when warm. The plant has large blooms and is moderately fragrant.

‘Iceberg’ is a floribunda type, which means it blooms in clusters. The plant produces large, snowy white flowers on a vigorous garden bush.

‘Dream Orange’ is a robust, bright and cheery hybrid. It is pure, clear orange and a vigorous grower, like other colors in the Dream series.

‘St. Patrick’ is a yellow rose with good vigor. It blooms on gray-green foliage and has high-centered flowers that take on a greenish tint in warmer weather.

‘Flower Carpet White’ is a shrub rose with white blooms. It is a compact, prolific bloomer.

‘Audrey Hepburn’ is a delicate and refined light pink hybrid tea rose with a good scent and growth habit.

‘Dainty Bess’ is a light pink cultivar with five-petal, single blooms. A floribunda, this plant is elegant, sophisticated and stylish. With a clove-like scent, this rose makes a good addition to a perennial bed.

‘Fourth of July’ is a climbing rose with clusters of large red and white striped flowers. It has a sweet fragrance and repeat-flowering characteristics to provide blooms all summer.

‘Bonica’ is a French-bred shrub rose that produces masses of light pink blooms all summer long. This rose makes an excellent colorful hedge or border planting, although it is not very fragrant.

Named after its grandparent Peace, ‘Glowing Peace’ combines timeless beauty with modern novelty. Large, round buds open to reveal full, 3-inch blooms featuring 26 to 42 golden yellow and cantaloupe orange blended petals. Deep, glossy green foliage serves as a backdrop for the blooms and gives way to burgundy fall color. A round, bushy grandiflora, it grows to 4 feet by 3 feet and has a light tea fragrance.

‘Sun Sprinkles’ has blazing yellow blooms set against a backdrop of petite, dark green, glossy foliage. Its high, pointed, oval buds spiral open to reveal 2-inch, petite, double blooms with 25 to 30 petals and a moderate spicy fragrance. Upright and rounded, ‘Sun Sprinkles’ will grow to 18 to 24 inches. This rose is ideal for lining walkways, growing in containers or accenting formal rose beds.

‘Marmalade Skies’ has brilliant tangerine orange blooms and healthy, medium olive green, satiny foliage. The floribunda produces clusters of five to eight blooms – a complete bouquet – on each stem. Oblong buds open to reveal 2½- to 3-inch double blooms with 17 to 25 petals.

‘Glowing Peace,’ ‘Sun Sprinkles’ and ‘Marmalade Skies’ are 2001 All-America Rose Selections winners and are available for the 2001 season. For more information, check out www.rose.org.