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Question: What van eties of roses grow best along the
coast? The hybnd tea roses I brought with me from my
Portland home and planted at my new home in Gearhart
have not done well. After a windstorm all the new growth
turned brown. It looked like they had been burned.
Her favorite nursery for roses is:
Heirloom Old Garden Roses
25062 N.E. Riverside Drive
St. Paul, OR 97137
Mary Lee Saulsbury (Raintree Nursery) suggested
Town and Country Border Landscape shrub roses. These
roses come in shades of white, pink, red and yellow
blossoms. They are hardy, disease-resistant, and bloom
throughout the summer, growing to about 3’ to 4 ’.
Available at:
Raintree Nursery
101 Highway north of Cannon Beach Junction
Seaside, OR 97138
Phone 1-503-738-6980
Joe Balden, (Landscaper for the City of Cannon Beach)
planted Meidiland bush roses on city property. A favorite
of this variety is a brilliant red-colored flower called
“Sevillana” that blooms all summer and in the fall is
covered with rich scarlet fruit (rose hips). Pest and
disease-resistant, it grows to about 3-1/2’ to 5’. This rose
has even sun ived in the city’s public parking lot where the
fumes from hundreds of cars could cause problems for
growing many planks. A friend of mine planted several
around her home which is about 100’ from the shoreline
and all summer “Sevillana” is covered with brilliant red
flowers.
Last fall, a magazine called “Gardens West”, a
Vancouver, B.C. publication, did an article about Rosa
Rugosa roses. Many catalogs list them simply as “Beach
Roses”. Rugosas are the hardiest of all. Their virtues are:
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Answer: Coastal weather is not kind to many varieties of
roses. Constant damp, salt-laden w inds off the ocean can
cause problems of turning leaves and flower buds brown,
as if they have been burned, as you described. Three
foliage diseases can bother roses: mildew, rust, and black
spot. Here along the North coast, where summer rainfall
is normal, black spot thrives. This year in the first part of
April we had a warm spell, causing many plants to
produce new growth. This was followed by a severe wind
storm, rain, cold nights and hail which caused many of my
plants damage. 1 live only 175 feet from the ocean front
and all the new growth of plants in the path of the storm
turned brown. Some of my newly-planted shrubs even
lost all their leaves. Around the last of May new growth
appeared on the new shrubs, and hopefully, all will
survive. Many varieties of roses and other plants do well
here, however. If you want to grow roses, the following
suggestions from the experts might be helpful.
Rita Frailey (Frailey’s Landscape, Cannon Beach, OR)
has had success with two different climbing roses. Dublin
Bay (red flower), which grows to about 10’, was
introduced in Ireland in 1975. Dr W. van Fleet (pale pink
flower), introduced in the USA in 1910, grows to 12 to
15’. Both are available from:
Pickering Nurseries, Inc.
670 Kingston Road
Pickering, On. L1V 1A6
Canada (Catalog is $3.00)
Beth Holland (Holland’s Flowers) has propagated
cuttings from many different rose bushes that have
successfully grown in gardens on the Northwest coast for
years. Last year I wrote about one of these roses that
grows in my yard, called Dorothy Perkins. It’s a rambler
rose that covers the roof of a single-story garage. The
(lower is a small double pink color and blooms all
summer. Beth now has these plants available:
Holland’s Flowers
P.O. Box 132
Cannon Beach, OR 97110
Phone 1-503-436-2574
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The two troublesome features of most Rugosas are:
- many have exceedingly thorny stems and this
makes it difficult to weed around
- also, many send out runners, but this can be a
plus if you have a large area to landscape
Research the Rugosa before you plant. These roses are
available in many nurseries including a few I’ve mentioned
in this article.
In my own garden I continue to pamper the few hybrids
I chose because of their beauty and fragrance, but possibly
it’s not going to be a winning battle. I spend hours
washing off aphids, picking off leaves that show black
spot, mulching, fertilizing and watering. The hybrids I
chose are:
- Tropicana (well-known for black spot)
- Double Delight
- David Austins (English Elegance)
(Abraham Darby)
All of the above arc very fragrant.
My climbers are:
- Sunny June (from Roses of Yesterday & Today,
801 Brown’s Valley Road,
Watsonville, CA 95076)
- Alchymist (from Picketing Nurseries)
If I were to start from scratch, I would do more research
to find roses that have fewer problems. It’s really not kind
to plants, nor smart for the pocketbook, to try to buck the
inclement coastal weather, as there are many varieties of
roses and other plants that do thrive,here on the coast.
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