Date Planted: March 22, 1998 This rose has the form that leaps to mind when I hear the term 'cabbage rose', for the unfurling buds look like little heads of pink cabbage! The flowers are large, globe shaped and a wonderful clear warm pink... and offer a delightful 'old rose' fragrance. This is a charming landscape plant; mine is pegged in the center of a raised bed, and forms a 5' wide by 3' tall mound when trained in this manner. If left unpegged, it would form an elegant, arching shrub of approx. 4' x 4' or so. The blooms come in clusters on thin stems, much like the China or Tea roses. I've heard this rose criticized for it's "weak necks" but personally I like the nodding blooms, finding them charming in arrangements. If you like the stiff, upright bloom-on-a-stick Hybrid Tea form, then you may not find this plant appealing. Disease has not been a problem in my no-spray Darwinian garden; it gets some minor blackspot and mildew, but nothing to worry about. This plant takes quite a while to really settle in and strut it's stuff so give it at least three years before deciding whether or not to keep it.
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Bibi Maizoon (AUSdimindo)
