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Rose of the Month For May, 2006
by Barbara Picarelli
I recently received a gift certificate for two roses from Vintage Gardens in Sebastopol. The dilemma of what to choose is sort of like writing this article. There’s ONLY 40,000 roses out there to chose from, so what to do? Well, I drag out my multiple rose books and then end up reading them for hours on end and don’t get this done! So on to the rose of the month.
I’m going to introduce you to a most unusual rose, named ‘Alexander’. I do have this rose and would like to get Vintage Gardens, and Gregg Lowery to propagate another one for me. It’s a stunning bright luminous orange! Hybridized by Jack Harkness in1972, it was named after his WWII commanding officer in the North African campaign. ‘Tropicana’, ‘Ann Elizabeth’ and ‘All Gold’ are the parenting units. It’s quite vigorous and grows fairly tall, with large double flowers of 25 petals on long stems but sometimes oddly enough in clusters. The foliage is glossy and bright green. I’ve been lucky not to have much disease on this bush.
Apparently I’m not the only one who likes this rose, as it’s received the Hamburg Gold Medal 1973, Belfast Gold Medal in 1974, Anerkannte Deutsche Rose 1974, Royal National Rose Society James Mason Medal 1987, and the Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit 1993.
Photo of Alexander courtesy of The Country Garden Plant Centre
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Previous Roses of the Month:
April, 2006
Marquise Bocella
Gold Medal
Sophy's Rose
Sombreuil
Rhonda
Georgia
Yvonne Rabier
The McCartney Rose
Rosette Delizy
The Green Rose
St. Patrick
R. rugosa
Baronne Prevost
Fortunes Double Yellow
Iceberg
Touch of Class, Tournament of Roses, and Taboo
All That Jazz
Peace
Betty Prior
Gertrude Jekyll
Sally Holmes
Double Delight
Gartendirecktor Otto Linne
Little Artist
Complicata
Penelope
Westerland
Elina
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