Rosa sp. ‘Old Blush’ Fred Meyer running wide and staying close

running wide and staying close to the ground

By all signs this curious form will never become a large tree

mound coarse sand and pine straw over the stubs

and give plenty of heat and water through the summer for the fullest growth and bloom

Rosa sp. ‘Old Blush’ Fred Meyer running wide and staying closeNearly every rose in your garden that blooms more than once a year owes a debt to this one. 'Old Blush' is a China rose, bred in China for something close to a thousand years and known there as the monthly pink, and they are generally reckoned the first East Asian rose to reach Europe, recorded in Sweden by 1752 and offered in England as Parson's Pink China in 1793. They brought with them the one thing Western roses simply did not have: the habit of