Roses from Northland Rosarium
I love this time of year, when I can walk through my flower gardens and see all the wonderful, fragrant blooms - everything looks so amazing this season.
Not long ago, we received a delivery of Northland Rosarium roses to add to my flower cutting garden. I already have many rose cultivars, but I wanted to fill the entire fence perimeter with gorgeous rose blooms. Northland Rosarium is a family owned business located about 10-minutes south of downtown Spokane, Washington. Northland Rosarium’s nursery includes a display garden filled with more than two-thousand roses in addition to several varieties of companion plants - with an English garden theme, there is something in bloom at all times of the season. I was so excited to receive a collection of their specimens - we planted them right away using some of our great tools and accessories from Gardener's Supply Company.
Enjoy these photos.
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- Recently, we received three boxes filled with 30 beautiful, healthy rose plants from Northland Rosarium. https://www.northlandrosarium.com
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- Northland Rosarium ships their specimens when they are leafed out. They come carefully packaged with their pots securely wrapped to keep in the moisture.
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- Once they were all removed from the boxes, the roses were placed in my flower cutting garden as Ryan figured out which one would go where.
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- Ryan looks at each variety carefully. It’s crucial to place them where they would not only look best, but where they would fit based on their mature growth habit, size, color and fragrance.
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- Ryan creates a hole twice the size of the container. He is using comfortable Kneelo™ knee pads with shock-absorbing EVA foam from Gardener’s Supply Company. He is also using their Gold Leaf Gloves, which are made with premium deerskin leather treated for water resistance, and their garden clogs made of pliable, rubber-like plastic that’s durable and easy to clean. http://www.gardeners.com/
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- He is also using the potting trowel exclusively from Gardener’s Supply Company. It has a wide, curved blade that is ideal for scooping soil. It also holds more soil than a traditional trowel. It is quite popular here at the farm.
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- I wanted all these fence walls to be covered with fragrant, colorful roses. Ryan dug several holes at once, and sprinkled each one with a generous amount of good quality all-purpose or rose-specific plant food.
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- Then he placed each plant next to the hole in which it would be planted.
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- Northland Rosarium uses six-inch tall containers for their plantings. Each one holds about one-quart of root mass.
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- Each container has handy holes at the bottom – not only for drainage, but also for ease – look how easy it is to push each specimen out of its pot.
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- The plant is buried to the same depth it was in its original pot. Never bury a plant deeper than its crown, or where the roots and the stems meet – buried crowns mean suffocated plants. Ryan back-fills with soil and gently tamps the soil down around the plant.
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- For rose climbers, Ryan gently props the plant against the fence, so it knows where it can attach as it grows.
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- Finally, he places the plant marker next to each specimen, so we know the source and variety of each rose in the garden.
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- Ryan continues to fill in any gaps along the fence line.
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- Once they are all planted, Ryan gives them all a good, thorough drink of water.
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- These plants will look so amazing in the coming years.
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- Among the stunning rose plants we received from Northland Rosarium – this purple ‘Night Owl’ – with clusters of wine-purple, fragrant blooms on a strong growing climber. This plant blooms the first season and the flowers hold their color in the garden. (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- This lavender beauty is called ‘Poseidon’. It has large, full blooms that grow up to four-inches in diameter. It is disease resistant and blackspot resistant. (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- ‘Alchymist’ is an apricot color with a strong fragrance. It has large, very full, quartered blooms. It is a very healthy variety that’s extremely disease resistant. (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- This cultivar is called ‘Quick Silver’ – a new climber with double blooms of lavender on a healthy bush with shiny green foliage. It is fragrant and disease resistance. (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- This old fashioned, salmon pink rose is called ‘Colette’. It blooms with 134 to 140 petals. It has a strong tea rose fragrance, and a healthy and hardy bush. (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- ‘Cecile Brunner’ is a large growing rose with small light pink, hybrid tea shaped blooms. Often known as the “Sweetheart Rose”, it has intense fragrance and profuse blooms in spring. (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- Tom Carruth, the breeder of this new rose, ‘Ebb Tide’, describes it to have “dusky deep purple buds that swirl open to very double old-fashioned flowers of velvet plum washed with a haze of sultry smoke.” This rose has a clove fragrance and beautiful color. (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- ‘Jeannie Lajoie’ has small, medium pink, hybrid tea shaped blooms all season. It is listed as a climbing miniature rose, but needs little support. It will be an upright bush if left to its own. (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- This rose is called ‘Lykkefund’. It needs plenty of room to grow. Small blooms of cream and white occur in clusters and literally cover the bush. It has a strong fragrance and blooms in the spring or early summer. Plus — it is thornless! (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- This is a vigorous, almost thornless, spring blooming rambler called ‘Veilchenblau’. The blooms start out reddish purple, then turn a dark violet and fade to lilac and blue. Because the blooms are long lasting, all of these shades of color can be seen at the same time. (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- Also known as ‘Geschwind’s Most Beautiful’, this rose is called ‘Geschwind Schonste’. This climber was originally bred by Rudolf Geschwind in Hungry and introduced after his death in 1929. It is a stunning purple-red bloom, occurring once in the spring or early summer. (Photo courtesy of Northland Rosarium)
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- My current rose bushes are already overflowing with beautiful blooms – I just love the intoxicating fragrance of roses.
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- They are also growing wonderfully on my tower trellises – if you recall, these older roses were transplanted from my home in East Hampton, New York – they continue to do so well.
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- This garden is looking so gorgeous and colorful this season. How is your flower garden doing? Share your comments below – I love hearing from all of you.
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