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Please recommend a rose for Hayward Hills (SF East bay) area

Posted by lola-lemon 9a (My Page) on
Tue, Feb 5, 13 at 22:39

A friend of ours recently got into roses and when we visited he showed us his collection. He had NO fragrant roses and I think all were just body bags grabbed from whereever. They were doing pretty fabulously though. My husband and I will be heading down that way again this summer and I would like to give him a lovely rose or 2. I think he will be proficient and can grow whatever.
Any recommendations for a really scrumptious rose? Something smelly and big and beautiful.
My 3 main criteria would be
1) Fragrant
2) prefer steady, good bloom production (but a once a year show stopper works too)-- just no stingy roses
3) scrumptious (thinking Madame Isaac Periere or Sombrieul etc.)

...perhaps some of the more recently found roses like Grandmothers hat, Old town Novato-- but that is just where my head is.

Whatever it is - it shouldn't be a dog locally prone to defoliating and getting otherwise nasty.
(The Hayward Hills (he's high up) are probably a little wetter than San Jose as the fog will roll through there- but dryer than the majority of the north bay. Not positive tho. He's facing the bay-


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RE: Please recommend a rose for Hayward Hills (SF East bay) area

The San Francisco Bay Area Rose Society's website has some recommendations on the link below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Roses That Grow Well In The SF Bay Area


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