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The Friends of Vintage Roses

The Friends of Vintage Roses exists to preserve the collection of historic roses developed by Gregg
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On this page we will share news and information regarding The Friends of Vintage Roses, including photos and information about the roses in the collection. To support The Friends of Vintage Roses, please visit http://thefriendsofvintageroses.org/donate/

11/07/2024

Today's rose is Crimson Conquest, a Climbing Hybrid Tea discovered by Chaplin Bros. in 1931. Crimson-scarlet blooms with golden stamens and a fruity fragrance. Glossy dark green foliage.

11/07/2024

Here is Break O' Day, a Hybrid Tea introduced by Brownell in 1939. Apricot-buff blushing to straw, very double, in the flat old-fashioned form. spicy tea fragrance. Plant and flowers are small.

11/06/2024

Today's rose is Belle Story, an English/Shrub Rose introduced by David Austin in 1985. The intensely fragrant blooms of Belle Story make up for her rather awkward and sprawling habit of growth. Flowers are widely cupped, warm salmon-blush with a bowl of scarlet-pink stamens.

11/05/2024

Our rose for today is Albéric Barbier, a Rambler introduced by Barbier in 1900. Glossy, black-green foliage provides a fine foil to the creamy white, formally double flowers of Alberic Barbier; perhaps the most elegant of all Ramblers. Though sharply barbed with thorns, Alberic Barbier is a desirable rose, for it is always very healthy and handsome year-round in the garden.

11/04/2024

Here is Nouveau Monde, a Hybrid China introduced pre-1900. Medium pink flowers with perfect flat form and a large button eye in profusion on a large arching shrub. remarkable in full bloom, with a prolonged season.

11/03/2024

This is About Face, a Hybrid Tea/Grandiflora created by the great America rose breeder, Tom Carruth. Weeks introduced it in 2005. Tom's work in rose breeding stands out over all other American breeders of the past 50 years, and his innovations have brought better garden roses into our lives. Full blooms are orange-gold with a deeper reverse. It has a fruity, apple fragrance. The shrub is tall and vigorous.

11/02/2024

Today's rose is Leontine Gervais, a Rambler introduced in 1903 by Barbier. Beautiful as this rose is, it never comes up to the vivid coloring shown in catalogues; on first opening the flowers are deep apricot, flushed with orange, but this is fleeting. A more subtle blend of soft apricot-buff, with a sweet, apple fragrance remains.

11/01/2024

Here is Ballet, a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1958 by Kordes. One of the most exquisite flowers among the many descendants of Peace; large self-colored deep pink blooms, of exhibition perfection, on fine long stems. Little fragrance.

10/31/2024

Here is Astronomia, a Floribunda, Shrub introduced by Meilland in 2006. Astronomia is a lovely mounding shrub that covers itself in single, blush white blooms with red stamens in the spring with nice flushes all season after. Unfortunately, no fragrance.

10/30/2024

Today's rose is Bredon, an English/Shrub Rose introduced by David Austin in 1985. Very double, flat flowers, peachy-cream in coloring, sometimes very deeply colored, with an old rose fragrance. a compact grower, which has turned out to be one of the most useful Austin varieties, and ideal in a container.

10/29/2024

This is Apple Blossom (Dawson), a Hybrid Multiflora Rambler introduced by Dawson in 1890. Semi-double blush pink flowers with a white eye, fragrant and prolific; this is a very vigorous Rambler that blooms late in the season.

10/28/2024

Our rose for today is Andenken an Alma de l'Aigle a Hybrid Musk introduced in 1948 by Kordes. such a name for a simple rose! Perhaps if the German were translated to French it would roll off the tongue better; Andenken means souvenir. Large, cupped, light pink flowers, blush at the base open casual and blowzy, and fragrant! Rather out of the mould of most Hybrid Musks.

10/27/2024

The white rose in this photo is Guadalupe Volunteer, a Hybrid Musk. It was discovered in the San Jose Historic Rose Garden in 1997 by Mel Hulse and named to honor the volunteers caring for the garden. The pure white blooms have yellow stamens and a strong spicy scent. This is a very vigorous and disease resistant rose, possibly climbing to 40'.

10/26/2024

Our rose for today is Arielle Dombasle, a Large-Flowered-Climber introduced by Meilland in 1991. A lovely brightly colored climber of vermillion shaded gold, very disease resistant growing to seven feet tall.

10/25/2024

Here is Marechal Niel, a Tea-Noisette introduced in 1864 by Pradel. Deep golden-lemon flowers with recurving petals, the flowers holding a goblet shape and nodding effectively from above. Fragrant.

10/24/2024

Here is Blue Moon, a Hybrid Tea introduced in 1965 by Tantau. Silvery-lilac flowers, magenta at the base, very fragrant; another very good seedling of Sterling Silver, and far more vigorous than its parent.

10/23/2024

Today's rose is Blush Noisette, a Noisette introduced in 1817 by Noisette. If the name is correct, this is the original offspring of Champney's Pink Cluster raised in France and portrayed by Redoute. In any event it is an excellent rose, very fragrant, with all the Noisette charm. A moderate shrub or pillar, it is rarely without flowers.

10/22/2024

Our rose for today is Anna Jung, a Tea introduced by Nabonnand in 1905. The large semi-double to double blooms are pink with salmon highlights and a coppery center. There is a moderate fragrance.

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On this page we will share news and information regarding The Friends of Vintage Roses, including photos and information.

Who We Are: TFoVR is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization, Tax ID is 45-5624170. All contributions are tax deductible to the extent provided by law.

Our Mission: The Friends of Vintage Roses exists to preserve and enhance the unique and extensive collection of historic roses developed by Gregg Lowery and Phillip Robinson, to establish the collection in a garden, and to share the collection with other public rose preservation efforts, all for the purpose of educating the public about the importance of the rose to human history, cultures, technology and science.

Events: Find out about our ongoing work on the collection and how to volunteer on our ‘Dirt Days’ page.

Questions: For additional information, or to volunteer, please contact TFoVR at: General questions: [email protected] About the rose collection: [email protected] About donations: [email protected] About volunteering: [email protected]

~ About The Roses ~

TFoVR owns and maintains the historic roses in the “Lowery-Robinson” collection, currently located in Sebastopol, California, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. Rosarians world-wide consider the collection to be one of the most comprehensive multiple-class collections of old roses ever assembled. Of particular note – the Hybrid Perpetuals, Bourbons, Gallicas, Hybrid Chinas, Teas, Noisettes and Chinas are among the most complete in North America and the old Hybrid Teas include an extensive group of Pernetianas.

In addition to the historic roses in the “Lowery-Robinson” collection, TFoVR also owns approximately 1,000 books, pamphlets and journals on miscellaneous rose subjects.

History: Beginning in the early 1980s, Gregg Lowery and Phillip Robinson, with the assistance of others, developed the collection through gifts of plant material from then still-existent old gardens or small nurseries in the United States, from cuttings propagated from old plants discovered in California and other states at abandoned homesteads, old cemeteries and the like, and by purchasing and importing cultivars no longer available elsewhere from specialized nurseries abroad. This passion for old roses resulted in documented inventories of 5,412 named cultivars. While some of the cultivars cannot be found in the collection at present, TFoVR is working to inventory all existing plants and to obtain replacements for lost specimens deemed worthy of continued representation in the collection.

Public Gardens: Roses in the collection have been the source of propagation material provided to numerous public rose gardens, including: in California, the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, the Historic Rose Garden in the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery, the University of California Botanical Garden (Berkeley), the Rose Garden at The Huntington Botanical Gardens (San Marino), and Hearst Castle State Park (San Simeon); in Shreveport, Louisiana, the Heritage Rose Foundation Garden at the American Rose Center; in Charleston, South Carolina, the Noisette Garden at Hampton Park; in New York, the Heritage Rose District of New York City; and in Sakura, Japan, the Sakura Heritage Rose Garden. Plant material from the collection also has provided replacements for old roses long missing from the world-recognized rose gardens at Roseraie de l’Hay-les-roses in Paris, the Europa-Rosarium in Sangerhausen, Germany and in the United Kingdom, the National Trust’s historic rose garden at Mottisfont Abbey.

Scientific Research: The collection has provided DNA for important scientific rose studies as well. Notable studies include the research of Professor Maurice Jay at Strausbourg University in France, the pigment research pursued by Dr. Yuki Mikanagi at Kobe University in Japan and the Noisette and Tea studies conducted by Dr. Nancy Morvello at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida.

To support The Friends of Vintage Roses, please visit http://thefriendsofvintageroses.org/donate/