Historic Hood River
Roses
10-22-2021
Notes
This climbing rose vine must have had a special meaning to W.F. Laraway, as he returned to it again many years later. I wonder if they brought this from Iowa?
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When I first opened up the photo I thought it was a little boy looking through a peek hole, watching a baseball game.
I guess it is an impressive rose, since the vine goes down to one little strand and then expands out to full of blossoms.
nels
This looks like a rose from the cabbage family. They are an old style. And their aroma is so strong that they are used to create rose aromas even today. Their
aroma is so strong that they are used today to crate that memorable smell, allthe while maintaining that cabbage shape.
Whomever raised it had a right to be proud of it. Aroma was lost as varieties were developed, and only now are roses being bred with their distinctive rose aroma back into them.
kmb
As the saying goes, it is nice to stop and smell the roses once in a while. Except in this case, you would need a ladder to get up close. I would love to know what old cabbage type varieties had strong aromas and if they are still available today. Most of the modern hybrid varieties barely have any scent these days.
nels
@ kmb, type in ‘cabbage roses’ in google and see what it comes up with. Rose breeding went so strong for looks that the roses lost their scent. Now the breeders are going back to recapture that scent. So aroma and thorns, that is the question!