Northeast Gardening: What's Growing - Part 10, 1 by grampapa

grampapa wrote:
Kay, pushing the zone is really not the problem. you just have to be careful to pick something hardy, but there are plenty of roses that will grow to z4 and even 3. it's the lack of sun that concerns me more. if you have a spot that gets at least 6 hours of sun a day we can find you a nice red rose :0)

I have a mini in my garden that should be hardy in z5, it's probably 2 1/2' tall, 2' wide, a nice clear red, blossoms are small but it's covered almost all summer. here's a pic I took 2 days ago. I've never had a disease problem with it. 'Red Sunblaze'

I mentioned Knock Out. a very popular shrub, tough, hardy, disease resistent, easy to find

RUBY MEIDILAND is another shrub with those same characteristics...here's a link

http://www.heirloomroses.com/cgi/browse.cgi?page=item&cat=16...

Trumpeter is a z4 hardy, relatively trouble-free floribunda

http://www.countrysideroses.com/