Mel’s Heritage is my favorite rose out of the 60 or so roses I grow. I’m in San Diego County, CA. It’s early November and Mel’s H...Read Moreeritage is loaded with buds. MH is certainly a rose that likes to bloom and grow. Mine has only been in the ground for a year, yet the canes are 15-20 feet long already. I have some canes attached to the fence above it, and some canes sprawl down the slope. This rose wants to grow huge in my warm climate. I’ve never seen a speck of disease on it, and I don’t spray. The canes are quite flexible. The petal packed blooms are reminiscent of an antique rose, with a wonderful apple fragrance. I get blooms in huge clusters of 10-20 blooms. Truly an awesome rose! Highly recommended!
The 2.5" flowers are highly fragrant, with a very full (45-65 petals), informal, old-fashioned rosette form, produced in clusters, prolif...Read Moreically and almost continuously. One parent is a tea noisette, and the flower form and fragrance and lax habit may come from there.
It is said to be resistant to black spot, powdery mildew, and rust. Bred on the west coast and trialed at the San Jose Heritage Rose Garden, where it performed superbly. Named after a former director of the Garden.
It has been getting a lot of attention from rosarians. I wonder how disease resistant it would be here in the east?
This is relatively a modern rose intro 2011 by Paul Barden. From the look of the form of the plant and the shape of the rose blooms, yo...Read Moreu will think its an antique rose. Its blooming in cold Jan and evergreen with some leaves drops in the freeze. The clusters of flower is wonderfully coral and fragrant. I prefer this one rather then Cecil Brunner because Mels' flower clusters bigger and there isn't a time where its not blooming. This is a climber sprawling over the wall of the San Jose rose Garden 's nursery.
The literature mentioned it being a once blooming. I'm kind of skeptical.
Its the first to bloom in the winter/spring in the cold rain and still have some blooms in the spring/summer and fall. A very special rose; glad to have it in the garden.
Mel’s Heritage is my favorite rose out of the 60 or so roses I grow. I’m in San Diego County, CA. It’s early November and Mel’s H...Read More
The 2.5" flowers are highly fragrant, with a very full (45-65 petals), informal, old-fashioned rosette form, produced in clusters, prolif...Read More
This is relatively a modern rose intro 2011 by Paul Barden. From the look of the form of the plant and the shape of the rose blooms, yo...Read More