Found by Miss Nancy Lindsey in 1945 in the town of Rasht---from which it gets its name---on Iran's Caspian Sea coast. She brought it home...Read More to England, and it returned to commerce about 1950.
This old rose often gets high ratings for disease resistance, and it is often recommended for beginning and organic gardeners. But every shrub I've seen in the humid northeast is sooty with blackspotted foliage from early July to frost. It doesn't even have the grace to defoliate.
As is usual with black spot, plants do not exhibit symptoms till after the big June bloom flush. Perhaps that is why some gardeners are willing to tolerate it.
The disease does not appear to affect this plant's ability to grow and bloom, which explains its persistent promotion as a rose that can be grown without sprays. Perhaps this looks better on the west coast, where black spot is rarely a serious problem.
I've seen only a little rebloom, quite stingy by modern standards and limited to just an occasional flower, even in September.
Its classification is controversial. Many call it a Damask Perpetual, but because the ARS recognizes no such class for exhibition, in competition it's classified it as a Portland.
Yes, the small flowers are exceptionally fragrant, and a rich deep magenta, though they last only a day. But I'm no longer interested in growing it.
I ordered this rose this spring from David Austin Roses as a bare root. It is the first of the 10 I ordered to bloom. It has many buds an...Read Mored a marvelous damask rose fragrance. I love it. It is flourishing in Stillwater, OK.
Great beauty with high fragrance like the perfumes in soaps and lotions. I rooted mine awhile back and this yr it blooms for the first t...Read Moreime. From a small twig it grew into a shrub. The magenta color is rather unusual for an old fashion rose. At first the foliage is very healthy and then it got black spots but that doesn't bother me. The flowers are unaffected by the spots. I am running out of room so I stuck it in a shady spot and still it got a rather big flush of flowers.
Lemmon Valley-Golden Valley, NV | December 2013 | positive
This plant is very hardy (-24F) and trouble free. It has great fragrance but the flowers are on very short stems, making it difficult to ...Read Moreuse as a cut flower. I did win best shrub with it at a local show.
Exquisite fragrance. Mine is planted is a part shady location and is doing well.
APRIL 2014: dead. Needs full sun. Als...Read Moreo, mine might have gotten more water than it needed. Would love to grow again on the correct place as it's fragrance is heavenly.
I have now acquired three of this wonderful rose. It blooms repeatedly (every four to six weeks) and has a glorious scent. My only caveat...Read More is that it needs to be treated preemptively with sulphur or it gets blackspot late in the year. But even with blacspot, itblooms and blooms.
This is an heirloom rose. It was originally bred in the mid-1800's and then rediscovered in Persia in 1945. The beauty of heirloom roses ...Read Moreis that they haven't been weakened by modern hybridization techniques. They're hardy & generally less fussy than modern varieties. This is a beautiful magenta-colored, fragrant rose. I chose it because my yard only gets about 4-5 hours of sunlight a day, and most roses require full sun. The Rose de Rescht thrives in my yard.
Found by Miss Nancy Lindsey in 1945 in the town of Rasht---from which it gets its name---on Iran's Caspian Sea coast. She brought it home...Read More
I ordered this rose this spring from David Austin Roses as a bare root. It is the first of the 10 I ordered to bloom. It has many buds an...Read More
Great beauty with high fragrance like the perfumes in soaps and lotions. I rooted mine awhile back and this yr it blooms for the first t...Read More
This plant is very hardy (-24F) and trouble free. It has great fragrance but the flowers are on very short stems, making it difficult to ...Read More
Exquisite fragrance. Mine is planted is a part shady location and is doing well.
APRIL 2014: dead. Needs full sun. Als...Read More
I have now acquired three of this wonderful rose. It blooms repeatedly (every four to six weeks) and has a glorious scent. My only caveat...Read More
This is an heirloom rose. It was originally bred in the mid-1800's and then rediscovered in Persia in 1945. The beauty of heirloom roses ...Read More