Inver Grove Heights, MN | February 2011 | positive
This rose has a wonderful fragrance that makes people turn their heads to find where it is coming from. It propogates itself so plant it...Read More where you want it to multiply. It also has very little die back in our zone 4. It is a perfect rose for naturallizing because it has had no pests and no mildew. It should not be used as a groundcover. It only gets to about 3 ft. here with as wide a spread.
Nearly five years ago I planted two Wildberry Breeze rugosas, one on each side of a residential lake spillway 12 miles west of Kansas Cit...Read Morey, Mo. in zone 5b. They were planted in a 2-gallon bucket of good soil, surrounded by clay and rock of the 50-year-old earthen dam. Now both plants are five feet tall by six in diameter. They put out a heavy flush of bloom in spring and repeat sporadically but satisfyingly through summer. One plant has put out suckers, so I dug one for movement to my home garden. It seems to be doing well. I'm delighted with Wildberry Breeze, (though I wonder if it may be the same as the rugosa Scabrosa).
I planted 2 of these in early summer and they have bloomed continuously ever since, until fall. They always have a couple of blooms. If...Read More I stop deadheading they stop flowering and form huge red hips instead, which look like cherry tomatos. They are very thorney and would make a good hedge. The bushes are about 3 ft high, but the canes are longer and tend to cascade.
This rose has a wonderful fragrance that makes people turn their heads to find where it is coming from. It propogates itself so plant it...Read More
Nearly five years ago I planted two Wildberry Breeze rugosas, one on each side of a residential lake spillway 12 miles west of Kansas Cit...Read More
I planted 2 of these in early summer and they have bloomed continuously ever since, until fall. They always have a couple of blooms. If...Read More