The semi-double Hansa is a rugosa rose. This one is planted on the east side of our property. I took it as a volunteer from my mother’s garden. The rose it sprang from is no longer there, and ours has to be cut down from over seven feet high here, where it is also sending out plants to fill the bed.
Oregon is home to the City of Roses, Portland, where there is an official test garden and several beautiful public rose garden parks. My grandmother had roses planted along her driveway, mostly memorably Oklahoma, a deep dark red.
Here on the coast, however, salt and wind and cloudy days are a bit of a challenge for hybrid teas and the other well-known roses. What does well here, aside from the wild roses that we fight from taking over, are mostly the rugosas, which require no special care, are disease resistant, and shade tolerant. I counted ten varieties of rose in our garden. The raccoons takes the best hips, and our tenant eats the hips from Hansa.
Double De Coubert is another rugosa, marvelously scented. It has long been my favorite. We also have a rapacious single white that would happily take over the world.
We think most years that this low-growing rugosa in our front (ocean-side) yard has died. It is the last to leaf out, but then blooms for a long time. The flowers don’t look impressive in a photo, but they are five inches across, their spicy scent fills the yard, and the hips are spectacular. They are little small red apples and a chipmunk gets them every year.
This little beauty was a risk this early spring. It is not a rugosa, but I could not resist the photograph showing the dark burgundy eye and bright stamens. Then it bloomed!
This rambler has medium-sized flower, good scent, and it is striped. I adore stripy flowers, and the colors are just right. The last striped rose did not survive, but this disease-resistant, shade tolerant variety seems determined. We will build it an arbor if it does. The tag says it reaches 12-14 feet.
It is June and the garden is lush: “Everyone looks like a great gardener in June.” I can’t remember who said that, but it’s true. We look brilliant.
IMPERFECT PATIENCE 
I love my Hansa. I got Jeff cutting the spent blooms off it. He really dislikes rose hips thinks they are ugly! This is my favorite flower this moment!
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 7:56 AM IMPERFECT PATIENCE wrote:
> janpriddyoregon posted: ” Oregon is home to the City of Roses, Portland, > where there is an official test garden and several beautiful public rose > garden parks. My grandmother had roses planted along her driveway, mostly > memorably Oklahoma, a deep dark red. Here on the coast, ho” >
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Such a pity to waste the hips—I pull off spent petals from roses that are not self-grooming, but never the rose hips! They are loaded with vitamin C and tasty! [541 mg of vitamin C in a cup compared to 51 mg in a small orange]
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