New Rose from Bailey Nurseries
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- March
- 11
Rose-planting season is still many weeks away, but winter is a good time to poke around and see what’s on the market this year.
Wholesale growers have been bringing lots more low-maintenance, long-blooming roses to retail markets. One of the better brands is the Easy Elegance collection of no-fuss roses from Bailey Nurseries, a St. Paul, Minn., operation.
Super Hero, a new deep-red stunner in the collection, looks like a surefire winner for spring.
Along with the everblooming red flowers, this caped crusader offers medium to dark green foliage that should withstand the heat and humidity of Hudson Valley summers.This hybrid tea-shaped floribunda rose is as easy to grow as any other shrub, Bailey says. However, many gardeners in the Northeast consider roses to be a very expensive annual.
Hardy to USDA Zone 4, Super Hero will reach a height of 3 to 5 feet.
Roses like lots of sun and a good watering or about 1 inch rainfall once a week. Water in the morning and avoid getting the foliage wet.
Look for Easy Elegance roses in the better nurseries and garden centers in a couple of months. For more information on Easy Elegance roses, visit the Web site for Bailey Nurseries.
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
