{"id":45841,"date":"2014-07-03T15:27:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T19:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=45841"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:05:29","slug":"summertime-roses-offer-sights-and-scents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/07\/horticulture-2\/summertime-roses-offer-sights-and-scents\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime Roses Offer Sights and Scents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Scanniello<\/a> is NYBG\u2019s<\/a> Curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden. The author of six books on roses, his latest is <\/em>A Rose By Any Name. Stephen is the recipient of the Jane Righter Rose Medal from the Garden Club of America<\/a>. He gardens in Barnegat, NJ.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Shrub rose ‘Alexandra, Princesse de Luxembourg’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During July in the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden<\/a>,\u00a0you\u2019ll find the gardeners and volunteers bent over headfirst into the rose beds filling buckets with faded blooms. We\u2019re deadheading, or as they say in England, \u201crefreshing\u201d the rose shrubs. Deadheading is summer pruning and very easy to do. Simply cut the stem bearing the faded rose to a point where a set of healthy leaves is attached. This is a time-consuming job that will reward you with beautiful new roses in a few weeks time.<\/p>\n

There are still plenty of roses to enjoy in the garden. The sweetly scented \u2018Alexandra, Princesse de Luxembourg\u2019, a blush-pink shrub rose, and \u2018David Rockefeller\u2019s Golden Sparrow\u2019 are both in full bloom. Last week, in Paris, this yellow beauty won the prestigious Gold Medal for Landscape Roses at the International Rose Trials of Bagatelle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Known locally as “Elmwood Single Musk,” this richly scented species attracts bees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The extremely rare Rosa moschata<\/em> (Musk Rose) is just beginning to bloom and will continue until there is a hard frost. The earliest written description and illustration of this white shrub rose appears in John Gerard\u2019s The Herbal<\/em>, published in 1529. Two forms of this ancient species, a multi-petalled and a five-petalled, are planted just inside the north entrance to the Rose Garden. As you enter through this gate, take in a good sniff\u2014you\u2019ll know you\u2019re in the right spot\u2014and you may not want to leave!<\/p>\n

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The “multi-petalled” version of the Musk rose, also known locally as “Crenshaw Musk.” The crimped, burnt-looking petals at its center are the key to identifying this rose.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s deadheading season for some plants in the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, but plenty of blooms are still holding their heads high!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22441,"featured_media":45956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3824],"tags":[3588,282,4064,63,198,60,3935],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Elmwood-Musk-Rosa-M-at-NYBG.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-bVn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45841"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45966,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45841\/revisions\/45966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}