To: Rambi who wrote (62655 ) 5/20/2002 9:40:26 AM From: Crocodile Read Replies (2) | Respond to Your Canadian roses sound large and scary. Like the ones around Sleeping Beauty's castle keeping out the world. Blanc Double de Coubert , which is also a Rugosa. I think it's supposed to grow to about 6 feet tall, but the canes grow much longer.. I cut a few back that were an easy 9-12 feet long. In summer it is covered with a continuous mass of very fragrant semi-double white flowers. The only problem with it is that it is very prolific and sends up new shoots several feet from the original plant. I have a similar pink one named, of all things, Delicata , an old English variety of Rugosa, and it is not at all in character with its name. Incredible highly fragrant double blossoms though. I don't grow very many modern rose varieties here as I don't use sprays and so on. It's the old varieties that are the toughest and most disease-resistant, so I stick to those ones.
