Now In Bloom - Rosa 'Westerland'

"The art is in the edit" said Ray Bradbury....and I've edited my garden down to a single rose. Not that I don't love rugosas, musk roses, so many of the English roses (the yellow 'Graham Thomas' is SO tempting) that it was extraordinarily painful to whittle down to one kind of rose... But when it comes right down to space and especially health, I've found roses to be expendable. Painfully so...with just a little more space, I'd plant a pewter-leafed Rosa glauca and certainly a changeable Rosa mutabilis or two...

The one rose I can't live without, despite its nasty thorns, is 'Westerland'. What distinguishes it beyond all others? 'Westerland' has glossy, disease-free leaves, it flowers freely all summer long, the flowers change color from a rich golden to shades of tangerine, apricot and amber. Best of all, 'Westerland' wafts an amazingly potent, citrus-y perfume around the garden....I grow it up a sturdy wire screen, where it holds its own with wisteria and the vigorous purple-flowering clematis 'Roguchi'.

All you need do is give it full sun, manure, water, regular dead-heading, and stand back....

Here's  'Westerland' climbing eight feet high and blooming like crazy. I sure wish I could send you a scratch-and-sniff version so you could get the full effect.....

 

Comments

[Jan LaFollette]

I planted last year and now I know why everyone raves about this rose....it is gorgeous.