Today’s Rose of the Day is Secret’s Out, discovered by Witherspoon Rose Nursery. Secret’s Out is the sport of Secret, a hybrid tea rose bred by Daniel Tracey in the US. Secret’s Out struggles for me in winter, but rebounds in spring. It has gorgeous flowers and a strong fragrance.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Blue Moon Stone, a shrub rose bred by Junko Kawamoto in Japan. Beautiful, fragrant and healthy, this rose brings a lot to the garden. It’s quite small in my zone 7b garden, and the smaller size makes it easier to keep this rose near the front of the bed, where it can be

Today’s Rose of the Day is Oso Easy Italian Ice, a shrub rose bred by Christopher Warner in the UK. It’s vigorous, and healthy. The flushes repeat quickly and it’s just a nice little shrub.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Lilian Austin, a shrub rose bred in the 1970’s by David Austin in the UK, and named for his mother. This rose is very vigorous, healthy, and I can’t get enough of the ruffled, fragrant flowers.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Sally Holmes, a hybrid musk rose bred by Robert Holmes in the UK. I’ve had this rose in my garden for over 25 years. It suffered years of neglect when I was busy caring for young children, and it bloomed anyway. It does get a little black spot on the leaves, but this

Today’s Rose of the Day is Gruss an Aachen, a floribunda rose bred by Wilhelm Hinner in Germany around 1909. It’s said to be the first floribunda rose. This rose was a hot mess for the first couple of years. Blackspot kept it defoliated most of the summer and it looked awful. Just as I was g

Today’s Rose of the Day is Blush Veranda, a floribunda rose bred by Kordes as part of their Veranda series. These roses are great in the ground, or as patio roses in containers where they can be admired up close. Blush Veranda is healthy and fragrant, and makes a compact and bushy shrub.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Hummingbird, a floribunda rose bred by Marilyn Tynan in New Zealand. It’s a nice bushy shrub with lots of branching and healthy leaves. The flowers are a cheerful lemony yellow with a magenta rim, and they have a pretty fragrance.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Spiced Coffee, a hybrid tea rose bred by Sam McGredy in New Zealand. This rose is really excellent. It’s got healthy leaves, is very generous with the blooms, and it’s fragrant, too! It’s a substantial shrub in my garden, about 5.5 feet tall, 3 feet wide. The flowers

Today’s Rose of the Day is Crazy Maya, a shrub rose bred by NIRP. It’s pretty healthy so far, and compact with good branching. The flowers are really cool, lightly fragrant, and last a good while on the shrub. I haven’t tried a vase yet, but I know I will!

Today’s Rose of the Day is Florentina, a climbing rose bred by Kordes in Germany. It has the amazing good health that Kordes is known for, and is vigorous and thorny enough to have earned the semi-affectionate nickname “The Kraken” in my garden. It made short work of the obelisk I planted it on,

Today’s Rose of the Day is Alfred Sisley, a floribunda rose bred by Delbard in France. It’s a smallish shrub with a huge impact in the garden-that orange, those stripes! It’s a rose that announces itself. It also has some fragrance. :)

Today’s Rose of the Day is Black Caviar, a shrub rose bred by Hans Jürgen Evers for Tantau in Germany. It’s a nice, mid-sized shrub, with very healthy leaves and the flowers are just so beautiful. Dark as they are, they still just glow (and they’re fragrant too)!

Today’s Rose of the Day is Moondance, a floribunda rose bred by Dr. Keith Zary in the US. It’s fragrant, healthy and *thornless*. It also just glows!

Today’s Rose of the Day is Dream Light (Yume Akari), a floribunda rose bred by Hiroshima Ogawa in Japan. It’s an elegant, spreading shrub, and the blooms have a light fragrance. They do well in a vase, too!

Today’s Rose of the Day is Ringo, a hybrid hulthemia persica floribunda rose bred by Christopher Warner in the UK. The hulthemia persica are wild roses that grow in the Middle East. They’re weedy and not suitable for gardens, but they’ve been hybridized to produce garden-worthy shrubs that ha

Today’s Rose of the Day is Morden Sunrise, a shrub rose bred by Lynn Collicutt and Campbell Davidson in Canada’s part of the Parkland Series. The roses in this series were bred for hardiness in the colder zones. This one is hardy to zone 3! The flowers are cheerful and fragrant, and a favorite o

Today’s Rose of the Day is Sonnenwelt, a shrub rose bred by Kordes in Germany. Sonnenwelt is a very substantial shrub in my garden. It’s generous with the blooms, which are large and fragrant, and it’s very disease-resistant.

Today’s Rose of the Day is Quietness, a shrub rose bred by Dr. Griffith Buck in the US. It’s bred to withstand extreme weather conditions in the midwestern US. It’s also healthy, *and* gorgeous, *and* fragrant.

Today’s Rose of the Day is True Passion, a shrub rose bred by Ping Lim in the US as part of the True Blooms collection. The fiery blooms have a spicy fragrance, and bloom in large flushes several times a year. The shrub is bushy and large, but easily managed by pruning. It’s incredibly healthy, a