Read my article,
"Some of My Favorite Roses" published by Paul Barden in his May 2001 issue of Old Garden Roses and Beyond, the Rose Growers Source website

Rugosa Roses
These are Maine's beloved "Beach Roses" and their hybrid cousins. Healthy, hardy, and handsome roses with heavenly fragrances that carry on the breezes, repeat bloom, colorful hips and brightly hued fall foliage.

Rosa Rugosa
The species or wild form with single blossoms and growth to 6' high x 6' or more. Either Rosa rugosa seed grown, which will be either pink or white or Rosa rugosa Alba cutting grown which will all be white. Our - as always - special price: $10.00 each

Agnes
A lovely pale lemony-apricot with a fragrance of damask roses. Once blooming but Agnes pours her heart out for the performance. The best yellow rugosa and one of the very best hardy yellow roses.
5' high x 5' Budded $15.00

Amelie Gravereaux
A delightful rose with large mauve-crimson blossoms, doubled with handsome centers of gold stamens. Good repeat on a tidy upright shrub of older heritage. 5' high x 4' Budded $15.00

Belle Poitevine
A lovely old classic rugosa with large blowsy, soft mallow-pink blossoms and deeper pink veining.
I know of an old hedge of Belle on the seashore which is beyond beautiful!
5' high x 5' $15.00

Blanc Double de Coubert Large loosely double snow-white flowers with an excellent perfume. Upright growth habit. 5' high x 4'.$15.00

Charles Albanel
Big bold, semi-double rich pink blooms and large showy hips bespeak the character of this very good, and dependably low growing rose. An excellent subject for ground cover or hedging. 1 1/2' high x 4'   $15.00

Dart's Dash
Very handsome deep pink-crimson, semi-double blooms with exceptionally large and plentiful, bright scarlet hips.
4' high x 4' $15.00

David Thompson
I'm afraid I was a mite harsh on this rose in my book 'Rosa Rugosa' but have really come to appreciate this rose over the years. A dense growing shrub with smaller foliage and very nice double, soft crimson flowers. This is one reblooming rugosa that does quite well in less than ideal light conditions. 4' high x 4' $15.00

Delicata
An old favorite of mine with blowsy lilac-pink semi-double blossoms and one of the best fragrances among the rugosas.
4' high x 3'. $15.00

Fimbriata
Charming frilled white blushed pink blossoms. 4'x 4'. $15.00

Foxi (Foxi Pavement)
Very handsome and showy, large mid-pink, semi-double blooms on on a well behaved shrub. 3' high x 3' $15.00

Fru Dagmar Hastrup ( and this is absolutely! the correct spelling!)
A very lovely old classic rugosa with ethereal poppy-like, single pale pink flowers and handsome large scarlet hips. Plus the best autumn colors of any rugosa.
4' high x 4' $15.00

Grootendorst Supreme
Old prejudices aside, someone gave me one of these and I must admit Supreme has bloomed itself silly, been extra healthy and I do like the bright deep saturated crimson-pink color in the garden.
4'x 4'. $15.00

Henry Hudson
Handsome small dark green foliage with dense mounding and spreading growth. Bright crimson buds open to flattened snow-white blooms with centers of yellow stamens.  4' high x 4' $15.00

Jens Munk
A well shaped shrub with tight growth habit and quick to establish. A prolific bloomer with very pretty open, doubled bright clear pink blossoms but doesn't set hips. 5' high x 5' $15.00

Linda Campbell
The best of the true red rugosas. Large clusters of elegant buds open to double flowers over glossy foliage.
5' high x 4'  $20.00

Magnifica
Large doubled crimson-magenta blossoms with a strong heady fragrance. Wider than tall mounding growth. 4' high x 5'  $15.00

Mme Georges Bruant
A rugosa crossed x climbing tea rose and a lovely white rugosa. Large semi-double blossoms with wavy petals. Handsome olive green foliage with rusty red tints and long elegant buds. Can take a hit in a bad winter here but always survives.
6' high by almost as much.$15.00

Mrs. Anthony Waterer
An old rugosa x hybrid perpetual with glowing crimson-red semi-double blooms. This rose resembles an antique rose more than a rugosa. 4' high x 5'. $15.00

Moje Hammarberg
Similar to Magnifica but with larger, softer crimson flowers. 4' high x 5'. $15.00

Mont Blanc
Large nodding semi-double white blooms with a hint of blush and a nice perfume. The foliage is elongated and healthy and the shrub is well shaped with a good repeat and showy hips. 5' high x 4'. $15.00

Nyveldt's White
Large flaring single snow-white flowers somewhat resembling a clematis. A lovely thing and one of my favorite whites. Once blooming but more tolerant of shade.
5 1/2' high x 4'. $ 20.00

I recommend weeding on hands and knees unless you have a hawk's vision. So many treasures - small seedlings of roses and shrubs, self seeding annuals, etc. are uprooted by overzealous "weeding." Not recognizing these happenstance visitors will deprive a gardener of the happiest of happenings.

Pierette
(Pierette Pavement, Yankee Lady)
Low spreading and lax growth, unusual for a rugosa. Large, showy, soft clear pink semi-double blooms.
4' high x 4' $15.00