See additional rose photographs on the Diary and Poems pages.

         
    Rosa Foetida bicolor (‘Austrian Copper’)
       In front of Elko County Library, 720 Court St.,
     one block east of the Elko County Rose Garden (ECRG),
                                    5/26/00                                        

    'Simplicity' Roses, Warriner, 1978, 'Iceberg' x seedling, tolerates our Zone 5A, with some winter dieback.

  The Sheen House, Est. 1891,  6th and Pine Street, Elko

  6/15/00   

           'Harison's Yellow', 6th and Pine 5/30/00            

'Harison's Yellow', also called 'Yellow Rose of Texas', Harison, USA, circa 1830, perhaps 'Rosa spinasissima' x 'Rosa foetida', once blooming, one of the roses that are the first to bloom each season, blooms profusely for about three weeks.  No winter die-back in our Zone 5A.  "After it appeared in the garden of attorney and amateur hybridist George F. Harison in 1830 in what is today downtown Manhattan, it was carried by many pioneers on their journey west."  (Beales, 1998)

       Applejack, Buck, 1973, Shrub, 'Goldbusch' x ('Josef Rothmund' 

        x 'Rosa laxa retzuis'),  can be grown as a shrub or climber.

 6th and Pine Across from ECRG 6/11/00 

                                       

                         'William Baffin', 6th and Pine, 6/11/00

    'William Baffin', Dr. Felicitas Svejda, Canada, 1983, Kordesii Shrub,  'Rosa kordesii' x seedling, repeats (June, July, August / September):  heavy, slight, moderate, hardy to zone 2 - 3, no dieback here in Zone 5A, ARS 8.9, Canadian Explorer Series - "The name commemorates the famous explorer who sought the Northwest Passage." (Beales, et al, 1998).  One of my favorite roses for Elko.                     

        Hybrid Tea Garden (right),  6th and Court 7/16/00

Photos taken with a Kodak DC280 Zoom Camera by Dan Turner.  Photograph files reduced in size with http://www.spinwave.com/  References are listed on the last photo page.