Floribundas

Old Garden Heirlooms

Hardy Climbers

Minis

Victorian Symbolism

HARDY SHRUB ROSES

plant them and watch them bloom

Home Run
This flame red hardy shrub rose is the offspring of the well known Knock Out®. Like it's father, Home Run has excellent resistance to black spot but, unlike Dad, is also completely resistant to powdery mildew. Add this to the growing list of must-have landscape roses.
 Hot Diggitty
Smokey orange colored 25-30 petal count blooms cover this disease resistant, vigorous grower over holly-like glossy green foliage. Patented.
Joe's Red Creeper
Spreading 6-8' across, this rose can be used like a groundcover. It will tolerate shade, which makes it the only rose we know of that will perform for the shadier garden gardener! Covered with deep red single blooms with petal counts of 6-8, it works wonderfully in a mass planting on berms and slopes. Patented.
Knock Out
Superb disease resistance and bright red color make this the most popular shrub rose of all! Petal count of 7-13 per bloom, shrubs have a compact habit and grow to about 3' tall and blooms carry a light fragrance. Patented. AARS 2000
 Nearly Wild
Hardy and compact, these shrubs require no special attention and will produce 2" single pink blossoms from late spring through frost. Shrubs grow 3-5' tall and wide. An excellent mass or border planting. Petal count 5-7.
 Purple Pavement (Rosa 'Rotesmeer')
This recurrent bloomer produces large, semi-double crimson-purple blooms 2 1/2-3" across, with bright scarlet hips in fall. Foliage is an attractive bright green, and shrubs grow to 3' in height and spread. Cold hardy to zone 3!
Rainbow Knock Out
All the hardiness and continuous bloom of Knock Out, but with medium pink petals surrounding a glowing yellow center. Shrubs grow 3-4'. Patented.
 The Fairy
Extremely hardy bushes profusely produce large clusters of small blossoms with petal counts of 25-30 each. Shrubs grow 3-4' high and wide, and produce blooms through summer.

FLORIBUNDA ROSES

the look of hybrid tea roses without the fuss

Betty Boop
Ivory-yellow petals are thickly edged in lipstick red , set off over glossy, deep green foliage. Quickly repeat blooming, flowers have a 6-12 petal count making this a real show stopper in the landscape. Patented. AARS 1999
Charisma
This compact rose bush adds zing to the garden with its novel multi-colored yellow, orange and red blended petals, up to 40 per flower. An excellent accent planting, try it with hot colored perennials or purple leaf shrubbery to compliment these fiery blooms. AARS 1978
Ebb Tide
Added to the VVN collection for our 10th anniversary! Medium-sized, hardy shrubs with dusky deep purple buds swirl open to double, old-fashioned flowers of velvet plum washed with a smokey haze. Intense clove fragrance.
Hot Cocoa
Rust colored buds open to reveal chocolate-orange blooms with 25-30 petals that have a heavy, full, fruity fragrance produced on medium-sized shrubs. A wonderful focal point near patio or deck, the color compliments any surrounding plantings. Patented. AARS 2003
OLD GARDEN ROSES
excellent choice for your heirloom garden
 Austrian Copper (Foetida prior to 1590)
From the must have list of most rose collectors, the brilliant orange-red, five petaled blooms have a yellow eye and a heavy fragrance. Very hardy shrubs grow 4-6' tall. Foliage is fine and deep, glossy green. This is the oldest rose we can find!
 Hansa (Rugosa, 1905)
Densely bushy, very attractive green foliage is finely textured and topped in spring with large, fully double red-violet blooms with a petal count of 30-35. Highly perfumed roses scent the landscape, sometimes reblooming sporadically throughout summer. An attractive rose even when not in bloom, shrubs grow to 6'.
 Persian Yellow (Foetida, 1837)
Large 3-6' bushes produce a large, spring flush of canary yellow blooms with 15-20 petals per flower, then sporadically reblooms throughout summer. With 180 years of cultivation in its history, you can be sure this rose will perform!
 Sir Thomas Lipton (Rugosa, 1900)
Tightly packed petals of pure white cover this fine antique each spring. Petal count is 40-45 per bloom, and shrubs are naturally hardy and disease resistant. Shrubs grow to 6'.
CLIMBING ROSES
let them amble across arbors and fences
 New Dawn
Rose-pink buds open continuously all summer to fragrant, light pink blooms. Disease resistant foliage remains attractive all summer, and 10-15' canes are cold hardy to zone 5. Orange hips provide wildlife foor and ornamental interest in fall.
Ramblin' Red
From the Minnesota breeder of the famous, hardy 'Knock Out' roses, comes 'Ramblin' Red' climbing rose. Rich red double flowers open over reddish foliage, maturing to deep dark green. This hardy and disease resistant climber can withstand zone 3 temperatures! Canes grow 6-10' long.
MINIATURE ROSES
SMALL, BUT MIGHTY!
Beauty Secret
15-18" rounded shrubs are covered in 1" scarlet-red blooms. Zone 5
Cupcake
15-18" hardy shrubs are covered with 1" light pink roses. Zone 5
Green Ice
15-18" hardy shrubs are covered with 1" blooms of almost green aging to pure white. Zone 5
Shooting Star
15-18" hardy shrubs are covered with 1" ltricolor buds opening to orange deeping to red and finally turning yellow at the center. Older bloosoms change to pink. Very pretty and colorful. Zone 5
Victorian symbolism
Red: love
Pink: grace, gentle feelings of love
Dark Pink: gratitude
Light pink: dmiration, sympathy
White: innocence, purity, secrecy, friendship, reverence and humility.
Yellow: Yellow roses generally mean dying love or platonic love . In German-speaking countries, however, they can mean jealousy and infidelity.
Yellow with red tips: Friendship, falling in love
Orange: passion
Burgundy: beauty
Blue: mystery
Green: calm
Black: slavish devotion (a true black rose is impossible to produce)
Purple: protection (paternal/maternal love)