We usually receive our spring shipment of roses by the end of February.

We have a guest speaker from the Antique Rose Emporium come here every spring to talk to us about Antique Roses.

Their historic interest, color, fragrance, and form make old roses as indespensable to today's gardens as those of centuries past.

Republic of Texas 

 This is the perfect specimen to represent the "Yellow Rose of Texas". The small one inch but numerous blooms adorn a thick sprawling plant of 3 feet. Its mounding habit makes  it a wonderful container Rose, but it is most effective when massed or used as a border. The colorful displays appear in the spring and again in the fall.

Aloha

 Lots of dark, leathery foliage provides a backdrop for this rose's large, fully double petels, this shrub exhibits flowers of rose pink with a deeper pink reverse. "Aloha" is reminiscent of some of the best big fat hybrid perpetuals, but it bloom much more often. This climer is ust right for a pillar or trellis, yet will also stand alone as a speciment shrub with pruning. Grows 6 to 8 feet.

 Martha Gonzales

This  unidentified "Found" rose was discovered growing the yard of a very nice lady named Martha Gonzales. Bright scarlet, neat, single flowers open flat todecorate a bushy shrub whose neat foliage has a dadrk red tinge. Due to its size it serves as an excellent choice for a low hedge, or border.

  The Rose Bushes you buy from us,have been vegetatively propagated, which means that the rose you receive is from the original plant. These roses have been propagated from roses that have been around for hundreds of years, and with each rose comes a vast history. It is the tie with events in history that make Antique Roses the ultimate antique

  Belinda's Dream

This fast growing shrub is uprighe and sturdy, has few disease problems, and is covered with a plentitude of bluish green foliage. The flowers are freely produced throughout the growing season, and are simply lovely with a rich, distinctive frangrance of their own.

This most interesting rose illustrates the typical China trait of darkening with age, instead of fading. Nowhere is that traitmore visible than in the flowers of Mutabilis, whose single petals open sulfer yellow, changing through orange to a rich pink, anfinally crimson. Bright, silky flowers of all of these colors often display at the same time, looking as if a group of multicolored butterflies has settled on the bush. Grows 4 to 6 foot.

 Dame de Coeur

This is a healthy and free-blooming rose with large, double, very ffragrant flowers that last well on the bush, an in vases. Thi bolor is strong, but mixes quite will in the landscape with any rose. This rose is also known as the black rose. as the cherry red coloration darkens to crimson with age. Grows 3 to 5 feet. 

  Unlike a painting, or a piece of furniture, the old rose is a living testament to history, and to man's quest for beauty.

Danea

 Graceful arching dark canes  with neat green leaves, and dark yellow buds that open in creamy clusters give Danae a sophisticated appearance. Its graceful havit is at home whether in an informal hedge, trained neatly through a fence, or trailing it's tips on a formal goldfich pondl Orange red hips in the fall contrast nicely with the last flowers of the season. Grows 6 to 10 ft great climber. 

Lafter

This rose is an exceptionally healthy and free blooming shrub with large, shiny green leaves, and large, open flowers in a blend of yellow, orange, and pink, with a great fragrance.  It is very cold hardy as well. Lafter is a good choice as a hedge rose, for those whol like bright colors in their landscape. Grows 4 to 6 ft.

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