Beach Roses

A recent trip to the beach found these Rosa Rugusa Red Roses growing in sand in full beautiful bloom. They are very tough rose bushes, a strong wind and hot sun did not seem to phase these plants. Ruguso Roses are commonly known as shrub roses. The Rugusa Roses are vigorous growers especially when compared to the wild pink rose bush shown below.

Red Shrub Rose Bushes growing on the beach.

Dark Pink Rose - This determined rose plant is growing in between the rocks.

Single Petal Perfect White Rose

Crisp and clean white roses growing on the beach. These are hardy shrub rose plants.
All rose petals dry nicely for potpourri and sachets.
Wild rose hips make a good tea just be sure that any rose hips you use have not been sprayed.

Pink Rose Bush

This wild rose flower is sweetly fragrant. It's different from the rosa Rugusa roses in that it has very few flowers. Even when grown in reasonably good soil it just doesn't get many flowers

White Roses

It's easy to see these are the Rosa Rugusa roses their growth is so vigorous. As you can see the shrub roses grow into very large shrubs.

Rose Hips

Rose Hips beginning to ripen on a huge 8 foot tall shrub rose bush.

Single Dark Pink Rose

Rose flower on an idyllic beach.
Just a single rose can be as pretty as a bouquet.

Wild Sweet Pea Flowers

A naturalized perennial sweet pea. These were growing all over the edge of the beach along with Queen Anne's Lace. Most of the Sweet Peas were two toned in shades of pink, purple & lavender.

Magnifica Red Rose Bush

A hardy shrub rose. The shrub roses are all very tough and don't need much fussing over. The shrub roses thrive in this zone 5 garden.

Back at home in the garden a Magnifica Rose plant blooms. The Magnifica Rose is a member of the Rosa Rugusa family same as the beach roses. It is ideally suited for a rose garden. This one is considered a double flower. It is very fragrant and produces large rose hips in the fall. The rose hips are used to make jelly and tea.
The Magnifica Rose bush is a hardy shrub rose.

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