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The Henry Kelsey rose has a trailing and spreading growth habit which is the highlight of this winter hardy rose. The blooms are a medium red color and come in clusters of 9 to 13. Henry Kelsey roses have a nice spicy fragrance, which makes this a wonderful addition in a Northern garden. The red flowers bloom in early summer and repeat in late summer.

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The J. P. Connell Rose, Rosa ‘J. P. Connell’, is a fragrant, upright shrub with double, lemon-yellow, with 2.5-3″ flowers that bloom in June. The J. P. Connell Rose blooms recurrently throughout the rest of the season. The flowers become cream colored as they mature. The dark green foliage is abundant and disease resistant. This rose has its own root. The advantage of own root roses is that once established they are very resilient. If winter’s freezing breezes kill the top growth, the rose will grow back in the spring, and the recovered rose will look the same as the one you purchased.

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The Gertrude Jekyll rose has flowers that start as perfect little scrolled buds and soon open into the most beautiful, large, rosette-shaped flowers of rich glowing pink. The growth is upright and vigorous and in every way reliable. Gertrude Jekyll roses have a strong fragrance. It repeats its bloom again later in the season. It is a David Austin rose.

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