Crop 158 'La Belle' Sultane', 'Violacea' Hybrid gallica Old Garden Rose introduced around 1795. (Zones 4 thru 8, 5 feet x 5 feet) fragrant flowers bloom for 6 to 8 weeks late spring to early summer, orange fall foliage, Click picture for larger version.
Availability? Rose Guide & Inventory. We grow plants to sell at our plant sale. Read my notes on the zone hardiness numbers I use. Do we do mail order? Check my picture-newsletter Want to purchase? email me. As pictures are taken of the flower, foliage and fruit of this plant, they will be placed on top of this picture in a collage with a date.
Crop 158 'La Belle' Sultane', 'Violacea' Hybrid gallica Old Garden Rose introduced around 1795. (Zones 4 thru 8, 5 feet x 5 feet) fragrant flowers bloom for 6 to 8 weeks late spring to early summer, orange fall foliage, Click picture for larger version.
Last edited Saturday, March 29, 2008
Pictures that you can find in books that might be available at your local library (they were in mine), and what climatic zone the author thought this rose fell into.
La Belle Sultane or Violacea ("Best Rose Guide" Phillips & Rix, 34, zone5), ("Roses" Beales, 151, R. gallica violacea), ("Roses Of America" Scanniello, 60), ("The Organic Rose Garden" Druitt, 64), ("Classic Roses" Beales, 160), (Taylor's Guides "Roses" Ondra, page 54, zones 4-8) gallica, semi-double purplish flowers up to 5 inches across, introduced 1795, 5X4
Crops (the crop number is painted on the side of the pot so as to show up well in pictures)
158-1) Potted 5 #1 roses grafted on multiflora rootstock into 7 gallon pots in spring of 2006 10-117G7,
158-2) Potted in 7 gallon pots on April 19, 2007; 10-707G7, 10-708G7, 10-709G7, 10-710G7,