Crop 161 'Rose de Rescht' Portland, Old Garden Rose introduced before 1900. Reintroduced 1945 (Zones 4 thru 9, 4 feet x 3 feet) strongly fragrant flowers bloom in flushes several times late spring to summer.

I may overwrite this closeup of the flower when it blooms (flowerpic161.jpg).

I will overwrite this picture of available plants every winter (growingcrop161.jpg).

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Blooms for several weeks in June for us then I remove the flowers as they fade being carefull to remove as little as possible, Later there's another flush of bloom in late July to August. Really nice for mass planting. Own root.

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.

("Best Rose Guide" Phillips & Rix, 47, zone5(-13f)), ("The Encyclopedia of Roses" McKeon, 169, zones 4-8), ("Classic Roses" Beales, fl&lf:193), (Taylor's Guides "Roses" Ondra, page 69, zones 5-8), ("Growing Roses Organically" Wilde, 122, zones 4-10, DR-1/0)

Crops (the crop number is painted on the side of the pot so as to show up well in pictures).

161-1) Potted 20 own root #1 size into 7 gallon 3/23/06 for sale after 6/06