Crop 188. 'Hippolyte' Gallica Old Garden Rose introduced 1842, Zones 4 thru 9, 6 feet x 5 feet, blooms for several weeks late spring to early summer.

Click the top picture for a larger picture of the flower. Additional pictures may include fruit. fall foliage, etc. Plants aren't for sale until they flower. Once they flower I take a dated digital picture of the flower and save it using a file name that starts with the inventory number of the plant for sale. If its not for sale it will show only a picture of the label. My hand measures 3.5 inches across the 4 fingers.

Inventory of plants that may be available for sale once they flower;

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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. My hand measured across the 4 fingers is 3.5 inches.

Research: (Taylor's Guides "Roses" Ondra, page 54, zones 4-9), ("Roses" Beales, 144), ("The Art of Gardening with Roses" Thomas, sh43), 6 feet x 6 feet (1842), non-recurrent dark red to purple, strongly fragrant,

188-1) Potted in 7 gallon pot on April 8, 2007; 10-600G7, 10-602G7, 10-603G7, 10-604G7, (601 was missing from the supplier).

Gallica roses have a known genetic anomally called phyllody (fy-lo-dee) that can be observed as leaflike petals in the flower when springtime is cool and moist. When rose phyllody is caused by genetic or environmental factors the symptom is limited to the blossoms and normal blossoms appear at other times during the season. The lack of stunting or yellowing and the presence of good growth are all indications that disease or viruses are unlikely.