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.

My hand measures 3.5 inches across the 4 fingers to compare flower size. Click here for a large picture of the flower. Pictures of flowers, fruit and fall foliage on some plants we may be growing for sale. We dont sell plants until they have flowered proving the variety. If a picture shows just the yellow label it may not have flowered yet.

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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.