Rosa sp. ‘Old Blush’ Fred Meyer thornless citrus grown as much

thornless citrus grown as much for beauty as for fruit

mound coarse sand and pine straw over the stubs

a fast-growing

native-hardy flower is wanted through the heat of summer

among the first food for bees

Rosa sp. ‘Old Blush’ Fred Meyer thornless citrus grown as muchNearly every rose in your garden that blooms more than once a year owes a debt to this one. 'Old Blush' is a China rose, bred in China for something close to a thousand years and known there as the monthly pink, and they are generally reckoned the first East Asian rose to reach Europe, recorded in Sweden by 1752 and offered in England as Parson's Pink China in 1793. They brought with them the one thing Western roses simply did not have: the habit of