old-fashioned roses; flowering shrubs

I first saw Rosa glauca, sometimes known as Rosa rubrifolia, in a dreamlike setting.  The large shrub was growing at Stonecrop in Putnam County, New York, former home of the late Frank Cabot, founder of the Garden Conservancy.  The day was overcast and fog shrouded parts of Cabot’s magnificent garden.  I came around a corner … Read more