Rosa sp. ‘Old Blush’ Fred Meyer By all signs this curious

By all signs this curious form will never become a large tree

The bloom is a magnet for honeybees

among the first food for bees

and the 2002 seedlings first flowered in 2004

The wood beneath that muscled bark is famously hard and heavy

Rosa sp. ‘Old Blush’ Fred Meyer By all signs this curiousNearly 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