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Best Roses for Northern Nevada
and the Eastern Sierras
Ann Marie Harris, ARS Master
Consulting Rosarian
with contributions from Dinah O'Brien, Teresa Atkinson,
Diane Stortz-Lintz, Rebecca Geishaker-Chlebus, and Nancy Helsel |
The climate of our region plus
local conditions such as soil, water,
and protection from the sun and wind make choosing rose varieties that
will thrive in our gardens a bit more difficult than choosing varieties
that thrive in other regions. This section should help you make
more educated decisions about your rose selections and increase your
success rate. |
When selecting rose varities
keep in mind the following thoughts:
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Learn What to Plant Where |
Learning what to plant where
goes back to the thoughts
presented in the sections Where Are
We??? and soils.
Even a cursery knowledge of your local gardening conditions can help
you make better decisions. The other thing that helps is
knowing how some roses grow. |
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Learning what you like boils
down to going out and looking a lots of roses, asking questions,
and knowing a little bit about the different types of roses. |
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| Choices in
Selecting Rose Varieties |
Bloom color
Bloom type
Fragrance
Rose Type & Size
Repeat flowering
Tenderness |
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A winner is not necessarily an
exhibition rose that always wins Queen of Show. A winner is a
rose that you like and one that performs well in your garden. You may
also have potential Queen quality if that is the variety rose that you
happen to like. There are resources available to you to help you
"pick a winner": |
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Opportunity
to see winning varieties and ask questions about cold hardiness,
disease resistance and repeat flowering. |
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ARS
Handbook for Selecting Roses |
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| NCNH Roses-in-Review |
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Regional
rose ratings with comments on cold hardiness and preformance in
different parts of the Northern California-Nevada-Hawaii District of
the American Rose Society |
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See what our
local rose experts recommend. |
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Rose
Selections from Reno
Rose Society Members |
| Teresa Atkinson |
Double
Diamond area |
RRS member since the mid
1980s and native Nevadan who recently moved from Sparks to south
Reno. Super exhibitor who has retired from competition to help
other members at our shows. |
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| Rebecca
Geishaker-Chlebus |
Cold Springs
Valley |
An afficianado of the
really tough roses because she grows them at 5100' in a really cold,
windy area. |
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| Nancy Helsel |
Spanish
Springs Valley |
A RRS member since around
1999 and a super promoter of the mini-flora rose. |
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| Dinah O'Brien |
Skyline area |
Long-time Reno Resident
and RRS member since 1997. She has won Queen of Show seven times
in the last ten years. |
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| Diane
Stortz-Lintz |
Reno
Municipal Rose Garden |
Horticulturist in charge
of the rose garden for the City of Reno. |
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| This section is still in draft
form. Please see Buying
Roses for tips until this section is done. |
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