🌿 ROSES THIS DAY ON SHAW ISLAND 🌿

ROSA RUGOSA "HANSA"
1905, Holland.
A plant start gift from islander Mary Lou Clark,
many years before the rose attained 7' x 7'.
Flowering 27 May 2020 on
Shaw Island, San Juan Archipelago, WA.

ROSA RUGOSA "HANSA"
Clove scented
Unenhanced photos from
27 May 2020.

"Rosa 'Hansa,' a particularly nice specimen plant, is a tall-growing vase-shaped shrub, growing as wide as it is tall. Recurrent with excellent rebloom in the fall. Having excellent vigor and disease resistance, provides plenty of return for little effort, this is recommended for beginning gardeners. 'Hansa' is also a solid choice for a tall rose hedge."
Suzanne Verrier. Rosa Rugosa. Capability Books. 1991.
Gatehhouse Library collection.

"Deadheading is the one profoundly rewarding war. It tidies away the signs of death and encourages yet another show of flowers. It was wonderfully understood by Vita Sackville-West, in her garden at Sissinghurst Castle. 
'Dead-heading roses on a summer evening,' she wrote, 'is an occupation that carries us back into a calmer age and a different century. Queen Victoria might still be on the throne. There is no sound except the hoot of an owl and the rhythmic snip-snip of our secateurs.'
Robin Lane Fox. Thoughtful Gardening. 2010
Gatehouse Library collection.

This is a site for featuring seeds harvested and shared from Shaw Island gardens and what is this with a shrub Rose?

Below is a Rose grown from seed brought back from Alaska by Library and Museum charter members Alice and Bryan "Fess" Fessenden and then for many years thereafter, cared for by the volunteer gardeners. (This photo taken pre-2000, when the old reefnet boat had drifted away to earth was replaced.) At this time, the wild Alaska Rose was allowed to display the lovely heps for fall color and a bounty of fruit for the birds -- a lovely view then without serious pruning such is needed for a domestic rose. Photo by author.

The garden of the
Shaw Island Library and Historical Society
with a treasured Rose grown from seed
attained from the wilds of Alaska.
Photo pre-2000.
Click to enlarge.