Musk roses - varieties

If you want to plant roses in your front garden, but you can not give them the proper attention, it is worthwhile to cultivate its musk varieties. They not only decorate your garden, but also fill it with an amazing aroma, similar to floral honey. They are also called landscape roses, as they will look good anywhere.

Varieties of musk roses

The first variety, derived by the ancestor of musk roses by the German Peter Lambert, is "Trier". The scraped bush of this rose is abundantly covered with tassels of white small flowers. Based on it, the bulk of musk varieties, which many call hybrids, was derived. These include:

1. "Moonlight" - large flowers with apricot-yellow-white color;
2. "Robin Hood" - blossoms with large tassels of small crimson semi-double flowers with a light center;
3. "Ballerina" is one of the most popular musk roses, blooms in small, saucer-like soft pink flowers with a white center, which gradually burn out to white;
4. "Penelope" - gently pink with a yellow center;
5. "Sangerhausen" - large, half-mahogany flowers of bright red color;
6. "Mozart" - is considered one of the most interesting varieties, it blooms pink flowers with a white middle and dark edges of the petals.
7. "Lavender of Lassie" - terry flowers blossom in true pink color, possess the aroma of musk;
8. "Bushfeld Dancy" - the first grade of yellow color;
9. "Schwerin" - medium semi-double flowers of cherry-red color.

If you like a strong flavor, then you should choose such varieties as:

1. "Buff Beauty" - creamy-apricot;
2. "Vanita" - bright pink;
3. "Cornelia" - a multi-colored rose (from white to pink);
4. "Daphnia" - cream;
5. "Pax" - blossoms with white half-marble flowers with a golden mean;
6. "Felicia" - petals on the inside are pink, and on the back - apricots.

Muscovy roses Lens

All of the above varieties of musk rose were bred long ago, a modern nursery for the cultivation of this flower is "Lens Rosen", founded by a Belgian Louis Lens. Here was displayed a huge number of interesting hybrids of this kind, since crossing is carried out with almost all existing types of roses.

Especially popular among them are the following varieties:

1. "Heavenly Pink" - light pink;
2. "Dinky" - bright pink;
3. "Bukavu" - flat flowers with a white center and bright pink edges of petals;
4. "Waterloo" - white flowers with a yellow center.

Whatever type of musk rose you choose, it is best to plant it as a background for stunted shrubs or flowers (both annual and perennial ).