What are the best adapted roses for my climate?
A. Roses are remarkably flexible and adaptable plants. The genus Rosa is native to the entire Northern Hemisphere; it contains 200+ species ranging in the wild from Europe (including mountain areas of high altitude and snow) to the beaches of Japan & river valleys of North America, as well as the dry Middle East & Central Asian plateaus. The Mediterranean basin cradled several of the most important species which produced the primal Western types, while cold/temperate western China and rainy subtropical Southeast Asia were the home of roses which carried strong repeat-blooming genes. Obviously, some Rose (and its descendants) can thrive in almost every bio-region. The 400 roses of our collection have all grown graciously in our usual climate range of 20 degrees F to 105 degrees F – with very high winter rainfall and extreme dryness in the summer – and they’ve also taken our records: 9 degrees low and 114 degrees high. We must note that the weather everywhere is more erratic recently, &
