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Rose Family Offers Great ? Variety In Flower Gardens I Dear Plant Doctor: I love roses and would like to include them in my flower garden. I have visited several botanical gardens to view rose varieties and have discussed roses with several experienced gar deners, but get conflicting and con fusing information. I am very con scious about pesticide use and do not want to spray every week in or der to have a few blossoms. Should 1 include roses in my gar den and if so, what arc some vari eties that would be suitable for the coastal plains of North Carolina? Answer: Roses (Rosa sp) are among the most sought-after and prized flowering woody garden plant in the world. The Rose family, Rosaccae, contains numerous eco nomically important plants in addi tion to the flowering rose which most gardeners arc so familiar. Robert Frost best expressed the great diversity of this plant family in the poem "The Rose Family": The rose is a rose. And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose. And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose But were always a rose. In addition to those plants men tioned in the poem, the strawberry, cherry, peach, blackberry, raspberry and apricot arc members of the Rose family. The Hybrid Teas, Grandifloras, Floribundas and climbing roses are the most common of the flowering roses to gardeners. Hybrid Teas are the most popular garden roses. They result from interbreeding hybrid per petual with tea roses cultivars. Hybrid tea roses are typically char acterized as bush form with large flowers, borne singly or in small clusters on a stem. Hybrid tea plants are quite hardy across North Caro lina, and bloom throughout the sum mer and fall. Floribunda roses result from crossing Polyantha with hybrid tea roses. These rose cultivars usually have smaller flowers than the hybrid teas but produce more flowers on each stem. Grandiflora roses originated from hybridizing hybrid tea and Flori bunda roses. Regardless of the confusing ori gins of these rose types, most will do fine in North Carolina if cultural practices and pest control are opti mized. Several years ago, Kim Powell, NCSU horticulture specialist, wrote an excellent publication that covers proper garden cultural practice and lists rose cultivars that have proven best for North Carolina conditions. Contact your local N.C. Cooperative Extension office and request a free copy of the Horticulture Information Leaflet No. 641 or send me a SASE. My favorite garden roses are the older varieties. Heritage or antique rose varieties are often just as beau tiful but are generally more pest THE PLANT DOCTOR C. BRUCE WILLIAMS Extension Area Turf Specialist and discasc-lolcrant than the newer pedigreed hybrids. For the environmentally sensitive gardener, heritage roses offer the best of both worlds. Most of these older cultivars can be easily propa gated by rooted cuttings and will tol erate nature's extremes in weather. Hundreds of cultivars will do fine in this area; your garden space will be the major limiting factor. 1 have a friend in Raleigh who claims to have over 200 cultivars of heritage rose in his backyard! For a list of nurseries that carry heritage rose cultivars, send your re quest and a SASE to the Heritage Rose Foundation, 1512 Gorman Street, Raleigh, N.C. 27606. Good luck with that garden! Send your gardening questions and comments to The Plant Doctor, P.O. Box 109, Bolivia. N.C. 28422. Hearing Tonight For Preservation The N.C. Historic Preservation Office invites interested Brunswick Countians to review and comment on the state's first comprehensive plan for historic preservation. A public hearing for this region will be held tonight (Thursday) in Wilmington. The meeting will take place in the council chambers of Thalian Hall, 100 N. Third St., from 7-9 p.m. The plan will determine how the state will identify, protect and en hance its historic resources and ar chaeological sites. The state agency staff will present the draft plan at the public hearing. Public comments will be incorpo rated into the plan, which is schtxl uled for publication this fall. Health Fair Sets Free Screenings More than 40 exhibits, along with balloons and popcorn, will be fea tured at Health Fair '93 Saturday, May 16, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Dosher Memorial Hospital in South port. Free screenings will be provided for total blood cholesterol, pul monary function, glucose, blood pressure and pulse and pulse oxime try, vision, glaucoma and colorectal cancer, along with a muscle strenth evaluation. Twelve doctors and dentists with general practices or specialties will be represented. Also, blood profiles will be of fered at a discount, with 17 tests in cluded for S20. 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