Marie
Daly’ is a fragrant, free flowering, pink polyantha. The
pink color is deeper in cooler weather and on newly opened flowers.
Flowers have a 17-25 petal count, buds are long and gracefully
pointed and flowers emit a sweet musk fragrance. Foliage is
a small-medium size, abundant and dark green. Plants get about
3 to 4 feet tall and wide. Plants have a rounded, uniform shape
and the stems are mostly thornless. Plants can be propagated
by selecting thornless shoots to root and grow “own roots”
plants. Rated for USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 5-9.
Landscape
Uses:
Plant `Marie Daly’ in full sun and well drained soil. Keep
the soil moist during the growing season for the first year
for good root development and establishment. Keep a 3-4 inch
layer of organic mulch around plants during the establishment
and thereafter. The plant has good disease resistance.
Use
`Marie Daly’ as a specimen plant, low hedge, mass planting
or even as a container plant. `Marie Daly’s’ uniform
growth habit makes it an ideal rose for formal gardens or in
hedges.
Large
or small landscapes alike will be enhanced with the addition
of this charming, but deceptively tough rose.
Prepared
by: Debbie Benge, Midland/Ector County Extension Horticulturist
Join
the Earth Kind Rose Brigade:
We invite you to become a member of the “Earth Kind Rose
Brigade,” a group of dedicated amateurs helping to conduct
advanced field testing of experimental rose selections. Your
participation will be educational as well as valuable in providing
information to the Earth Kind Team of Extension specialists
and research scientists at Texas A&M University.
To
participate, simply purchase and plant one or more of the Brigade
roses then, at one, two, three, and four years after transplanting,
provide the benefit of your growing experience.
These
cultivars should be planted where they will receive at least
8 hours of direct sun each day with good air movement over the
foliage. The use of compost and organic mulches is encouraged.
