Sea
Foam 
Earth Kind is an important designation given to select roses by
the Texas A&M University Agriculture program. Earth Kind Roses
have been through rigorous statewide testing and evaluation by
a team of horticultural experts and found to possess the high
level of landscape performance and utstanding disease and insect
tolerance/resistance required to for this special designation.
Earth Kind
Roses are among the most thoroughly tested and environmentally
responsible plants for the use in Texas landscapes. These roses
do very well in almost any soil type, from the well-drained
acid sands of East Texas to the poorly aerated, highly alkaline
clays of central and Southwest Texas. Earth Kind roses are certainly
not immune to pest problems. However, their tolerance to pests
is so great that they rarely require the use of chemical pesticides.
Sea Foam
was developed by breeder E.W. Schwartz and introduced by Conrad-Pyle
(Star Roses) in 1963. This cultivar is the product of a series
of crosses between White Dawn and Pinocchio.
Sea Foam
bears clusters of 2" - 3" creamy white, double flowers
throughout the growing season. These blossoms have a subtle,
light fragrance. This extremely rugged plant has dark green
foliage with a glossy sheen. This cultivar also produces beautiful
orange-red hips in fall. This non-patented cultivar is easily
rooted from cuttings.
Cultivar
Name: Sea Foam
Blossom Color: Creamy White
Blossom & Fragrance: Double - Fragrant
Blooming Period: April - November
Mature Heigh:t 2 feet
Mature Width: 4 feet
Rose Category: Shrub
Growth Habitat: Mannerly Climber
Landscape
Uses:
Although Sea Foam is generally referenced as a climber, this
selection also has broad use as a groundcover. Used in mass,
Sea Foam can provide a spectacular display of color which contrasts
nicely against its dark green foliage. This selection is frequently
used in areas with steep embankments, hillsides and other challenging
landscape areas. Of course Sea Foam can also be trained as a
climber or weeping standard. Both of these forms can be very
dramatic in the landscape.
The Earth
Kind designation also ensures that Sea Foam is extremely resource
efficient with outstanding landscape performance characteristics.
 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.
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