What Are Earth Kind Roses?
Earth Kind is as important designation gives 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 outstanding 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.
1. 'Sea Foam' - a creamy white groundcover shrub rose that has double blooms with a cascading growth habit. This
variety blooms April through November on 3 ft. tall by 6 ft. wide bushes.
2. 'Marie Daly' - a pink polyantha dwarf shrubby rose that has semi-double fragrant blooms growing on an almost
thornless bush. This variety is perfect for growing in containers and proved to be tolerant to spider mites. It blooms April
through November on 3 ft. tall by 3 ft. wide bushes.
3. 'The Fairy' - a light pink polyantha dwarf shrubby rose that has double blooms on bushes that are 3 ft. tall by 4 ft.
wide. The bush blooms from April through November, but does not do well in East Texas due to the severity of
Cercospora leaf spot in that area of the state.
4. "Caldwell Pink" - a lilac pink carnation-style found rose that grows as a small shrub on bushes 4 ft. tall by 4 ft. wide.
5. 'Knock Out'™ - a cherry red semi-double shrub rose that blooms April through November on bushes that are 4 ft. tall
by 4 ft. wide.
6. 'Perle d'Or' - a peach polyantha that blooms with fragrant pompom blooms between April and November. This small
shrub rose (4 ft. by 4 ft.) out performed Cecile Brunner in the field tests by 40% and seemed to thrive on adversity.
7. 'Belinda's Dream' - a medium-size shrub rose that has pink fragrant blooms between April and November. The blooms
resemble hybrid teas with petal a count of about 114 on bushes loaded with blue-green foliage. The mature bush size is 5
ft. by 5 ft. This rose was the first one to receive the 'Earthkind' designation.
8. 'Else Poulson' - a pink floribunda rose that blooms with semi-double flowers between April and November. It has been
described that this bush's growth resembles a cyclamen and is best suited for use in background plantings. The mature
bush size is 5 ft by 5 ft.
9. "Katy Road Pink" - a fragrant pink found rose that blooms with double flowers between April and November on
mature bushes that are 5 ft. tall and 5 ft. wide.
10. 'Mutabilis' - (the 'Butterfly' Rose) - a China rose that has single blooms which change color during their life cycle
from yellow to pink to crimson. This rose blooms between April and November on large bushes that are approximately 6 ft
by 6 ft.
11. 'Climbing Pinkie' - This pink semi-double polyantha rose has very fragrant blooms between April and November.
When cultivated as a climbing rose, the canes can reach 10 ft. long. If cultivated as a shrub, the bush size will be 5 ft. tall
by 7 ft. wide. This variety blooms once a year in the spring. During the bloom season it is not uncommon for a mature
bush to display 800 blooms each day.
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