EverGrown Roses are more than just a name for the beautiful roses that you will find at Evergreen H&G Showplace. The process actually starts an entire year before you purchase your roses. The new AARS winners and new introductions glisten the pages of catalogs from recognized growers such as Jackson & Perkins, and Weeks, We determine the new selections that are available, like Double Pink for 2008, and start shopping like a young child at Christmas. After balancing the new selections, old favorites, roses for fragrance, color, and disease resistance, the orders are sent to the growers.
In early February, the roses arrive at our Grow Center. Each rose is soaked in water for 24 hours to initiate bud break and individually root and cane pruned.
What makes these roses EverGrown Roses starts now. The soil does not come out of a bag. We determine the precise mix of aged pine bark, long fibered Canadian peat moss, fine pine bark, and agricultural lime.
We add a generous amount of H&G Rose Food and BloomKote to each soil mix to insure growth for up to 3 months.
The soil is churned in our soil mixer long enough to keep the soil fluffy and mix the nutrients and soil parts just right. Just think of it like a cake mix in the kitchen.
We plant our roses into large 3 gallon pots so the roots will have plenty of room to grow and the soil will hold enough water to keep the nutrients available to the plants.
The roses are placed in a film covered greenhouse to increase the humidity and retain enough heat to start the growing process. The roses remain in these houses for 3 weeks. When the temperature gets too warm, we remove the ends to reduce the temps. Every other day we remove the ends to allow for air exchange. Plants need fresh air to replenish the CO2 that plants need to grow. On the cool nights we keep the greenhouses closed and on warmer nights we leave the houses open. These roses are watched everyday to make sure they grow into EverGrown Roses. As they continue to grow, insect and disease controls are used to make sure that your roses are healthy when you purchase them.
Over the past 5 years landscape roses have captured the rose market. Each year a higher % of roses are produced and sold to consumers are landscape/shrub roses due to their disease resistance and lower maintenance.
Evergreen H&G Showplace offers many of the 2008 AARS winners as well as other notable introductions. Please come to Evergreen H&G Showplace to get your EverGrown Roses today. These are some of the roses you will find during your visit to one of our 3 locations.
Double Knock Out is a close relative of the famous Knock Out rose. It has the disease resistant attributes that made Knock Out such a popular garden plant, and an abundance of double, cherry-red flowers. This plant habit is slightly smaller than Knock Out, making it perfect for the smaller gardens. Double Knock Out thrives in humid climates without spraying and does not require dead-heading to continue blooming. Even though the blooms are not as large as hybrid tea roses, the double blooms of Double Knock Out and Double Pink Knockout were clearly double. When the Green People saw them growing at Greenleaf Nursery in field blocks by the thousands, they could noticeably see the difference. You will too when they are in your rose garden.
The newest addition to the Knock Out rose family from Bill Radler. The Rainbow Knock Out Rose covers itself with coral pink blooms painted with rich yellow at the base. More compact and floriferous than the earlier Knock Out roses.
Unaffected by black spot as is to be expected of the Knock Out family. Good resistance to mildew and rust. Winter hardy to zone 4. Sets hips in autumn for a bit of winter color.
Knockout Rose (Red) is a beautiful red shrub rose. Its semi-double 3-3 1/2″ blooms are fluorescent fire-engine red in cool weather and deep cerise-pink in the heat of the summer. This is your best choice for a low maintenance red shrub rose!
Rainbow Knock Out is the newest addition to the Knock Out rose family from Bill Radler. The Rainbow Knock Out Rose covers itself with coral pink blooms painted with rich yellow at the base. More compact and floriferous than the earlier Knock Out roses.
Unaffected by black spot as is to be expected of the Knock Out family. Good resistance to mildew and rust. Winter hardy to zone 4. Sets hips in autumn for a bit of winter color.
The Pink Double Knock Out® Rose will find a permanent home in your garden. This absolutely carefree landscape rose has all of the same wonderful characteristics of its parent, The Double Knock Out® with a fabulous hot pink bloom. The fluorescent double pink blossoms attract attention all summer and give way to deep purple fall foliage adorning your garden with three seasons of interest.
You don’t have to waste time removing old flowers from this blooming machine. The Pink Double Knock Out® Rose takes the maintenance out of roses. Hardy, drought tolerant upon establishment, this rose is a carefree, show-stopping Star®!
Pink Knockout Rose is a new bright pink version of the popular Knockout rose, with all of the characteristics of its parent abundant blooms, disease resistant and it is easy to grow.
Tom Carruth, the hybridizer of this rose describes Home Run like this: Flame-red offspring of the famous Knock Out kicks the competition up a notch when it comes to disease resistance. Home Run has a phenomenal fortitude against the dreaded black spot (like its father). But, unlike Dad, it is also completely resistant to powdery mildew and has a higher level of tolerance to downy as well. Rounded, bushy, fast-to-flower and nearly always in color, it hits a grand slam in the landscape and scores lots of points in a pot, too. Like our ‘Morning Has Broken’ it is immune to black spot and mildew.
