Roses the color of a beautiful sunrise

Morden Sunrise Rose

These lovely roses are called Morden Sunrise. This is an appropriate name for this hardy Canadian Explorer series rose as the colors of the petals with their light yellows to soft peach and orange colors do look quite a bit like a sunrise on a beautiful day.

This rose is growing better than ever this year. It’s put out a lot of new shoots and it’s taller than it’s ever been in the five years that I’ve been growing it. Not that it’s that tall of a rose, but I’d say it’s tallest branches are about three feet long now where it usually only reaches about two to two and a half feet in height.

This rose almost always has a few blooms on the go, but this year it’s producing more flowers than it normally does as well. I guess it liked all the snow cover it got last winter! We had a ton of snow and this rose was well covered during the coldest part of winter.

The only problem that I’m having with this rose this year is Japanese Beetles.  I have nine or ten roses in my front flower beds but this is the only rose being pestered by those awful beetles. They love eating flower buds and blooming flowers.  I hate them!