Welcome
Open Garden Days
Thank you to everyone who visited during our Open Garden Days in June 2018. It was a treat to welcome gardeners from as far away as California, New York, Virginia, Maryland. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ontario as well as rose lovers from throughout Ohio. Our garden is now closed until next June. We look forward to welcoming everyone to our Open Garden Days in June 2019 when our collection of over 1200 different roses will be at its best:
Three Sundays in June
9, 16 and 23 June 2019
Complete details will appear here closer to the time.
Our autumn 2018 shipping season has come to a close. The roses listed below can be purchased now for pick-up during our Open Garden Days in June 2019 (or later by appointment). We do not ship in the spring. To purchase any of these plants please call Peter on 330.296.2618 or use the contact form on this website to confirm availability. We accept cash, checks, PayPal, all major credit cards and Euros.
Hard-to-Find Roses For Sale
Own-root roses propagated at Freedom Gardens. 1-gallon pots. $25 each.
ANNE HARKNESS (Harkness 1980) tall floribunda, huge sprays of caramel blooms
ANTIKE (Kordes 1988) crimson and cream with Old Garden form, climber or large shrub
BANSHEE (c. 1773?) super tough light pink Old Garden Rose
BELLA DONNA (<1844) pink fragrant damask, very long spring bloom
BELLE ROSINE (Vibert 1829) dark pink gallica, well-formed blooms last when cut
BLUSH HIP (1840) tender pink on a tough plant, the alba that acts like a gallica
BLUSHING LUCY (Williams 1938) healthy, glossy-leaved pale pink rambler
CAPTAIN THOMAS (Thomas 1935) spectacular single-petaled yellow climbing hybrid tea
CHARLES DE MILLS (<1746) gallica, what they called red back then, plant and stand back
COMPLICATA (Vibert 1835) gallica hybrid, simply one of the most beautiful single-petaleds
CONSTANCE SPRY (1961) large pink shrub; the original David Austin English rose
DR JOHN DICKMAN (Bridges 2003) best purple/mauve mini-flora
ELINA (Dickson 1984) best yellow hybrid tea for northern Ohio
EVEREST DOUBLE FRAGRANCE (Beales 1980) free-blooming cream floribunda
FAIR BIANCA (Austin 1983) classic floribunda-like white English rose
FRANCE DE BERVILLE (Eve 2001) lovely cherry red nitida hybrid, a gardener's rose
FUNNY FACE (Lim 2004) healthy shrub, pink splashed on cream
GALLICANDY (Barden 2003) bubblegum pink, profuse, modern gallica
GRANNY GRIMMETTS (re-int 1955) free-blooming, fragrant deep red hybrid perpetual
GREETINGS (Zary 1999) magenta/silver compact shrub, healthy and always in bloom
HART CRANE (Schneider 2010) purple single-petaled rugosa, a top exhibition classic shrub
HEINRICH KARSCH (Leenders 1927) cute, prolific mauve polyantha
ILLUSION (Kordes 1961) classic heavy-blooming red Kordesii climber
INDIGO (Laffay 1830) compact constant-blooming purple Portland
JAMES MASON (Beales 1982) blood red modern gallica for hedge or back of border
JOHN DAVIS (Svejda 1986) camellia pink Kordesii, cold and drought resistant
KEAN (1820?) purple pink gallica, recommended to all who dislike complicated OGR names
KIT DELAHANTY (Delahanty 2008) bright pink modern bourbon
LA FRANCE (Guillot 1867) light pink, the original hybrid tea, still vigorous and fragrant
LIONS INTERNATIONAL (Fryer 1998) free-blooming bright yellow hybrid tea
LOUIS VAN TYLE (<1846) opulent lavender pink gallica, wider than tall
MARTINE GUILLOT (Massad 1996) healthy shrub with pure white hybrid tea-like blooms
MECENE (Vibert 1845) compact gallica, white stripes running out of deep pink petals
MEIN SCHONER GARTEN (Kordes 1997) tall, healthy, pure pink shrub
MISS EDITH CAVELL (deRuiter 1917) historic dark red polyantha
MOJE HAMMARBERG (Hammarberg 1931) fragrant, large-hipped mauve rugosa
MORGENROT (Kordes 1985) startling bright red single-petaled compact shrub
NEW CENTURY (vanFleet 1900) very rare rugosa in shades of pink, no suckers
OSCAR PETERSON (AgCanada 2016) stunning white rugosa hybrid
PAUL NEYRON (Levet 1869) largest rose blooms imaginable, Neyron pink
PEARL DRIFT (LeGrice 1981) glistening blooms and foliage, wider than tall
PINK PAVEMENT (Baum 1991) rugged deep pink hybrid rugosa
PINK ROADRUNNER (Uhll 2003) vigorous bright pink hybrid rugosa
PINK ROBIN (Lens 1992) rare R. helenae hybrid, tall and profuse
PINK SURPRISE (Lens 1987) saucer-size single-petaled light pink blooms
PRAIRIE JOY (Collicutt 1990) very healthy clear pink upright shrub
ROBERT DUNCAN (Dickson 1897) highly evolved pink blend hybrid perpetual
R. ARKANSANA 'PEPPERMINT' pink dapples and stripes, top exhibition species
R. EGLANTERIA the Sweetbriar Rose, foliage scented of green apples
R. PALUSTRIS the Swamp Rose, pink single, perfectly happy with wet feet
R. VIRGINIANA robust single-petaled pink, native to Ohio as well as Virginia
ROSE DE RESCHT (re-int 1940s) intensely fragrant deep pink, always in bloom
SHOGUN (Tantau 2000) climber with elegant cherry red/pale gold blooms
SONIA RYKIEL (Massad 1995) 100 fragrant petals of ideally formed coral pink
SOUVENIR DE LA REINE DE ANGLETERRE (Cochet 1855) warm pink HP
SOUVENIR DE McKINLEY (Godard 1902) powder pink, super rare HP X HT
SWEET BOUQUET (Lens 1984) palest pink double hybrid musk, profuse
THERESE BUGNET (Bugnet 1950) fragrant, very double indestructible rugosa
WALFERDANGE (Lens 1992) superior pink and cream double hybrid musk
WICHMOSS (Barbier 1911) the iconic mossed rambler, light pink, now quite rare
WILLIAM BAFFIN (Svejda 1983) pink; most winter hardy repeating climber
WILLIAM LOBB (Laffay 1855) velvety crimson-mauve moss rose
This year we have also propagated the rose we received from Martin Weingart, the nurseryman near the Sangerhausen Rosarium in Germany as MAGENTA, a 1916 Barbier polyantha. It is not that rose, nor is it the 1954 Kordes floribunda/shrub 'Magenta' or any of the Magentas after that. It is a vigorous, very winter-hardy, well-clothed rambler reaching 9' for us and covered top to bottom in clusters of large, very full, fragrant magenta/mauve blooms for nearly a month each spring. Many visitors have admired and asked about it, and we have finally decided to offer it despite not knowing its true original name.
Paul Jerabek Introductions For Sale
Own-root roses propagated at Freedom Gardens. 1-gallon pots. $20 each.
CAMILLE ROSE profuse, healthy clear pink shrub
CHATEAU DE VAIR 93 exuberant cerise/white polyantha, trophies at district shows
CONNIE pure yellow semi-double miniature, almost always in bloom
OUR PEARL vigorous climber, white with pink edge
PHOTOGENIC stunning semi-double white with lipstick edge, climber/shrub
SUSAN SCHNEIDER shrub, brillant yellow-changing-to-red in sprays, many trophies
SUSAN'S SISTER more intense colors on a shorter floribunda plant, sprays are smaller
ZENAITTA superb orange-red polyantha for exhibition and garden
We feature Paul Jerabek's roses but also have an excellent selection of modern hybrid teas, floribundas and shrubs from other rose breeders--all proven winter hardy in this climate--on our $20 sale tables.
Rare and Choice Lilacs For Sale
Own-root lilacs propagated at Freedom Gardens. 1-, 3- and 5-gallon pots. $25 each.
We completely SOLD OUT of lilacs during our Open Garden Days in June 2018. To all of you who say you miss the "real" lilacs of your youth--tall, stately shrubs with large panicles of wonderfully fragrant blooms--we hear you and are busy propagating an even larger crop for 2019 from our collection of nearly 100 correctly named French, Russian, Canadian and American cultivars.
Rose/lilac availability list updated 9 December 2018.