‘Frontenac’.


‘Henry Hudson.’


‘Martin Frobisher’.


white heart brought us full circle to Agriculture Canada’s best Explorer introduction: ‘Martin Frobisher’, launched in 1968. ‘Martin Frobisher’ grows slender and tall, to about six


feet (1.8 metres), on wine red stems that glow against winter snow. It’s almost thornless and blooms heavily in June, sporadically the rest of summer. The pale pink double blooms have the exquisite softness of old roses, enhanced by their soft grey-green foliage. There are over two dozen Explorer roses.


They range from the pretty sweetheart rosebuds of


‘Royal Edward’ to the exuberant growth of the flamingo pink ‘William Baffin’, whose size and vicious thorns will keep an intruder out of your garden better than barbed wire — and be a whole lot prettier.


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‘William Baffin’. There are Explorers suitable for impenetrable hedges,


colourful foundation plantings or for inclusion in borders. Use others for natural-looking meadowscapes, and still others for weaving through your perennial bed. They are both versatile and winter hardy. They are grown on their own roots so in the event of a particularly hard winter the roots will quickly send out new canes to bloom that spring. Yes, the Canadian government has the rose for you — in every shade but blue. If you are partial to the traditional hybrid tea rose, try


‘Lambert Closse’. The warm, glowing pink flowers have the high-pointed buds and sumptuous double blooms of the classic tea rose. This well-behaved 3.5-foot (one- metre) shrub blooms continually from June to October. Yellow is represented by ‘JP Connell’. The shapely,


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