The poorest of my five Rugosas, grown with granular commercial fertilizers. Reluctant to break, canes dry out and die back, and blooms can't stand heat. Perhaps needs cool climate and all-organic methods. By the way, most Rugosas and Rugosa hybrids cannot stand chemical sprays and liquid chemical fertilizers.
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12 JAN 05 by
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White Pavement is shade tolerant and does well for my Zone 2 customers. Stunning pure colour, large crisp blooms.
Recently being somewhat concerned about the habits of my "Snow Owl," I want to concur that dieback and drying out or dying of whole canes is a problem. While mine gets a fair amount of afternoon shade and gets no chemical nutrients or spray, it is still a reluctant bloomer. The leaves on the good canes look healthy, so at least the bush is not an eyesore (once I've cut out the dead or dying canes). One other thing: supposedly rugosas are disease free; yet last year mine acquired scale, excessively (and for once I did use a chemical spray). It looked like it might have died in the end, but it came back healthy this past spring, producing a few lovely blooms. Still, recently a whole cane began drying out, which I cut.
