Salet

 ARS Rating:  8.1

 Class:   Moss

 Date: 1854

 Breeder:  Lacharme, France

 Blooms:  Double with muddled centers when fully open.  Petals narrow, blooms often quartered.

 Bloom Frequency:  Blooms in spring followed by sporadic blooming the rest of the season or in the fall.  During the summer of 2001, it bloomed continuously all summer.

 Color:  Medium pink. 

 Fragrance:  Fragrant 

Thorns and Mossing:  A few prickles.  Lightly mossed with green moss.

 Approximate Height:  4’ by 3’

 Description and Care:  Bright-green foliage.  Forms a graceful shrub.  Flexible canes, very well suited to pegging or growing on a short pillar.  Very sturdy and reliable.  Most reliably reblooming rose in the Moss rose class.

 I have never sprayed this rose and it never has any disease problems.  It does not require pruning unless you need to do so to keep it within bounds.  If you must prune it, do so right after flowering.

 Comments:  This is an extremely easy rose to grow and well suited to organic gardening methods.