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woodland green leaves that are enhanced with medium-sized ball-shaped
soft lavender-pink blooms with deep magenta stripes that radiate out
from the throat along with some tan freckling. (Peste 1986) (Fall 2012)
6”- 8”
∗Chapeau (Britannia hybrid x Purple Splendour)
Sun or Part Shade Medium 5’ Early May Lavender 0°F.
The openly funnel-shaped lavender-pink conical blooms have a dark
crimson eye in the upper lobe. The growth habit is upright, spreading and
branches moderately well with dull green medium-sized leaves. Chapeau
#246 & #251 have a very large and dramatic dark crimson eye in the
upper lobe along with frilled edging. All vary in bloom color. All three
plants are available. (Broxson) 10”-12”
Checkmate (PJM Victor- Tissue Culture Propaguie)
Sun or Part Shade Low 2’ Mid-March Lavender-Pink -25°F.
Small elliptically-shaped green leaves emerge on a compact plant that
grows as wide as tall. Aromatic foliage emits a spicy fragrance when
brushed against and turns a mahogany winter color from October
through late March. Small, abundantly produced lavender-pink blooms
are amassed on this dense and rounded supertructure. (Weston 1987)
(Fall 2012) 6”- 8”
Cheer (Red catawbiense seedling x Cunningham’s White)
Sun or Part Shade Medium 4’ Mid-April Rose Pink -10°F.
A very prolific blooming plant of rosy-pink full-dome trusses with red
freckling, exhibited on a canopy of glossy smooth-textured jade green
leaves. The plant habit is mounding, dense and multi-branching, which
may facilitate shearing back for additional branch strength. You can
always count on this plant setting buds every year without any doubt.
(Shammarello 1958) 12”- 15”
Chemainus Noyo Brave x ([C.I.S. x R. rex] x Hansel)
Sun or Part Shade Medium 4’ Early May Pink +5°F.
Handsome dome-shaped deep purplish-pink blooms have a dark red
throat and freckling on the upper dorsal lobes. It is additionally ornamented
with a 1” calyx of bright pink plus a darker pink outer flower
color. Dense, lustrous, glossy deep green leaves are interfaced beneath
with thick amber-brown indumentum which completely circumvents
this well-branching superstructure. (Fujioka 2010) 10”- 12”
Cherries and Cream ([Fabia x R. bureavii] x Lem’s Cameo)
Sun or Part Shade Low 3’ Early April Cherry Cream 0°F.
This widely branching superstructure is beautifully frameworked with
glossy deep forest green leaves held for 4-5 years, and is additionally
ornamented with bronze colored new spring growth. A bounty of carmine-red
buds open to flat-topped blooms of fuchsia-pink (exterior)
while a beautifully contrasting creamy color graces the inside along
with fuchsia-pink margins and pink freckling in the throat, combined
with a 1” calyx of deep pink. (Workman, Imrie 1995) 12”- 15”
Cherry Bombz (Vulcan x Moonstone)
Sun or Part Shade Low 2½’ Mid-May Cherry 0°F.
This rounded, beautifully frameworked well clothed plant is manicured
with deep green leaves that are abundantly produced. The
rosy-pink blooms are poised in loose clusters with slight red freckling
within, that are borne with great freedom. 12”- 15”
∗Cherry Cheesecake (Tetraploid of Hachmann’s Charmont)
Sun Medium 5’ Mid-May White/Red Eye -15°F.
As a tissue culture tetraploid, this plant displays large pure white blooms
highlighted by red wavy-edged margins and a showy red flare in the
throat. Large deep forest green leaves densely circumvent this wellbranching
rounded plant that grows 5’ tall and wide. (Briggs) 12”- 15”
∗Chevalier Felix de Sauvage (R. caucasicum x hardy hybrid)
Sun/Pt. Shade Medium 4’ Late April Pink Dark Eye -5°F.
A sturdy well-mannered plant with a sculptured framework of medium
green leaves, generously presented, bearing handsome free-flowering
globe-shaped pink flowers with a showy dark red eye. This is another
remarkable century old hybrid that continues to impress all who view it.
(Sauvage 1870) 10”- 12”
Chinoides (R ponticum hybid)
Sun & Heat Medium 4’ Mid-May White -10°F.
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A moundlike growing plant that branches well with a medium-sized deep
green leaf canopy. The white full-dome trusses have faint yellow spotting.
Very sun and heat tolerant. (J. Waterer 1886?) 12”- 15”
Choremia (R. haematodes x R. arboreum)
Sun or Part Shade Medium 4’ Late February Red -5°F.
Beautiful deep woodland green leaves have a silver-gray colored indumentum
beneath, while amply covering this multi-branching, compact
and mounding plant. The clear crimson rounded blooms, shirted by a
small calyx, are a beautiful accent in the garden. (Aberconway 1933)
(Fall 2012) 6”- 8”
∗Chorus Line (Lem’s Cameo x Pink Petticoats)
Some Shade Medium 4’ Early May Pink 0°F.
Classically presented, large globe-shaped rosy-pink blooms with darker
margins are undertoned with a paler pink throat, all poised above dark
green leaves, that framework this well-branching, upright, yet spreading
plant. A sister seedling to Viennese Waltz, whose blooms are somewhat
larger. (Lofthouse 1991) (Fall 2012) 6”- 8”
∗Christmas Cheer (R. caucasicum x)
Sun or Part Shade Low 4’ Late February Pink -10°F.
An attractive mounding plant with a multi-branching canopy of matte
medium-green leaves are superimposed with full-dome dark pink flowers
that fade to a delicate soft pink flushed white. (T. Methven & Son)
6”- 8” thru 18”- 21”
Christmas White (Sport of Christmas Cheer)
Sun Medium 5’ February White -15°F.
Generously produced deep olive green leaves circumvent this rounded
well-branching superstructure. Ball-shaped white blooms suffused with
pale pink delicately ornament this early springtime cultivar. (Kluppenger)
12”- 15”
∗Cilpinense (R. ciliatum x R. moupinense)
Some Shade Semi-Dwarf 30” Late March Pink +5°F.
Tubular, trumpet-shaped pale pink flowers are held in clusters of 3-5.
The deep jade green elliptical leaves are amply produced silhouetting
a rounded, spreading plant. Flowers may need some protection from
early morning frost. (Aberconway 1927) 8”- 10” thru 12”- 15”
Cimarron Sun (Nancy Evans x Mrs Furnival)
Sun or Pt. Shade Medium 4’ Mid-Late May Creamy Yellow 0°F.
From these two prodigious parents, come amply produced semi-glossy,
moderate olive green leaves which completely circumvent this wellbranching,
somewhat upright plant. Rounded, wavy-edged blooms open
to a pale green-yellow with 3 upper lobes accented with stronger greenish-yellow
tones and a prominent flare/freckling of red within the throat.
A variable length calyx is also pale green-yellow edged in red with some
red freckling. (Barlup 1998) (Fall 2012) 6”- 8”
∗Cinnamon Bear (R. bureavii A M. x R. yakushimanum 'Koichiro
Wada')
Some Shade Low 3' Early May White 0°F.
Light pink buds open to angelic white ball-shaped blooms with bright
magenta freckling within, beautifully presented on an exquisite framework
of deep green leaves enhanced with thick cinnamon brown felt-like
indumentum. The rounded, well branching plant gives year-round appeal
(C. Smith 1989) 8”- 10”, 10”- 12”
Cinnarose (Anita Dunstan x Hills Low Red)
Sun or Part Shade Low 3’ Early May Soft Peach -5°F.
A profusion of vivid coral-red buds unfurl to expose ball-shaped wavyedged
blooms of soft peachy-pink combined with streaks of strong red
on the midveins and on all lobes, along with a pronounced radiant red
throat. This well-branching plant is beautifully mantled with matte deep
green leaves held for 2 years that framework a plant that grows wider
than tall. (Barlup 2007) 8”- 10”
Circus (Fabia x Purple Splendour)
Sun or Part Shade Low 3’ Mid-May Pink Yellow -5°F.
A periphery of glossy dark forest green leaves have a slight undercarriage
of brown indumentum, that beautifully frameworks this upright and
well-branching plant. There are many colors of the ‘Circus’ found in
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