Good drainage is one of these requirements, and generally, if one has poorly drained soil, raised beds are a suitable solution. However, if you do seek a rose for perpetually wet or marshy areas, then consider the aptly named Swamp Rose, Rosa palustris. Now, I'm not suggesting that this rose will survive in a cypress swamp, but Rosa palustris is forgiving of the dreaded wet foot syndrome. Rosa palustris scandens differs from its s ingle-flowered parent in that its flowers are double. The 'Swamp Rose' , like most species roses, flowers once a year, in midseason, and the bloom is for a protracted period of six to eight weeks.
Flowers are loosely double, medium to dark pink surrounding yellow stamens.
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