Shrub Rose ‘Cassie’ is a Flower Powerhouse
It’s October 20th, and everybody in the garden is winding down. Everybody but ‘Cassie’, that is.
‘Cassie’ is a medium-sized shrub rose that refuses to acknowledge the change of seasons. She just keeps pumping out small, semi-double white flowers.
She even keeps the flower buds coming.
All this while her canes fill with small orange hips that gradually disappear down the gullets of birds.
Of course, ‘Cassie’ is at her peak in June and July, when she is covered with mildly fragrant blooms.
‘Cassie’ is about as close to trouble-free as a rose can get. I give her absolutely no coddling, and every year she comes back with vigor and clean foliage. Cut back in early spring, she grows to about four feet high.
Do you have any roses or other plants that don’t know when to quit?
I like Rosa Hansa (http://raingardenartsblog.com/2013/07/16/rosa-hansa-friend-or-foe/), especially for her scintillating scent and her equally trouble-free performance.
I looked it up on the MBG website, it’s a beauty.
A lovely rose indeed. the ones that’s looking as if it were spring in my garden is Sophie’s perpetual.
‘Sophie’s Perpetual’ is lovely, you must have a very long season for blooming roses.
Your Cassie rose is beautiful Jason and deserved of your post title. Roses that need no codling are my kind of rose. Rain and wind have bashed my late flowering roses, but Salvias especially Salvia patens ‘Cambridge blue’ is flourishing and withstanding this current weather.
My annual salvias ‘Revolution’ and ‘Mystic Spires’ are blooming very nicely right now.
Hello Jason, all our roses are new to the garden and several are still potted, waiting to be planted. Those that have been lucky enough to be planted are establishing in new ground and so I’d say that all the roses we have at the moment are requiring a bit of work, but hopefully that will ease off as they settle into their new environment. From the stunning display we had in the last garden (before we dug them up and brought them with us) , I’m expecting great things from them.
I’m sure they will be happy in their new home!
The rose hips are almost as attractive as the flowers. Great to have a carefree, productive plant such as this.
Yes, especially the “carefree” part.
I like Cassie. Do the bees like her? This year Delphinium haven’t realised that it’s time to batten down the hatches for the autumn storms. They are in full bloom – as are Echinops, Geranium and Lavender x intermedia “Sussex”. Some friends in the village cut back their apple tree a few weeks ago and it is now in full blossom!
Isn’t that very unusual – apple trees blooming in autumn? My Geranium do not bloom in fall, sad to say.
A lovely rose! I don’t have any shrub roses, but right now I’m admiring my ‘Immortality’ iris that is re-blooming for the second time this fall.
I had no idea there were Irises that bloomed in fall.
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My favorite is white roses .. this one looks wonderful and trouble free is another favorite aspect I love .. sadly my White Licorice were pumping out black spot like crazy so they had to leave the garden.
I do have some colorful roses that behave themselves … but white just does it for me .. this one I will have to remember .. William Shakespeare seems to be the surprising one to keep flowering .. I love the scent as well .. a rose without scent seems just wrong to me ! LOL
Joy
I completely agree – why would anyone want to grow a rose without fragrance? My favorite rose colors are white, orange, apricot, and soft yellow.
That’s a pretty one. Agreeing with pbmgarden about the rose hips.
Rose hips have a lot going for them. They can be quite beautiful, and growing up I had a friend whose Taiwanese grandmother used to make a sort of pastry stuffed with sugared rose hips.
Oh. THAT would be delicious. I am guessing a little like rhubarb.
I have an ‘Alba Meidiland’, also white, that keeps pumping out flowers, but at this point it has lost much of its foliage. Your ‘Cassie’ still looks green, lush, and healthy.
There are a couple other shrub type roses in my rock garden (planted by former owners over 11 years ago) that will keep blooming until a heavy freeze, but they are smaller and more manageable than the ‘Alba Meidiland’.
‘Casse’ stays a fairly modest size. At least so far.
Looks like you have a winner on your hands. I love this semi-double form where the stamens are prominent, plus white is always a pick-me-up in the garden.
Yes, I like the single and semi-double roses best.
Well thank goodness for cassie, what a sterling job she is doing! I haven’t had a rose in weeks, she does look lovely too.xxx
She does indeed.
Can anybody help me I’ve tried numerous rose growing sites in England and can’t seem to find Cassi rose anywhere on them is it an import only?
Your Cassie is beautiful. The roses are blooming very late this year with the warm Autumn we are having. My favourite at the moment in my garden is Perle d’ Or which has perfect little peachy buds and a wonderful fragrance.
I just looked up ‘Perle d’Or’. I love the color of the buds and that it is so fragrant.
Yes, I have several roses that continue to put out, despite their reputation for being difficult.
The reputation doesn’t seem entirely fair – there are quite a few roses that are easy plants.
Cassie is a beauty. I have two Knockouts that are the last of anything blooming in my garden. 🙂
I have never grown Knockouts. I think I read they are very close to wild roses.
Everything is just about finished here now-we got down to 29 degrees Monday morning. You can still find a few wildflowers blooming which were protected by tree leaves though. Cassie looks and sounds like a real winner. I might have to make a spot for her here.
We still haven’t had a frost. I wouldn’t mind if that means we will have a mild winter.
That Rose looks like a winner! Flowers that don’t quit … hmmm … this fall there are quite a few since we haven’t had a hard freeze yet. I guess the longest-lasting ones are the Fuchsias in the hanging baskets, because they’re up off the ground. If I keep watering and misting them, they’ll last for quite a while. The Rose hips on your Rose are pretty impressive, too.
I have to remember to grow Fuchsias next year.
Cassie looks very much like my ‘Darlow’s Enigma, except in plant size. Like ‘Cassie’ my ‘Darlow’ is still blooming with small white flowers on long canes, after most roses and perennials have given up the ghost. The lovely thing about a small white rose is that it enhances everything colorful around it. Enjoy!
I also have Darlow’s Enigma! Here DE has pretty much finished blooming. Still, my DE blooms from June into October. I have DE growing on an arbor in the back garden.
Cute flowers, and her foliage looks pristine. What could be better?
‘Gourmet Popcorn’ and the shrub form of ‘Aimee Vibert’ are also good performers of that type.
‘Gourmet Popcorn’ – what a great name for a rose!
I need this rose! My zinnias are still blooming despite hitting some cold temps (30’s) at night. But I’m off to research this rose!
I ordered it from Heirloom Roses in Oregon.
We haven’t had a hard frost yet so I have a rose blooming and also some zinnias and marigolds.
Our Zinnias are also still blooming.
Did you know ‘Cassie’ was named for a student killed in Columbine High School? I didn’t, either, until I looked ‘Cassie’ up to know if she was fragrant. In my garden, Miedeland Pink has been in bloom since June!
It’s not the rarest thing, but my knockout rose is still as bright as ever. A fragrance would be nice though!
Yes my Knockout, miniature and Fairy roses are all still blooming their hearts out as are a few shrubs and coreopsis.
Such a beauty! I like the fact that this is a compact rose, and the blooms are exceptional.