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Darlow’s Enigma
$27.95
Hybrid Musk / Rambler (Discovered by Mike Darlow, United States, 1993)
Clusters of small, pure white, semi-double blooms with a wonderful fragrance followed by sprays of tiny hips. Repeat blooming, can take some shade. Grow as a 5-6 foot shrub in cold climates or as a taller climber in warmer areas.
7 reviews for Darlow’s Enigma
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Diana Briggs (verified owner) –
My order from High Country Roses was very nicely packed and my plants intact, which was refreshing considering all the crushed and dead plants I received from other nurseries this past spring. I chose Darlow’s Enigma for a very tough spot in the front of my property, in poor soil with near-total shade, but the little plant is growing nicely. No blooms yet, but it’s grown significantly this summer and the foliage seems fairly resistant to bugs and disease. I’m hoping it will take over the fence and fill the corner one day. The way it’s tripled in size with NO sun and very little attention during a hard drought seems promising- I’ll cut back the trees to give it more light and air next year. Maybe then we’ll see some flowers!
sheenashakely –
My plant is in its third summer, but it spent its first winter on a porch in a large pot and then it was moved, planted before the first frost, and then moved again the next spring. This hasn’t stopped it from growing strongly to 4’. It’s thorns are very grabby, but I love the blossoms. Not many flowers have a wafting scent in our dry air, but this one manages it.
Lisa Arrowood –
This is a very vigorous rise which blooms profusely with a wonderful perfume that fills the air nearby. It does need either serious training, but it is quite thorny. I cut it back viciously after it blooms and it bounces back. I’d grow it just for the fragrance but the flowers themselves are not all that impressive. It does fine in partial shade.
Toni Hall –
I live in South Lake Tahoe, so we get plenty of snow which can bury my Darlow’s up to 5 feet. I’ve had this sturdy rose for about 5 years and its canes are about 5 feet tall now, planted under the eave of our house in a part of the garden which gets part shade. It puts out profuse sprays of single white petalled blooms that have a light and wonderful fragrance. The blooms continue through Fall until first frost. This is a beauty and the bees love it. It has done the best for our somewhat unpredictable mountain climate out of all the roses I’ve purchased from High Country.
zehavel (verified owner) –
Just received this and it looks great, healthy and lots of new growth.
zehavel (verified owner) –
Happy and healthy little plant and it is growing fast.
Lynn Hurst –
Darlowe’s may not be everyone’s cup of tea. It almost wasn’t mine. I always go for the full, old, romantic roses with strong old rose fragrance. I bought this one on kind of a whim and almost immediately regretted it. It seemed leggy and sprawling (exactly as described so what did I expect), and I gave it credit for pushing out several little tiny blossoms even in its little pot. But what was so disappointing was those little blooms did not seem to have any fragrance at all. What good is this? All legs and thorns, little flowers with no fragrance?
But through the winter I kept it going while I tried to decide where to permanently place it. I was pretty sure it wasn’t going to go anywhere permanent come spring. By early spring, it had grown a LOT, still in its little pot and was starting to cover itself with blooms—which still had only faint fragrance. However, as it got bigger (way bigger than the other roses I had ordered at the same time) and more covered with flowers, every time I walked past, I was noticing the most delightful fragrance in the air, almost the same kind of light wonderful fragrance that you get from passing a wild patch of honeysuckle. Even while still a small shrub in its original pot, the clusters of flowers Darlowe’s was producing created such a light, sweetly intoxicating experience that I was immediately in love. I now think this bush is just perfect with the sprawling form and dancing little flowers that smell so sweet. Not to mention the tough, aggressive grower it is. She got neglected more than once through the winter and early spring, drying out and leaf drop, but kept coming back with a vengeance. Now, I’ve been thinking hard where to take full advantage of this delightfully chaotic dancing mess and even ordered another one. I can’t wait to smell the air and see the airy form when she’s in the ground and full grown! I plan to give them lots of room
Each individual flower doesn’t seem to last long, but she manages to keep the leaping canes covered all the time—really just pure joy.