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Darlow’s Enigma
$23.95
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.
Description
Darlow’s Enigma
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 climber in warmer areas.
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.