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All of my roses are tucked in for the winter but my hybrid musk rose Aptos, aka Dr. Robert Korns. What a puzzling rose! Hybrid musk roses are supposed to be barely hardy in New England, and most places have Aptos listed as Zone 5, but it's already been through several 20 something degree nights and won't drop its leaves...it actually has less frost damage than Quietness. Julia Child is Zone 5 and looks a lot more rough than that...

I looked up Aptos on http://www.helpmefind.com and it has no parentage listed. It's from 1996 so maybe it's a more hardy variety? Apparently, the mother plant has been lost. And hardly anybody grows it... I'm wondering if it's possibly more cold hardy than reported? I guess we'll have to be a test garden for this one...

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