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Harison’s Yellow
$25.95
Hybrid Foetida – Shrub (George Folliott Harison, United States, circa 1824)
There’s no need for a calendar when you have a Harison’s Yellow in your garden. Bright and cheerful trusses of deep yellow blooms emerge from the grey of late winter to declare the coming of spring. Canes arch and reach 5 to 6 feet with ferny foliage and an upright habit, the shrub will produce suckers and form a brier clump if allowed.
This rose has truly reached legendary status. From it’s haphazard origins in Harison’s New York City garden, to its well-chronicled journeys west with the Forty-Niners, Harison’s Yellow is truly an American icon. It is still found on old homesteads along the Oregon Trail, surviving with little water and care. Harison’s has numerous aliases including the incorrect spelling “Harrison’s Yellow,” rosa harisonii, the Oregon Trail Rose, Hogg’s Yellow, Yellow Sweet Briar and the Yellow Rose of Texas.
Note: This rose may require a May shipping date to ensure adequate root development.
Description
Harison’s Yellow
Hybrid Foetida – Shrub (George Folliott Harison, United States, circa 1824)
There’s no need for a calendar when you have a Harison’s Yellow in your garden. Bright and cheerful trusses of deep yellow blooms emerge from the grey of late winter to declare the coming of spring. Canes arch and reach 5 to 6 feet with ferny foliage and an upright habit, the shrub will produce suckers and form a brier clump if allowed.
This rose has truly reached legendary status. From it’s haphazard origins in Harison’s New York City garden, to its well-chronicled journeys west with the Forty-Niners, Harison’s Yellow is truly an American icon. It is still found on old homesteads along the Oregon Trail, surviving with little water and care. Harison’s has numerous aliases including the incorrect spelling “Harrison’s Yellow,” rosa harisonii, the Oregon Trail Rose, Hogg’s Yellow, Yellow Sweet Briar and the Yellow Rose of Texas.
Joanna Tuck –
Harison’s Yellow was my gateway drug into rose growing. The first house we lived in when we got married had an enormous Harison that had been there for over 40 years after being transplanted from an old stagecoach stop, and every spring I loved seeing the magnificent display of arching canes smothered in golden blossoms. Since then I’ve made sure we have a Harison at every house we’ve lived in. The thorns are pretty epic, it’s a rose that one doesn’t dare mess with too much. But so much fun to have a piece of history in the garden.
ruthanne.jesionowski –
Stunning sunny, yellow blossoms among the earliest of my roses in 5b-6a zone. Very prickly but a joy when in bloom. Spreading roots even the first year. I have it planted in an open area where we can mow around the mature plant as it spreads (for me, living on a farm, this is a good feature). Since it is once blooming, I have it in a row with rebloomers.
Lisa Arrowood –
Truly one of the hardiest roses there is. I planted it on a ledge where there wasn’t much soil probably 25 years ago, and it bloomed every year, usually the first of all my roses to do so. It is such a happy plant and I love looking up the ledge to see the hundreds of yellow blossoms. It has never gotten as big as some people describe but I’m sure it’s due to the soil and location of mine.
K. Lesli Stratton –
I grew up in a late 1800’s trading post – turned house in Chugwater, WY. There was a Harison’s rose growing beside the door and I just loved it. For years, once I had somewhere to plant one, I looked for it in garden stores and never once found it. A dear friend researched and found you all and gave one to me as a gift. This is its third year in the ground. Last year I got one blossom, this year it is covered with buds, I stopped counting at 150. It is just beautiful. We are in northern Minnesota, zone 3 and it has handled our winters just fine!
Michael Wood –
Zone 5b Colorado. We live on a corner lot and installed 12 Harison’s Yellow Roses in a sweeping arc around the corner of the property almost three seasons ago about 2.5’ apart. Beginning in May it starts forming buds along nearly the whole length of the canes on all sides. By the end of the month, they start opening randomly in places one by one. The entirety of June in my Zone 5 garden is all about Harison’s yellow. It’s a monster! A glorious and beautiful monster of a rose. You must give it plenty of room if you plant it and be prepared to don some falconry gloves if you’re doing any work on it. I gave it some TLC the first year as it was late summer when they went in. The next year they grew four feet, at least, and were covered stem to stern in flowers for the month. The following season 12 plants turned into a 5’ tall hedge. The bees LOVE it and the smell is musky and uniquely intoxicating. It is the toughest of all my roses. For the most part, only the heavens water them with the hottest part of the summer being the exception when I intervene. This one is prickly enough to pull kids off the street if they walk too closely but it’s so worth it!
Cathy K Phillips (verified owner) –
I love this rose! I already had one but was unable to transplant it to a new yard. This plant is hardy and grew very well. I’m in a capricious zone 4, that often thinks its zone 3 or 5! We’ll see how it survives winter but I expect great things!