Rosa rubrifolia is the first rose to bloom in my garden, and maybe my favorite. Delicate and wildly graceful... she is everything the rest of my roses, with their crappy foliage and unfortunate forms, are not. I have her growing in The Thicket, which is a tight mass of Hydrangea arborescens, Black Lace elderberry, peony, lavender, bronze fennel, and assorted other roses. There might also be trolls, or at least toads, living in The Thicket, too - it is good dark habitat.
