The Bentonsport Rose Garden exhibits many old garden roses along with a few modern roses. The old garden roses which are grown today have stood the test of time and are excellent roses, although they are generally not repeat bloomers. Many of the modern roses are Buck roses. These roses were developed by the late Dr. Griffith Buck, a professor of Horticulture at Iowa State University. The remaining modern roses represent a variety of roses which perform well with low maintenance in southeast Iowa.

Old Garden Roses

The following is a list of the old garden roses we grow:

Alfred de Dalmas	Autumn Damask	Baroness Rothchild
Belle Poitevine	Blanc Double deCouber	Cardinal de Richelieu
Charles de Mills	Comte de Chambord	Comtesse de Murinais
Fantin-Latour	Felicite Parmentier	General Kleber
Gloire de Mousseuses	Honorine de Brabant	Jacque Cartier
La Reine Victoria	Lady Penzance	Leda
Louise Odier	Mme. Ernest Calvat	Mme. Hardy
Mme. Issac Pereire	Mme. Louis Leveque	Mme. Pierre Oger
Maiden's Blush	Marquise Boccella	Paul Neyron
Quatre Saisons Blanche	Reine des Violettes	Rosa damascena bifera
Rosa eglantine	Rosa gallica officinalis	Rosa gallica Versicolor
Rosa glauca	Rose de Rescht	Soupert de Notting
White Pet	Zephirine Drouhin

Buck Roses
The above link will take you to the Iowa State University site on Buck roses.

The following is a list of the Buck roses grown in the Rose garden:

Amiga Mia	Brook Song	Carefree Beauty
Country Dancer	Distant Drums	Dorcas
Earth Song	Folksinger	Golden Unicorn
Hawkeye Belle	Hi Neighbor	Honeysweet
Les Sjulin	Maytime	Pearlie Mae
Prairie Harvest	Summer Wind

Other Modern Roses

Belinda	Belle Story	Blossomtime
Buff Beauty	Canterbury	Cornelia
Dainty Bess	Dr. W Van Fleet	Dortmund
Happy	Iceberg	Jens Munk
Kathleen	May Queen	Pax
Penelope	Prosperity	The Fairy
Will Scarlet	Wind Chimes