In the Garden with Felder: The Peggy Martin Rose blooms through adversity

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In the Garden with Felder: The Peggy Martin Rose blooms through adversity

Felder Rushing Bet you’ve seen my old friend Peggy Martin around town. Seems like she is in every third garden these days. Actually, not the actual Peggy, a well-known rose gardener from just southeast of New Orleans, but an unnamed antique rose she had collected as a cutting from an old Louisiana garden. Its glossy green disease-resistant leaves frame large tight bunches of smallish pink flowers, with just one cluster creating a near-perfect no…