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FLOWERING PERIOD
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SPECIAL FEATURE
FLOWER FORM
DISEASE RESISTANCE
HISTORICAL PERIOD INTRODUCED
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AWARD WINNING
GIFT IDEAS
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Celsiana displays clusters of semi-double pale pink blooms, with a strong musk fragrance. Good in semi-shaded position. Dense grey-green foliage. Summer flowering. Painted by many famous artists from the past. Size: 1.2m x 90cm. -
a.k.a. Mme Herbert. Full quartered blooms. Purple crimson centers with lilac white outer petals. Good foliage. Wonderful scent. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 90cm. (President de Seze). -
A charming highly scented burgundy-red rose with large, full, quartered blooms. Very fitting for a cottage styled garden. Semi glossy foliage. Continuous flowering from June until winter. Size: 100cm x 50cm. -
A.k.a. Red moss. A vigorous shrub bearing lightly mossed buds which open into strong scented clusters of double bright red blooms. Dark green foliage. Summer flowering. Size: 1.5m x 1.2m. -
A.k.a. Scarlet Fire. A vigorous shrub with a good display of single brilliant scarlet blooms with prominent golden stamens. Summer flowering. Does well in most situations. Large orange urn-shaped hips in Autumn. Size: 1.8m x 1.8m. -
Mme. Pierre Oger has globular blooms of ivory white tinged pink. Strongly scented. Slender upright growth. Perpetual flowering. 1.2m x 90cm. -
Pompon des Princes (a.k.a. Ispahan) has clear pink, deliciously fragrant double blooms which flower throughout the summer. Scrolled in the bud, opening quartered with a green button eye. Size: 1.5m x 1.2m. -
Botzaris has creamy white flat quartered blooms in beautiful clusters, with a strong sweet scent. Forms a compact shrub with dark green foliage. Summer flowering. Named after Marcos Botzaris, hero of Greek Independence 1790-1823. Size 1.2m x 1.2m. -
Grown from a seed bought over from roses growing by Omar Khayyam's tomb, which would now be found modern day Iran. Double spiky rich pink blooms open flat with a button eye. Strong fragrance. Soft pale grey-green foliage. Size: 1.8m x 1.8m. -
Deserves to be planted more often. Large, deep red double flowers appear in clusters from June to Autumn. Colour keeps well. Light scent. Highly tolerant of wet weather. Dark, glossy foliage. Winner at Glasgow 2012. Size: 3m x 2m. -
Fully double quartered blooms, lilac pink on the edges with deeper pink centres. Dark green foliage. Grown by Empress Josephine at Malmaison but rarely seen today. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1m. -
A robust and useful shorter climber. The double Hybrid-Tea shaped blooms are pure white and are offset by very dark green foliage. Quite thorny. Sweetly scented. Repeat flowering. Size:2.5m x 1.8m. -
Bridget (a.k.a. Birthe Kjaer) is a rich red shrub rose with a sweet and strong perfume. Blooms are large and packed full of petals. It has a narrow but bushy habit. Would prefer space at the back or middle of border. Size: 120 x 100cm. -
A climbing floribunda. Striking clusters of semi-double yellow blooms which fade to red giving a bi-coloured effect. Repeat flowering. Vigorous. Size: 5.5m x 3m -
Raised in the Empress Josephine's gardens at Malmaison and named after Napoleon's second wife, Marie Louise is a popular damask with huge flat blooms of rich rose pink with mauve over tones. Strong perfume. Does well even in poor soil. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 90cm. -
A little known early introduction by Austin. Rosette shaped blooms begin orange in bud, then fade to a paler apricot. Slender arching stems, may need support. Medium Tea fragrance. Perpetual flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1.2m -
A classic rose. Large cupped blooms of clear rose pink. Sweet scent. Grey green foliage. Useful when an erect habit is required. Repeat flowering. Size: 1.2m x 90cm. -
Probably a very old variety, Nancy Lindsay found Gloire de Guilan in Iran where it was used for making attar. The clear pink, silky-textured blooms are quartered and folded. Fresh green foliage. Good on poor soils. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1.2m. -
Pink Leda has clear pink double bloom, with a dark pink edge which shows a button eye. Strong fragrance. Dark green healthy, greyish foliage. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1.2m. -
Clusters of large pale pink Hybrid Tea-shaped blooms. Fragrant. Makes a good shorter climber or pillar rose. Dark green foliage. Continuous flowering. Size: 2.4m x 1.8m.
