Roses

Beautifully formed, semi-double, rich yellow flowers in large clusters. A good rose for cutting and also suitable for growing in pots.

This is the most widely grown of the hubrid musks.  The flowers are variable in their colour: apricot-yellow, soft orange, honey and above all a rich buff.  Its colour is deeper in shade or in cooler weather (especially in autumn), and tends to fade to cream in hot, sunny weather.  The flowers are fully double and held in loose clusters that cut well; they also tend to be larger in autumn.  The plant has a lax habit of growth, and is often trained up as a climber in hot areas.  In cool climates, it eventually turns into a broad shrub with long, arching, flexible stems.

Rose of the Year 1986. The flowers of this rose are beautiful and dainty-pale pink with a hint of salmon on the upper side of the petals and paler towards the centre. The flowers start as elegant little buds, opening out very quickly and nearly flat. It has neat and very small, mid-green, semi-glossy leaves and a bushy habit of growth. An excellent plant for containers and the front of the border. All the roses we sell are field-grown and lifted when conditions are at their optimum to ensure strong, quality plants and are potted-up as soon as they are received into the nursery. This ensures that the roots do not dry out and gives the plant the best start. Therefore, do not be surprised if the soil falls away from the root when planting, particularly during the winter and early spring months. We use a high quality commercial compost mix when potting our roses and recommend you incorporate this into the planting hole when planting out in the garden.

Perfectly formed buds opening out into silvery pink blooms with a slight fragrance.

One of the best floribunda roses bearing large clusters of slightly double flowers of the purest white, sometimes tinged with pink in late summer, flowering continuously often into the winter. All the roses we sell are field-grown and lifted when conditions are at their optimum to ensure strong, quality plants and are potted-up as soon as they are received into the nursery. This ensures that the roots do not dry out and gives the plant the best start. Therefore, do not be surprised if the soil falls away from the root when planting, particularly during the winter and early spring months. We use a high quality commercial compost mix when potting our roses and recommend you incorporate this into the planting hole when planting out in the garden.

A stunning rose with great disease-resistance producing vivid, cerise-pink flowers in summer.

This variety is particularly tolerant of dry weather, and really looks its best in a hot summer. The flowers are a beautiful white colour with the faintest hint of lemon at the centre, opening from long, classically shaped buds. Usually borne singly, they occasionally come in small clusters.

Rose of the Year 2007. A delightful rose producing enormous trusses of flowers in a gorgeous and seductive shade of pink on an incredibly vigorous plant.

An invaluable garden rose particularly for its purple leaves and its abundant crop of hips. It is the perfect foil for other roses, shrubs and herbaceous plants because its colour combines well with anything. Small bright crimson or carmine flowers fading to mid-pink coming in clusters of 5-15.

This rose is grown primarily for its unusual and beautiful prickles which are large, flat and broad and a brilliant blood red in colour when young.  This variety is best planted where the early morning or late afternoon sun can shine through the prickles, illuminating them.  In cooler climates, this is oftenn the first of all roses to flower.