As one might guess, these roses originally derived from China, where it is thought that they existed as early as the tenth century, possibly before.
They were used extensively in hybridisation programmes when the...
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Throughout the summer we offer thousands of container roses, covering a wide selection of our range. These are available from early April until the end of October.
They are more expensive to produc...
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We also have a good range of container roses available from our Nursery at Suffield, situated between Hanworth on the A140 and Antingham on the A149. There is also a lovely garden there.
For m...
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Cuckoo-spit is the unsightly, foamy white substance sometimes found nestling in leaf joints or around flower buds.
It is actually enclosing a young froghopper beetle, which when fully grown, will hop around roses ...
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The Damasks are a very old family of roses and were prized for their scent in the Middle East where they were used for the extraction of attar to produce perfume.
It is not known when they first came to Europe bu...
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If living in the countryside where both rabbits and deer cohabit, your roses are doubly at risk.
When there is snow on the ground deer become braver in their search for food and will stray into the garden. In the...
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The summer is ending and the nights are drawing in and with that our container rose season has now ended. Container roses will not be available until spring 2008. Throughout this winter season you can purchase ...
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A race of mixed progeny, the phrase ‘English Roses’ was adopted to market roses which are mixture of old and new.
They combine the old fashioned look of roses such as the Gallicas and Bourbons, and are usually perf...
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As with the Modern Hybrid Teas it was also deemed necessary to change the name of these roses from Floribunda to Cluster Flowered. This met with similar resistance and it is now common to find both titles used simultaneous...
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It is largely believed that the crusaders from the 12th and 13th centuries, carried roses from the East to Europe and many of them were probably Gallicas; for it is known that the Persians had a Gallica as a religious ...
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