Souvenir de St. Annes

Rosa Elegantula Persetosa

(Species) 'Rosa farreri persetosa' 'Threepenny Bit Rose'. A charming arching shrub with fern-like leaves which turn to purple and crimson in the autumn. The tiny hips, are of a bright orange-red colour and produces small, lilac-pink flowers. Tolerant of poor soils and shade. Suited to woodland planting.

Pink Martini

(Hybrid Tea) A beautiful, deep pink rose with large, very double, old fashioned blooms. Strongly scented and very healthy.

Pink Gruss An Aachen

This rose is a perfect alternative to Eglantyne which we no longer stock. A superb rose with large soft salmon pink, scented flowers. Dwarf and hardy. In common with others this rose was erroneously listed as Irene Watts but is now correct here.

Lady Sylvia (Climber)

Superb blooms of rich pink with a fine perfume. Outstanding.

Irene Watts

(China) Very double, pale pink flowers with deeper centres and a pleasant fragrance. Fairly dwarf and hardy. This is a lovely little rose and I grow to like it more and more each year.

Pompon De Paris

(Chinensis Climber) A fascinating, small vigorous climber with fern-like foliage and thin growth. Small button-like, full bright pink flowers. Of Unknown origin, but dating back to 1839.

Princesse Marie

(Sempervirens Hybrid) Bright pink to lilac cupped flowers in large cascading clusters are a beautiful sight in mid-summer. Foliage is dark green on long pliable stems with few thorns. We believe this to be authentic. (It is not the rose offered as Belvede

Papillon

Unique to us in the UK. (China) Predominantly pink with white and copper reflections from the deeper base. A good but little known China.

Madame Lois Leveque

(Moss) Soft 'tissue paper' petals of soft pale pink. Well mossed. Fragrant. A superb rose.

Martin Frobisher

(Rugosa) Large, double flowers of soft pink, with paler centres. Very fragrant with light green foliage. Bred in Canada.

Madame Butterfly (Bush)

(H.T.) A very lovely rose of several shades of pale pink to blush with lemon centre. Very fragrant. Popular rose between the wars.

Le Vesuve

(China) Shapely buds opening loose and blowsy, silvery-pink with deeper shadings. Good under glass.

Kathleen

Unique to us in the UK. (Hybrid Musk) Large clusters of small, single flowers of blush pink borne on a long stem. Fragrant.

Juno

(Centifolia) An arching shrub with double, globular, blush-pink flowers. Scented.

Flora

(Rambler) Trusses of off-white to lilacy-pink flowers. Fully double and cupped. Healthy dark foliage. Scented.

Debutante

(Wichurana Rambler) Pale rose pink clusters of small, fragrant flowers amid glossy foliage.

Cupid

(Climbing Hybrid Tea) A superbly formed rose. Large, single, peachy blooms with tawny gold anthers. Worth growing if it only produces one flower per year. Lovely pear shaped hips later.

Celsiana

(Damask) Clusters of semi-double, pink flowers with a heady perfume. Attractive grey foliage.

Baroness Rothschild

(Hybrid Perpetual) Huge cupped flowers of soft rose pink. On an upright, tidy plant with ample foliage.Some cannot detect a fragrance, considered by others to be present.

Blush Damask

(Damask) A sweet little rose of pale pink with deeper centres. Highly scented. Tolerant of most soils. Probably a very old variety.

Agatha

(Gallica) This rose is highly scented, pale pink with a deeper centre. When fully open the irregular petals form a loose quartered effect reminiscent of crumpled crepe paper. More vigorous than its close relative ''Empress Josephine''.