Sadler’s Wells

Unique to us in the UK. Bred by Peter Beales Roses and released in 1983. (Modern Shrub) This is a fine, continuous flowering shrub. The semi-single flowers are produced in large, well-spaced clusters on a vigorous plant. The background colour is silvery-pink but each petal is laced with cherry red edging. A fine sight in full bloom.

Pink Paradise

(Hybrid Tea) Masses of intense pink fuchsia blooms with a bright yellow heart, extraordinary perfume. Its fresh coloring is complemented with dark green rudely healthy foliage.

The Doctor

(H.T.) A famous old variety which should not be allowed to disappear. Very large, rich, silver pink with a satin sheen to the petals. Shapely, high centred and strongly scented.

St. Nicholas

(Damask) Semi-double blooms of rose pink. A charmer when caught in early evening sunlight when fully open and displaying the pronounced ring of golden stamens. Scented.

Souvenir de Jeanne Balandreau

(Hybrid Perpetual) Deep pink with vermilion highlights. Shapely, large flowers on strong necks. Scented.

Susan Hampshire

(Hybrid Tea) Clear rose pink. Free flowering and fragrant. A good rose. Matt, mid-green foliage.

Single Cherry

Unique to us in the UK. (Pimpinellifolia) A charming little rose. Fern-like foliage. Tidy growth and large, single, cherry-red flowers, followed by round, purple to black hips.

Rosa Nutkana

(Species) Medium sized flowers of pale pink to mauve on an open shrub. Globular, red hips apparently disliked by birds except as a last resort.

Rosa Multiflora Carnea

Unique to us in the UK. (Species) Double, globular flowers of lilac-pink in pendulous clusters. Dark foliage on a vigorous, wiry plant.

Rosa Doncasterii

(Species) 'Rosa macrophylla Doncasterii’. A vigorous shrub with dark green foliage. Single flowers of deep pink with pronounced anthers. Huge flagon-shaped hips of orange-red. Tolerant of poor soils and shade. Bred by Hurst.

Rosa Chinensis

(Species) Unique to us in the UK. ‘Rosa Indica’ ‘Rosa x odorata’ ‘Bengal Rose’ ‘Slater’s Crimson China’. Semi-double, cupped, pink-red flowers, occasionally produced single. Dark, semi-evergreen foliage. Propagated from a plant sent to us from China in 1982. Suitable to be grown in a container and as a hedge. For best results, extra care and feeding is required.

Rosa Centifolia Muscosa

Prolifera Da Redoute

Unique to us in the UK. (Centifolia) A very old variety, rose pink in colour. Very full and cupped with frilled petals. Highly scented.

Paul Ricault

(Hybrid Perpetual) Bright rose pink. Superb flattish sometimes quartered flowers with a good perfume. Vigorous upright growth.

Marie Louise

(Damask) Glowing pink, double flowers with a strong fragrance. A compact, bushy variety with good foliage.

Laure Davoust

(Rambler) Large cascading clusters of clear lavender-pink, double, cupped flowers paling attractively with age to blush white. Plentiful foliage. Healthy.

Evangeline

(Wichurana Rambler) Healthy, leathery foliage providing an ideal foil for the clusters of semi-single, creamy-white, flushed pink flowers. Flowering, with advantage, rather later in the season than most of its type.

Duc De Fitzjames

(Centifolia) A vigorous and free flowering plant. The distinctive flowers of rich cerise-pink are large, cupped and quartered and fade to pale lilac pink. Superb fragrance.

Baronne Prevost

(Hybrid Perpetual) Very double, flattish flowers of deep, rose pink. An upright and vigorous plant with ample foliage. Scented.

Bourbon Queen

(Bourbon) 'Queen of the Bourbons' Vigorous. Free flowering, cupped rose pink, semi-double. Well worth growing in any soil.

Belinda

(Hybrid Musk) Trusses of fragrant, semi-double flowers of mid pink, amid plentiful, darkish, green foliage. A rare Hybrid Musk which should be more widely grown.

Baltimore Belle

(Hybrid Setigera) An interesting rambler. Very healthy. Fully double off-white to pale pink flowers in large clusters. Fragrant.

Ayrshire Splendens

(Hybrid Arvensis) Semi-double mixture of off-white and purplish-pink like 'Magnolia Souleangea Nigra'. Glossy foliage. Vigorous trailing habit. Unusual myrrh scent.

Adam Messerich

(Bourbon) Semi-double, luminous bright pink. Continuous flowering. Deserves more attention. Vigorous.

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''.