Quatre Saisons

(Damask) This highly scented, very old rose has full, double, cupped and quartered flowers of clear silvery pink. It is most useful for its repeat flowering in the late summer.

Madame Hardy

(Damask) Very fragrant and very double, well formed with incurved centres, of almost pure white around a green button eye. An outstanding old rose.

Leda

(Damask) Blush pink, double flowers with interesting crimson markings on the edges of the petals. A tidy, compact plant.

Kazanlik

(Damask) A vigorous rose with soft textured petals of warm pink. Very highly scented.

Ispahan

(Damask) This rose flowers for a long season when compared to others of its group. Semi-double, bright pink flowers which hold their colour well. Attractive foliage.

Amelia

(Damask) Large, semi-double pink flowers with pronounced golden anthers. Very fragrant. Grey-green foliage. Known in France as 'Amélie'.

York and Lancaster

(Damask) Unique to us in the UK. 'Rosa damascena versicolor'. Perfumed, blush white flowers, striped or mottled with pink. Needs very good soil to do well. More a collector's piece than of real garden merit. Of unknown origin, pre 1551.

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.

Marie Louise

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

Celsiana

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

Blush Damask

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