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Shiraz
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A medium size deep rich red that is uniform in all opening stages, with attractive deeply etched dark green foliage and firm stems that have few thorns. |
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Sophy's Rose
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The petals are small at the centre, increasing in size by degrees until the outer petals are quite large. These create broad and rather flat, rosette shaped flowers. The attractive light red colouring combines well with most colour schemes.
This is a very productive rose suitable for rose beds and towards the front of a border.
The growth is bushy with beautiful, healthy, elongated foliage. Excellent repeat flowering. |
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Sophy's Rose, Hedging
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The petals are small at the centre, increasing in size by degrees until the outer petals are quite large. These create broad and rather flat, rosette shaped flowers. The attractive light red colouring combines well with most colour schemes.
This is a very productive rose suitable for rose beds and towards the front of a border.
The growth is bushy with beautiful, healthy, elongated foliage. Excellent repeat flowering. |
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Tess Of The d'Urbervilles
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Large fragrant flowers of bright crimson colouring. They are of a nice, deeply cupped shape in the early stages; the petals turning back to give a less formal but still attractive flower. They bend over with their weight, to give an elegant effect. The growth is robust, bushy and spreading and the leaves large and dark green.
Named after the character from Thomas Hardy¹s novel.
May need some summer pruning if grown as a shrub.
4 ft. x 3.5 ft. (6-8 ft. as climber)
Awarded the National Home Gardening Club Member Tested & Recommended Seal of Approval. |
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The Dark Lady
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A dark, dusky crimson rose, with rather loosely formed flowers that open wide and hang elegantly. They have a special character of their own, which reminds us of the flowers of tree peonies, as sometimes seen on fabrics and wallpapers.
It forms a shapely, spreading bush. The bush is small at first but over time becomes quite large, reaching a medium height. It bears attractive, large, dark green leaves which are rough in texture, resembling those of its Rosa rugosa parentage.
There is a light Old Rose fragrance.
The name is taken from the mysterious Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
This variety is particularly happy in Mediterranean-type climates and in the southern USA. |
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William Shakespeare 2000 - Own Root
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Without doubt, the best crimson English Rose to date. It is a truly superb variety with exquisite blooms of the richest velvety crimson, gradually changing to an equally rich purple. Deeply cupped at first, the flower soon opens out to a shallow quartered cup. The growth is neat and upright; each stem bearing a number of flowers.
This rose has the strong, warm Old Rose fragrance that we expect, but do not always find, in deep red roses. Excellent disease resistance.
We have planted a large bed of William Shakespeare and a mixed border of English and Old Roses at Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare himself has been voted 'Man of the Millennium'. |
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