Perhaps not known for his greenfingers, it seems apt to quote the musician Paul Weller, who in 1978 gave us the great lyric ‘No matter where I roam, I will return to my English rose’. Because no matter how many other garden plants come and go, the popularity of the garden rose never seems to diminish. You might not see many in a Chelsea Flower Show garden but us gardeners know some good plants when we see them and roses regularly top polls for the nation’s favourite flower.
Maybe it’s because they come in so many shapes, sizes, colours and (last but definitely not least) scents. Few plants can look and smell so good for so long. With literally thousands to choose from, it’s perhaps not surprising that there are plenty of roses with strange names. There are some fun names out there, such as ‘Hamburger Phoenix’, a red climber that sounds straight out of an American diner, or copper-orange floribunda ‘Pumpkin Patch’. Whichever ones you grow, roses have a habit of being memorable plants, especially if your finger comes off second best in a fight with a thorn!
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Let’s quickly settle a few things. The well-worn phrase ‘roses don’t smell like they used to’ is definitely not true (I hear it almost as much as the well-worn proclamation that suggest Wagon Wheels have shrunk over the past two generations). For starters, a lot of very highly-scented old roses are still available today.
One example of many is the sumptuously-scented, magenta-flowered old rose, ‘Rose de Rescht’. It was first introduced in 1840 – the same year as the first postage
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