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The fragrant, vigorous rambler Rosa filipes ‘Kiftsgate’ at Kiftsgate Court
What is the difference between a rambling rose and a climbing rose? Should your nose be hit by an incredible scent and you follow the odour around the corner to find a vast waterfall of little roses tumbling out of a tree, you are probably standing in front of a rambler. Climbing roses, while beautiful, are not as graceful, tending to have bigger flowers and a stiffer habit that suits façades.
Ramblers lend themselves to archways and other garden structures, over which their pliant growth pours sprays of small to medium-sized flowers. These exude a delicious perfume, which floods the garden, and their nectar lures bees. Then, in autumn, they produce a red multitude of hips that feed the birds. They are also low maintenance. What’s not to like? The two downfalls of ramblers are that some are enormous (Sleeping Beauty’s briar was certainly a rambler) and – unlike most modern climbers, which repeat flower – the majority of ramblers only bloom once in June and early July. This flowering is such a gorgeous billowing mass that it unquestionably earns their place, but it could be argued that they are unsuitable for small gardens.
Ramblers are (or stem from) a group of wild roses that have a scrambling habit. Most hail from Asia, Southern Europe, or North Africa and produce single small, fragrant creamy-white flowers with golden stamens upon last year’s growth. They include the musk rose (Rosa moschata), native R. arvensis, and one of the best hedging roses, R. multiflora. The biggest rose in England is a form of the rambler R. filipes that grows at Kiftsgate Court in the Cotswolds. Originally a mistake purchase in the 1930s, when the garden’s creator,
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