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Now move through to the Cottage Garden. The next is on the left of the arch to the small orchard. RHS Garden Rosemoor 11. Rosa ‘Stanwell Perpetual’ AGM. 1.2x1.2m (4x4ft). Small leaves and prickly stems. Medium sized blush pink flowers are produced up to the first frosts, very fragrant Rose Trail and healthy, reacts well to trimming with shears. rhs.org.uk/rosemoor 12a, b and c have been grouped together and are on the arch leading out of the Cottage Garden.

12 a) Rosa ‘François Juranville’ AGM. This rambling Rosa Graham Thomas‘Ausmas’ AGM rose has small clusters of coral-pink flowers with a fresh 5. Rosa Graham Thomas‘Ausmas’ AGM. This shrub apple fragrance. Suitable for growing into a small tree. rose is upright, bushy, vigorous and repeat b) Rosa Awakening ‘Probuzení’. A form of R. ‘New flowering with rich yellow, highly fragrant blooms. Dawn’, with scented, double, quartered blooms of a deeper shade of pink than its parent, the same healthy 6. Rosa ‘Félicité Parmentier’ AGM. An alba rose that foliage; also suitable for growing into a small tree. is shade tolerant,1.2m x 90cm (4x3ft). Bears white, c) Rosa ‘Climbing Cécile Brünner’ AGM. A sport of highly fragrant flowers, good disease resistance but the small shrub of the same name, the parent rarely not a repeat flowerer. Very thorny and makes a good exceeds 120cm (4ft), but the climbing form is vigorous hedge. and can climb to 7.5m (25ft).

7. Rosa ‘Tuscany Superb’ AGM. This deep purple Now turn left and then left again onto the Long Border gallica rose was introduced in 1837. Tends to flop and where you will find the last three roses. may need support to display the blooms to perfection. 13. Rosa rugosa ‘Alba’. Large, single, pure white On your way to the herb garden, rose 8 is on both sides flowers of silky texture. Continuous flowering with a of the exit path, no. 9 is climbing up the pillar and sweet fragrance. Good for hedging and ideal for poor no. 10 is just beyond the pond. soil. Introduced 1899 with good disease resistance.

8. Rosa Rosemoor ‘Austough’ AGM. Named after 14. Rosa A Shropshire Lad ‘Ausled’ AGM. This rose Rosemoor by David Austin, 1.2x1m (4x3ft) soft pink, can be trained as a climber. It is exceptionally fragrant blooms. vigorous and reliable with pink flowers and a fruity tea rose fragrance, Disease resistant and repeat flowering. 9. Rosa ‘Narrow Water’ AGM. Found at Narrow Water Castle in Northern Ireland in 1883. A repeat flowering 15. Rosa ‘Roseraie de l’Hay’ AGM. 1.8 x1.5m (6x5ft). rambler with good scent. Very reliable and healthy, not A repeat flowering rose producing loose crimson-purple fussy in its growing requirements. blooms with scent and good autumn colour. This makes a tall hedge when planted 1.0m (3ft) apart. 10. Rosa gallica ‘Versicolor’ AGM (syn. Rosa mundi). One of the oldest roses in cultivation. Flowers are blush We hope you have enjoyed our selection of the many -pink striped and spotted with crimson, with a roses here at Rosemoor and that you will have time to delicious old rose fragrance (pictured front cover). explore our collection of roses further. All images © RHS RHS Registered charity no. 222879/SC038262 2. a) Rosa ‘Sander’s White Rambler’ AGM. This rose has white flowers that may sometimes repeat flower. Some scent. It grows to 3.6m (12ft). b) Rosa ‘Long John Silver’ produces a mass of pure 13 white flowers late in the season. It is vigorous, reliable 14 and disease resistant with a musky scent. 11 12 Rose no. 3 is in the middle border on your way to the West Country Town Garden, where you will find rose 15 10 no. 4 climbing on the pergola. 8 7 3. Rosa Chandos Beauty ‘Harmisty’ AGM. Creamy 6 9 white, masses of blooms carried in clusters on upright 5 growth; good for cutting. It has an almost over- powering perfume. Plant sheltered from the wind. 4 3 2 1 4. Rosa ‘New Dawn’ AGM. Repeats well with silvery blush pink scented flowers produced in clusters with healthy glossy foliage. This rambler will perform on a north facing wall. Quite a stiff grower but if pruned to produce a spur system will flower from top to bottom. The wealth of information available can become We are going to start this trail in the Queen Mother’s confusing when trying to choose the right rose for your . This garden contains modern roses, Exit onto the Long Border and make your way to the garden. The aim of this trail is to give guidance in including hybrid tea and roses, bred since the Shrub Rose Garden. This garden has a completely selecting roses to grow here in the South West. introduction of Rosa ‘La France’ in 1867 (considered different feel to the Queen Mother’s Rose garden. Here to be the first hybrid tea). The formal layout features we have up to 120 different varieties of many types, No rose will be happy in full shade, but a few will do well massed plantings of roses set in a colour wheel, starting from the familiar David Austin repeat flowering hybrids in partial shade. In bright sunshine some of the paler with the white varieties at the top of the garden and, to the more obscure types such as gallicas, albas, colours may look washed out, yet in a bit of shade they moving in a clockwise direction, the roses gradually go damasks and the curious moss types as well as historic roses such as the portlandicas. glow; while some of the very deep, blood red coloured to pink, red, orange and yellow. flowers such as ‘Souvenir du Docteur Jamain’, go from a On entering this garden, turn right and follow the outer rich red to an almost burnt paper appearance. The roses are easily accessible from the paths, so whether it is vigour, colour or scent that you are looking path until you come to rose no. 5. Roses 6 and 7 are in the central beds. On choosing a rose. you need to consider whether or not for there is sure to be a rose that appeals to you in this you are prepared to spray against black spot. A rose garden of up to 58 varieties. susceptible to disease may have other outstanding As you enter the garden, on your right we have the first qualities, such as scent, a particular colour or long and rose and you will find roses 2 and 3 climbing on the sustained flower production. central pergola mingling with Clematis. At Rosemoor we have two distinct rose gardens; the 1. Rosa Elina ‘Dicjana’ AGM. Vigorous, with large , Queen Mother’s Rose Garden and the Shrub Rose soft yellow to ivory, scented blooms produced on long Garden. However, you will find plenty of roses elsewhere, single stems. A true hybrid tea. particularly in the Cottage Garden and the Long Border. Rosa ‘Long John Silver’