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 Plant list: Disease resistant roses
In recent years, advances in plant breeding have created a number of roses that are resistant to black spot. In a bad year they will get it, but only a minor dose, the rest of the time they’re trouble free.
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| Latin name: | | Rosa 'Golden Showers' |
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| Common name: | | Rose |
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| Type of plant: | | Climber |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | Yellow |
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| Leaf colour: | | Dark glossy green |
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| Height and spread: | | 2m x 2.2m (6.6ft x 7ft) |
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Just as there are many shrubby roses so there are many climbing roses, but this is one of the best. It is an upright climber and can be pruned to be a shrub. It produces a profusion of double flowers that are 10cm (4in) across.
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| Latin name: | | Rosa gallica 'Versicolor' |
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| Common name: | | Rosa mundi |
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| Type of plant: | | Shrub |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | Rose-red striped with white |
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| Leaf colour: | | Glossy green |
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| Height and spread: | | 75cm x 1m (2.5ft x 3ft) |
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An old and well-loved rose, neat and bushy. Particularly charming are the semi-double, slightly scented, flat flowers 5cm (2in) in diameter. Prefers full sun.
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| Latin name: | | Rosa rugosa |
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| Common name: | | Hedgehog rose |
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| Type of plant: | | Shrub |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | Purplish-red and white |
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| Leaf colour: | | Glossy green |
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| Height and spread: | | 1m to 2m x 1m to 2m (3ft to 6.6ft x 3ft to 6.6ft) |
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Dense, vigorous species rose with attractively wrinkled leaves. It bears a succession of flowers, 9cm (3.5in) in diameter. These are followed in late autumn by large tomato-shapes and coloured fruit (hips.)
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| Latin name: | | Rosa 'Iceberg' |
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| Common name: | | Rose |
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| Type of plant: | | Shrub |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | Pure white |
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| Leaf colour: | | Glossy green |
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| Height and spread: | | 75cm x 65cm (2.5ft x 2.1ft) |
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A bush rose that produces many sprays of graceful double, cupped-shaped flowers up to 7cm (3in) in diameter that look fantastic against the dark leaves. Responds well to heavy pruning.
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| Latin name: | | Rosa 'William Lobb' |
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| Common name: | | Rose |
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| Type of plant: | | Shrub |
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| Hardiness: | | Hardy |
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| Flower colour: | | Purplish-crimson |
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| Leaf colour: | | Glossy green |
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| Height and spread: | | 2m x 2.2m (6.6ft x 7ft) |
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A moss rose with prickly, arching stem that can be trained as a climber. The large, 9cm (4in) diameter flowers are double and fade to an attractive lilac-grey. Named after a famous plant hunter.
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