Updated November 2008 |
 "The Fairy" |
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This group of roses, varying widely in ancestry and description, were created by various breeders who crossed Species and other older roses with various types of modern roses. Freestanding and often recurrent flowering, Shrub Roses are useful in the garden as relatively carefree and vigorous, blooming later than most other roses. Although technically shrub roses too, the English, Rugosa, Explorer and Species Roses have been put in separate categories in our catalogue because they have distinctly different needs and uses. In this category are the Hybrid Musk roses, Teas and Hybrid Tea roses, Polyanthas, Floribunda roses, Modern Shrub roses, and Pimpinellifolia roses. This group of small flowered roses was developed by crossing dwarfs of Rosa multiflora with dwarf China roses. Extremely tough and continuously flowering, Polyanthas are ideal used as border plants or in containers. They are quite hardly but most have little or no scent. Some were crossed with Hybrid Teas to develop a group of hardier Hybrid Teas known as Hybrid Polyanthas. These later were crossed with other rose species, such as R. multiflora, R. Wichuraiana and R. Rugosa, to create the Floribunda roses. Our Favourites: The Fairy and Alba Meidland (The new White Fairy) Roses
are available while quantities last. Varieties marked
as 'sold out' may be available again next year. Remember to order early. Varieties marked as 'N/A' will not be available for 2008
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