Spotlight on roses - a quick summary of our favourites at Hidcote
Rosa ‘Versicolor’ in The Long Borders
Gallicas are the oldest of garden roses and their influence is present, at least in some small degree, in nearly all our garden roses of today.
A Shrub rose, with an intense scent packed with 200 colourful petals. Rosa ‘Versicolor’ is apparently also the rose depicted in the painting 'The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child' by Sandro Botticelli in 1485.
Rosa ‘Buff Beauty’ in The Old Garden
'Buff Beauty' is a well-balanced, arching shrub rose with a rounded habit. The rose blooms repeatedly throughout the summer and into autumn producing large clusters of double, cupped flowers of buff yellow to apricot which pale to primrose.
This rose is a vigorous grower which will thrive on most well drained soils. It has good disease resistance and is very versatile, it can be grown in beds and borders, as a hedge, up a pergola or against a wall or trellis.
Rosa 'Paul's Himalayan Musk' in the Maple Garden
This rambling rose is sweetly scented, best to grow through a tree and extremely rampant. Imagine looking up in the Maple Garden to see the rose growing through the trees. It's good in both sun and shade, flowers in June/July and is not repeat flowering. Its wild origins are uncertain but are suspected to lie in the Western Himalayas.