Hugh Dickson
Old Rose
Colour: Scarlet crimson
Flowering: Repeat Flowering
Fragrance: Medium, Old Rose/fruity
Size: Very Large Shrub
7ft (2.25cm)
3ft (90cm)
Bloom Size: Large
Breeder: Dickson
Year of Introduction: 1865
A once extremely popular rose. It bears large, globular flowers of scarlet-crimson, although they are rather lacking in character. There is a strong fragrance and it repeats well. With its tall, lanky growth it is perhaps better grown as a climber.
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L. D. Braithwaite
(Auscrim)
English Shrub Rose Bred By David Austin
The brightest, light crimson blooms of all the English Roses. The petals are loosely arranged to form beautiful, large, slightly cupped blooms that open wide and flat. It forms a bushy, rather spreading shrub. David Austin, 1988.
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