30 AMATEUR GARDENING 24 AUGUST 2019
‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’
A very fragrant 19th century Bourbon rose featuring large powder pink flowers
that keep coming over a long period. Named after Empress Joséphine’s garden
at Château de Malmaison in France. Full sun. H: 3ft (90cm).
3 long-flowering roses for scent
‘Ferdinand Pichard’ AGM
Arguably the best of the stripy roses;
a Hybrid Perpetual that produces
strongly scented flowers with the
colouring of raspberry ripple ice
cream – for months on end.
Sheltered sun. H: 5ft (1½m).4 repeat-flowerers for pots
Munstead
Wood AGM
Velvety maroon-
crimson flowers
with a strong fruit
fragrance make
Munstead Wood
a decadent choice
for a container.
Named after
Gertrude Jekyll’s
garden, it likes full
sun. H: 39in (1m).‘Mrs Oakley Fisher’
Lovely Hybrid Tea
with chocolate
brown stems, dark
green foliage and
single apricot-yellow
flowers that will set
you garden abuzz
with pollinators such
as hoverflies and
bees. Wonderful
in pots. Full sun.
H: 2-3ft (60-90cm).Fragrant Cloud
This reliable Hybrid
Tea is a cheering
mass of richly
scented coral-red
blooms during
summer and into
autumn. A popular
choice, it was voted
the World’s Favourite
Rose in 1981. Great
in pots in full sun.
H: 2-3ft (60-90cm).‘Climbing Cécile
Brünner’ AGM
A Dwarf Polyantha
that delights with
its tiny buds, small
Hybrid Tea-shaped
pale pink flowers,
wiry stems and
sparse foliage. Ideal
for the front of the
border, as well as
for containers. Full
sun. H: 3ft (90cm).Davidaustinroses.co.uk