Once Flowering Types.
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Once Flowering Types.
A few varieties of English Rose are once flowered. This is a characteristic of the old rose parents. Once /summer flowering English Roses give a mass of colourful blooms during late june/ Early July with no further repeats.
Are they worth growing? Some people are "put off" by growing once flowered roses of any description as the display lasts for four or five weeks. If you think of them as large shrubs, the length of display is the same as , for example, Magnolias.
The three once flowered English Roses are:
"Chianti": Beautiful, large, deep crimson, highly perfumed blooms fading to maroon. The plant is 5 ft tall.
"Constance Spry" : The first English Rose.Enormous clear pink myrrh-scented blooms on a very large bush: 6/7 ft tall.
"Shropshire Lass" : An hybrid of the old Alba groupof roses. Pearl-pink fading to white, with a boss of yellow stamens. A very large shrub/ climber growing to 8 ft tall.
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