Multiflora Var Adenochaeta Rose - Hybrid Multiflora Rosebush

Origin: China; Hubei, Gansu, Yunnan e Sichuan regions
Flowers: 4 cm
Height: 5 m

This beautiful, vigorous and healthy climber has a ravishing flowering. The flowers, larger than those of R. Multiflora, bloom in very bright hot pink color with white reflections at the base of the petals, and appear in large clusters, dense and compact, producing a truly amazing effect. The branches, well covered by beautiful foliage, are flexible and adapt very well to a pergola or a bow. This rose is not known by many, but is arguably one of the most exciting climbers I know. 

Felicite and Perpetue - Hybrid Sempervirens Rosebush

Creator: Jacques, France, 1828
Origin: SempervirensRosebush x “Old Blush”
Flowers: 4 cm
Height: 5 m

This beautiful and vigorous rose, is the most popular hybrids of Sempervirens, produced by Jacques Antoine. The flowers are of a pink color when they open that later on go into a mix of ivory and pure white. The petals are small and numerous, and arranged in a rosette form, around a heart button, which gives each flower a nearly perfectly shape. The flowers appear in large groups of twenty and forty, among the small dark leaves. The scent is musky. The strong but flexible branches are covered with large thorns and are ideal to develop into arcs or pergolas
People often think that the word "perpetual" means continuous flowering. But this is not true, especially since this "Sempervirens" is a unique flowering rosebush. What Jacques Antoine intended to invoke was two saints of early Christianity, Vivia Perpetua and Felicitas, her black slave, who lived in Carthage, then territory dominated by Rome that were martyred in the year 203.

Marshal Neil - Noisette Rose

Creator: Pradel, France, 1864
Origin: “Chromatella” x unkown rose
Flowers: 11 cm
Height: 4 m

This is a rose that grows favorably in hot, dry climates. The flowers are folded, with numerous petals and the color can range from peach to yellow-lemon. The fragrance is very pleasant. The leaves are pale green and the plant is vigorous, with robust spines boasting in a deep red color. In spite of being imposing, this rose is susceptible to attacks of mildew and black spot. Neil Adolphe (1802-1869) was a French marshal and Minister of War during the reign of Emperor Napoleon III. In 1859 he won the Austrian armies in Solferino and Magenta.

Petite Françoise - Polianta Rose

Creator: Gravereau, France, 1915
Flowers: 5 cm
Height: 50 cm

This is a very rare small Polianta that is always covered with very small folded flowers, tucked in the form of pompons, in a fresh and bright pink color. The foliage is healthy and can be grown in pots, borders and flower beds on terraces and small windows.

Gloire Des Mousseux - Moss Ross

Creator: Laffay, France, 1852
Flowers: 12 cm
Height: 1, 5 m

The large flowers, very fragrant, with a very beautiful layout, put this rose in a very particular category. The buds, sepals and receptacles are covered with a quite fragrant bright green moss. The flowers when open are quite folded and of a superb pink color. Flowering is unique, but abundant in late spring.

Lamarque - Noisette Rose

Creator:  Marechal, Franca, 1830
Origin: “Blush Noisette” x “Parks yellow”
Flowers: 7 cm
Height: 5 to 8 m

It was an amateur rose breeder, Marshall, who created this rose in a planter at the window of his house in Angers, France. Back then he was still far from Knowing that this hybrid would become one of history's most famous climbing roses. It is a very vigorous plant, which once well adapted and in hot weather can reach over 8m height. The flowers are medium sized, with a lemony yellow center, small petals, and exude a mild and sweet fragrance. They appear in groups of three to four. It has almost no thorns and the leaves are of a very attractive glossy green. Its growth is fast and is ideal for a pergola or a bow.
Also known as "The Marshal" the name of this rose invokes the famous General Napoleon's Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770-1832). Controversial, after the fall of Bonaparte, he became a member of the French parliament, where he distinguished himself as one of the most active members of the "left" faction, calling for the permanent suspension of the monarchy.
Lamarque embraced a military career in 1791 and in a few years rose to the rank of general. In Italy, he led one of six armies that were under the overall command of Napoleon's adopted son, Eugène de Beauharnais. When Napoleon was exiled to Elba in 1814, Lamarque remained loyal to the Emperor, returning to his service during the "Hundred Days", where he commanded a division of ten thousand men. After the battle of Waterloo he went into exile, returning to France in 1818 where he began a controversial political career. In 1828 he was elected to the House of Representatives, representing Landes. He led the most radical faction of the parliament in 1832 and his death triggered on 5 and 6 June, a series of riots and barricades in the streets of Paris. This revolt, which Victor Hugo alludes in the "Les Miserables", was violently repressed by the National Guard, resulting in hundreds of deaths.

Veilchenblau - Hybrid Multiflora Rose

Creator: Schmidt, Germany, 1909
Origin: “Crimson Rambler” x “Souvenir de Brod”
Flowers: 4 cm
Height: 4, 5 m

Although being called "The Blue Rose.", their flowers are not blue. They are, of a bluish violet color, streaked with white in the center. The golden stamens enhance the beauty of its small flowers, semi folded, cup-shaped and fragrant that appears in great profusion.
The almost fallen branches, together with its pointed large bright green leaves, further enhance the beauty of this rose which should grow on a pergola or next to another rosebush of white flowers.

Windermere - Hybrid Wichurana Rosebush

Creator: Chaplin, England, 1932
Flowers: 7 cm
Height: 3 m

This climber originated in England, in 1932, by the hands of Chaplin Bros and has been commercialized ever since.
Its flowers are of a dark pink color, slightly fragrant and come in small groups of three to eight. The foliage is dense and of a strong green.

Sophie’s Perpetual - Roseira da China Rosebush

Origin: France, 1860
Flowers: 7 cm
Height: 1,5 m

Here is a beautiful rosebush, which blooms very bent, has a beautiful color contrast between the light pink petals and bright purple interior of the outer petals.
Disposing of a musky scent, the flowers appear continuously in groups of three to seven. This rose was discovered by Humphrey Brook in his garden in Lime Kiln.
Without ever revealing the true identity of this rose, Humphrey decided to give its name, after his wife, the Countess Sophie Beckendorff, aunt, the widow of the last Tsar's ambassador in London.

Old Blush - China Rosebush

Flowers: 7 cm
Height: 1 m

Also known by the names of "Pallida", “Pink Monthly Rose'”, “Common Monthly” or “Parson's Pink China", this rose has been cultivated in China for over a thousand years, and based on its imposing character, this rose had a role in what comes down to the development of the modern roses.
It was introduced in the West around 1750 and since then it has been crossed with European roses, particularly those of Damascus and Gallicas. It is also one of the ancestors of the Bourbons, the Tea Roses and Hybrid Perpetual.
It is an excellent garden plant. The semi-double flowers, pink-colored, comes in clusters, in great profusion, and its height sometimes exceeds one meter, disposing of a subtle mild scent. Its flowers often give place to small red fruits. The branches are thorny and the foliage is bright green.
In hot or temperate weather it blooms continuously.
A few years ago I was fortunate to acquire the flux of this rose, the "Climbing Old Blush 'and found that it is one of the best climbing plants for temperate areas. The flowers are slightly larger than the shrub form and appear in groups of two to six. It has a continuous flowering and early and easily reaches a height of five meters. Its branches are flexible and malleable and are ideal for a bow. Unfortunately no one knows when or where it came from. The only thing one can be certain of, is that this is an “old rose” that deserves wider divulgation.

Albéric Barbier - Hybrid Wichurana Rosebush

Creator: Barbier, France, 1900

Origin: “R. Wichurana” x “Shirley Hibberd”

Flowers: 8 cm
Height: 7 m

This is a rose ideal for covering a wall, a tree, a pergola, or a bow.

In temperate regions, this rose reaches considerable dimensions. The yellow buds, bloom from white semi folded flowers with a pale yellowish center.

The scent is musky and the foliage is of a glossy dark green.

Astra Desmond - Hybrid Multiflora Rose

Creator: Flight, introduced by Curbush, 1906
Origin: “Turner’s Crimson Rambler” x “The Garland”
Flowers: 5 cm
Height: 3,5 m

It is a vigorous and healthy plant with a single flowering which usually occurs in early summer. The flowers are semi folded and of a creamy white color and appear in great profusion. Astra Desmond was a famous opera singer of the second half of the nineteenth century.

Apple Blossom - Hybrid  Multiflora Rose

Creator: Dawson, US, 1890
Origin: “Dawson” x Multiflora Rose
Flowers: 4 cm
Height: 4 metros

This hybrid was marketed in 1932 by "Stark Bros". Its creator was an eminent man, Jackson Thornton Dawson, now unjustly forgotten. It was the first American to produce new climbers from the Multiflora Rose and the first to create new hybrids from R. Wichurana.
Apple Blossom Flowers are semi folded, pink color with its center white, and come in small groups, boasting the very undulating and ruffled petals, giving the plant a unique character. The branches are flexible, short and well covered with thorny foliage, thus being Ideal for a pergola.

François Juranville - Hybrid Wichurana Rosebush

Creator: Barbier, France, 1906
Origin: “Wichurana Rose” x “Madam Laurette Messimsy”
Flowers: 7 cm
Height: 5 metros

This is one of Barbier’s most known Wichuranas roses.
In regions with cooler climates, its superb long folded flowers that arise in clusters, presents a bright rosy orange color, which is visible from many miles away. In warm or temperate climates its flowers have a faint pink color and its effect at the time of flowering, is less spectacular. Under certain conditions of soil and climate, this rose can reach over 8m height.

Alexandre Girault - Hybrid Wichurana Rose

Creator: Barbier, França, 1909
Origin: “Wichurana Rose” x “Papa Gontier”
Flowers: 7cm
Height: 10 m

It is a set of this beautiful climber that covers the central pergola rose garden of L'Hay-les-Roses near Paris. The flowers of medium size, have a hot red color that glows in the sunlight and have a faint white-pink on the reverse of the petals and yellow reflections of its center. The foliage is green and the branches are quite flexible.
They appear in great profusion, in elegant clusters in early spring and occasionally in smaller numbers, in early autumn. This vigorous rose, is one of Barbier most known roses.

Louise D’Arzens - Hazelnut Rosebush

Creator: Lacharme, France, 1861
Flowers: 8 cm
Height: 3 m

Lacharme François (1817-1887) a rose breeder eminent from the city of Lyons, produced a remarkable collection of roses that still today one can find in some catalogs: "Coquette des Blanches" (1871), "Van Houte Louise" (1869), "Lady Emily Peel "(1862);" Coquette des Alpes "(1867) and" D'Arzens Louise "(1861).
Fortunately this rose came back into fashion and is currently very popular, mainly due to its flowers, very double, white with creamy shades in the center, slightly fragrant. The buds are of a strong pink color, and the plant is robust, with shiny green foliage.
It takes several years to reach3m height. Plus bare in mind that this rose is not adequate to develop along an arch due to the characteristics of its branches, which grow in a disorderly order. In my experience I consider the "Louise D'Arzens," an ideal rose to be developed as a shrub rose, thus being submitted annually to the appropriate pruning.

Madam Alfred Carriere - Noisette Rosebush

Creator: Schwartz, France, 1879
Flowers: 10 cm
Height: 5 m

This is one of the most healthier and famous climbing rose that blooms almost continuous over the year. In 1908 was proclaimed "the best White Climber" by the National Rose Society in England. This Noisette grows over 5m height in hot climates, has few thorns and double flowers, 10 cm in diameter, being quite fragrant and of a pink pearl color, when they are beginning to open, especially when the weather is cold, and then acquire the color white which gives them the distinction and identity. It is a wonderful rose that deserves the fame it has acquired over a century ago.
The name of Joseph Schwartz will forever be related to the creation of this famous noisette, but during his short career, between 1871 and 1885, Schwartz won more than sixty new varieties of roses - especially Hybrid Perpetual, Tea and Bourbon - and some other climbers of a remarkable quality, many of them unfortunately already extinguished in the market.
Joseph Schwartz was born in Bourgoin in 1846. He was Jean-Baptiste Guillot apprentice and later, at the age of 18, he was appointed head of its nurseries. In May 1870 Joseph made a deal with Jean-Baptiste and bought him "La Terre des Roses."- The Land of Roses. This was when his career as a rose breeder began. Some of his roses got really famous  such as the bourbon "Queen Victoria" (1872) the perpetual hybrid "Duchesse de Vallombrosa" (1875) and "Madame de Kerchove Oswald" (1879.
Unfortunately he died very young at the age of 44. But the business continued thanks to the tenacity and competence of his widow that between 1886 and 1900 had the merit of introducing in the market sixty new varieties, among them the fascinating "Dr. Rouges" (1894), the famous Bourbon "Madam Ernest Calvat (1888) and the popular Hybrid Perpetual" Lambelin Roger (1890). Between 1901 and 1920 his son Andrew Shwartz maintained the dynamism of the company with the production of fifty new varieties.

R. Hugonis - Wild Rosebush

Origin: China, brought to Europe in 1899
Flowers: 6 cm
Height: 2, 20 m

This graceful shrub with healthy foliage is covered with flowers along the branches early in spring. The flowers are fragile and of a canary yellow color. This is a very thorny bush, which produces red berries in late summer, reason why it should be planted in an isolated way. It is a very decorative plant.

Violet - Hybrid Multiflora Rosebush

Creator: Turbat, France, 1921
Flowers: 3 cm
Height: 4 m

This climber has few thorns and grows very quickly. The small flowers of a strong purple - darker than the flowers "Veilchenblau – semi folded, cup-shaped, with a musky scent, appear in groups of thirty, in great profusion.
This is not a remnant plant, but it’s a bright green foliage is very decorative and healthy. A magnificent creation of Turbat, which fortunately, is once again being sold and that is a good example of the so-called Climbers that were marketed between 1908 and 1940.

Vaumarcus Multiflore - Noisette Rose

Creator: Menet, France, 1875
Flowers: 6 cm
Height: 2,5 m

This rose has a lush bloom on the warm and mild seasons throughout the year. It has an average growth of 2.5 meters and its flowers are small, folded, very fragrant, light pink colored, with shades of purple, appearing in clusters. In spite being known as "Noisette", it has proved to be a plant resistant to diseases.