Beechcroft Nurseries & Garden Centre

Catalogue of Roses 2000 – 2001

 

Celebration / Memorial Roses

‘The Gift That Keeps On Growing’ – This range of popular roses contains hybrid teas, floribundas, patio roses and new for this season – ‘Celebration Climbers’; a rose for every occasion.

Rose  Best Wishes                   Celebration Climber

Also know as 'Curiosity Climbing'. Large flowered and repeat flowering. A stunning climbing rose with bright green & white variegated leaves and red and yellow petals. Very unique and very worthwhile.

 

Rose       Golden Future      Celebration Climber

'Horanymol'

A valuable new climber with fragrant, yellow, Hybrid Tea flowers. The upright growth has superb glossy foliage and excellent disease resistance. Good repeat flowering. Can climb to about 2m.

 

Rose       Perpetually Yours               Celebration Climber

'Harfable'

A new introduction. Beautiful creamy yellow flowers. Has a very strong scent and will climb to 2m if required.

 

Rose       Ruby Wedding      Celebration Climber

A climbing version of the beautiful ruby red rose. Has a moderate scent as well.

 

Rose       Spring Bride         Celebration Climber

A blush pink bloom for any bride, blushing or otherwise. Can climb to 2m.

 

Rose       Wedding Day         Celebration Climber (Rambler)

A prolific grower that will climb to nearly 3m, flowering in huge clusters. The buds are apricot, opening creamy yellow, but quickly turn to white. Exceptionally fragrant.

 

Rose       Golden Anniversary            Celebration Dwarf Floribunda

A popular rose with scented golden yellow flowers. Quite vigorous upright growth.

 

Rose       Granny's Favourite              Celebration Dwarf Floribunda

Produces superbly shaped, golden peach, scented flowers in summer.

 

Rose       Happy Birthday     Celebration Dwarf Floribunda

Pretty clusters of slightly fragrant delicate yellow blooms. Compact habit ideal for a container or low border - makes a lovely gift for that special day.

 

Rose       New Arrival           Celebration Dwarf Floribunda

Produces attractive coral-red blooms throughout summer.

 

Rose       Good News           Celebration Floribunda

Produces masses of attractive pure pink flowers in summer. Scented.

 

Rose       Happy Anniversary              Celebration Floribunda

Large, deep pink, delicately fragranced blooms adorn this plant throughout summer.

 

Rose       Silver Celebration               Celebration Floribunda

A lovely, scented, white floribunda rose.

 

Rose       Golden Jubilee     Celebration Hybrid Tea

Large yellow flowers, touched with pink at the edges and carried on stiff upright stems on a good sturdy plant. A good bedding rose.

 

Rose       Ruby Wedding      Celebration Hybrid Tea

This rose is ideal for a small garden. Has average disease resistance, its flowers are superb ruby red and is slightly fragrant.

 

Rose       Silver Jubilee       Celebration Hybrid Tea

Perfectly formed flowers of pink shaded with apricot, peach and cream. Very free flowering, with robust growth and exceptionally fine dense foliage. Fragrant. One of the very best.

 

Rose       Thanks A Million  Celebration Hybrid Tea

A great way to show you appreciate something. Also has salmon pink flowers and a very good scent.

 

Rose       With Love              Celebration Hybrid Tea

A beautiful yellow rose with the petals edged pink. Has a slight fragrance.

 

Rose       Blushing Bride     Celebration Patio

A lovely pink flowered patio rose. Makes a lovely anniversary gift as well as for weddings.

 

Rose       Fathers Day           Celebration Patio

This rose would make the ideal gift on Fathers Day or any Dad's Birthday. The flowers are bright orange and lightly scented.

 

Rose       Mothers Day         Celebration Patio

Clusters of bright red/orange blooms throughout the summer. Ideal near the front of beds and borders.

 

Rose       Pearl Anniversary               Celebration Patio

Produces masses of delicate, pale pink, slightly scented flowers in summer.

 

Rose       Thank You             Celebration Patio

A deep pink, scented, patio rose.

 

Rose       Well Done              Celebration Patio

A patio rose with lovely magnolia blooms and a slight scent.

 

Rose       Remember Me     Memorial Hybrid Tea

This rose has a good resistance to disease; it has large coppery orange, blended yellow flowers, which are fragrant. The flowers are well shaped and brightly coloured.

 

Rose       Rest in Peace       Memorial Hybrid Tea

Produces masses of pink-red blooms through summer. These are scented.

 

Rose       Thoughts of You  Memorial Patio

Produces attractive, large cream coloured flowers through summer.

 

Climbing and Rambling Roses

 

Rose       Arthur Bell            Climber

Large, semi-double flowers, becoming cup shaped when open. Bright yellow fading to cream with age. Reliable. Fragrant.

 

Rose       Bright Fire             Climber

The flowers of this rose are of medium to large size and have high centres when open, becoming more rounded as the petals reflex. Blooming continues over a long period on a vigorous, stiffly branching plant that can go upto 4m with support. Has large leathery leaves.

 

Rose       Calypso Climber

Very double, globular blooms are blush with a deep flesh centre. They have a pendulous habit, hanging down over long, arching canes that have almost no prickles. Makes an attractive cut flower. Dark green oval leaves are serrated at the tips. Best trained on a wall or fence.

 

Rose       Ena Harkness       Climber

A climbing version of the well known crimson-scarlet Hybrid Tea. Better as a climber, where its hanging heads display themselves effectively from a high wall. Summer flowering, with a few later.

 

Rose       Etoile de Holland  Climber

Possibly the best red for covering walls etc. Will thrive in most types of soil. Has hanging flowers, velvety red and richly fragrant. Dark green foliage. Flowers best in summer, followed by some autumn flowering.

 

Rose       Felicite Et Perpetue             Climber

Sempervirens climbing rose with long, slender stems. Clusters of rosette, fully double, blush-pink to white flowers, 4cm across, appear in mid-summer. Small leaves are semi-evergreen. Prune spent wood only. Can climb up to 5m.

 

Rose       Francois Juranville              Climber

Bright salmon-pink blooms appear as clusters over a long flowering period in the summer. They are flat  and deeper pink in the centre with a yellow base. The petals are quilled and quartered, and the fragrance is reminiscent of apples. Can grow  very tall (8m), the canes are upright and very vigorous with shiny dark leaves, bronze green at the edges and a few prickles.  Very happy to climb through a tree and even good for ground cover.

 

Rose       Glorie de Dijon     Climber

One of the most favoured roses in the world. Fat, squat buds open to reveal large, rich buff pink blooms that are large, full, globular, quartered and quilled. The centre petals are apricot and the outer petals fade quickly in the sun. There is a pleasant scent. Vigorous climbing growth best on a wall or a pillar, bending down the shoots to promote laterals and more blooms. The reddish canes have hooked prickles. Blooms from summer to first frost. Spraying recommended.

 

Rose       Golden showers Climber

Stiff, upright climbing rose that may be pruned to grow as shrub. In summer/autumn produces many fragrant, pointed,

double, yellow flowers, 10cm across, that open flat. Height 2m. Requires full sun and well drained soil.

 

Rose       Handel    Climber

A star of the climbing roses because of its rare flower colour, it is a creamy colour edged with rosy pink.  Repeat

flowering.

 

Rose       Iceberg  Climber

An excellent climbing form of the well known floribunda. It seems to take on an added grace when grown as a climber.

Sprays of medium sized, pure white flowers are produced repeatedly. Will climb to 3m.

 

Rose       Jane Eyre              Climber

'Mehpark'

Has orange/apricot blooms. Can climb to 4m. Slightly scented.

 

Rose       Masquerade         Climber

Ovoid buds open to small, semi-double flowers that are produced in huge clusters of up to 30 on very strong stems.

 

Rose       Mme Alfred Carriere          Climber

Noisette climbing rose with slender, smooth stems. Very fragrant, rounded, double flowers are creamy-white, tinged pink, 4cm across, and are borne in summer-autumn.

 

Rose       P K Riggers           Climber

A tall (upto 4m) climbing rose with scarlet coloured, slightly scented blooms.

 

Rose       Paul's Scarlet       Climber

An eye catching rose in June with masses of cupped red flowers which can last for a month or more. Less vigorous than some ramblers. Medium green foliage - spraying strongly recommended.

 

Rose       Pink Perpetue      Climber

Medium-sized flowers in well -spaced trusses; bright rose-pink. A good pillar rose. Good repeat flowering qualities. Slight fragrance.

 

Rose       Schoolgirl              Climber

Beautifully shaped Hybrid Tea blooms in a lovely shade of apricot-orange, fading to salmon-pink, rare colouring in climbers. Blooms are large and fragrant. Will climb to 3m.

 

Rose       Seagull   Climber

Exceptionally vigorous, large trusses of pure white flowers and golden stamens. Strong fragrance. Ideal to climb through trees. Height upto 6m.

Rose       Super Elfin            Climber

Clusters of vivid orange-scarlet flowers with slight fragrance. Good rambling type habit with mid green semi-glossy foliage. Can climb to 3m.

 

Rose       Swanlake              Climber

The well shaped buds of this rose open slowly to double, well-formed, fragrant blooms with 50 pale pink petals. They are produced on long stems and are suitable for exhibition. Flowering is continuous, although the most shapely and long lasting blooms are seen in autumn. The plant has moderately vigorous growth habit and foliage is mid-green, abundant and disease resistant. Ideal for pillars, tripods and fences.

 

Rose       The New Dawn     Climber

Medium sized, silvery blush-pink flowers, deepening towards the centre, produced in clusters. The forerunner of the modern perpetual-flowering limbers, and still one the best and most vigorous in its class. Glossy foliage.

 

Rose       Zephrine Drouhin                Climber

Thornless rose. This is one of the best and most reliable of climbers. Great quantities of fragrant, deep rose-pink flowers are produced with exceptional continuity. It is particularly happy on a north wall and may be grown as a hedge.

 

Rose       Albertine                               Climber (Rambler)

This rose is ideal for growing up old tree stumps as it is a vigorous rambler, the flowers are pale pink and very fragrant it flowers in early summer.

 

Rose       Dorothy Perkins  Climber (Rambler)

Full of rose pink blooms for a whole month in summer. Small, fragrant flowers in huge clusters supported with glossy dark green foliage. Can be trained or left to ramble over things - can grow up to 6m in a good season. Spraying is highly recommended.

 

Rose       Rambling Rector  Climber (Rambler)

Rampant rambler with strong, arching stems and abundant grey-green foliage. Clusters of many cupped to flat, semi-double, scented, creamy white lowers 4cm across, showing golden stamens, are borne in summer, followed by spherical red hips in autumn. Can be grown up to 6m.

 

Rose       Super Excelsa      Climber (Rambler)

This rose has all the good qualities of Excelsa with the added bonus of repeat flowering through summer and autumn. The crimson-red flowers appear in small clusters and its vigorous and pliable growth makes it perfect for training over arches and pergolas. Spraying recommended.

 

Rose       Super Fairy           Climber (Rambler)

Light pink and double with 15-25 petals, borne in large clusters, the fragrant blooms are 35mm across. The foliage is medium green and glossy on a strong plant with pliable canes. Flowering is continuous which is very rare in a rambling rose.

 

Floribunda Roses

 

Rose       Arthur Bell            Floribunda

Tall bush, flowers large, very fragrant. Golden yellow. Bushy growth. Weather and disease resistant. Flowers early, long lasting blooms.

 

Rose       Champagne Cocktail          Floribunda

This has everything: shapely blooms, a gorgeous fragrance and low susceptibility to disease. The pale yellow, medium-sized double flowers, strongly flecked and splashed with pink, and have 20 petals with yellow undersides. There is a reliable repetition of bloom after the first flush. It has a bushy habit and glossy mid-green foliage.

 

Rose       Chinatown            Floribunda

A giant for the back of the border. Large double, clear yellow flowers with a good fragrance. Very tough and healthy. Fragrant.

 

Rose       Dearest  Floribunda

Large, double flowers of warmest salmon-pink. Good, bushy, branching growth. One of the most beautiful of the floribundas, although it does require regular spraying. Quite fragrant.

 

Rose       Elizabeth of Glamis             Floribunda

Also called Irish Beauty. Needs good soil. Blooms are orange salmon, medium sized and fragrant. Foliage is dark green and semi-glossy. Moderately vigorous and upright. Requires a lot of care but still the winner of many awards.

 

Rose       Faithful   Floribunda

'Haressay'

A cherry red, slightly scented floribunda rose.

 

Rose       Fascination           Floribunda

'Poulmax'

Shrimp pink coloured, fragrant blooms. Rose of the Year for 1999.

 

Rose       Friend for Life      Floribunda

The flowers of this rose, which are borne in large clusters, are medium in size, semi-double with 10-14 petals and clear rose pink in colour. They have good substance and last well. The foliage is dark green and glossy on a plant with compact growth habit. Good resistance to disease.

 

Rose       Glenfiddich           Floribunda

Golden amber, medium sized slightly fragrant blooms. Dark green foliage. Good disease resistance. Vigorous and upright growth. Deservedly popular, grows well in northern climes.

 

Rose       Hope       Floribunda

A low growing deep red floribunda. Slightly scented, it is bushy and compact. The blooms are carried on large trusses throughout the season. Extremely free flowering.

Rose  Iceberg                            Floribunda

This is a very popular rose that has won many prizes, the flowers are pure white and slightly fragrant. It is repeat flowering and so will go on in to autumn. Also called Schneewittchen. Spraying is highly recommended.

 

Rose       L'Aimant                                Floribunda

The flowers of this rose are a warm shade of salmon-pink, fading to rose pink, and are carried sometimes singly but usually in clusters of several blooms which open like small-scale large flowered roses, with 30 or so petals forming neat centres. The blooms become cupped as the petals reflex, yielding an excellent fragrance. Flowers continually in summer and into autumn, with good weather resistance. Good for cut flowers. Vigorous growth.

 

Rose       Margaret Merril   Floribunda

Dainty, high-centred buds opening to white flowers overlaid with a satin pink sheen. These possess a delicacy not frequently found in modern roses, and they have quite an exceptional fragrance. Dark green, disease resistant foliage.

 

Rose       Millennium Memories        Floribunda

'Peasara'

Very fragrant blooms. A deep pink floribunda.

 

Rose       Oranges and Lemons        Floribunda

These flowers have distinctive stripes of yellow and orange. The blooms are full and borne in clusters on strong straight stems. Excellent bloom production. Foliage is mahogany-tinted, glossy dark green and is very disease resistant. Very vigorous and can be  trained as a climber. Unique and worthwhile.

 

Rose       Purple Tiger         Floribunda

This innovative variety has blooms with remarkable colouring, very deep purple striped and flecked with white and mauve pink. Has some fragrance. Has glossy green foliage. Requires regular spraying.

 

Rose       Red Gold                                Floribunda

Prolific flowering, medium sized petals, golden yellow, edged cherry red. Upright growth, requires spraying, good rain resistance. Good for bedding.

 

Rose       Romance               Floribunda

This bushy shrub has medium pink, double flowers with 20 petals. They have a slight fragrance and appear continuously from summer to autumn. The foliage is medium, dark green, semi-glossy and healthy.

 

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