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Rose ID

Frith
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Can anyone identify the variety of this rose for me, please? I think it’s a climbing rose. It’s about 2 metres high and wide. 

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  • Frith
    Frith Posts: 8,797 Forumite
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    Argh, the glitches in this new forum! 

  • Frith
    Frith Posts: 8,797 Forumite
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    Gertrude Jekyll to the right 
  • Frith
    Frith Posts: 8,797 Forumite
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    It has opened properly today: 


  • Frith
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    Type your commentnew photo 
  • Davesnave
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    edited 25 May 2020 at 1:07PM
    Plant family IDs are relatively easy, but when it comes to some species, the chances of naming the exact cultivar are much slimmer.
    You are asking people to ID a plant with thousands of varieties, so sheer weight of numbers is against this. Adding the complications of colour rendering in the camera and on people's screens makes the task virtually impossible.
    Sorry if this is not what you wish to read, but it's true. But who knows, you might be lucky and have a rose expert pass this way who spots something the average person wouldn't.
  • Farway
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    edited 25 May 2020 at 2:45PM
    I've had a rose, grown from hardwood cutting, for years and only this year by chance did I find out it's name, turns out it's as common as muck. Mind you £25 here, mine was free so a bargain Albertine
    Gardener’s pest is chef’s escargot
  • twopenny
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    It looks very much like the shrub rose Adam Messerich.
    It's a very distinctive flower, something special, and you would probably get the answer by taking a photo or even emailing one to a rose nursery.
    Farway, I love Albertine. It's the rose that started me gardening because I was entranced as a child by this.



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  • Farway
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    twopenny said:
    Farway, I love Albertine. It's the rose that started me gardening because I was entranced as a child by this.
    I can well understand that, sort of round the doors of fairy cottage type of rose.
    And as a gardener it's no problems at all, bit of greenfly but what hasn't?
    Gardener’s pest is chef’s escargot
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