Designs Your Garden With Flowers

‘BARONNE EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD'

HYBRID TEA / Synonym: `Grimpant Baronne de Rothschild'

`Baronne Edmond de Rothschild®' is an excellent, sweet-smelling rose full of desirable characteristics. Large, attractive blooms are generally borne singly on powerful stems and keep particularly well when cut for the vase and displays. This rose will happily repeat bloom after pruning. It is easy to maintain and very healthy, its very glossy, tough foliage being astonishingly resistant to fungal diseases. `Baronne Edmond de Rothschild®' will not disappoint, even in harsher zones, where some hybrid Teas are best avoided. When using in combination with other plants, set 35 cm (14 in) apart. If planting an entire perfumed bed of this hybrid Tea, use seven per square metre (square yard).

FLOWERING: Repeat bloomer; fully double; 0 12 cm (5 in); insides deep pink with silvery reverses; glorious, strong fragrance

GROWTH: 80-100 cm (32-39 in) high; vigorous; tightly upright

FEATURES: ADR rating 1971; lovely scent and cutting quality; good in rain; hardy

PLANTING: For flowerbeds, scented beds and borders

 INTRODUCED: Meilland, 1968, France

'HIDALGO'

Synonym: 'Michel Hidalgo' / HYBRID TEA

This dark red hybrid Tea is more often used for bouquets and declarations of love than in the garden. However, for those who enjoy a garden with rich red blooms and sweet fragrances, hybrid Teas are hard to beat. 'Hidalgo'', a classic example, can be combined well with other scented plants to make a lovely fragrant planting on a terrace. Plant 30 cm (1 ft) apart or, for more extensive planting, use nine plants per square metre (square yard). For those who are not so interested in the classics and lay more store by ease of maintenance and health, look for more recent hybrid Tea varieties that combine these latter characteristics with a lovely scent, such as Liebeszauber®' (synonyms: 'Crimson Spire', 'Love's Magic'), bred by Kordes, 1991.

`Burgund '81®' (synonyms: `Kordes' Rose Burgund', 'Loving Memory', 'Red Cedar', 'The Macarthur Rose') has delightful velvety red blooms that flower all summer, but it is only lightly scented. This rose looks lovely as a standard in a pot on the patio.

FLOWERING: Repeat bloomer; double; 0 10-12 cm (4-5 in velvety dark red; powerful scent

GROWTH: 80-100 cm (32-39 in) high; very upright

FEATURES: Robust; great scent; lovely cut rose; hardy

PLANTING: For flowerbeds, scented beds and borders 

INTRODUCED: Meilland, 1979, France