Summer flowering Old Roses are historic beauties, full of intensely fragrant blooms, that will flower around mid summer, generally during June/July in the UK. The sheer mass of bloom is often unsurpassed by repeat flowering varieties. Many have been with us from ancient times but they reached their peak around 1840. The colour palette ranges from white through shades of pink to lilac, purple and maroon. With their subtle hues and matt foliage the overall effect is one of calm and beauty. Their petals are ideal for making rose water or pot-pourri.
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Pompon des Princes (a.k.a. Ispahan) has clear pink, deliciously fragrant double blooms which flower throughout the summer. Scrolled in the bud, opening quartered with a green button eye. Size: 1.5m x 1.2m. -
Amelia (Damask) has pale pink sweetly scented blooms, with ruffled petals surrounding a yellow eye. It can be a tall shrub once established, and is ideally grown in a mixed border. Summer flowering. Size: 1.5m x 1m. -
Rosa davidii has small pink flowers with golden stamens in the center. It's well regarded as one of the best wild roses to grow for hips, which are flagon shaped in a reddish orange colour. Size: 1.5m x 1m -
Huge sprays of pure white semi-double blooms. Smooth elongated leaves. A strong musky scent. Good resistance from disease. Starts flowering mid-summer. Strong growth so ideally trained for an arch or pergola. Size: 5m x 2m. -
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Very fragrant, double blooms of cerise crimson. Opens slightly ruffled with a central boss of golden stamens. A vigorous tall shrub. Grown in Hungary for attar. Summer Flowering. Size: 1.75m x 1.25m. -
A Gallica hybrid of unknown origin. It has very full rosette blooms with a button eye. Flowers start dark violet but fade to mauve with a paler reverse. Light scent. Lax, arching, fairly thornless stems. Small dark leaves. Summer flowering. Size: 2m x 2m. -
a.k.a The Holy Rose or Rosa sancta. Pretty single soft rose pink blooms. Dark green foliage. Slightly procumbent habit. Summer flowering. Size: 1m x 1.2m. -
Bellard (a.k.a Bellart, Bellert) has quartered blooms of blush pink rise above a green button eye. Strong growth with grey green foliage. Good fragrance. Summer flowering. Rare. Size: 1.2 x 1m. -
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Large, full, flat blooms with a button eye. Magenta pink tinted with purple and lavender, with a paler reverse. Excellent foliage. Slender erect stems. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1.2m. -
A recent addition to the Gallicas, one of a few introduced during the 20th century. Large, flat, blooms of rich bright crimson with contrasting golden stamens. Sweet fragrance. Profuse summer flowering. Healthy, bushy growth. Size: 1.5m x 1.2m. -
A hybrid of R. roxburghii and R. macrophylla. Strong growing shrub with reddish brown bark and stout canes which branch horizontally. Large blooms of deep pink with yellow stamens. Many heavily veined leaflets. Useful for wilder planting schemes. 2.5m x 2m. -
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A graceful shrub bearing multitudes of single pink blooms with a circle of pale yellow stamens. Wood is plum coloured and the widely set leaflets are grey green. Small flagon shaped hips provide more interest. Tolerant of most soils and situations. 2m x 1.5m. -
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A miniature moss rose bearing small, full blooms of light crimson. Fragrant. Dense dark green foliage. Repeat flowering. Size 1.2m x 0.6m. -
Mme. Zöetmans, a.k.a. Mme. Zoutmann, has clusters of very full milky-white blooms with a button of in-curved petals. Fragrant. Thorny but tidy growth with abundant mid-green foliage. Summer flowering. Size:1.2m x 1.0m. (Mme Zoetmans). -
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Perfect quartered blooms of pale pink with lighter edges. Strong myrrh fragrance. A tidy shrub with grey-green foliage. Good disease resistance. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1m. -
a.k.a. The French Rose. Perhaps the most important ancestor of all our garden roses. Single pink blooms with prominent golden stamens. A freely suckering shrub. Light green foliage. Bristly stems. Scented. Summer flowering. Size: 90cm x 90cm. -
a.k.a. The Wax Rose. A very refined Gallica. Highly perfumed blooms of blush pink with a deeper center emerge from tightly scrolled buds. Tidy upright plant with good foliage. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1.0m. (Duchesse d'Angouleme). -
Probably a very old variety, Nancy Lindsay found Gloire de Guilan in Iran where it was used for making attar. The clear pink, silky-textured blooms are quartered and folded. Fresh green foliage. Good on poor soils. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1.2m. -
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Fully double quartered blooms, lilac pink on the edges with deeper pink centres. Dark green foliage. Grown by Empress Josephine at Malmaison but rarely seen today. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1m. -
Hebe's Lip, a.k.a. Rubrotincta Margined Hip, has scented semi-double white blooms with pink tinged edges in clusters. A tidy compact shrub with serrated mid green foliage. Summer flowering. Size 1.2m x 1.2m. -
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Clusters of very double blooms emerge from mossy buds. They may be flecked at the ends with paler hues. Fragrant.Makes a very tall bush with canes cloaked in purplish moss. Can repeat. Size: 2.4m x 1.5m. -
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Very double flowers with intense striping of purple and pink on a white background. Pleasing perfume. Forms a tidy small shrub. Summer flowering. Size: 90cm x 90cm. -
Botzaris has creamy white flat quartered blooms in beautiful clusters, with a strong sweet scent. Forms a compact shrub with dark green foliage. Summer flowering. Named after Marcos Botzaris, hero of Greek Independence 1790-1823. Size 1.2m x 1.2m. -
Eye catching mottled lilac-pink single flowers. Purple grey stems with an arching habit. Dark grey-green foliage. Good for hedging with globular red hips. Size: 1.6m x 1.6m. -
Clusters of single pale pink flowers. Short bushy growth with red stems. Small bright orange fruits. Good in a woodland setting. Summer flowering. Size:90cm x 90cm. -
Pink Leda has clear pink double bloom, with a dark pink edge which shows a button eye. Strong fragrance. Dark green healthy, greyish foliage. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1.2m. -
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Large double silvery pink crumpled blooms which flower well into the autumn. Richly scented. Upright habit with few thorns and lightly moss buds. Abundant foliage of dark green. Size:1.2m x 1m. -
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Small deep lilac-pink flowers with buttery anthers. Archer Habit. Dark red stems. Grey-green ferney foliage. Scent. Pear-shaped orange-red hips. Size:1.8m x 1.8m. -
A small bushy shrub. Double, small bright crimson blooms. Small dainty foliage with a slight apple scent. Flowers early summer. Size : 1.2m x 1.0m. -
Clear bright salmon pink double blooms are arranged in small clusters. Strong myrrh fragrance. Thorny with a mid-green foliage. Summer flowering. Decorative orange hips in autumn. Good in most soils and aspects. Size: 1.5m x 1m. -
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Celsiana displays clusters of semi-double pale pink blooms, with a strong musk fragrance. Good in semi-shaded position. Dense grey-green foliage. Summer flowering. Painted by many famous artists from the past. Size: 1.2m x 90cm. -
Rosa californica 'Plena' has semi-double hollyhocks shaped lilac pink flowers. Produces some small orange red fruit in the autumn. Summer flowering. Size: 3m x 2m. -
Alain Blanchard has deep crimson semi-double flowers mottled with purple and pink. Showy golden stamens. Good scent. Dark stems and mid-green serrated foliage. Summer flowering. Size: 1.5m x 1.5m. -
aka Muscosa Japonica. A true curiosity this is the mossiest of all the moss roses. The moss not only covers the buds and stems but also covers part of the leaf surfaces. Magenta-pink with paler reverse double blooms. Size: 1.2m x 1.2m -
Beautiful quartered blooms with a magenta pink at the center of the petals, turning lilac to the outer. Good scent. Light green foliage. Summer flowering. Size: 1.2m x1.2m. -
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Grown from a seed bought over from roses growing by Omar Khayyam's tomb, which would now be found modern day Iran. Double spiky rich pink blooms open flat with a button eye. Strong fragrance. Soft pale grey-green foliage. Size: 1.8m x 1.8m. -
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Blanchefleur's red tinged buds open into milky-white quartered blooms. As the flowers age the petals reflex to form a ball. Sweetly scented. A large lax prickly shrub with grey green foliage. Summer flowering. Size 1.5m x 1.2m. -
Rosa centifolia 'Variegata', a.k.a. 'Village Maid', has very fragrant double blooms of creamy white with streaks of pale pink. Robust and very prickly shrub. Summer flowering. Size:1.5m x 1.2m. -
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a.k.a Red moss. A vigorous shrub bearing lightly mossed buds which open into strong scented clusters of double bright red blooms. Dark green foliage. Summer flowering. Size:1.5 x 1.2m. -
Georges Vibert has a small compact habit. The blooms emerge from crimson buds and are quilled and quartered with green button eyes. Light crimson stripes on a blush background. Fragrant. Summer flowering. Size: 1m x 1m.
