Very thorny roses aren’t always burden to gardeners but can provide a hindrance for any unwanted guests. We have listed the most thorniest roses we grow, some are more so than others. For the most savage barbs the likes of ‘Cerise Bouquet’ and ‘R. sericea ‘Pteracantha” would make a great hedge. While unmatched in its density and size of thorns, ‘Wicker’ would be a perfect obstacle for a tall wall or structure.
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ROSE GROUP
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HIGHLY FRAGRANT
SITUATION
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AWARD WINNING
GIFT IDEAS
BREEDER
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La Belle Marseillaise, a.k.a Fellemberg, has trusses of double cupped bright crimson-cerise blooms. Good scent. Vigorous pliable stems. Red prickly thorns with dark foliage. Makes a good pillar rose. Perpetual flowering. Size 1.5m x 1.5m. -
Rosa spinosissima ‘Firth of Forth'. Discovered by Trevor White. Lightly marbled blooms with pink veins. Masses of 5cm wide single flowers gradually open to pure white. Delicate musky fragrance. Size: 140cm x 120cm -
Blooms orange scarlet in bud opening to salmon pink. Foliage coppery-crimson. Summer flowering. A vigorous climbing rose. Scented. Size: 5.5m x 3.6m. -
Peter's Persica is a unique climbing rose. The first Persica Climbing rose introduced by renowned rose breeder Chris Warner. Commemorates British broadcaster and writer Peter Seabrook MBE. Yellow semi-double blooms with red eye. Size 250cm x 100cm -
Le Vesuve's pointed buds open in loose blowsy clusters of carmine pink with delicate red veins. Tea scent. Shiny green foliage with tints of copper. Angular growth. Likes a warm aspect. Repeat Flowering. Size:1.2m 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. -
A vigorous shrub with fine purple green foliage. The single carmine pink flowers are followed by very decorative flagon-shaped hips. Summer flowering. Size:2m x 2m.
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a.k.a.The Sacramento Rose or The Gooseberry Rose. Unusual rose with gooseberry-like leaves. Single blooms of lilac -pink with a prominent centre of orange yellow stamens. Stems and buds covered with spines. Dense growth with many branches. 1m x 1m. -
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Large double magenta-pinkblooms. Spicy scent. Very healthy. Repeat flowering. Sometimes produces large red fruit with the later blooms. Size: 1.8m x 1.6m. -
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A.k.a Phoebe's Frilled Pink. Bunches of small pale pink to white flowers with quilled petals. Scented. Healthy foliage. Forms a large bushy shrub .More refined than most Rugosas. Repeat flowering. Size 1.2m x 1.2m. -
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Clusters of fully double cerise crimson blooms with a good scent. Very dark green foliage.Well armed with many prickles. Summer flowering.Possibly the first hybrid rose bred in the UK. Size:3m x 3m. Good in difficult situations. -
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Small single yellow fragrant flowers with buff edges. Wonderful apple-scented foliage. Forms a stout branching shrub. Does well in poor soil. Summer flowering. Size:1.8 x 1.8m. -
Pale yellow globular blooms. Dense prickly growth with ferny foliage. Very robust but retaining a delicate charm. Spring flowering. Size: 1.5m x 1.2m. -
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a.k.a.The Sweet Briar Rose. Medium-sized single pink blooms borne on a prickly shrub. Foliage has the distinct fragrance of green apples. Summer flowering. Size:2m x 2m. -
a.k.a Etendard. Double bright red flowers in clusters.Good glossy dark green foliage. Rigid growth Repeat flowering. Scented. Size 3m x 2.4m. -
A low suckering shrub with slender canes covered in bristles. Glossy leaves. Single pink flowers. Good autumn foliage. Summer flowering. Size:60cm x 60cm. -
Rosette-like flowers of creamy yellow in clusters. Scented. Vigorous open arching habit makes it ideal for a low hedge. Recurrent flowering. Size: 1.2m x 1.4m. -
Rich pink single blooms in profusion. Foliage scented of green apples. Strong growth with hips in autumn. Summer flowering. Size:2.4 x 2.4. -
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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Small single white blooms set amongst very grey green foliage. The small orange hips are attractive in the autumn. Summer flowering. Rambling Habit. Size:3.6m x 3.6m.
