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Hinton Ampner Garden


Rose - Graham Thomas

Location

The Main Rose Border.

Description:

A vigorous modern shrub roses. It possesses all the virtues of the English rose group strong disease-resistance, vigorous growth and handsome old-fashioned blooms. There is nothing dated about the colour, a particularly warm shade of deep yellow that glows in the evening light, joining with the rich, lingering tea-scent to make a memorable impact.

Site and Care:

Grow in fertile, moist but well-drained soil that does not dry out, in full sun or partial shade. Unlike modern bush roses, shrub roses generally flower on older wood and should be allowed to develop naturally, with a light but regular pruning, during late winter, and with a balance of older wood and young, vigorous growth. Maintain a balanced framework by reducing strong new growth in late winter by up to one-third.   Prune back the previous season's growths by a third to a half of their length and shorten strong sideshoots to two or three buds To encourage new shoots lightly pruning mature plants each winter by cutting some of the older main stems back to the base. This encourages vigorous new shoots from the base that will flower the following summer. Regularly dead head and mulch after pruning.