Zephirine Drouhin Climbing Rose
While the shoots will grow into the variety of rose youve selected the root variety has been specially grown and developed for hardiness improved resistance to common diseases and improved resistance to certain weather conditions.
Zephirine drouhin climbing rose. Because of its nearly thornless form this is an excellent choice for use in fresh cut floral arrangements and bouquets. Across 8 cm counting up to 30 petals. Carefree rose with minimal care for trellis walls gates and more. Rosa zephirine drouhin first caught my eye because of catalogue descriptions claiming it would bloom in the shade of a north facing walli was skeptical but intrigued.
Introduced in france during the reign of napoleon iii zephirine drouhin remains one of the worlds most popular climbing roses. Planted in a carefully selected planting mix. The zephirine drouhin rose is an old bourbon rose from 1868. These own root roses are available for delivery this april october enabling you to plant roses outside of the bare root rose season.
Zephirine drouhin a climbing bourbon that may be the most consistently blooming large flowered climbing rose with the added benefit that it is thorn less. The canes of this rose are very unique. Its one of the best known climbers in the world and for good reasons. Our own root roses are grown from cuttings so the roots are the same variety as the flowers unlike our bare root roses which are grafted onto dr.
This rose is such an excellent repeat bloomer that. Born on thornless purplish stems the blooms are produced in great quantities and almost continuously from late spring to frost. Rose zephirine drouhin climbing rose. I had a partly shaded nook by the steps leading to our new deck and i thought a climbing rose would be very pretty ther.
Blooms petals 16 are deep rose pink fragrant and produced in great quantities on. Noted for its shade and poor soils tolerance rosa zephirine drouhin is a vigorous climbing bourbon rose with masses of highly fragrant semi double carmine flowers 3 in. Blooming prolifically in the spring and fall with reddish pink 4 inch flowers composed of as many as 30 densely colored petals producing bourbon like fragrance it remains a strong performer with remarkable stamina. The quintessential romanica rose zephirine drouhin is redolent with that wonderful old fashioned rose fragrance that brings back memories of days gone by.
Grafted roses sometimes referred to as budded bareroot roses have roots that belong to a different variety of rose than the shoots. Bred in 1868 in france this is one of the most popular roses of all time.