Public rose garden   Listing last updated on 08 Jul 2020.

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[From A Book of Gardening: Ideas, Methods, Designs, by Penelope Hobhouse, p. 41:] the scented almost evergreen Himalayan rose, Rosa gigantea, with wide yellowish-white single flowers followed by red autumn fruits flourishes over a pergola.

[From A Book of Gardening: Ideas, Methods, Designs, by Penelope Hobhouse, p. 43:] On the house terrace formal clipped bays are interrupted by beds of the apricot-flowered bush rose 'Mrs. Oakley Fisher'. These roses are underplanted with bronze-leaved Crocosmia 'Solfatare' with apricot-yellow flowers on 60 cm (2 ft) stems and pale blue Salvia patens 'Cambridge Blue'...

[From A Book of Gardening: Ideas, Methods, Designs, by Penelope Hobhouse, p. 104: There is] a bed of standard and bush yellow roses. 'Whisky Mac' and 'Yellow Pages', is underplanted with scarlet Potentilla 'Gibson's Scarlet' and edged with a 45 cm (18 in) hedge of clipped Erica erigena 'W.T. Rackliff'.

[From A Book of Gardening: Ideas, Methods, Designs, by Penelope Hobhouse, p. 105:] Standards of the creamy-white rose 'Pascali' give height above 30 bushes of 'Dame Edith Helen', a 1920s Hybrid Tea duoble pink rose, underplanted with pink-flowering Potentilla 'Miss Willmott'.

[From A Book of Gardening: Ideas, Methods, Designs, by Penelope Hobhouse, p. 110:] In the four corner beds of both parterres Hybrid Tea and Floribunda roses are planted to conform with the colour schemes in neighbouring beds. Five standard roses are underplanted with some three dozen of the bush type. In spring tulips, chosen to give a hint of the colour patterns which come late in the season, provide interest in the rose beds. The rose beds are surrounded by hedges of shrubby Erica mediterranea (now correctly E. erigena) 'W.T. Rackliff', which has dark green leaves carried very densely and white flowers with conspicuous brown anthers.