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Summer Sweetheart

Rose photo courtesy of Sweetsummerdays

Summer Sweetheart is greatly admired in my garden. It's extremely floriferous, repeat flowering up to four times from early summer to winter in my Zone 9b garden. The buds are sweet and tightly scrolled, opening into an open warm carmine pink flower with yellow stamens. The flowers turn a lighter pink with age. The overall effect is of variations of a most unusual pink. The bees love visiting this rose. Lovely small leaves and glossy dark green foliage. Green fly don't appear interested in this rose and it's disease resistance is excellent. A little blackspot after blooming, but probably because it exhausts itself and needs a good feed. Mine is growing in very poor soil, which I've worked to improve. I combine it with a pale blue clematis. It's a short patio rose, very sturdy canes. Overall a top performer.

Uploaded 3 DEC 22

Paul Lédé Cl. (Climbing HT, Low, 1913)

Rose photo courtesy of Sweetsummerdays

Climbing Paul Lede is exceptionally beautiful. The colouration is a pale peachy pink with a creamy raspberry heart. Overall the effect is one of sophisticated softness. The buds are a coral red. The scent is beautiful. The blooms are produced on short stems from the lateral canes, so would be perfect trained on a house wall.

Uploaded 3 DEC 22

Summer Sweetheart

Rose photo courtesy of Sweetsummerdays

Summer Sweetheart is greatly admired in my garden. It's extremely floriferous, repeat flowering up to four times from early summer to winter in my Zone 9b garden. The buds are sweet and tightly scrolled, opening into an open warm carmine pink flower with yellow stamens. The flowers turn a lighter pink with age. The overall effect is of variations of a most unusual pink. Lovely small leaves and glossy dark green foliage. Green fly don't appear interested in this rose and it's disease resistance is excellent. A little blackspot after blooming, but probably because it exhausts itself and needs a good feed. Mine is growing in very poor soil, which I've worked to improve. I combine it with a pale blue clematis. It's a short patio rose, very sturdy canes. Overall a top performer.