Variety name: 'Climbing Imp'
In 2007 grafting material was sourced from the parent of the candidate and budded onto a group of R. fortuniana rootstock plants. In 2008, following removal of the R. fortuniana overgrowth, it was discovered that 1 budded plant was displaying distinct climbing rose characteristics. After boosting the nutrition of this plant shoot nodes were taken and budded onto more R. fortuniana rootstocks. All subsequent shoots of the grafts had the same climbing growth with some slight variations in the colour and growth habit. Following further generations of replication the candidate variety was found to be stable for some 20 generations with no variations. Breeder: Daniel Roworth