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'Kiftsgate' rose Description
'<i>Rosa filipes</i> 'Kiftsgate'' rose photo
Photo courtesy of Henrique Rodrigues Vivián
Availability:
Commercially available
HMF Ratings:
40 favorite votes.  
Average rating: EXCELLENT.  
ARS:
White, near white or white blend Species.
Registration name: Kiftsgate
Origin:
Introduced in United Kingdom by Hilda Murrell / Edwin Murrell Ltd. in 1954 as 'Rosa filipes 'Kiftsgate''.
Class:
Rambler, Species / Wild.  
Bloom:
White, yellow stamens.  Moderate fragrance.  5 petals.  Average diameter 1.25".  Small, single (4-8 petals), cluster-flowered bloom form.  Once-blooming spring or summer.  
Habit:
Climbing.  

Height: 25' to 40' (760 to 1220cm).  Width: up to 88'7" (up to 2700cm).
Growing:
USDA zone 6b and warmer.  Very vigorous.  produces decorative hips.  
Patents:
Patent status unknown (to HelpMeFind).
Notes:
See References. The parentage of this rose is uncertain, whether a sport or selection of Rosa filipes.
Be sure to read the history and description of Rosa filipes 'Kiftsgate' at the website of the Kiftsgate Court Garden in Gloucestershire, UK, where this remarkable species reaches 24 meters x 27 meters x 15 meters high on a copper beech. Sold to the owners as Rosa moschata in 1938, Kiftsgate grew to enormous proportions before Graham Stuart Thomas correctly identified it in 1951.
 
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