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Flower. Photo from R.V. Roger Ltd |
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Plant Name |
Rosa x centifolia muscosa |
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Soil |
Roses prefer acidic soil of pH 6.5 (sand) but will tolerate alkaline soils up to pH 7.5 (chalk). Mix 25 litres farmyard manure, or pulverized tree bark with bone meal, in soil before planting. Broadcast rose fertilizer in early Spring. Tolerant of Poor Soils, so broadcast rose fertilizer in early summer as well. |
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Sun Aspect |
Full Sun. |
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Soil Moisture |
Moist. Hates wet weather when in flower. |
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Plant Type |
Old Garden Rose: 27 Moss Shrub |
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Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
72 x 60 (180 x 150) |
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Foliage |
Thick coarse, grey-green. |
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Flower Colour in Season. Hips |
Deep pink, very double cupped when open. Strong heady perfume. Flowering is in the Summer only. Very fragrant. |
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Comment |
Identical in all respects to Rosa centifolia except for moss, which is really closely packed reddish-brown bristles, brighter on young shoots and covering both stems and calyx. Rather prone to Mildew.
Suitable for growing:
Available from For further details on the cultivation of roses, consult the Royal National Rose Society. "A website devoted to roses, clematis and peonies and all that is gardening related, including selecting, buying, breeding, caring for and exhibiting. We have cataloged over 44,000 roses and have more than 160,000 photos along with thousands of Rose nurseries, public and private gardens, Rose societies, authors, breeders, hybridizers and publications from all over the world. Click Buy From tab on the Help Me Find page to locate sellers of this rose or Gardens tab to locate public, private and member gardens growing this rose." from Help Me Find in America. |
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See further data table below:- |
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ROSE PLANT GALLERY PAGE MENU Introduction MODERN CLIMBER ROSE TYPE SHAPE |
ROSE PLANT GALLERY PAGES Website Structure Explanation and User Guidelines
OLD GARDEN CLIMBER ROSE TYPE SHAPE BED PICTURES |
"Moss roses differ from all other roses by the mossy beards, that form around their calyces, flower stalks and sometimes their leaf stalks and stems. They are covered with greenish or brownish glands which, like moss, feel soft to the touch. These glands are sticky and the substance that is secreted is heavily aromatic and smells of resin. The legend of the birth of the Moss rose is to be found in a popular Calvados legend. ‘One day the Angel, who each day brings the dew on her wings, feeling weary, asked the Rose for shelter for the night. On awakening, she asked how this hospitality might be repaid. The Rose answered, “Make me even more beautiful”. “What grace”, said the Angel, “can I give to the most beautiful of all flowers?” Meditating this request, she cast her eyes down to the mossy bed from which the Rose sprang and, gathering some, placed it on the young buds. Thus was born the Moss Rose.’ [Edward A. Bunyard, Old garden roses] According to Edward A. Bunyard, the Moss rose first appears in Holland in the early 18th century at the Botanic Garden at Leiden. He is able to fix the date within a few years, as it is first mentioned in the Catalogue of this Garden in 1720, where its Latin name was Rose rubra plena spinissisima, peduncolo muscoso. An earlier edition of this catalogue was published in 1710, but it is not there mentioned, so that it probably came into Holland between 1710 and 1720. It need hardly be said that this statement has not been unchallenged. In 1845 a Frenchman, M. Faguet, came forward with a claim for his own country as the only-begetter of the Moss rose. Faguet was the author of a work entitled Choix des Plus Belles Roses, published in 1845, and it is in this volume that the French claim is made. He refers to a book by Frerard Du Castel, entitled L’Ecole du jardinier Fleuriste, in which it is said that the Moss rose had been known so far back as 1696 at Carcasonne. From thence it is stated that Du Castel took it to Normandy in 1746, thus the Dutch record was antedated by many years. Du Castel’s work is very scarce, and, Bunyard imagines, was not seen by many writers on the history of the Rose, or they would have found, as he had done, that it contains no mention of the Moss rose at all, or of Carcasonne. There are two editions of this work, but neither contains any mention of the Moss rose. Bunyard thinks therefore that the Dutch record must stand, as he further explains in his book Old garden roses.
By grafting or budding of the branch on which the mossy buds were present, further Moss roses where raised. Only after the discovery in 1807 of a single flowered pink Moss rose could Moss roses also be propagated by seed (the large double flowered forms were sterile). The seedlings of these roses however lack the exquisite quality of the true Centifolia roses, except in the few that are direct sports, e.g. Rosa x centifolia ‘Muscosa’ (‘Common Moss’) and ‘Alba’. Some of the later varieties (after 1800) flower again, after the summer outburst is over. In size the Moss roses range from the dwarf varieties like ‘Little Gem’ or ‘Alfred de Dalmas’ to tall pilar roses like ‘William Lobb’. Most Moss roses were raised during the 19th century, mainly in France. William Paul, author of The Rose Garden (1848), mentions in his first edition 84 different Moss roses, but not as many were supposed to be left. Recently however, I discovered that in the Europa-Rosarium Sangerhausen still some 130 different Moss roses are grown, so there are nowadays luckily more than the afore- mentioned 84 Moss roses. The colors of Moss roses varies from white (only but a few) to deep purple and various shades of pink and red. They smell as heavenly as the Centifolia roses, but the resinous fragrance of the moss gives it an extra dimension. Often the leaves are bronzed, especially with the darker colors. The branches are densely covered with hairy spines, which pass into moss on the flowers stalks.
R x centifolia L. var muscosa The diversity in the rank of Moss roses is so large, that it is not difficult to find one for the garden. It is a good idea to plant these roses along the sides of borders or paths, where the mossy buds can be touched or brushed against in passing, releasing their aromatic fragrance.
Quatre Saisons Blanc Mousseux" from Old Roses. |
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Ivydene Gardens Rose Plant Gallery: |
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Rose Classification Number |
Rose Classification - Links to each page of these is in the menu at the top of the right hand table on each page |
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Modern Roses: 1 Modern Shrub Recurrent Large-Flowered
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Some of the Roses in the other borders of the Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley are in the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden (identified as 3 in the map below) or the Jubilee Rose Garden - which is below and to the left of the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden:-
Map with A-Z or 1-9 identifying each flowerbed location in the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden:-
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Click for further details on WISLEY WISLEY Rose Plant Classification System:- Rosa Wisley 2008 'AUSbreeze' is:-
Normal Rose Plant Classification System:- Now you should not confuse the above system with the usual retail name of Rosa 'Wisley 2008' (Ausbreeze) by Austin Roses where
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Roses in this Gallery Rose Name Link followed by Rose Colour Link on next line:- Other followed by Rose Use:- Bed for Bedding If there is no colour following the plant name, this indicates that this name is either .......................
Rose INDEX Page includes bloom colour thumbnail, rose use, height and width with link to its Rose Description Page. |
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"Roses UK is a joint marketing venture between BARB (British Association Of Rose Breeders) and the British Rose Group of the HTA (previously known as the British Rose Growers Association) aimed at maintaining and increasing the profile of the nation's favourite flower, the rose, through promotional activities. Amongst its major activities is included responsibility for the organisation of the annual rose festival held at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Roses UK also manages the Rose of the Year trials - a competition that has been running since 1982 and one that is designed to select, through nationwide trials, the best of new rose introductions, entered by professional rose breeders, for a given year. The Gold Standard Rose Trial, independently managed by NIAB (National Institute of Agricultural Botany in Cambridge) on behalf of the British Association of Rose Breeders (BARB) is also promoted by Roses UK. ROSES UK IS NEITHER A RETAILER NOR WHOLESALER OF ROSES". |
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Roses in this Gallery Rose Name Link followed by Rose Colour Link on next line:- Other followed by Rose Use:- Bed for Bedding
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Rose INDEX Page includes bloom colour thumbnail, rose use, height and width with link to its Rose Description Page. |
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Roses in this Gallery Rose Name Link followed by Rose Colour Link on next line:- Other followed by Rose Use:- Bed for Bedding If there is no colour following the plant name, this indicates that this name is either .......................
Rose INDEX Page includes bloom colour thumbnail, rose use, height and width with link to its Rose Description Page. |
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The Royal National Rose Society is "is not only the world’s oldest specialist plant society but the foremost global authority on the cultivation and care of the rose. Established in 1876, the RNRS now has a membership that spans the globe and includes many affiliated horticultural societies and research libraries, as well as thousands of rose- loving individuals. Today, the RNRS is best known for its flagship Gardens of the Rose at Chiswell Green in Hertfordshire, on the outskirts of St Albans. Opened 50 years ago by the then Patron of the Society, the Princess Royal, The Gardens of the Rose offer five acres of stunning displays of tens of thousands of roses, both traditional and contemporary, complemented by a huge selection of companion plants. A major objective is the administration of the RNRS International rose trials which are open to both professional and amateur rose breeders. Visit our International Rose Trials page for some background to the trialling process. The Society is also recognised as a governing body in the administration of showing and judging roses in the UK. Visit our shows area page for details of forthcoming events." |
Roses in this Gallery Rose Name Link followed by Rose Colour Link on next line:- Other followed by Rose Use:- Bed for Bedding
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Rose INDEX Page includes bloom colour thumbnail, rose use, height and width with link to its Rose Description Page. |
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"Find That Rose, the guide for rose lovers in the UK is now in its 31st year (2014). This website is based on the variety and Growers details, and also gives you planting and care advice. There are roses for every situation. Breeders over the last decade or so have increased the choice with Patio/Courtyard climbers...suitable for the smaller gardens where taller and wider climbers are just too big. The Book Find That Rose is designed to: Help you find the rose of your choice To help you contact specialist Rose Growers and suppliers Discover who supplies roses mail order Advise you which rose growers export Help retailers and local authorities find a wholesale grower Details of the 31st Edition of Find That Rose….. the book:
Listing approx. 3,550 varieties available in the UK Approximately 200 new varieties listed in the 31st Edition.
46 growers/suppliers featured.
New for the 31st Edition - Dates of Variety Introductions.
Help in tracing a variety with a particular Christian name, or one for a special event.
Details on where you can see roses in bloom this summer.
All this and a Rose Discount voucher towards purchases of roses from select members.
To get the full pictures… i.e. the Book Find That Rose see request a Brochure" |
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Roses in this Gallery Rose Name Link followed by Rose Colour Link on next line:- Other followed by Rose Use:- Bed for Bedding
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Roses in this Gallery Rose Name Link followed by Rose Colour Link on next line:- Other followed by Rose Use:- Bed for Bedding
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Roses in this Gallery Rose Name Link followed by Rose Colour Link on next line:- Other followed by Rose Use:- Bed for Bedding If there is no colour following the plant name, this indicates that this name is either .......................
Rose INDEX Page includes bloom colour thumbnail, rose use, height and width with link to its Rose Description Page. |
Site design and content copyright ©November 2009. Page structure amended in September 2012. Mail-order Nursery links updated June 2013 and again in May 2014. Flower Colour and Rose Use added to Non-RHS Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden Rose Index above in May 2014 Chris Garnons-Williams. |
"Pruning roses - the sissinghurst method Pruning roses the Sissinghurst way helps create those wonderful fountains of roses you see in summer gardens - delicious-smelling, out-of-control geysers of flowers that effuse all over the garden. Pruning roses like this means you don't get those boring little twiggy bushes, all leg and no body, surrounded by bare ground. The Sissinghurst rose pruning technique originated at Cliveden with the Astors' head gardener Jack Vass, who moved to Sissinghurst in 1939. Vita Sackville-West loved her roses, particularly the dark, rich Gallicas such as 'Charles de Mills', 'Tuscany Superb' and 'Cardinal de Richelieu', but it was Jack Vass who started to grow them in this exceptional way, and roses have been pruned and trained like this at Sissinghurst ever since. Other National Trust properties send their gardeners here to learn this ingenious technique. The rose pruning philosophy can be summed up as "treat them mean, keep them keen". If you put every stem of a rose plant under pressure, bending and stressing it, the rose will flower more prolifically. The plant's biochemistry tells the bush it's on the way out and so needs to make as many flowers as possible. THE SISSINGHURST ROSE PRUNING TECHNIQUE Climbers and ramblers The rose pruning season at Sissinghurst starts in November with the climbers and ramblers that cover almost every one of the terracotta brick walls. First, the gardeners cut off most of that year's growth. This keeps the framework of the rose clear and prevents the plant from becoming too woody. Next, large woody stems are taken out - almost to the base - to encourage new shoots. These will flower the following year. The remaining branches are re-attached to the wall, stem by stem, starting from the middle of the plant, working outwards, with the pruned tip of each branch bent down and attached to the one below. Climbers such as 'Paul's Lemon Pillar' are a bit more reluctant than ramblers like 'Albertine' and the famous Rosa mulliganii on the frame in the centre of the White Garden, which are very bendy and easy to train. Shrub roses Once the wall roses are done, it's the turn of the border shrubs. They should be pruned before they come into leaf to prevent leaf buds and shoots from being damaged as their stems are manipulated. Depending on their habit, shrub roses are trained in one of three ways. The tall, rangy bushes with stiffer branches (such as 'Charles de Mills', 'Ispahan', 'Gloire de France', 'Cardinal de Richelieu' and 'Camayeux') are twirled up a frame of four chestnut or hazel poles. Every pruned tip is bent and attached to a length below. The big leggy shrubs, which put out great, pliable, triffid arms that are easy to tie down and train, are bent on to hazel hoops arranged around the skirts of the plant. Roses with this lax habit include 'Constance Spry', 'Fantin-Latour', 'Zéphirine Drouhin', 'Madame Isaac Pereire', 'Coupe d'Hébé', 'Henri Martin' and 'Souvenir du Dr Jamain'. All the old and diseased wood is removed and then, stem by stem, last year's wood is bent over and tied onto the hazel hoop. You start at the outside of the plant and tie that in first and then move towards the middle, using the plant's own branches to build up the web and - in the case of 'Constance Spry' and 'Henri Martin' - create a fantastic height, one layer domed and attached to the one below. Without any sign of a flower, this looks magnificent as soon as it's complete, and in a couple of months, each stem, curved almost to ground level, will flower abundantly. That leaves just the contained, well behaved, less prolific varieties ('Petite de Hollande', 'Madame Knorr', 'Chapeau de Napoléon', ( syn. Rosa x centifolia 'Cristata') and those that produce branches too stiff to bend ('Felicia' and the newish David Austin rose, 'William Shakespeare 2000'). These are pruned hard, then each bush is attached to a single stake, cut to about the height of the pruned bush and attached by twine. Without the stake, even these will topple under the weight of their summer growth. For those who live in the North, where some roses are yet to leaf, you could get bending now. If your roses are already too advanced for this year, come and see how it's all done at Sissinghurst." from Sarah Raven. |
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"The 5 P’s For Easy Rose Growing 1. Planning 2. Preparation 3. Planting 4. Pruning 5. Preservation Planning Try to plan well in advance of purchasing your roses. Roses come in a multitude of sizes, habits and colours. They prefer a sunny position and a neutral or slightly acidic well drained soil. Certain roses will tolerate differing degrees of shade and some will thrive in poor soils. Do your homework. Preparation The area to be planted should be free of weeds and deeply dug with the addition of plenty of organic matter such as well rotted farmyard manure or garden compost plus bonemeal. Soil that has previously grown roses should be removed to a depth of 45cms and replaced with fresh soil from elsewhere. This should be completed well before planting to allow the soil to settle. Planting Bare root roses can be planted from November until March provided the soil is workable. Dig a hole large enough to accommodate the roots. Mix a handful of bonemeal with the excavated soil. Spread the roots out in the hole and gradually replace the soil firming well so the union (where the shoots meet the roots) is 2-3 cms. below the soil, water well. If conditions are very wet or frosty when your roses arrive they can be kept unopened in their packaging for a week or more and planted as soon as things improve. Pruning This is a way to maintain a healthy, productive and well balanced plant. Different types of roses require different strategies so see the group headings on the website for more detailed pruning guides. Always use sharp secateurs or loppers and try to prune just above an outward facing bud (where the leaf stalk meets the stem) with a cut sloping down away from the bud. Remove any dead, damaged or diseased wood before pruning. Preservation Roses can be long lived plants provided they are properly maintained. They require plenty of moisture and nutrients to stay healthy and flourish. In dry spells water well, especially in the first few years after planting. The application of a deep mulch in the spring will help to retain water. Feed twice a year on heavy soils (March and June) and more regularly on lighter soils with a good rose fertilizer or fish blood and bone. Pests and diseases are best controlled with good husbandry. There are some good organic products on the market now that can be used to help maintain your plants health. Any suckers (shoots growing from the rootstock) should be pulled off (not cut) as soon as possible." from Trevor White Old Fashioned Roses. |
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Page for rose use as ARCH ROSE, PERGOLA ROSE, COASTAL CONDITIONS ROSE, WALL ROSE, STANDARD ROSE, COVERING BANKS or THORNLESS ROSES. FRAGRANT ROSES Page 1 and Page 2 - The roses inserted into this page are described as Moderately Fragrant or Very Fragrant in the relevant Rose Plant Description Page. NOT FRAGRANT ROSES - The roses inserted into this page are described as Slightly Fragrant or nothing mentioned about fragrance in the relevant Rose Plant Description Page. |
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Rose Plant Height from Text Border |
Blue = 0-24 inches (0-60 cms) |
Green=24-72 inches (60-180 cms) |
Red = 72+ inches (180+ cms) |
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Rose Plant Soil Moisture from Text Background |
Wet Soil |
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