Rosa spinosissima 'Double, White Flowered'
(Scots Rose)
Family - Rosaceae
Category - Rose
Hybrid Parents - A hybrid of Rosa spinosissima
Year of Introduction - 1800
Season of Interest - Summer
Hardiness - H7
Height - 1.5m or more
Width - 1.2m
Location - The Thicket, The White Garden
Description: A wild rose with a bushy, rounded habit and deep brown, prickly stems. Dark green, pinnate leaves have small, Elliptic to rounded leaflets with toothed margins. Double, rounded to cup-shaped flowers are creamy white and each Bloom has a central cluster of lemon yellow stamens. The flowers are sweetly scented and produced in abundance from early to midsummer. Relatively few, round black hips follow.
Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
Synonyms include - Rosa spinosissima 'Double White', R. s. 'Plena'.
Flower:
Double, rounded to cup-shaped flowers are creamy white. Each bloom has a central cluster of lemon yellow stamens. The flowers have a distinct, sweet fragrance and are produced in abundance in June. The flowers are held singly on brown stems and are followed by relatively few, round, black hips. Once flowering.
Flower colour: White
Flower shape: Double, rounded to cup-shaped flowers
Flowering time: June
Foliage:
Dark green, pinnate leaves have small, Elliptic to rounded leaflets with Dentate margins. The leaves are Alternately arranged on prickly, dark brown stems.
Foliage Senescence: Deciduous
Foliage Shape: Pinnate with elliptic to rounded leaflets
Propagation:
Cuttings, grafting.
Cultivation:
Best in full sun to partial shade in fertile, moisture retentive soil that is well drained.