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Climbing Tea Roses

This family was in its heyday in the late 19th century. The name describes the characteristic fragrance often reminiscent of the finest china tea. Recurrent and healthy. Great foliage and style. The best most floriferous, fragrant and charming family. Here are the climbers. For the shrub and bush Tea roses click here.

 

Duchess de Brabant - 1857

Cupped pink flowers. Continuously in bloom, cabbage like appearance. Very fragrant. To 2.5m. Out of stock for 2012.

Lady Hillingdon -1917

Very fragrant apricot-yellow flowers contrast well with plum coloured stems and dark foliage. Prefers full sun. 2.5m.

Sombreuil - 1850

One of the finest white tea roses. Opens to full double bloom with hundreds of petals, pure white with hints of cream in base, sweetly scented. Named after French revolution heroine. To 2.5m. Out of stock for 2012.

Souvenir de Mme Leonie Viennot - 1897

One of the earliest flowering tea climbers. Repeat flowers over a very long period right into winter here. Very fragrant. Rose-pink flowers with primrose and gold tones. Nice shapely foliage. Flowers on old wood so the less pruning the better. 3.5m.

 

   

 

                  Trinity Farm, 202 Waitohu Valley Road, Otaki, Kapiti, New Zealand
(signposted off SH1 as Trinity Farm Rose Garden, north Otaki just before 100km sign, 2km down Waitohu Valley Road)

        0800 955 555 roses@trinityfarm.co.nz