Vote for your favourite rose
28 June 2011
To celebrate the opening of the new Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden at RHS Garden Wisley, the RHS is launching a search to find the nation’s favourite rose.
When you vote for your favourite rose, you will be in with the chance to win two tickets to Wisley, a private tour of the rose garden, and the top three most popular roses, as decided by the public. Four runners-up with will each win a pair of tickets to RHS Garden Wisley.
The online poll will run from 1 – 31 July.
The Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden, sponsored by Witan Investment Trust, opens to the public on 1 July. It has been designed by RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winner, Robert Myers, and contains more than 4,500 roses. Selected by experts at the RHS, the 150 rose cultivars show the full range of roses available to the modern gardener, from true old roses, hybrid musks, English Roses and floribunda, through to species roses which are rarely seen in a garden setting.
To find the nation’s favourite, the RHS has narrowed down the list of thousands of roses to the 20 cultivars that are most frequently bought at the Wisley Plant Centre.
The shortlist of the 20 most popular roses is:
- Rosa ‘Cécile Brünner’ AGM
- Rosa Champagne Moments (‘Korvanaber’)
- Rosa Darcey Bussell (‘Ausdecorum’)
- Rosa Flower Carpet White (‘Noaschnee’) AGM
- Rosa Gertrude Jekyll (‘Ausbord’) AGM
- Rosa Golden Celebration (‘Ausgold’)
- Rosa Hot Chocolate (‘Wekpaltez’)
- Rosa Iceberg (‘Korbin’) AGM
- Rosa ‘New Dawn’ AGM
- Rosa ‘Madame Alfred Carrière’ AGM
- Rosa Lady Emma Hamilton (‘Ausbrother’)
- Rosa Pink Flower Carpet (‘Noatraum’)
- Rosa ‘Rambling Rector’ AGM
- Rosa Rhapsody in Blue (‘Frantasia’)
- Rosa Sweet Haze (‘Tan97274’)
- Rosa Sweet Memories (‘Whamemo’)
- Rosa William Shakespeare 2000 (‘Ausromeo’)
- Rosa Winchester Cathedral (‘Auscat’)
- Rosa Wisley 2008 (‘Ausbreeze’)
- Rosa ‘Zéphirine Drouhin’ AGM
As well as visiting the Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden at RHS Garden Wisley, rose lovers can see many of these blooms at the peak of perfection in the Wonderland of Roses marquee at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, 5 – 10 July. To book tickets call 0844 338 7528 or book online.