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Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2006

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Festival of Roses

In association with Fetzer Bonterra

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Rosa 'Champagne Moment'This year, the Festival of Roses marquee will be exhibiting the Rose of the Year 2006, Rosa ‘Champagne Moment’, unveiling the Rose of the Year 2007 as well as celebrating 25 years of Rose of the Year, alongside some of the UK’s top rose growers. There will also be several rose-related talks and demonstrations throughout the week.

Rosa 'Tickled Pink'The Rose of the Year 2007, ‘Tickled Pink’, will be launched at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Introduced by Fryers Roses and Roses UK, this bold floribunda boasts masses of large, scented blooms in a seductive shade of pink. It is free flowering and exceptionally easy to grow.

The Rose of the Year 2006, ‘Champagne Moment’, will be on display at the show. The rose, introduced by Mattocks Roses of Suffolk, flowers profusely throughout summer. It has good disease resistance, a sweet fragrance and glossy dark green leaves. Its blooms, borne in clusters, are a strong apricot at their centre, fading to a delicate pale pink on the outer petals.

 

New launches

The following new roses will also be launched at the show.

Rosa 'Golden Smiles'
Rosa 'Thumbs Up'
Rosa 'Fern's Rose'
 
‘Golden Smiles’ (left), also introduced by Fryers Nurseries, has brilliant golden-yellow flowers which are produced in good-sized clusters on a bushy growing plant. It is good for bedding and mass planting.

‘Thumbs Up’ (centre) is an unusual rose with scented and large flowers of soft yellow with pastel pink brush-like stripes. It is a shrub rose which can be easily adapted as a climber. Proceeds from the sale of this rose will be donated to the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

This Morning presenter Fern Britton will be honoured with ‘Fern’s Rose’ (right) from Bill LeGrice Roses. Donations from the sale of this creamy-yellow, scented floribunda will go to the charity ‘Women for Women’ of which Fern is a keen supporter.

'Judith Blacklock Rose'
Rosa 'Eloise'
Rosa 'Growing Hope'
 
Many charities will benefit from the sale of several of the new roses: the ‘Judith Blacklock Rose’ (left), a deep pink rose from World of Roses, will raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society; ‘Eloise’ (centre), a salmon-orange coloured hybrid tea introduced by C&K Jones, will benefit the stillbirth and neonatal death society, Sands; ‘Growing Hope’ (right), a deep red floribunda with a powerful fragrance from World of Roses, will raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

 
Rosa 'Honeybun'
Rosa 'Zest for Life'
The Crimestoppers Rose
 
Pococks Roses will introduce two new patio varieties ‘Honeybun’ (left), which has unusual mandarin-orange coloured spiral buds that open to rosette-shaped double flowers, and ‘Little Cherub’, an early-flowering rose with clusters of dark red flowers graduating to bright red at the centre.

‘Zest for Life’ (centre), introduced by World of Roses, is an orange-blend floribunda, growing to around 45cm in height and delicately scented. The parents of Ross Jones, who died in a road traffic accident in January 2005, are naming this rose in his memory and helping to raise funds for a worthwhile charity in Kenya.


‘The Crimestoppers Rose’ (right) (World of Roses) is a medium, red floribunda rose grows to around 80cm and has a delicate fragrance. It has glossy green foliage and good disease resistance. It will raise funds for the Crimestoppers Charity, in conjunction with the Hertfordshire Police Authority.

‘Dreamdrops’ (World of Roses) is a shrub rose with apricot, lightly fragranced blooms offset by dark green, glossy foliage. This rose will help to raise funds for Dreamdrops charity to support Holly Ward in the maternity unit at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon.

‘The Catherine Petre Rose’, introduced by World of Roses, is named in celebration of the 90th birthday of the Federation of Essex Women’s Institute, this medium red floribunda rose grows to 80cm in height and has a delicate fragrance. It has glossy green foliage and good disease resistance. The rose is named after Lady Catherine Petre, who worked tirelessly to form the Essex Federation in 1917 and became their first Federation County Chairman.

Rosa 'Strawberry Hill'
Rosa 'Call Red'
Rosa 'My Girl'
 
‘Strawberry Hill’ (left) (Leander Group), introduced by David Austin Roses, bears medium sized, pure rose-pink, cupped rosettes with the colour gradually paling to a lighter pink at the edges. It has a fine myrrh fragrance with a hint of lemon. Named after Strawberry Hill, a beautiful house at Twickenham, built in the style of the Gothic revival, by the first British Prime Minister, Horace Walpole. Height and spread: 120 x 120cm.

‘Call Red’ (centre) (World of Roses) is a slightly scented orange and pink floribunda has glossy green foliage and grows to about 60cm in height It will benefit the County Air Ambulance, the operational name of the West Midlands Air Ambulance Appeal.

‘My Girl’ (right), introduced by Apuldram Roses, is a powerfully fragranced large-flowered cultivar from Rosen Tantau. It has very full, light yellow flowers, with dark shading to the centre of the bloom. Flowers are produced singly or in small clusters on stout stems. It flowers early and repeats rapidly and cut blooms last well. Grows to a height of approximately 90cm.

Summer Beauty ('Kororbe'), introduced by Mattocks Roses, is a multi-award winning floribunda from the Kordes line. The apricot blooms which form in medium-sized clusters, are lightly scented and borne in great abundance. The foliage is dark green and glossy.

Rosa County of Yorkshire ('Korstarnow')
Rosa County of Hampshire ('Korverlandus')
Rosa 'Nurse Tracey Davies'
 
County® of Yorkshire ('Korstarnow') (right) and County® of Hampshire ('Korverlandus') (centre), both from Mattocks Roses.‘County® of Yorkshire’ has dazzling white, lightly scented, semi-double blooms which are borne in great abundance on a ground hugging bush (50cm x 50cm). A good garden plant for mixed borders, mass planting or as a container. ‘County® of Hampshire’ has vibrant pink blooms that are carried in great profusion (30cm x 50cm). An excellent rose for window boxes and excellent in general planting. Both of these varieties are award winners from Kordes.

‘Nurse Tracey Davies’ (right) (Fryer’s Nurseries) is a superb, neat and compact low growing border rose with masses of bright golden blooms that hold their richness until petal drop. The flowers are well formed and borne in good-sized clusters on bushy growth with dark green, highly disease resistance foliage. Specially named in memory of Nurse Tracey Davies, who died aged 40 after a long battle with cancer.