| Description | Rosa hybrid tea
Mr Lincoln is a beautifully high held, vigorous rose with bright red petals and a strong sweet fragrance. Fantastic for bouquets and cut flowers, mass planting, rose & cottage gardens. Place in well drained soil, in a full sun position. Available in many variations. | Tradescantia Zebrina Purple
Tradescantia (Wandering Jew) is a trailing or hanging basket plant that is noted for its striking foliage. It is a very easy plant to grow. This evergreen plant can eventually hang to about 50cm long and its fleshy trailing stems have greenish-purple foliage which is deep purple underneath. It requires low maintenance and bears beautiful small pink blooms in season.
8''/20cm pot | Rosa banksiae
The Banksia Rose is a tough evergreen climbing rose with soft ruffled yellow flowers which appear in Spring. Like Iceberg Roses, it's prized as a disease resistant and hardy rose. It works well as a groundcover rose or a climber when given a support such as a trellis.
The Banksia rose is an incredibly useful and versatile climber or groundcover as it is low maintenance, thornless and tolerates full sun and part shade.
6"/14cm pot size. |
| Content | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last twu centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | | |
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| height x width |
Climber to 3-4m
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| planting distance |
For hedge or screen: 70cm
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| conditions |
Very hardy, likes full sun and well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
fences, screens, cover unattractive sheds, pergolas, arbors, rotundas, trellis
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