Rosa 'Pirate' - Climbing Rose

The 'Pirate' Climbing Rose will delight those who have fallen for the charm of the clustered-flowered rose 'Scentimental'. From summer to autumn, large, perfectly formed double flowers appear on its beautiful glossy dark green foliage, randomly striped with red-pink and pleasantly scented. This unusual variety is disease-resistant, and its variegated flowers are perfect for cutting.

The 'Pirate' Climbing Rose 'Croastrali' is a French creation by Croix, dating back to 2009. It is an elegant climbing rose with a beautiful vigour. It has a flexible habit and thorny stems, often reaching heights of over 2.5 metres (8 feet) and spreading 1 to 1.5 metres (3 to 5 feet) if trained. Regular pruning can easily keep it smaller, forming a beautiful bush of about 1.5 metres (5 feet) in all directions. Its shiny dark green foliage is not very susceptible to diseases and perfectly highlights the variegated colour of the flowers, which are all different. It blooms from June to October, abundantly if not lacking water. Its 12 cm (5in) flowers are solitary. They have the perfect turbinate shape of hybrid tea roses. Their medium-intensity fragrance is delightful.

This 'Pirate' rose allows for creating fantastic colourful displays throughout the summer. It requires very little maintenance, except for regular watering in summer during hot and prolonged droughts. Trained on a wall, arch, or fence, or even grown as a bush, it pairs well with the white flowers of roses like 'Iceberg' or 'Aimée Vibert', as well as the dark corollas of roses like 'Guinée', 'Roi de Siam', or 'Sénégal'. As part of the structure of English gardens, rose arches create lovely shelters where one can rest while connecting different parts of the garden. Mix or combine them with easy-to-grow large-flowered clematis like 'Madame Lecoultre', Montana 'Grandiflora', or 'Miss Bateman', whose white flowers temper its whimsical roses. Roses are good companions for phlox paniculata, delphiniums, foxgloves, catmints, and tall baby's breath.