Rosa 'Ginger Syllabub'

The 'Ginger Syllabub' Climbing Rose is a recent English rose with excellent floribundity and good health. It produces well-double, full, tight, and fragrant roses with an original and soft colour. They are pale apricot-yellow, creamy, tinged with orange-pink at the centre. This old-style rose produces flexible branches that bear roses at least three times during the season, between June and October. It is a vigorous and graceful variety that harmonises easily with various colours, other roses, perennials, or flowering bushes.

This rose is an English creation by Harkness, born at the turn of the millennium in 2000. This wonderful modern hybrid, derived from Graham Thomas and a seedling, has an upright and flexible habit. It will reach a height of 2.50m (8ft) to 3m (10ft) with a spread of 1 to 2m (3 to 7ft), depending on the growing conditions. Its long stems are flexible and highly disease-resistant, covered with dark green foliage. The flowers of this climbing rose, with perpetual flowering, form in June-July, then in successive waves until October. They emerge on short shoots from the 2nd year as soft orange-pink buds. They open up into large double cups, measuring 9 to 10cm (4in) in diameter, made up of quarters of small, soft apricot and amber petals, pleated in an old-fashioned way, turning pale pink with a hint of orange at the centre. They are all different, creating a beautiful effect of very soft shading. A quite pronounced, exquisite fragrance surrounds them. The small fruits that delight birds in the winter are fleshy false fruits called hips.

'Ginger Syllabub' is an original rose, full of life and endowed with the strength of tenderness, easy to train on a post or column. Like other large roses, such as Ghislaine de Féligonde, which blends so well, it is incomparable for giving a slightly abandoned air to overly strict flowerbeds. It is an ideal companion for an old fruit tree, a small pillar, and the cabins to which it adds tremendous charm. Trained on an arch near the terrace, it will create a poetic and fragrant passage.