Graham Thomas Rose Review
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Graham thomas rose review. Bred by david austin graham thomas features a truly unique color with its clusters of round red and yellow buds opening to shallow cupped rich pure yellow flowers with golden overtones. Breathtaking double 4 blooms petals 30 of a magnificent shade of yellow with a texture that makes the old rose style blooms look almost too perfect to be real having a mild tea fragrance. It is not a small rose and needs room or climbing support. Of course it is all about personal preferences when we talk about roses.
On the other hand the plant itself is just odd. David austin introduced graham thomas for the uk in 1983. The right roses believe that he was a treasure of the uk. Graham thomas blooms are a golden yellow and have a fresh tea rose scent.
17 reviews add your review probably the most outstanding of all the english roses. Although this is one of my favourite roses beautiful bloom rich colour and wonderful fragrance it has rather poor disease resistance all 5 of mine get quite bad blackspot early in the season but do seem to recover. Cut flowers last in the house as long if not longer than any rose i ve ever grown. Each blossom contains approximately 35 petals in a double cup shape and are typically borne in clusters.
Myrrh is a beautiful fragrance. It shows strong resistance to disease. The blooms are quite superb large old rose with a faint pleasant aroma. It was a planted from a container in january.
The royal horticultural society has given it its prestigious award of garden merit agm. First season with my graham thomas. Thomas has spent the rest of his life preserving promoting and documenting old roses shrub roses and climbing roses. Graham thomas and myrrh e g gentle hermione claire austin.
Bathsheba rose review the right roses. Graham stuart thomas started out growing such roses but in his early twenties he was visited by constance spry an old rose lover who changed the way he looked at roses. Graham stuart thomas was born on april 3 1909. Scented flowers rosa graham thomas is a vigorous modern climbing rose bearing deep yellow old fashioned rose blooms with a rich lingering tea scent.
Very good as small climber except for the disease resistance. However according to our experience many gardeners find it easier to enjoy roses with fruity tea and old rose fragrance. One of the most popular and recognizable english roses ever. National trust described him as one of the most important figures in 20th century gardening.
Incredibly scented with a fresh fruity tea rose perfume. Hardy to zones 5 10 this rose is listed as being resistant to heat and disease. A great bush vigorous slender and upright.