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The Bourbon roses take their name from their place of origin, the Ilse de Bourbon (Ilse de Réunion) situated in in the southern Indian Ocean. The first rose of this race was found growing there in 1817 as a seedling growing in close proximity to it’s parents namely, the old China ‘Old Blush’ and the dependable Damask ‘Quatre Saisons’. It was to become known as ‘Rose Edouard’ by the time it reached the neighbouring island of Mauritius from where seeds were sent to Paris, the best seedling of the batch was named and the reign of the Bourbon Roses began in Europe.
By and large the Bourbon’s are a reliable group of roses. In habit they are diverse, from climbers that in some cases can be relatively vigorous (which I deal with separately) through larger more sprawly shrubs that lend themselves to the old fashioned method of ‘pegging down’ to those with more compact style. The flowers of a varied palette, differ in form throughout the range but generally repeat flower, often freely and many are very highly perfumed. A few have a tendancy to be matyrs to black-spot and mildew but on the whole they are relatively healthy.
‘Adam Messerich’ Semi-double, blowsy blooms are luminous bright pink and borne on lengthy strong stems. Continuous flowering well into the autumn months.this is a vigorous rose that makes a successful climber when placed against a wall.
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x 4' LAMBERT Germany 1920.
‘Boule de Neige’ (‘Snowball’) A very well known rose. A handsome shrub with glossy foliage bearing full,globular flowers of pure white with a strong fragrance. This rose has two main flushes of flower in summer and autumn with the odd bloom in between. Shade tolerant and a good candidate for a hedge.
1.2 x 0.90m 4 x 3' . LACHARME France 1867.
Bourbon Queen‘Bourbon Queen’ (‘Queen of the Bourbons’, ‘Reine des Iles Bourbon’ ‘Souvenir de la Princesse de Lamballe’) This rose does not repeat, all bar the rare bloom but is quite a spectacle when in full flower. Blooms are semi-double with a goblet like form; rose pink and scented. Its use is varied but its arching and graceful habit provides the grower with the option of growing it as a small climber or pegging the branches down to form a fountain like shape. Tolerant of poor soil and shade.
1.8 x 1.2m 6 x 4' MAUGET France 1834.
‘Commandant Beaurepaire’ An interesting rose, its flowers being streaked and marbled in shades of pink purple and white. They are borne on a strong bush with fresh green leaves. An excellent rose with much garden worthiness, be it a specimen shrub, part of the shrubbery or used as a hedging variety. Repeat flowering and tolerant of less than adequate soil and shade.
1.2 x 1.2m 4 x 4' MOREAU-ROBERT France 1874
‘Coupe d'Hébé’ Another tall, willowy shrub with alternative use as a climber. Ample, globular, perfumed, soft pink blooms repeat throughout the season. Attractive pale green foliage can be susceptible to mildew if precautions are not taken early enough in the year.
1.5 X 1.5m 5 X 5’ LAFFAY France 1840.
‘Fulgens’ (‘Malten’). Double, slightly unkempt flowers are bright cerise, flecked crimson on an upright plant with good foliage. Lax growth can leave it a little untidy. Another Bourbon that can be grown as a climber where deemed necessary. Repeat flowering.
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x 4' GUÉRIN France 1830.
‘Gipsy Boy’ (‘Zigeunerknabe’) Another of the most famous Bourbon varieties and one that can be quite a sight to see when in full display. Medium double flowers are deep crimson, sometimes paler with golden yellow anthers. Highly scented. Vigorous with plentiful foliage. Tolerant of shade (where the flowers will be slightly deeper) and poorer soils.
1.8 x 1.2m 6 x 4’ LAMBERT France 1909.
‘Great Western’ Only really producing one flush of flowers they none the less beautiful and could perhaps be considered more precious for their brief appearance. They are large, full and quartered, a lovely shade of maroon-purple and fragrant. Foliage is dark green. Growth arching, vigorous. Will endure poor soil and shaded places fairly well.
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x 4’ LAFFAY France 1838
Gipsy Boy‘Gros Choux d'Hollande’ One of the lesser known Bourbon’s but given a place in the garden it will become well known as one of the more vigorous shrub roses. Blooms soft pink and very double with a rich perfume. Will produce occasional repeat blooms in late summer/ early autumn but not in abundance.
2 x 1.5m 7 x 5’ Breeder and date unknown although obviously old.
‘Honorine de Brabant’ One of the less vivid of the striped roses, being randomly decorated with stripes and streaks of lilac and pink. Fragrant. Foliage is good and plentiful. This cultivar is especially good in autumn. Can be grown most successfully as a climber with support and will cope with less than ideal positions in the garden.
1.8 x 1.5m 6 x 5’ Unknown origin.
‘Kronprinzessin Viktoria’ A sport of the very well known ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ with which it shares a beautiful formation of flower, the petals thereof infurling to form equal quarters. Creamy-white with lemon centres and very highly scented. So sadly this rose hates wet weather when the blooms become balled and encased in their outer petals. Continuous Flowering.
1.2 x 0.9m 4 x 3' Discovered: VOLLERT, Introduced: SPÄTH Germany 1888
‘La Reine Victoria’ Whilst this rose does not require molly coddling it can be quite temperamental if planted in poor soil. Beautiful, rich lilac-pink, goblet like blooms are very fragrant and come out perpetually. Usually a slender erect plant well dressed in soft green leaves. Can be prone to black-spot. Good grown in a tub, where it will be likely to be better tended.
1.2 x 0.9m 4 x 3’ SCHWARTZ France 1872.
‘Leweson Gower’ (‘Malmaison Rouge’) Another sport of ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ with which it shares much. Blooms are deep pink with slight overtones of red. Flowers in-furl towards muddled centres. Growth is wide and arching and well clothed in foliage. Continuous flowering. Re-discovered by Mr. L. Arthur Wyatt who was responsible for the re-emergence of several old cultivars during the 1950's and 60’s.
1.2 x 0.9m 4 x 3' BÉLUZE France 1864
‘Louise Odier’ Well known and very beautiful. This cultivar has very double, camellia-like flowers of bright rose pink that are well perfumed and often produced in weighty, hanging clusters. A vigorous and perpetual rose.
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x 4’ MARGOTTIN France 1851.
‘Mme. Ernst Calvat’ A sport of ‘Mme.Isaac Pereire’. Blooms like those of it’s parents are large, fully and double but in this case a soft rose pink. Well scented. A good, reliable variety that produces flowers freely and continuously over a long period. Tolerates shade and poor soil.
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x 4’ SCHWARTZ France 1888.
‘Mme. Isaac Pereire’ An all time favourite. Huge shaggy blooms of crimson with touches of mauve exude a wealthy and intense perfume, carried on a large free bush with ample mid green foliage. Can sometimes be seen with proliferated blooms early in the season but those that follow are generally perfect. Continuous Flowering. In some situations if given support this cultivar will lend itself to growing as a climber.
2 x 1.5m 7 x 5’ GARÇON France 1881.
‘Mme. Lauriol de Barny’ Soft silver-pink, quartered blooms, are flat, with an unusual but pleasing fragrance. Foliage is good and is generally healthy . Growth vigorous and ideal for ‘pegging’ down in the old way to create a fountain head of flower, or can be applied as a climber. A good rose that is tolerant of poor soil and shade.
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x 4' TROUILLARD France 1868.
‘Mme. Pierre Oger’ A beautiful member of the Bourbon family. Very pale silvery-pink almost translucent blooms are cupped and have the form of small water lilies. A beautiful, scented rose on a bush of medium vigour. Good if grown in a tub. Can, sadly, be troubled by black spot. Continuous flowering.
1.2 x 1.2m 4 x 4' VERDIER France 1878
‘Malton’ see ‘Fulgens’
‘Mrs. Paul’ Not such a well known rose. Soft, pale pink to white flowers are fully double and loosely formed with a good perfume. A good rose, vigorous with ample, although somewhat coarse foliage. Repeat flowering.
1.5 x 0.9m 5 x 3’ W.PAUL U.K 1891.
‘Mrs Yamada’ A maroon coloured sport of ‘Variegata di Bologna’. Flowers fragrant, cupped and fully double on a vigorous plant. Discovered by Peter Beales at the Barakura Gardens in Japan. Tolerant of poor soil and shade. Could be grown as a small climber. Continuous flowering.
1.8 x 1.5m 6 X 5’ Discovered
.BEALES Japan 2002 Introduced BEALES U.K. 2005
‘Parkzierde’ Extremely free flowering early in the season. Flowers of a scarlet-crimson shade are small in comparison to many roses and are borne in clusters on long stems amid dark green foliage. Quite lax in growth, especially when in flower due to the sheer weighty volume of them.
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x 4' P.LAMBERT Germany 1902.
‘Paul Verdier’ A useful shrub rose that grows equally well as a small climber. From globular buds the flowers of rich pink to light red open quite flat. Perfumed. Good foliage. Repeat flowering.
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x 4' VERDIER France 1866 P. (R)
Prince Charles‘Prince Charles’ Not much is known about the origin of this rose. Blooms are crimson with veining in maroon, large and very fragrant The plant is of medium build with large leaves making up it’s handsome foliage. Summer flowering and tolerant of poor soils and shade.
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x 4' Origin Unknown
‘Queen of Bedders’ A short, compact growing rose with shapely carmine flowers produced freely, although not up to the calibre of more modern day roses this variety is ideal at the front of mixed borders or could even be grown in a tub. Repeat flowering.
0.9 x 0.6m 3 x 2' NOBLE U.K. 1871
‘Rivers George IV’ One of the first Bourbons introduced. Double flowers of dark red to maroon. Very much shows the influence of the China side of it’s parentage in its growth and foliage. Summer flowering.
1.2 x 1.2m 4 x 4' RIVERS U.K. 1817.
‘Robusta’ There are two roses by this name,this being the original, the other a Rugosa. Rounded buds open to fully double open and quartered flowers of red-crimson-purple. Scented. Vigorous, healthy arching growth that can be applied to climbing with support. Repeat flowering.
1.8 x 1.5m 6 x 5' SOUPERT AND NOTTING Luxembourg 1877
‘Rose Edouard’ (‘Rose Edward’) As mentioned earlier, this rose is important historically as the first Bourbon rose. Deep pink flowers, fully double are pointed in bud, muddled when fully open. Scented. Our nurseries stock came to us from India where it can still sometimes be seen growing wild. Repeat flowering and tolerant of poor soil and shade.
1.8 x 1.8m 6 x 6' BRÉON Ile de Reunion c.1818
‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’ Considered by some the most beautiful of all the Bourbons but awful in wet weather when it’s delicate blooms become at the least tatty and brown, at their worst balled and rotten. When not in this state it is indeed a superb rose of lovely blush white with face powder-pink shadings. Each blooms is beautifully proportioned and opens out to a flat quartered shape. Scented. Continuous flowering.
1.8 x 1.8m 6 x 6’ BELUZE France 1843.
‘Souvenir de Mme. Auguste Charles’ A relative unknown in the rose garden this is an interesting rose. Slightly fimbriated petals make up the fully double, shapely flowers of soft flesh pink. Bushy growth is covered with greyish green foliage. Repeat flowering.
1.2 x 1.2m 4 x 4’ MOREAU-ROBERT France 1866.
‘Souvenir de St. Anne's’ This rose stands out in my mind as being extremely good in autumn. A sport of ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’, to which it has similarities although far less heavily petalled being only semi-double. Very attractive, soft pink. Highly scented. Continuous flowering.
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x4’ HILLING U.K. 1950.
‘Variegata di Bologna’ Very pronounced stripes of purple on a creamy-white background, famously described in our nursery catalogue by my father as reminding one of blackcurrant jam and semolina school dinners! An upright growing bush not overly well covered in leaves. Continuous flowering and tolerant of poorer soil.
1.8 x 1.5m 5 x 4’ BONFIGLOILI Italy 1909
‘Vivid’ As it’s name suggests this is indeed one of the more brightly coloured of the Bourbons. Double blooms are scented, bright magenta pink with tones of red. Upright growth would make it useful on a pillar. Very vigorous and rather prickly. Summer Flowering.’
1.5 x 1.2m 5 x 4' W.PAUL U.K 1853
