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Mystery rose
Hello, I have a rose in my parents garden that I'm not sure what it is. Very dark red and a good strong scent.
Cant really say what it's shape is meant to look like since the main plant was neglected somewhat and I took a weird long cutting a couple of years ago and now have finished uni and have moved the cutting and looked after both plants a bit better.
Here's a pic of the cutting for you to have a look at, it had just been raining, sorry :-/
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Sorry James I don't know but it is a beauty and the perfect red for a rose, cost the earth in a florist for one like that
well after googling Papa Meilland it certainly looks very similar to me, so I'll make a note of it, and hopefully once it's grown out a bit more I'll be able to double check. Thanks for the help pansyface
Also thank you Beaus Mum for the compliment
it's definitely my favourite in the garden at the moment. Maybe I'll try and get a few more cuttings for some more flowers and make some money for myself haha
Lovely colour. A healthy looking plant too!!
Cheers Fluffy Cloud, I think it being in clay helps with the diseases since it seems the clay keeps the ants away, so no aphid farming or trailing fungus spores from one to the next
is it a climber? - looks like etoile de hollande which has wonderful scent
yours looks incredibly healthy!
I was going to say Papa Meilland, before I saw pansyface's answer.
Another option might be deep secret, a well scented ht.
(I don't think that it is etoile de hollande as that has a drooping flower )
I'll take a picture tomorrow of the plant I took the cutting from, which is a bit bigger, and maybe that will tell if it's a climber? The flowers definitely don't droop, but I guess the growth on the stems of the main plant is quite long so it could be a climber. I wasn't sure if it was just because it's not in a sunny place and against a wall.
Looks like Ena Harkness, my parents had one very much like it when I was growing up. I remember the petals were velvet like and smelt lovely
this is the main plant which I took the cutting from
the flower that's on there is drooping, but I think that's more rain water weight than habit