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Fryer’s Roses; part of the Blue Diamond Group of garden centres, is to launch two new roses at this year’s RHS Tatton Park Flower Show – the “20th Anniversary” rose and the “Elizabeth Ashbrook” rose.
To commemorate and celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the RHS Tatton Park Flower Show, Fryer’s Roses, is launching the “20th Anniversary” rose; a new and exclusive rose to Fryer’s Roses, part of the Blue Diamond Group of garden centres.
This hybrid tea rose has petals that are rosette-shaped and which open to a cool violet with a warm copper coloured centre. Along with the unusual and attractive blooms it has an exotic, high fragrance; making a wonderful cut flower that fills a vase with old world charm. Good disease resistance and to a height of approximately 80-120cm.
This new and exclusive rose is named "Elizabeth Ashbrook" in memory of the late Elizabeth, Viscountess Ashbrook of Arley Hall, Cheshire, and the mother of the present Viscount Ashbrook.
One of the major new features created by Lady Ashbrook in the garden was a collection of Shrub roses. She made this on the site of a previous formal area where there were Hybrid Tea roses. Lady Ashbrook did not particularly like Hybrid Teas in a garden, though she appreciated their value as cut flowers, but she became very fond of old fashioned and indeed newer varieties of Shrub roses both species and hybrids. The collection she made has been added to and enhanced over the years and remains an important feature.
Lady Ashbrook became quite an expert on Shrub roses and their cultivation. In this she was much influenced by many people in particular by two well-known gardeners-Graham Stuart Thomas, the distinguished nurseryman, writer and plantsman and Vita Sackville -West, the owner of Sissinghurst, where the world class garden is now owned by the National Trust. They were both rose experts”.
The current Lord Ashbrook says- “It seems to us highly appropriate that there should be a new rose called ‘Elizabeth Ashbrook’ after my mother who did so much to enhance the Arley Garden and started the shrub rose collection which remains one of our key features”.
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