Rosa centifolia (common names: Rose Absolute)

Hi Grammazoo need to know type of rose ie shrub , climber , hybrid tea etc looks like R. pink bells but this quite low growing max 5 - 6 ' and spreads others look similar but have different growing habits.

It is a climber Bonkers, but stays below 4' - spreads wide as much & easy to transplant cuttings from. Only flowers about 2 weeks in June.

Sorry Grammazoo not being thick [ or maybe I am and dont know it ] but a climber below 4 feet? Not much climbing being done try googling rosa pink bells and see what you think.

Pink bells not quite as full & listed as continous flowering... thanks for trying though. This grows like a climber, shoots everywhere and grows quickly, frequently rooting its own branches in the soil & starting new plants. I have a bush rose and it grows completely differently. Perhaps 'rambling' would be more accurate than climbing ? Sorry...

Hi GZ... I think you have a very old variety..it is like the old double bourbons...(for some reason they are not called bourbon now) the very double blossom looks like the old French roses. I have David Austins book out of the Library at present ...I'll take a look and see if it looks like anything there.

I think it might be 'Fantin-Latour', it is a centifolia, blooms late spring, height 4 to 6 ft. hardy zones 4-10, has a short bloom period and does not repeat. says that the flower has 200 petals (hence centifolia), delicate fragrance. Leaves dark green and smooth and not a lot of thorns. Arching canes to 5 ft. in height and about the same in spread. Very hardy, disease resistance moderate. The date it was introduced is unknown...could have been a couple centuries!? HTH

Thanks Lori! My landlady tells me her grandfather planted the original plant over 70 years ago...can roses live that long?

Yes, they can! I thought that you have a (what might now be called) a heritage variety of a rambler, rather than a climber. But why the height restriction? I am puzzled by this.

Sorry David, have to ask the rose, lol ! It is free to take up as much space as it wants as I love this plant (& its many offspring transplants) but doesn't seem to grow much taller than this. Maybe I don't fertilize it enough...

So Lovely&the Butterfly is great touch to the Boarder:D