Zephirine Drouhin Climbing Rose
Bubbly pink flowers are born in clusters of up to 30 blooms per cluster.
Zephirine drouhin climbing rose. Perfect for a narrow archway where you might bump into it now and then. Born on thornless purplish stems the blooms are produced in great quantities and almost continuously from late spring to frost. Bourbon roses are crosses between damask roses which bloom once a year in the spring and. Rosa zephirine drouhin first caught my eye because of catalogue descriptions claiming it would bloom in the shade of a north facing walli was skeptical but intrigued.
I had a partly shaded nook by the steps leading to our new deck and i thought a climbing rose would be very pretty there. He named the rose after the wife of a local rose enthusiast. About zephirine drouhin roses. What is a zepherine drouhin rose.
Then zephirine drouhin is for you. It fares well in sunlight or shade and prefers moist well drained soil jackson perkins. It grows well up a trellis over a porch or can be cut into a hedge. Introduced in 1868 it is a bourbon rose.
A china rose cross pollinated with a damask perpetual rose on the ile bourbon now called reunion resulting in a new semi climbing hybrid. Rose zephirine drouhin description nearly thornless stems produce an abundance of deliciously sweet scented double pink flowers. Blooms from june until the first hard frost. Zepherine drouhin climbing bourbon rose with semi double cerise pink blooms over the whole season.
The zephirine drouhin climbing rose is an classic in the garden. The zephirine drouhin climbing rose is a profuse bloomer and grows vigorously. It can grow to a height of 15 to 20 feet and a width of 4 to 5 feet. Across 8 cm counting up to 30 petals.
The zepherine drouhin rose was bred by a french rose breeder by the name of bizot. Offspring of this. Noted for its shade and poor soils tolerance rosa zephirine drouhin is a vigorous climbing bourbon rose with masses of highly fragrant semi double carmine flowers 3 in.