Gardeners' favourite roses
Picking a rose for your garden can be a fiendishly difficult task. Most of us have limited space and therefore have to be selective. To complicate matters, everyone's idea of a perfect rose differs - some like delicate pink blooms with a classic old rose fragrance, while others prefer a dusky Tudor-like flower with a heady myrrh scent. Should you choose a rambler or climbing rose to romp over a wall or fence? Or a classic rose bush to sit in your border? To help you choose we've asked the experts, gardeners and garden designers who have seen every variety of rose under the sun, to pick their absolute favourites…
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Albertine Rose

Ferdinand Pichard rose

Lady Emma Hamilton rose

Wild Edric Rose

Queen of Sweden Rose

William Lobb Rose

Rosa Moyesii geranium

Rosa woodsii

Gregoire Staechelin rose

Senateur Lafolette Rose

Ispahan Rose

Rambling Rector rose

Rosa Canina Rose

Canary Bird Rose

Cardinal de Richelieu rose
Adélaïde d'Orléans Rose

Gertrude Jekyll Rose