Sandringham Rose Bushes

Sandringham Rose Bushes

'Sandringham' a versatile shrub rose with fully double, strongly-scented, rich pink blooms in two main waves, dying down in midsummer. Its size and lovely healthy, glossy mid-green foliage, is ideal for hedging and the back of a border. It can be trained as a low climber.

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Features

• Type: Shrub
• Colour: Rich pink
• Flower shape: Medium size, double
• Scent: Strong
• Bushy to 150cm x 200cm
• Repeats in flushes June-November with August break
• Disease resistance: Good

Growing Sandringham Roses

Good, well drained soil in a sheltered, sunny spot is ideal, but it'll tolerate some shade well.

Garden Design Ideas

A classic, rich-pink bloomed shrub rose that would look good in any size of garden, small or large. It can even be used a small climber adding interest to a wall. Vita Sackville-West wrote about shrub roses, "One has huge lumps of, let us say, shrub roses making large voluminous bushes like a Victorian crinoline, or flinging themselves about in wild sprays and seem to demand a contrast in a tall sharp plant for example delphiniums". Eremerus would be an equally good combination or the striking leaves of melianthus major would be a good contrast.

History & Trivia

Bred in by Peter Beales (1936-2013), it was one of the last roses he worked on. One parent is the robust Mme Isaac Pereire, and Sandringham has been compared favourably as a direct upgrade to her. Its rose registration code is registration code BEAmolly. Any registration code for a rose beginning with BEA will apply to the magnificent Peter Beale roses. Peter Beale was, in his time, a wonderfully popular figure at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and his legend lives on in his plants.

At the annual Sandringham Flower Show in 2014 the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall were presented with a choice of three new seedlings from Peter Beale's nursery in Norfolk, and they chose bBeaMollyb to be officially named Sandringham after the Royal residence in Norfolk.