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Height: 0.50m Colour: Apricot/Peach Shape: Double Scent: Light Flowering period: Repeat Jul-SeTrumpeter's magnificent scarlet red, double, scented flowers are a clarion call across any lawn. The first blast is in June and the chorus continues without stopping until late October or, in a warm autumn, into November. The flowers are fully double and stand to attention in any weather on bushes of up to 3ft (80cms) tall. The foliage is so glossy it almost shines, and the plant is extremely disease resistant.
An all round outstanding red rose that deservedly holds an Award of Garden Merit for its colour, performance and tractability.
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Great for your garden
Trumpeter demands to be centre stage. Planted in a group, it is a real eye-catcher, so it's excellent as an edging rose and fantastic in a hot border. Roses and bulbs go well together as the bulbs love the top dressing and mulching roses get and repay the gardener by putting on a show long before the roses flower. For real drama, follow the red theme through and plant a tulip like Red Riding Hood.
Although it flowers best in a sunny spot, it can manage on 5-6 hours direct light a day. It is as hardy and disease resistant as any rose you can buy today and will easily cope with more exposed locations. If you are planting in a rose border, we suggest that you plant a minimum of 3 in a triangular group with the plants spaced about 60cms (2ft) apart.
Trumpeter is yet another AGM winning rose bred by Sam McGredy; the parents are Satchmo and Scarlet Dwarf. It was brought to market in 1970, just before he moved to New Zealand. It has a rack of awards, including the RHS British Rose of The Year for 1977. The flowers are unusually regular and allegedly have exactly 39 petals each. It was Frances' father's favourite rose, and he dotted it around the place wherever he wanted a bit of colour.