Buff Beauty

This rose's location in the garden is SW 6.

• Classification:  Hybrid Musk, (grown as climber)
  
• Flower Color:  apricot blend
• Flower Size:  3-4 inches
• Flower Form:  old-style double bloom in small clusters
• Petal Count:  50
• Fragrance:  moderate musk or tea
• Repeat Bloomer:  yes
• Foliage:  large, medium green, semi-glossy
• Plant Height: 4-10 feet
• Plant Width:  5 feet
• Growth Habit:  vigorous, slightly spreading
• Disease Resistant:  yes
• Hybridizer:  Ann Bentall (United Kingdom)
• Registered:  1939
• Parentage:  ‘William Allen Richardson’ x unknown seedling
• ARS* Rating:  8.4 (a very good to excellent rose)
  *American Rose Society Rating

Awards:

• 1993  Award of Garden Merit, Royal Horticultural Society

 
Notes:

• “Developed from relatives of the original old musk rose, ‘Rosa moschata’, Hybrid Musks (HMsk) are an increasingly favored class. Reverend Joseph Pemberton of England, and his successors Anne and Jack Bentall, using ‘Trier’ and Teas in the breeding, largely developed the HMsk class. ‘Trier’ (1904) is a descendant from ‘Aglaia’ (multiflora x ‘Rêve d’Or’ – noisette tea and musk). Hybrid Musk roses combine exquisite fragrance, outstanding vigor, and beautiful, soft colored flowers with reliable repeat blooming, even in partial shade. They do well as gracefully spreading shrubs or low climbers, and are some of the best roses for north facing walls and fences. As a class, HMsks have almost everything to commend them.”--- “Hybrid Musks” at rose.org