Rose Lady Emma Hamilton

Dark red buds with dashes of orange, open to chalice-shaped blooms of rich tangerine orange, with yellow-orange on the outside of the petals. The number of blooms per plant during the growing season is profuse, there are too many to count.

Blooms are about 2.6 cm (1") long and 2 cm (0.8") in diameter when the petals start to unfurl. The bud form is pointed ovoid. When sepals first divide the bud color is red, later turning to tangerine-orange on the upper side, orange-yellow in the lower side and pure orange in the central area. When fully open the flowers are 8.7cm (3.4") in average, borne together in rounded clusters of 4 – 7 blooms. When first open the flowers have cupped form which is retained to the end. Petals count under normal conditions 46 in average. The upper sides of the petals are tangerine-orange and yellow-orange. The reverse sides of the petals are yellow-orange. The base of each petal is golden-yellow. The undersides of some of the very outer petals have reddish markings, which are normally concentrated in the central portion of the petal and spread outwards. As the flower ages the color fade and becomes more orange-yellow.

The flowers have strong, delicious, fruity fragrance with hints of pear, grape and citrus fruits.

Petals have smooth, silky texture, they fall of cleanly when the flower fades.

The plant growth type is fairly upright but quite broad and bushy. Young leaves are bronze-green and age to much lighter green colour with bronze shades, semi-glossy, normally have 5-7 leaflets.

Named after the beautiful mistress of Lord Nelson to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

English Shrub Rose

The AUSbrother originated by crossing an unnamed, unpatented seedling with another unnamed, unpatented seedling. The first parent had apricot, rosette-shaped blooms compared to the bright yellow-orange, cupped blooms of AUSbrother, and the foliage of the seed parent is less bronzy than that of AUSbrother. The pollen parent has less petalage than the AUSbrother and the blooms are paler orange in colour.

USDA zone 5 and warmer