Rose photo courtesy of Sweetsummerdays

Summer Sweetheart is greatly admired in my garden. It's extremely floriferous, repeat flowering up to four times from early summer to winter in my Zone 9b garden. The buds are sweet and tightly scrolled, opening into an open warm carmine pink flower with yellow stamens. The flowers turn a lighter pink with age. The overall effect is of variations of a most unusual pink. The bees love visiting this rose. Lovely small leaves and glossy dark green foliage. Green fly don't appear interested in this rose and it's disease resistance is excellent. A little blackspot after blooming, but probably because it exhausts itself and needs a good feed. Mine is growing in very poor soil, which I've worked to improve. I combine it with a pale blue clematis. It's a short patio rose, very sturdy canes. Overall a top performer.

Uploaded 3 DEC 22

Rose photo courtesy of Johno

RHS Chelsea Rose Show 2014.

Uploaded 24 MAR 22

Rose photo courtesy of Johno

RHS Chelsea Rose Show 2014.

Uploaded 24 MAR 22

Rose photo courtesy of Maciej Lewandowski

Uploaded 14 NOV 21