Variety, Rose Type, Bloom Color, Outstanding Qualities, Fragrance, Plant Size, Bloom Size & Form

Charles Darwin ***Own Root (English Shrub rose) - deep yellow blooms; best for fragrance with a deliciously strong, floral-tea- and-pure-lemon scent; large blooms with a neat and flat form; flowers are very full and rounded at first, later opening up to shallow cups; makes a sturdy shrub with broad, spreading growth reaching 4 feet tall x 4 feet wide at maturity; can handle full-sun, partial sun, and shady locations; named after the naturalist who was born in Shropshire, England

Emily Bronte ***Own Root (English Shrub rose) - soft pink-apricot fading to cream with deep set stamens; strong disease resistance; almost thornless; with a strong tea and myrrh fragrance fading to Old Rose with delicious hints of lemon and grapefruit; an exceptionally beautiful rose with distinctive neat, flat blooms; forms a bushy shrub with strong, healthy, upright growth reaching 4 feet tall x 3.5 feet wide; named for the Brontë Society to celebrate the 2018 bicentenary of the English novelist’s birth

[❂ See special note below] Evelyn (English Shrub rose) - blooms in glorious soft apricot tinged with pink; strong Old Rose, fresh peach, and apricot fragrance; flowers are particularly large and attractive, with beautifully arranged petals; . reaches 5 feet tall x 3 feet wide at maturity; named for the British toiletries company Crabtree & Evelyn who use the scent in their signature (and best-selling) range of Evelyn rose perfume, candle, shower milk, body oil, moisturizers, cleansing balm, face foam, and lip products (check them out at: https://www.crabtree-evelyn.com/collections/mainline?view=bc-original)

[❂ See special note below] Gabriel Oak ***Own Root (English Shrub rose) - blooms in medium pink; best for flowering, best for fragrance with a strong fruity scent; 4 feet tall and wide, very shapely, broad, rounded shrub with mulberry purple stems and dark green foliage, giving the overall impression of richness and abundance, good for pots and containers and as a cut flower

Gertrude Jekyll - (English Shrub rose) - glowing bright pink; best for flowering and best for its strong, quintessential Old Rose fragrance; reaches 5 feet x 3.5 feet at maturity; can handle full-sun and partial-sun locations; an early bloomer with strikingly beautiful 80-petal flowers on large, rosette-shaped blooms

Golden Celebration ***Own Root (English Shrub rose) - flowers are rich yellow; best for fragrance with strong tea scent with notes of Sauternes wine and strawberry; attracts bees; reaches 4.5 tall and wide at maturity; boasts very large, cup-shaped blooms with around 75 petals

**Lady of Shallot ***Own Root (English Shrub rose) - blooms are orange, salmon-pink, golden yellow; best for flowering; large flowers with medium tea fragrance; can handle full-sun, partial sun, and shady locations; reaches 5 feet tall; x 4 feet wide at maturity; an American Garden Rose Selections (AGRS) winner chosen especially for its ability to grow in the U.S. Southeast; rich orange-red buds open to large chalice-shaped blooms, filled with loosely arranged, orange petals, the surrounding outer petals are salmon-pink with beautifully contrasting golden-yellow undersides; attracts bees

Princess Anne (English Shrub rose) - young flowers are deep pink, almost red, fading to pure rich pink with rather narrow petals which are unusually substantial, with a hint of yellow on their undersides; best for flowering and health; medium tea fragrance; flowers are held in large, fragrant clusters that are produced with remarkable freedom; forms a bushy, upright shrub reaching 4 feet x 4.5 feet with thick, succulent, highly polished foliage; can handle full-sun, partial sun, and shady locations, all soil types, and north-, south-, east-, and west-facing locations; named for the Princess Royal of Great Britain

[❂ See special note below] Scepter’d Isle **Own Root - (English Shrub rose) - flowers in light pink, with paling on the outer petals; best for flowering and fragrance bearing cupped flowers featuring yellow stamens and a powerful myrrh fragrance; forms an elegant, upright shrub reaching 5 feet tall x 4 feet wide holding its blooms gracefully above its foliage; make great cut flowers and can handle full sun, partial sun, and shady locations; name taken from John of Gaunt’s speech expressing his love for England in Shakespeare’s play Richard II

The Alnwick Rose ***Own Root - (English Shrub rose) - has soft pink cupped flowers with around 120 petals each; a medium-to-strong Old Rose fragrance with hints of raspberry; blooms in flushes from early summer until the first frost; forms a nicely rounded, slightly upright, bushy shrub 4 feet tall x 3 feet wide with glossy green foliage.features large; can be grown in pots; named for the The Alnwick Garden in the United Kingdom

*The Generous Gardener ***Own Root - (Climber) - bears pale, glowing pink, beautifully formed flowers, which nod gracefully on their stems; best for fragrance with a strong scent of Old Rose, musk, and myrrh; petals open to expose numerous stamens offering an almost water lily-like effect; can handle full sun, partial sun, and shady locations; attracts bees; climbs to 15 feet tall at maturity

[❂ See special note below] The Lady of the Lake - (English Rambling Rose) - pale pink with golden stamens, medium fruity fragrance, best for flowering with medium, semi-double, clustered blooms; can handle full sun, partial sun, and shady locations; a medium-sized rambler reaching 12 feet tall at maturity

The Pilgrim ***Own Root - (Climber) - soft yellow, a perfect balance of medium tea and myrrh fragrance, large, fully cupped blooms with 140 petals, medium climber reaching 12 feet tall at maturity, will quickly reach its full height and still produce flowers and leaves lower down the plant, named after the pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

[❂ See special note below] *Vanessa Bell - (English Shrub rose) - best for flowering with soft yellow blooms paling to white at their petal edges—each bloom featuring a rich yellow eye; medium-to-strong fragrance similar to green tea with aspects of lemon and honey; puts on a show with pink-tinged buds opening to medium-sized cups held in large clusters; forms a bushy, upright shrub reaching 4 feet tall x 3 feet wide; can handle full sun, partial sun, and shady locations; named for the English painter, designer, and founder member of the Bloomsbury Group, sister of the author Virginia Woolf

[❂ See special note below] Windermere ***Own Root - (English Shrub rose) - rich creamy yellow blooms fading to almost pure white in the sun; blooms start as perfectly rounded buds, opening to full, cupped flowers; best for health and can handle full sun, partial sun, and shady locations; features a delicious, medium-to-strong fruity fragrance with a hint of citrus; forms a neat, compact plant even in warmer areas such as East Tennessee; reaches 4 feet tall x 3 feet wide at maturity; can be grown in containers

❂ NOTE: These roses are growing at a slower rate than our other roses, and we do not expect them to be ready to sell in early April as we do most of our roses. Call our trees and shrubs team at 865-573-9591 for more information about these roses.

* New to Stanley’s for 2025.
** New to Stanley’s in its English Shrub rose version, i.e., we have grown the climbing version in the past.
***Denotes a rose that was grown from stock plant cuttings from rather than grafted onto a different rootstock.

NOTE: For information about these roses or how to grow them, send an email to: treesandshrubs@stanleysgreenhouse.com or call 865-573-9591, and ask to speak to a member of the trees and shrubs team who will be happy to help you!