29+ Sally Holmes Rose Bush

Sally holmes roses were created by crossing the ivory fashion rose with the ballerina rose. Sally holmes is a famous shrub rose loved and admired around the world for its prolific flowering and excellent disease resistance.

Rose Gardening World Sally Holmes Rose

Sally holmes rose bush

Despite their delicate appearance the blooms last well even in the heat. Sally holmes has proven to be one of the most outstanding shrub roses. Climbing rose large almost single creamy white flowers held in large bunches.

This rose will even wind its way through other shrubs fences and window frames reaching for the sun. Sally holmes climbing rose great as a large shrub or a compact climber often grown as a climber this world famous rose provides huge clusters that resemble hydrangea heads filled with buff colored buds that open to white flowers. She will reach 6 feet high and 5 feet wide if left alone as a shrub but can each up to 12 feet high if trained as a climber.

Sally holmes large tightly packed trusses of rich ivory white single 5 flowers petals 8 12 with golden centers on a vigorous continual blooming compact bush. Extremely versatile sally holmes can be grown as a climber or a shrub. It is interesting to note that this rose was bred by an amateur rose breeder robert holmes in the united kingdom in 1976 and it was subsequently introduced by fryer s nursery ltd.

A free flowering rose that is nearly always in bloom. It can also be grown as a vigorous shrub. The result is a cream colored rose that averages about 3 5 inches in diameter and often has ever so subtle pink highlights on the petals.

Eurimbla Roses January 2012