Rosa 'Highworth'

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A fast-growing, repeat-flowering rambler rose to about 3.6m tall, with pinkish stems and thorns and dark green foliage. Masses of small, creamy-white blooms in trusses, are lightly blushed with pale pink tones. Occasionallly blooms and trusses flower fully or partly in deep magenta pink, repeat-flower from early summer to autumn

Scientific classification

Species: Rosa 'Highworth' (Rosa 'Highworth')
Genus: Rosa
Family: Rosaceae

Fruit are ornamental - not to be eaten. Wear gloves and other protective equipment when handling
Toxicity: Roses · Climber Wall Shrub
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Spread: Deciduous
Foliage: Bushy · Climbing
Habit: Spring · Summer · Autumn
Season of interest: Full sun
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Distribution of Rosa 'Highworth'

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Culture

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Toxicity

Fruit are ornamental - not to be eaten. Wear gloves and other protective equipment when handling

Quick identification of Rosa 'Highworth'

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Rosa 'Highworth' care guide

Deep root watering, allow slight surface drying before watering again
Watering: Full sun
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Watering

Deep root watering, allow slight surface drying before watering again

Fertilizing

Rose fertilizer every two to four weeks from spring through late summer

Pruning

On established plants filling their supports, remove about a third of the oldest stems and shorten sideshoots by about two-thirds; retain and secure replacement shoots. Prune in late summer after the display of flowers and hips.

Propagation

Propagate by softwood cuttings in early to mid spring, hardwood cuttings in late summer to autumn or by chip budding in summer

Growing

Grow in full sun and moderately fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil. For best flowering apply a balanced fertiliser and mulch in late winter or early spring and a balanced fertiliser again in early summer. See rose cultivation for further advice

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Common pests and diseases

Diseases

May be susceptible to rose black spot, rose rust, replant disease, rose dieback, and rose powdery mildew and sometimes honey fungus. May also be susceptible to disorders rose blindness and flower balling

Pests

May be susceptible to aphids, rose leafhopper, glasshouse red spider mite, scale insects, caterpillars, large rose sawfly, rose slugworm sawfly and rose leaf-rolling sawfly. Deer and rabbits can cause damage

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