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Mermaid is a climbing rose with pale yellow blooms. It is a vigorous climber and flowers repeatedly.

“Butterfly Kisses” is a very healthy, free flowering rose that grows to hip height and attracts both butterflies and bees. It produces large sprays of 25 to 45 single blooms through to winter.

“Starry Eyed” grows into a freestanding willowy shrub 2m high and 3m wide. It is ideal for training up pillars, over arches and on to walls.

“Ballerina” is a climbing rose with large trusses of small, single flowers in shades of pink and white. It produces arching, graceful stems weighed down by trusses of flowers.

“Pixie Hat” has clusters of bright red small 5 petalled blooms that remind one of pixie hats. As the outer stems arch from the weight on blooms new stems take their place and the bush is covered in flowers well into winter. Grows about 1.1m high. roses have been pruned.

“I am happy to plant Iceland Poppies in-between the roses because they keep their leaves low and the bare flowering stems do not take away space and light when the roses are sprouting after pruning.”

Iceland poppy “Champagne Bubbles” is a bush plant, with colourful blooms in a citrus mix of orange, yellow and white or in single colours of white, scarlet, orange, pink, and yellow.

Calendula “Costa” has larger than normal calendula flowers carried on a sturdy, well-branched plant, bringing a warm mix of yellow and orange into the winter garden. Plant it in full sun as a border or edging for the rose bed. Enrich the soil with compost before planting and water regularly.