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Old Hybrid Teas (up to 1950)
'Shot Silk'.   Click a photo to enlarge it.  back to list

Shot Silk B Grant
Ref No: 5246
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colour: Strong Pink, Orange
height: Average Shrub 2.5 - 5 feet (0.75 m - 1.5 m)
scent: Good or wonderful old rose scent
introduction: 1901 - 1925
usda zone: Zone 6 (-16ºC/3.2ºF to -22ºC/-7.6ºF)
flowers: Fully Double
repeat: Repeat Flowering

A Hybrid Tea introduced by Dickson in 1924. Cerise-yellow blooms, strong fragrance, glossy slightly curled foliage, growth vigorous. It was once the most popular HT in the world. Jack Harkness describes it as “One of the most beautiful and successful of all Hybrid Teas”. Parentage: ‘Hugh Dickson’ seedling x ‘Sunstar’. Gold Medal NRS. A climbing form was released in 1931 by C. Knight. Photographed by Bill Grant


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