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'Belle Portugaise'.   Click a photo to enlarge it.  back to list

synonyms: 'Belle of Portugal',
Belle Portugaise
Ref No: 1130
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colour: Blush Pink
height: Climber over 12 feet(3.6 m)
scent: Slight or No Scent
introduction: 1901 - 1925
usda zone: Zone 6 (-16ºC/3.2ºF to -22ºC/-7.6ºF)
flowers: Semi Double
repeat: Once Flowering

A climbing Tea, raised by Cayeux in 1903. Plant very rampant to 30 feet, 10m or more. Flowers pale translucent flesh-pink, large and loosely double with long buds, in spring only. Min. -10°C. Parentage: a hybrid of R. gigantea, perhaps crossed with ‘Reine Marie Henriette’ a climbing HT. Exceptionally vigorous, the plant in Eccleston Square grew to over 20 feet in three years, early flowering.

Photographed in Eccleston Square London UK.

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Walter Duncan Roses

The Rose Garden Pty Ltd
PO Box 592
Clare SA 5453
Tel: 08 8843 4000
Fax: 08 8843 4044
wdroses@capri.net.au
 
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Other Nurseries

'Belle Portugaise' is also available from:

Ross Roses -Australia
The Antique Rose Emporium -United States
Vintage Gardens Antique Roses -United States
Ashdown Roses -United States
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