English rose
Lilian Austin X The Squire
Fisherman's friend is a vigorous, thorny rose of 120X100 cm or 4X3 feet. She's ideal for pegging down or as a pillar/Obelisk rose. The blooms are exquisite, deep red, often quartered slowly turning into Mme Isaac Pereire like Carmine pink. Very strong old rose fragrance! Like all dark red roses this rose also needs a good treatment with compost and organic material. Feed it well and she will reward you. Reblooming is good and health is acceptable as long as you pamper it with goodies. Zone 5b to 9b. The blooms can burn in hot scorching sun but that's something almost all dark red roses have. Try to plant her in an afternoon shade spot or at least some shade in the afternoon.
Fisherman's friend got named after the herb pastilles company from Switzerland. They payed Austin to get the name and the money went to charity.
Discarded really quickly and today almost extinct in Europe. In other parts of the world this rose has a big fan base and rightly so. You stand behind your creations, no matter what.
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