Canarybird (Shrub hybrid xanthina) Cat.FragrantCanarybird Shrub Rose Canarybird (Rosa xanthina 'Canary Bird') is one of the most valuable and beautiful of all the early flowering shrub roses, producing its vivid, clear yellow single flowers in late April and May often when no other rose has yet opened. Its arching, fern like growth is smothered in bright golden yellow blooms at a time of year when the garden is still waiting for colour, making it an invaluable and genuinely spectacular early
evoking the fruit that inspired its name
Large country gardens and estate plantings
Rambling Rector is one of the most gloriously extravagant rambling roses
A gentle and beautifully fragrant gift
Avoid hard pruning which would remove the following season's flowering shoots
Formal rose beds where the finest red quality is wanted
making it one of very few climbing roses that thrives in difficult spots
White and cream colour schemes for walls and fences
Front of border or mass planting for consistent colour
richly yellow blooms with a good fragrance and a remarkable quality: the yellow colour does not fade or blue with age
5 ft) Flowering season Repeat flowering – June through late autumn Sunlight Full sun
and with good disease resistance