At Dunedin Botanic Garden rose garden it is one of the colours that dominate the display; it is a popular choice with rose breeders as well as the public.
When it comes to choosing a pink flowering rose for your garden I don't think you will have any problem selecting one.
You could go for a climber, or be spoilt for choice with the loads of options available in modern bush roses (hybrid teas and floribundas).
I suppose the hard work is in deciding on the right shade of pink and where you plant the rose.
Some pinks that have performed well at Dunedin Botanic Garden: Rosa 'Aotearoa New Zealand': Hybrid tea has it all.
Fantastic fragrance and long stems suitable for picking and large creamy pink flowers.
Planted at Dunedin Botanic Garden as a standard rose bush between the white R. 'Iceberg' roses in front of the Winter Garden glasshouse, the pink combines with the white to make a lovely display.
Climbing roses
R. 'Coconut Ice': Clusters of fragrant creamy pale pink flowers, on a healthy, reasonably vigorous climber.
R. 'Mlle Cecile Brunner, Climbing': Charming old climber, reasonably vigorous and always in flower. Masses of miniature pale soft pink hybrid-tea like flowers.
Rose bushes
R. 'Modern Miss': Hybrid tea, medium-sized bush with light pink flowers.
R. 'My Girl': Hybrid tea, mixture of deep pink to pale pink flowers, a healthy small bush.
R. 'Sexy Rexy': Floribunda, medium-sized bush with ruffled soft clear pink blooms.
R. 'Dear One': Floribunda, lovely small rose bush with delicate porcelain pink flowers.
Linda Hellyer is curator of the rose garden at Dunedin Botanic Garden.
