Bantry Bay

The rose Bantry Bay has a more subtle pink colour than some of my other pink roses. I grow it over archways and along fences. Bantry Bay is a strong grower with short stubby lateral growth.

There is just a tendency to black spot later in the season, and rain can make the flowers look quite blotchy.

My favourite Bantry Bay rose grows in the Stables border and drapes itself over a horse hitching rail. In early summer its pink flowers are visible from the house.

My least successful grows over the Pond Paddock archway. Well, that is the theory, anyway - it's been years and Bantry Bay hasn't quite scaled the giddy heights I expected it would. I blame the Clematis Montana which is definitely on a mission!