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Honorine de Brabant Striped Rose

My favorite striped rose is Honorine de Brabant. She started life unfairly squashed into the shady JAM garden, rudely kept in place by a wooden cage. Now she is much happier in the sunny Dog-Path Garden over the water race.

 An old-fashioned rose.
Honorine de Brabant Close-Up

Upon being shifted to the airy spaces over the water race she has rewarded me in one season with beautiful blooms and red rose hips. It's quite simple really - all a 'regal and temperamental' rose requires (the quote comes from my big rose book) is fresh air and sunshine.

I bought Honorine de Brabant originally on the advice of a trendy magazine who claimed this was the best striped rose - I'm glad I took notice!

To be truthful this rose sprawls and straggles a bit.
the famous striped rose honorine de brabant

Honorine de Brabant is one of the few genuine old-fashioned roses I grow in the Moosey garden. She is (I think) a Bourbon. My rose book says she is one of the most popular roses in the whole world!

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