Penelope Rose

Penelope is another of the lovely hybrid musk roses in the Moosey rose garden. She's like an old lady, sprawling sideways quite a lot - my big rose book describes this more delicately as 'arching'.

Penelope rose has beautiful clusters of pinkish-white flowers all summer, and rose hips in autumn and winter. So she really earns her place in the garden.

When I first started researching roses to buy for the Moosey garden, I liked the sound of the hybrid musk roses. Penelope is one of these roses, bred by Pemberton in the 1920s.