Jacqueline Du Pre Rose

This white shrub rose is named for the great musician Jacqueline du Pre. It's one of my new roses flowering for their first summer in the Birthday Rose Garden.

Jacqueline du Pre was a cellist whose recorded version of Elgar's Cello Concerto is the best I've ever heard. She sadly died young, and this rose which bears her name was bred in England by Harkness.

The flowers have beautiful dull cherry-red middles, and are loosely cupped. My big rose book Botanica's says she will keep flowering all season 'until the weather stops her' - I'm looking forward to seeing how far into the Moosey winter this will be!