'Starlight Symphony' Climbing Rose Plants

Starlight Symphony Rose (Harwisdom)

The Rose of the Year 2019, Starlight Symphony carries clusters of white, scented, "tudor rose" shaped flowers from July until October. Many people are not too keen on white roses, as most of them have a tendency to go brown in wet weather. Not this one!
Starlight is also floriferous, scented and its open blooms are accessible to pollinators. Each bloom is 8-10 cms across, and they are carried in large clusters of five to nine flowers. All this is gently set off by lovely, glossy, dark green foliage that attests to the plant's health and disease resistance.
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Starlight Symphony in Your Garden

After between 3 and 5 years, Starlight Symphony reaches up to about 3 metres, which makes it an ideal rose for training on pergolas, pillars, obelisks and arches. Against a wall, it will grow to 2 metres across.

This is a tidy rose, so if space is limited or you garden on a deck, balcony or roof terrace, it will grow very well in a decent sized tub.

Whether you plant in the ground or a container, put Starlight Symphony where its scent can waft over you: sensational on a warm evening.

Features

• Rose of the Year 2019
• Height: to 3 metres
• Spread: to 1-8 - 2.5 m
• Colour: pure white with gold stamens tinged with pink
• Shape of flower: clusters of open rosettes
• Scent: a subtle, pervasive, spicy fragrance
• Flowering: repeat through summer between July and October
• Group: Climbing Roses

Did You Know?

Harkness Roses have been breeding and growing roses for well over 100 years. Starlight Symphony, bred under the name Harwisdom, is yet another in a line of great roses, such as Amber Queen and Margaret Merril, from one of the most prolific rose breeders in the world.

To win the title of the best rose of the year, Starlight Symphony had to see off competition from the very best new roses from the very best breeders: Kordes, David Austin, Dickson, Beales just to name a few.

How to plant Starlight Symphony Roses

Choose a spot with as much light as possible. Dig a hole sufficiently deep to allow the rose to be planted with the graft union at soil level and with plenty of room for its roots which should be spread out. Improve the soil from the hole by removing roots, weeds, large stones and other rubbish and mixing in about 25% by volume of well-rotted compost or manure.

Position your rose so its roots are spread out, wet them and sprinkle them with Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi. If planting pot grown roses gently loosen some roots out of the ball before planting.

Then backfill the hole with mixed soil and compost, firming it gently as you go. Keep the union at the level of the surrounding soil. Water in thoroughly.