Rosa 'Hanabi' - Climbing Rose

The 'Hanabi' Climbing Rose is a charming original that doesn't go unnoticed in the garden. From summer to autumn, it offers the unusual and wonderfully colourful spectacle of its randomly splashed red and fuchsia pink flowers on a white background, a colour enhanced by the yellow glow that radiates from a large cluster of stamens. Simple to semi-double, they bloom in tight clusters, a true impressionist fireworks display against beautiful glossy foliage of deep green. As it tolerates severe pruning, this rose can also be trained as a bush. There are plenty of reasons to find a little spot for it in the garden!

The 'Hanabi' Climbing Rose or 'WEKroalt' belongs to the rose family. Its evocative name, Hanabi, means fireworks in Japanese. This relatively recent American creation (1999) is the result of hybridisation between two very dissimilar roses: 'Minnie Mouse', a miniature climbing rose with variegated red and white flowers, and 'Altissimo', a vigorous climbing rose from Delbard producing large red blossoms. It has won over 80 medals in international competitions. It is a small climbing rose with good vigour. It has a flexible habit and thorny stems, often reaching 2.5 metres (8 feet) in height and 1 to 1.25 metres (3 to 4 feet) in width when trained. Regular pruning can easily be kept in more modest proportions, forming a beautiful bush about 1.5 metres (5 feet) in all directions. Its dark green glossy foliage is not very susceptible to diseases and perfectly highlights the strongly variegated hue of the different flowers. It blooms from June to October, abundantly if it doesn't lack water. Its 8 to 10 cm (3 to 4in) flowers, grouped in clusters, are composed of 5 to 10 undulated petals arranged informally, single to semi-double, centred around a golden yellow heart populated with prominent stamens of the same tone. They are not fragrant.

This 'Hanabi' rose allows for sumptuous decorations throughout the summer, requiring very little maintenance apart from regular watering in summer during periods of high heat and prolonged drought. Trained or grown as a bush, it pairs particularly well with pink or white flowers such as 'Iceberg', 'Pink Bells', 'Petit Bonheur', or 'Aimée Vibert'. As a structural element in English gardens, rose arches form beautiful shelters where one can rest while connecting different parts of the garden. Mix them or combine them with easy-to-grow large-flowered clematis like 'Madame Lecoultre', 'Montana Grandiflora', or 'Miss Bateman', whose white flowers temper the whimsical roses of Hanabi. They are good companions for phlox, delphiniums, foxgloves, catmints, and tall baby's breath.