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Rosa melrose (Melrose Rose)
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Rosa melrose (Melrose Rose)
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This rose was collected many years ago by Betty Jinright from an old rose growing at Melrose Plantation outside Thomasville Georgia. Its true name is not known.

The Melrose Rose is a once blooming climber. The blooms are a gorgeous shade of peachy coppery yellow. With good support it will reach ten feet high. The one in the photograph is trained onto an old swing set.

This rose has vicious thorns. But its spectacular spring bloom makes it worth every drop of blood you will shed.