Roses for partial shade

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• The best shade-loving plants
• Five tips for planting in shade
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Browse our choice of roses for shade, below.

Rose 'Scarborough Fair'

'Scarborough Fair' is a delicate looking English shrub rose, with musk-scented soft pink, semi-double flowers with a golden centre.

Height x spread: 1m x 90cm

Rose 'Kew Gardens'

'Kew Gardens' is a bushy shrub rose, bearing lightly fragrant, bright white, single flowers with a yellow centre and stamens. A strong grower, it's almost thornless and blooms for most of the year. It's a great rose for growing in an informal shrub border, or as a low-growing hedge, and its flowers are a magnet for pollinators.

H x S: 1.4m x 1.4m

Rose 'Lady of Shalott'

'Lady of Shalott' is a shrub rose, bearing fragrant, fully double apricot-orange blooms, opening from reddish buds. Rich orange-red buds open to chalice-shaped blooms, filled with loosely arranged, orange petals.

H x S: 1.4m x 1.2m

Rosa gallica 'Versicolor'

A sport of Rosa gallica 'Officinalis', Rosa gallica 'Versicolor' is a bushy shrub rose, bearing large, fragrant, semi-double, striped flowers in two tones of pink, with a yellow centre, followed by hips in autumn.

H x S: 1.2m x 1.2m

Rose 'William and Catherine'

'William and Catherine' is an old-style English shrub rose, bearing cup-shaped fully double blooms that open from apricot buds, and gradually fade to pure white. It has a myrrh fragrance.

H x S: 1.2m x 1m

Rose 'Gertrude Jekyll'

'Gertrude Jekyll' is an English shrub rose, bearing soft pink double blooms with a strong, old rose fragrance. Growing to a medium-sized, upright shrub, it's perfect for growing in a mixed border and may also be grown as a hedge.

H x S: 1.2m x 90cm

Rose 'The Poet's Wife'

Bearing fully double, yellow flowers over glossy foliage, 'The Poet's Wife' is perfect for a mixed border. Its blooms have a strong fragrance with a hint of citrus, and it forms a low-growing bushy shrub.

H x S: 1m x 1m