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Picture courtesy www.ludwigsroses.co.zaA powerful performer, the bronze coloured buds open into a bloom of mellow old-gold tones with a touch of clear yellow at each base.

The mature blooms are star shaped and deep centred, becoming a perfect hide-away and source of food for bees. These blooms, one to each slender stem, are produced in an incredible abundance in a candelabra fashion. 

Growing to about head height, their dominant colour will irresistibly draw one’s eyes to admire such splendour. Truly an easy rose to grow.

Picture courtesy www.ludwigsroses.co.zaThis hybrid tea draws the eye with its full, star shaped blooms in a colourful blend of orange-red, apricot and yellow.

The upright, dense bush produces a nonstop supply of strong, straight flowering stems. It easily reaches shoulder height, with dark green leaves from base to top, making it a good bedding plant.

This lovely pickable roses is part of our ‘White Ribbon Collection’, with R3.00 from each plant sold going to ‘Uitkoms’, a non-profit organisation that helps the disabled.

Picture courtesy www.ludwigsroses.co.zaComparable to the world famous ‘Queen Elizabeth’ rose, this shoulder-high bush produces blooms that are well shaped, pickable, and of a deep salmon pink colour.

The constant production of firm stems quickly transforms young plants into tall, formally upright bushes.

Use at the back of beds, with lower growing roses in front, or as a tall flowering hedge.

Picture courtesy www.ludwigsroses.co.zaThis forever flowering compact rose, when planted next to a driveway or in beds near the house entrance, will indeed give a “Welcome home!” greeting.

This new Eco Chic rose requires the minimum of care.

The very stiff petalled full blooms are of an interesting and versatile colour blend, a deep apricot that takes on a pink shimmer as the unfolding petals are exposed to sunlight.

Ideal for border or foreground plantings of mixed beds, even those containing yellow or pink varieties. This rose requires a minimum of care.

Picture courtesy www.ludwigsroses.co.zaThis pale pink, white spire rose is moderately fragrant and suitable for cutting. Pointed, fragrant, white buds appear in small clusters at the  end of long canes as well as on numerous short side stems. The plant grows upright & tall, to 2m or more; making it ideal for background planting or neat hedgings.

It is listed as an 'Eco Chic' Ludwigs Rose, and these roses combine healthy green leaves with colourful beauty! These are rose varieties that perform without having to be sprayed. Fungus diseases cause defoliation. Eco Chic roses have a genetic disease resistance and are thus perfect plants for people with busy lifestyles.

Picture courtesy www.ludwigsroses.co.zaThis tall rose has glossy, very healthy foliage and grows with great vigour. At first, it produces 1,5m long, flowering basal canes, which are eventually decorated with medium long, side stems, each carrying a large, firm petalled, apricot-cream shapely bloom, which is slightly fragrant.

Picture courtesy www.ludwigsroses.co.zaThe long canes actually bend downwards from the sheer weight of the bunches of full, sweetly perfumed blooms, borne at their ends. The colouring is extraordinary, and the most fascinating of all the striped varieties. The flowers are good for the vase.

This spire rose can grow over 2m tall, and When planted about 1.2m apart, is excellent for tall background plantings and screening off fences or walls.

Picture courtesy www.ludwigsroses.co.zaThe company celebrated 150 years and this rose, named in appreciation of such an achievement, is just such a star performer.It simply grows and keeps on delivering beautiful, extremely long stemmed, shapely blooms. These last well on the bush and in the vase.

This rose towers amongst normal Hybrid Tea's, growing +-1.8 to 2m tall, and should be positioned at the back of rose beds. It makes a good security fence.

It is listed as an 'Eco Chic' Ludwigs Rose, and these roses combine healthy green leaves with colourful beauty! These are rose varieties that perform without having to be sprayed. Fungus diseases cause defoliation. Eco Chic roses have a genetic disease resistance and are thus perfect plants for people with busy lifestyles.

Picture courtesy www.ludwigsroses.co.zaInnumerable pickable stems are produced all over this very powerful rose that will easily reach 3m in height. The blooms are of a classical urn shape with a sharp pointed centre, opening to large full blooms. The colour is a strong lavender-purple.  

Stunning when planted as a screen on fence or wall, intermingled with ‘Moonlit Spire’ or similar rose.

Picture courtesy www.ludwigsroses.co.zaThe plant grows upright, producing a profusion of long, flowering stems, eventually towering to a height of 2,5m. The buds are long & shapely, opening to exhibition shaped  blooms of clear salmon pink, produced continuously on the stately plant. The strong fragrance of this excellent cutflower is a pure bonus.