The name Sally Holmes most commonly refers to the highly acclaimed hybrid musk rose variety with large, single-petal flowers (5 to 8 petals) that form massive, hydrangea-like clusters. Buff-apricot buds open into rich, creamy-white blooms with prominent golden-yellow stamens.
Here are some at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Sally Holmes
Rosa ‘Louis de Funes’ is a fragrant, hybrid tea rose with striking orange-red blooms. It has a classic, elegant shape, a strong scent, and is disease-resistant.
Here is one from Fullerton Botanical Garden, with water droplets on the petals.
Rose ‘Louis de Funes’
A Grandiflora Rose and Rosa Crocus Rose at Fullerton Botanical Garden.
Grandiflora roses are a hybrid class that blends the refined beauty of hybrid tea roses with the abundant clusters of floribunda roses.
Rosa Crocus Rose is a very robust and free-flowering rose, bearing large, rosette-shaped flowers with 41 petals.
Grandiflora Rose
Crocus Rose
Crinum lilies are tender perennial bulbs in the Amaryllis family. Lily-like flowers (to 4” wide and long) bloom in clusters in summer atop leafless scapes (to 3-4’ tall) above a clump of strap-shaped green leaves. Flower colors in whites, pinks, and reds.
‘Ellen Bosanquet’ is an old but very popular hybrid whose parentage was never revealed. It was hybridized by Louis Bosanquet in Florida in the period of 1915-1920 and was named after his wife. Bell-shaped, wine red (rose-purple to red-purple) flowers are noted for having a spicy fragrance. Flower scapes typically rise to 3’ tall.
Crinum -Ellen Bosanquet-
A hybrid tea rose with a unique combination of color and fragrance. The large, elegant flowers appear right into the autumn with their well-known silvery lilac color.
Rose Mainzer
Guzmania is a popular genus of bromeliad. While their colorful flower bracts are popular in public indoor spaces they grow naturally from Florida to Brazil and are particularly common in Costa Rica and Columbia. Most Guzmania are epiphytic meaning they use their roots to attach to a host plant such as a tree rather than grow in the ground. Epiphytes are not parasitic and do not cause any damage to their host. The Passion is a hybrid Guzmania seen at Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden..
