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    Cluster-flowered roses

    Sep 15, 2020 3 minutes

    MODERN ROSE HISTORY PART 6

    THE cluster-flowered roses are also called floribundas. Their main characteristics are that they produce their flowers in clusters and flower again very quickly. From June to October they are rarely without blooms and at the height of each successive flush they are capable of producing a mass of colour.

    The shape and size of the flowers varies greatly, including singles, semidoubles and full doubles, quartered blooms, rosette shapes and highcentred flowers like those of the old hybrid tea roses, but usually smaller

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