Pink Hedge Rose
R. agrestis variety
PICTURE SOURCE Les Roses, Volume II (1821)
ORIGINAL BOTANICAL NAME Rosa sepium rosea
ORIGINAL FRENCH NAME Rosier des hayes ŕ fleurs roses
CURRENT BOTANTICAL NAME R. agrestis variety
COMMON NAME Pink Hedge Rose
CLASS Species
ORIGIN Wild species; throughout France and Europe
FLOWERING Once-flowering; spring or summer
SCENT Flowers, slight/no scent
GROWTH Tall, many branched shrub to 10 feet (3.0 metres)
AVAILABILITY White flowered R. agrestis still in cultivation and wild: This variety too?
At left; picture of the Pink Hedge Rose , R.agrestis variety, painted by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, portrait 086 out of 170, Volume II of Les Roses
