This is a rose of beautiful and unusual colouring that is hard to describe – burnt orange would be one possibility. As such, Summer Song is a valuable addition to our collection, since it is so useful for mingling with other shades such as apricot and yellow. The flowers start as rounded buds, which gradually open to full, medium-sized cups, with many inner petals arranged rather informally within a perfect ring of outer petals. It has a lovely, strong, mixed scent, which our fragrance expert tells us is “like a florist’s shop, with hints of chrysanthemum leaves, ripe bananas and tea”. ‘Summer Song’ forms a bushy, upright shrub that can be pruned to grow tall or short, according to your requirements.