Rosa banksiae 'Lutea' 25/10 Restock and the desert-lime blood will

and the desert-lime blood will carry the plant through heat and dry spells that would sulk an ordinary lemon

winter fragrance

and other acid-lovers

which is most of the reason to grow one

more compact habit than the wild plant

Rosa banksiae 'Lutea' 25/10 Restock and the desert-lime blood willOf all the plants that carry Sir Joseph Banks's name, and there are a great many, this rose carries his wife's. Banks was the most powerful botanist of his age: president of the Royal Society, the man who effectively built Kew, who had sailed with Cook to the far side of the world. When a thornless climbing rose came west out of the Chinese gardens, it was named not for him but for Dorothea, Lady Banks. The white double arrived first, collected at